FARMING AND COMMERCIAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 286, 6 November 1925, Page 11

FARMING AND COMMERCIAL

STUD STOCK FOR OVERSEAS. NEW MARKET FO.lt ROMNEYS. SALES OF ABERDEEN ANGUS ANI) Jersey cattle. In addition to the 'numerous purchases of Aberdeen Angus cattle made at the Ben Lomond dispersal sale for export to Australia, Messr Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., advise that tlrey have shipped to Victoria, two very fine specimens of this breed from W. A. McFarlano’s Waiterenui stud, Hawke’s Bay. The two-year-old bull, Idl'ic of Waiterenui, was purchased at the Aberdeen Angus breeders’ sale at Danncvirkc, for the top price of 160 guineas, a keen contest for his possession ensuing between Messrs Burling Bros., Masterton and Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., who were acting for the Victorian breeder, Mr R. C. Buchanan, “Ormidale,” Tallangata, Victoria. This bull is from the same family as the great sire Roderick Dliu, one of whose get was last year's Royal Champion bull, and his dam is by Mayflower’s Justice, a son of the famous old champion, Flower. . From Mr McFarlane’s stud there was also forwarded to Mr Buchanan, a fine type of a two-year-old heifer in Isla of Waiterenui, a daughter of the noted imported sire Mulben Elbow, a son of which bull was champion at Hastings last year, while the dam was by an older imported champion in Quality of Maisemore. Mr Buchanan has, therefore, secured two animals of particularly good breeding and of a standard that should worthily uphold the reputation of the Dominion overseas. New Zealand breeders of Aberdeen Angus cattle will be interested in the results at the coming Sydney Royal Show, where quite a number of New Zealand bred cattle will compete. Messrs W. H. Booth and Sons, Middle Run, Carterton, the well-known Jersey breeders have also sold to Mr Buchanan one of their notable Monopoly bred Jersey bulls, Amarion of Puketapu. This, is the second bull from ! this herd that has been selected for export to Australia within the past j 12 months, and this goes to show that | Messrs Booth and Sons’ Monopoly strain is becoming as popular across the water as it is in New Zealand. During the last twenty years champions have continued to come from the Middle Run stud with great frequency, and Mr Buchanan’s purchase combines in this pedigree much of the best blood in the lierd, for his sire, Merry May of Ruketapu, is by a soil of the great champion junior two-year-old heifer Mere, which produced 663.641 b. butterfat and held the record for the world for four years. Noted show ring winners behind Amarion of Ruketapu include also Rewa Maize (Taranaki and Wairarapa Champion), ltewa Maycan (Canterbury champion), Owlcr of Ruketapu (champion sire), Victoria sth (Canterbury champion), Primrose V (Wairarapa and Manawatu champion). His dam Rewa Amarion is one of the vesselled cows in Middle Run herd.

At me Wairarapa Show last week it was made apparent that the interest created in Canada and the United States in the New Zealand Romney by the visit last year of the official representative of the Romney Marsh Association is now bearing fruit. Some months ago an initial shipment of Romneys was made from Mr J. S. Coulter’s Marriweo flock to California, and at the Wairarapa Show a number of .the prize winning Romneys were purchased for export to Canada by Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd. The rams selected were exhibited at the Show by Messrs Quinton Donald, “Alloa,” Featherston, and A. E. Anderson, Clareville, and were prize winners in each case. Mr Donald has now sold rams from his flock for export to Canada, Argentine and Uruguay, and Mr Andbrson has sold quite h number of his Lincolns for export to South America. This continued interest in the New Zealand Romney overseas must be most gratifying to the breeders of the Dominion. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. SYDNEY, Nov. 5. Latest market quotations are as follow : —Wheat (nominal) 6s ; oats, white, giants os 3d to 5s Od, Algerian 4s 3d to 4s 6d; maize, yellow, 6s (id; potatoes, Tasmanian £l6 to £lB, new season’s £2O to £2l, New Zealand £lO to £11; onions £25 to £27.—Dress Association. ADELAIDE. No\\ 5. Wheat, growers’ lots, old 5s 7d to 5s 7 id, new, 5s 2d to 5s 3d ; parcels, trade 6s Id.—Press Association. TALLOW. Dalgetv and Coy., Ltd., report having received the following cablegram from their London house under date of the, 4th inst. Tallow: 1225 casks of tallow offered, 535 sold. Fine beef neglected; fine mutton and mixed good colour 6d per ewt. lower. Other descriptions unchanged.

