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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 June 1926, Page 11

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C A NTERB URY MARKETS. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION . / CHRISTCHURCH, June 25. The potato market has steadied for the moment. For July and August £8 is offered, but £9’ is being asked. The Waihora on Monday is taking for Sydney anything from 20,000 to 25,000 sacks) which will mean that the exports to that port to the end of June this season have been approximately 85,000 sacks. For the whole of 1925 the exports to all ports was 54,000 sacks, and the bulk of this quantity was dispatched after the end of June, but values remained unaltered, except that there was a slightly easier feeling. July f.o.b. (sacks in) are quoted at £6 17s 6d to £7, and July to September, spread, at £7 15s. Quotations on trucks for the next month are £5 10s. ■ Ryegrass is pracically unsaleable at the moment. Danish cocksfoot is arriving at 65s per cwt., c.i.f., a noticeably low price, and as a result the parity of local seed on trucks is about 5d to 5-|d per lb. White clover values are also affected by the imported seed, which is quoted at 110 s to 122 s c.i.f. per cwt., or Is to Is Id per lb., this making the on truck price of farmers,’ undressed about- 9|d to lOd. Oats are weaker, there being little inquiry. B Bartons are quoted at 3s 10|d to 3s lid f.o.b. sacks in for July, and A’s at 4s 3d. Chaff is unchanged at £5 10s to £5 15s on trucks. Onions are firm at £ll on trucks.

RAWER A JERSEY SALE. Friday, July 2, the occasion of the Hawera pedigree Jersey Cattle Club female sale will no doubt be a red letter day in the pedigree Jersey world in South Taranaki. There will come under the hammer 89 high class pedigree animals. This comprises 67 choice females from leading South Taranaki breeders. This is probably the largest and most notable offering in the history of this fixture. An add. ed attraction is the fact that on this date Air. R. J. Ballantine, of Normanby, will disperse his complete fashionably bred herd. This is an exceptional opportunity for fanciers of the breed. The sale will be conducted by the Farmers’ Co-operative Organisation Society in their up-to-date pavillion, Glover Road, Hawera. See the advertising columns for full particulars.

NOTED JERSEY SOLD. C.O.M. AND CALF FOR 350 GUINEAS A transaction of importance to Jersey breeders was concluded by the Farmers’ Co-op. Society during the past week. The well-known imported cow “Brampton Farm Sweet Bread ’ ’ and her heifer calf, got .by the imported sire “Xenia’s Oxford Lad,’’ the property of Mr J. Kregoiy Waverley, changing hands at thc large figure of 350 guineas. This fine cow is now live years old and is bred from some of the most famous Island stock. Her sire, Cid Gauntlet (The Cid—Gauntlet) comes from well-known prize-winning stock, and her dam is Sweet Bread 49th (Masterman of Oaldands —Sweet Bread 44th). Thc sire of the calf Xenia’s Oxford Lad (Xenia’s Sullan—Brampton Fern Pride) is exceptionally well-known in Taranaki and has left some of our finest stock. It may be mentioned that Xenia’s Sultan is the record sired bull reputed, to be sold for 6000 guineas. This season Brampton Farm Sweet Bread has been mated with Mr J. Halo’s famous sire, Grannie’s Knight, perhaps the best known sire in the Dominion to-day, who is at present the leading champion but-ter-fat bull and has 45 C.O.R. daughters, including Holly Oaks Annie, 1056.491 b fat. The purchaser was Mr J. Burns, of Ngaere, who recently purchased a high-priced sire from Mr H. E. Martin, Christchurch, who also imported this cow. Mr Burns is a now entrant into the ranks of Jersey breeders and is to be commended on his enterprise. With such fine foundation stock he will no doubt be a valuable acquisition to breeders in this district, andj liis visit will be watched with great interest.