PEDIGREE BULLS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21297, 26 September 1932, Page 5

PEDIGREE BULLS

HIGHER PRICES RULING COMBINED BREEDERS' SALE [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Sunday Following on the increase in value 3 ruling at the national sale of pedigree Jersey bulls held ..during the? previous week, the higher prices realised for hulls offered at the Waikato Cmbincd Breeders' Association's annual sale at Claudelands from last .Wednesday to Friday, serve to confirm the indications of a brighter outlook among the farming community. During the three days of the sale 284 bulls were disposed of at an average price of 16 l-3gns., tho total proceeds being £4872. Of this amount £4530 was paid for the 234 Jerseys sold, representing an average of about 19gns. At last year's sale 346 lots' were sold, the average prico being llgns. and the aggregate return to vendors £4029. An average of only about 12gns. was maintained for Jerseys, the 295 which changed hands selling for a total of £3532.

The fact that only 448 bulls were yarded this year, as compared with 538 at the fixture last year, was due to the efforts of the association's selection committee in limiting the sale to hulls with an approved butter-fat backing, although the present general shortage of high-class pedigree animals was a. contributing cause. These two factors also had a bearing on the higher values realised.