Pedigree Stock Prices In Great Britain

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6620, 5 August 1931, Page 9

Pedigree Stock Prices In Great Britain

ONLY HORSES MAINTAIN LAST YEAR’S VALUES Tho London Shire horse show concluded, as usual, with an, auction, but only a dozen animals found purchasers, the average price being £lO3, as compared with £96 for 17 head in 1930 (says the London correspondent of the Farmers' Weekly). A three-year-old stallion brought tho best prico of 330 gns., lOOgus. was paid for a mature gelding, and 70gns. was tho highest figure for a mare of five years.' Suffolk horses met a very encouraging trade at the society’s recent spring sale at Ipswich. Twenty stallions averaged nearly £74, with a top prico of 160gns. for a stylish animal, which was placed first in the two-year class at the show preceding the sale. For 24 mares the average was nearly £52, with a- top prico of 92gns. for a four-ybar-old; and for 38 geldings it was £53, with 90gns. ns top figure. Geldings were in spocial request, being bought by purchasers from many parts of the country. 1 Sixty-eight Devon bulls, all tuberculin tested, realised an average of £43 10/ at the breed society's first spring sale at Exeter. A yearling bull, bought for export, brought the top price of 90 gns. Friesian Values

Fifty-seven Fricsians, including 18 females, from various owners, made the good average of over £4O when auctioned at Crewe (Cheshire) in Fobruary. Tho females alone averaged £46, and | the best prico of £lO5 was given for a I four-year-old cow. Ninoty guineas was paid for a young bull. At Gloucester, t00,’71 purebred Friesians from various herds sold at an average of £32 10/, the top price of 4Sgns. being paid for a live-year-old cow. Bulls ranged to 38gns. Eighty bulls lately sold at the first spring show and sale of tho breed society at Hereford city made an average of slightly under £SO. Thg very best animals sold at good figures, but otherwise prices were disappointing. Tho top prico of 220gns. was given for a yearling bred by Mr. Ernest Stevons, of Pershore, and two other young bulls realised 200gns. each.

Pedigree Sussex bulls to tho number Of 71, When offered under tho. auspices of the breed society at Haywards Heath early in March, averaged £3l. By far the best prico of 140gns. was paid by a Homo breeder for a yearling bull bred by Mr. P. R. Mann. The next highest price was 60gns. for Dillons Kimberley, the reserve champion. For the 15-months-old Pctworth Toreador XLII, which won the championship for Lord Loconfield, 50gns. was given by Messrs. Liebig’s, who will ship the animal to South America.

At tho important annual show and salo of dairy and dual-purpose Shorthorns, lately held at Perth (Cumberland —an excellent centre for well-bred and hardy stock of this class—there was a good entry and satisfactory trade for the best animals, but’ average prices were lower than last year. - For 1 fied” dairy bulls (qualified' !r on ntho yields of their dams) prices ‘ ranged to 170gns., paid for a yearling, but the 132 dairy bulls sold averaged together, only slightly over £37. As many as 1041 bulls were auctioned at the show and sale of the Royal Dublin Socioty, held at Dublin early in March, thus being the largest number ever offered on one occasion in'tho British Isles. In view of tho magnitude of the sales, the averages of £34 for tho 343 beef Shorthorn bulls, £65 for tho 226 dairy Shorthorns, £6O for .the 221 Hercfords and £39 for tho -349 Aberdeen-Angus, must bo regarded as good, but they, were in every case lower than tho corresponding liguro of last

The best prico of the sale, 340gns., was paid for the champion Shorthorn by tho Ministry of Agriculture for Northern Ireland. Tho reserve Shorthorn went off at 240gns., while prices for

Aberdeen-Angus ranged to 315 gns., and for Ilcrefords to HOgns. ...... Pig Prices

At the numerous recent sales of pedigree pigs prices have been satisfactory, though scarcely as good as last year. At one recent, salo 6S purebred Largo Whites averaged nearly £l4, with an average of £l6 for the 36 sows and inpig gilts. At tho same' auction 54 Middle Whites made an’ average of £ll 5/, with £l4 as the average of 30 sows and served gilts. ■ Up to 35gns. was paid for Largo White boars, and ‘ a Middle White gilt realised 3Qgns. ,

’ At a salo .in Lancashire, 122 Largo Whites averaged over £ls 10/, and a boar and a gilt each realised '4sgns., both being bought by Mir. J;} Piorpont Morgan. Large Black pigs to - tho number of , 105, from tho-herd of Mr. W. C. Jackson, of Royston,. Hertfordshire, . lately, averaged £l6 8/, 47- served gilts making the excellent - average l of nearly £22, with a top. price*of 32gns.