AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL NEWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3403, 4 June 1919, Page 11

AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL NEWS.

Eleven stud Lincoln rams wore sold by public auction at Buenos Aires for the record average price of £330 each. The Brocklebank ram, purchased for 700 guineas, sold at Buenos Aires for 1,250 guineas, while the 1,000-guineaa Romney Marsh ram sold at Buenos Aires for £1,600. At a meeting of breeders of Aberdeen Angus cattle, held at the office of the Herd Books, 303 Queen street, Brisbane, on May 8, it was decided to establish an Aberdeen Angus Association of Australia, for the purpose of preserving the pedigrees of the specimens of the breed in the Commonwealth, says the Australasian. Mr J. C.

White, Edinglaseie, Muswollbrook, N.S.W"., was appointed president, and Mr R. S. Maynard honorary secretary of the association.

Some 603 head of cattl© were sent in for the Dublin Society's bull show and sale, on March 13. The highest price was 1.700 guineas, at which figure Mr Wrench's champion bull, Red Baron Groat, was bought by Mr M. Marshall. The champion Hereford, Mr Dames's Longworth's Gladiator, sold for 1,000 guineas. The champion Aberdeen-Angus bull Perinthiaa made 610 guineas.

It is good to read that the sales of Ayrshires in Scotland are invariably accom» panied now by quotations of the milk and butter-fat records of ancestors on both sides. Thus at Mr J. Logan's sale £1,320 was bid for a bull. Royal Champion, whose sire. Magnificent, was- out of a cow, which gavf 10,540ib milk, testing 3.6 per cent, fax 1$ 39 weeks. The dam of Royal CliampioH produced 10,8501 b milk with 4.09 per butter-fat in 41 weeks. At Mr J. Howie'j sale a bull named Hot Stuff realised 1,700 guineas. Ho is out of Carston Mary Ann, a cow which in 1918, gave 10,1701 b with 4.1 per rent, of butter-fat in 37 weeks. Mr J, Cochrane sold a cow, Nethercraig Matilda, for 400 guineas to Mr 11. Marshall, of Kilmarnock.

A scholarship of £lO has been given t<» the choir of St. Paul's Cathedral by Mri Lindo Ferguson for the free education of one boy in music and singing. Tho turnip crop 3 in the Wairarapa havs been a partial failure this year, and thers is very little hope of fattening &heep fof local consumption A representative of tho Southland Time* was shown a remarkable sample of wool| 27 inches in length, part of a 35'b fleeoa taken from an "outlaw" on Mr J. J, M'Crostie's ran, Glencairn, Waikaia. Tha wool was very fine and even, without a' break in tho growth, and was shorn from a halfbrcd animal which defied capture until a few days ago. A member of a parliamentary party that visited "Penrose" (says the Wairarapa Daily Times) jocularly offered Mr W. Perry £25 a stud ram lamb that was beintf, admired. The politician was informed that the aristocratic youngster was valued at 500 guineas.