BURNSIDE MARKET. DROP IN FAT~CATTLE PRICES. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Nov. 4. Fat cattle showed a distinct drop in price at Burnside to-day, the fall being stated at 30s at least. There was a good salo of sheep. Lambs were a shade easier, and bacon pigs sold well, while porkers were some 5s down on last week’s rates. Fat cattle.—With a yarding of 265 head, compared with 236 head last week, there was a good supply of prime heavy bullocks and cows, together with medium to very fair steers and heifers. Though there was no slide in prices there was a distinct easing, prices at the start being down at least 305., and probably more than that. Prime ox heel', liandy-weight, sold at equal to 58s per 1001 b., medium quality and heavyweight ox beef to 555, prime cows and heifers from 42s to 465, and old cows to 345. Extra prime bullocks sold at up to £3l 2s 6d, prime heavy £23 10s to £25, medium £lB 10s to £2O; inferior £l2 10s to £l4. Best cows and heifers sold at from £l4 to £l6, extra prime to £lB, medium £ll 10s to £l2 10s. inferior £8 10s to £lO. Sheep.—There was an entry of 1746 head, compared with 1765 last week. The yard supply of woolly sheep was good, and the entry generally was a representative one, including some 500 shorn sheep, among which were a number of extra well-finished wethers and ewes. The demand opened at about last week’s rates, and under a good competition prices remained steady till the last race was reached, when the demand livening up, prices rose from 2s to 3s. Altogether it was a good sale. Prime handy-weight wethers in the wool were sold at from 7d to 71 d, prime shorn wethers from oJcl to Od, prime ewes in the wool to Od, and prime shorn ewes to sd. Extra prime heavy wethers made from 52s 3d to 55s fid, prime 48s to 50s, lighter from 46s upwards. Prime ewes brought prices up to 475, lighter sorts 40s 6d to 46s 6d. Shorn wethers made up to 48s 6d and shorn ewes to 445.

Lambs.—Some forty lambs were penned. The quality was fair to prime, with some unfinished lambs. The demand was very fair, and prices were about 2s lower than those of last week. Prime lamb sold at equal to Is 4]cl to Is 7d per pound. Extra prime made from 42s .‘lit to 47s 6d, prime 36s 6d to 395, unfinished 28s to 33s 3d. Store cattle.—There was another big entry, some 300 being yarded. There were no bullocks of outstanding quality, the entry comprising a good many inferior young steers with a fair number of good two-year heifers and fair-conditioned cows and medium young mixed cattle. Some two and a half-year steers were passed at £9 2s, while other two-year-old steers made up to £5 os. Fair-conditioned cows £8 8s to £lO 10s, and ordinary heifers to £3 ss.

Pigs.—An entry of 109 fats and 93 slips; the supply of porkers was rather greater than was required, and prices were down about 5s per head. The sale was a somewhat irregular one. There were very few heavy baconcrs, and the demand for these was keen, while generally the prices for bacon pigs were on a par with those realised last week. Baconcrs sold at equal to 7\ to Bfd per pound, and porkers from 7Jd to B}d per pound.

BUTTERFAT SUBSIDIES. PROPOSED NEW SCALE. Mr T. Webb, of Palmerston North, has tabled the following notice of motion to bo considered at the halfyearly meeting in Christchurch next week of the council of the Ayrshire Breeders’ Association:— “All resolutions on the minutes re semi-official test and prizes therefore be rescinded, and the following be substituted: That the association make the following donations: Two-year-old' class—£l lor 37311). of fat or over, £2 for 4731 b., £4 for 5731 b., £8 for 6731 b., £l6 for 7731 b. Three-year-old class—£l. for 4001 b. of fat or over, £2 for 5001 b., £4 for 6001 b., £8 for 7001 b., £l6 lor 8001 b. Four-year-old class—£l for 4301 b. of fat or over, £2 for 5301 b., £4 for 6301 b., £8 for 7301 b., £l6 for 8001 b. Mature class—£l for 4601 b. of fat or over, £2 for 5601 b., £4 for 6601 b., £8 for 7601 b., £l6 for SOOlb., and the class leaders have their photos put in the Herd Book each year.” Mr Webb will furf.’icr move: “That this association donates gold medals tach year to the owner of the Ayrshire cow or heifer under semi-official test which gives the most hutterfat in her class on 300 days’ test.”