IMPORTED CATTLE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 57, 4 September 1937, Page 7

IMPORTED CATTLE

INTEREST IN LOCAL SALE

An important sale of imported Aberdeen Angus cattle was held yesterday by Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., in their wool store at Pipitea, Wellington. . ■

The offering comprised 20 head, 10 bulls and 10 females, being the second shipment of Aberdeen Angus cattle arranged by Mr. Wayland Hopley, past president of the American Aberdeen Angus Breeders' Association and president of the Wayland Hopley Farms. The shipment arrived at Wellington from New York on June 26 and has since completed the customary period of quarantine. The animals were representative of seven of the greatest Aberdeen Angus herds in the United States, the majority coming from the famous Wayland Hopley Farms, Atlantic, lowa.

, Great interest was shown in the sale, there being a large attendance of leading cattle breeders. Bidding was not very keen, and 13 of the 20 lots offered were sold, the total realisation being 3510 guineas, an average of 270 guineas per head. The six bulls sold realised 1775 guineas, an average of 296 guineas per head, and the seven females realised 1735 guineas, an average of 248 guineas per head. The sale resulted as follows:—

Bulls.—Black Rex of Bordulac, bred by Hanna Stock Farms, sold to Mr. Nestor-Bayliss, Otane, Hawke's Bay, for 500 guineas; Episto's Quality, bred by Wayland Hopley Farms, sold to Mr. T. May, Waipawa, Hawke's Bay, for 300 guineas; Bestman Quality, bred by Wayland Hopley Farms, passed; Blackmar Quality, bred by Wayland Hopjley Farms, sold to Mr. W. E. Hunt, ilnvercargill, for 260 guineas; Barson (Quality, bred by Wayland Hopley I Farms,, sold to Mr. H. B. Wi]liams, Gisborne. for 300 guineas; Enchanter Barmar, bred by Wayland Hopley Farms, sold to Mr. J. F. Knight, Feilding, for 190 guineas; Baron Ensign 2nd, bred by the University of Minnesota, passed; Briarclifl Bardo. bred by Briarcliff Farms, Pine Plains, N.Y., passed; Enterprise Master, bred by Mr. Harry C. Barr, La Jara, Colorado, passed; Blackman Quality 2nd, bred by Wayland Hopley Farms, sold to Mr. R. Fraser, Tapanui, Southland, 225 guineas. ' ; '

Cows.—Beta , Quality 3rd, bred by Wayland Hopley Farms, sold to Morrispn Bros., Tauwhare, 260 guineas; Elbaress Quality, heifer, bred by Wayland Hopley Farms," sold to Mr. J. R. Self, Auckland. 375 guineas; Blackcap McHenry 465 th, bred by Mr. R. R. Blake, Dallas Centre, lowa, sold to Mr. H. B. Williams, Gisborne, 250 guineas; Miss Burgess Hopley 6th, bred by Wayland Hopley Farms, passed; Escora Marlene, bred by Mr. Harry C. Barr, La" Jara, Colorado, sold to Mr. Nestor-Bayliss, Otane t 360 guineas; Barbird Miss, bred by Wayland Hopley Farms, sold to Mr. G. L. Marshall. Martow, for 150 guineas; Elwood's Elba, bred by Hamilton Bros., Good Hope, Illinois, sold to Mr. H. B. Williams, Gisborne, for 200 guineas; Bethel Blackbird 126 th, bred by Briarcliff Farms, Pine Plains, N.Y., passed; Bethel Primrose 24th, bred by Briarcliff Farms, sold to Strachan Estate, Taihape, for 140 guineas.