PARORANGI STUD SALE.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3778, 3 May 1919, Page 4

PARORANGI STUD SALE.

The second annual sale" of licroords from Mr E. Short's Paroraiigt dud was held at the Feilding yard's. There was a fair attendance of the mblic, but there were not, nianv local •uycrs amongst them. Quite'a fair roporliou of the cattle sold were • ken by Nelson, Marlborough, and '.■inlcrbury breeders. while wmii? tent as far south us Mosgiel and Gon-

ial Olago, and even to Invercargill. there was a good demand for stud •ows, the. 44 oll'ered all being sold at iriccs ranging front oOeg for those liy imported sires, and from 20gs to -log's for others, tho average all round being 40gs. The shortage of feed to •arry the bulls over the winter, and 'lie low price* ruling for young lock, evidjiitlv deterred breeders

'Rom speculating in sires. This, 10-' ;elhcr witht the fact that buyers had ailed their requirements a I Mr Levitt's sale held the previous day, miniated against the success of th". ■<ale of young hulls. Only 16 chanted hands, studs bringing from fiOgs l to 12ogs, ancj other bulls front .JOgs o -logs. The average was lOgs per 'tead. Tho L. and M.-Agency Co. report: Nearly 200 aged Romney Marsh dud ewes were also offered, and all were sold, the bulk going to tlie South Island at prices ranging from LJrs to -l.lgs.