STOCK AND GRAZING NOTES

Otago Witness, Issue 3584, 21 November 1922, Page 11

STOCK AND GRAZING NOTES

Weekly Stock Sales. Bumsido, Wednesday. Addington, Wednesdays fTaiureka Ilaiiwuy June* ticn, Tuesdays. IV allacetowu, Tuesdays. Fortnightly. KiversdaJe, Fridays. Ashburton, Tuesdays. fTeriol, Thursdays. SVinton, Thursdays. Wyndbam, Thursdays, ClitUon, Thursdays. Balelutha, Fridays. Gore, Tuesdays. Monthly. Palmerston, 4th Thursday. Win ton, 4th Tuesday.

Monthly (continues!. Duntroon, 2nd Wednesday. Woodlands, 3rd Friday Milton, 2nd Tuesday. Balfour, 3rd Thursday. Thorahury, Ist Friday. Duntroon, 2nd Wednesday. Otautau, 2nd Friday. Hiversdale, 3rd Friday. Walk, ka, last Friday. Oiydevaie, last Tuesday. Periodically as AdvertisedDumsden, Mossburu, Orepuki, Matanra. Waikcuaitt, Riverton, Rgapara, ano Otago Cen-ral Sales

OTAGO. Pair weather conditions prevailed last week m Otago with, however, coldish eanoitions at night, and at times throughout the day. We want more sunshine and warmth if turnips now coming through the ground are to escape the pests always about tor weaklings. It is understood that an offer of 9|d per lb tvas turned down for a g’ood many tons of cheese last week —holding for lOd. BURNSIDE MARKET. The quality of the 1632 fat sheep at Burnside (1098 the previous week) was under the average, the proportion of unfinished woolly ewes and plain wethers being noticeable. Some nice pennings of heavy sheep and light prime wethers were some compensation, however. There was a good sale, even if the top rates of the previous week early in the sale were unobtainable. Heavy woollies made to 53s 3d, shorn to 395, Corriedale shorn wethers 28s to 30s; the sale finished with a strong demand at Is a head advance. About 500 of the entry were shorn sheep. It is difficult in the circumstances to correctly stale the per lb value, the variance between woolled shee.p and shorn being about a penny a lb. The writer quotes wether mutton at around 6d per lb. The entry of fat lambs (143), comprised very good quality, with the exception of a few pennings of rather young lambs, the demand being on a parity with the previous week’s values till close to the end of the sale, when rates eased up a shilling or two per head. Lamb may be quoted at up to lOd per lb. 1 The quality of the 184 fat cattle (236 the previous week) ranged from fair to good. Trade was brisk, and values of the previous week were, as the sale progressed, improved upon, to the extent of some 15s per head, beef making un to 30s per 1001 b. Store cattle to the number of about 170, the bulk of the entry being inferior, dragged considerably, the exception being some bigframed four-year-old bullocks, which sold from £6 5s to £8 6s. Fat pigs realised fully up to the previous week’s rates, with store.-, and small sorts in very fair demand. Baconers to 6Jd and porkers to 8d per lb.

ADDINGTON YARDS. Following upon the “double"’ market a fortnight ago, the entry of fat sheep at Addington proved ample. The demand was good, and values were fully maintained, and in the early part erf the sale exceeded rates ruling at the previous fixture. Most , sheep were shorn. Competition for the 473 fat lambs was keen, were 3s to 4s in advance of those ruling at the double” market, the* price per lb ranglng to lid, the top price per head being 56s for a pen of five. Only a small yarding of store sheep were offered, all classes being represented. Prices were in advance of those ruling before the rains came, mixed old ewes with lambs at foot making up to 19s Id, all counted. The entry of fat cattle numbered 349 head, compared with 590 at the sale a fortnight ago. Values realised were £1 to £2 a head in advance of those of last sale, beef making up to 3os per IQOlb. The best of the grown cattle in the store pens sold well, but other sorts were not ins much request. The- pick of the dairy cows forward sold well at up to £ll per head, hut ‘doubtfuls” were 'n-ot wanted. Bacon pigs on the heavy side lacked demand—l2oll) to k° ,r fg in favour—while porkers were dull Store sorts all had inquiry and a good sale. Baconers made from 4|d to s|d, amd porkers 6d to 62d per lb. NORTH ISLAND STOCK VALUES. Changeable weather in the North Island and the fact that shearing operations are in full swing iiave militated against active stock business, but values are fairly steady in the circumstances. At Poverty Bay, at the Matawhero Yards, the entries were on the small side, and bidding was quiet; twotooth ewes of medium quality made 20s, and two-tooth wethers 17s 6d 'to 19s; best dairy cows were sold to £2l. In the Wairarapa hoggets realised to 225, and woolly wethers 24s to 295, two-year-old st,eer3 £3 C ?i 5s three-year-old to £5 10s. four-year-old to £5 12s 6d. The fact that no stock reports have come through from other centres indicates a slackness in trade which with seasonal farm operations is not sur- -- r “K‘ I ". Hawke’s Bay hoggets made ~7 od > medium ewes and lambs 31s 6d three-year-old steers to £4 and £7 emntv heifers £2 10s to £3. The few milkers that are marketed sell well at the present

balolutha-cxinton stock sales. some am Sl i° d: sal ° at Bafclutha on Friday ~ome 600 sheep were yarded. A few pen--20s SS afl ? n , d faill >.S m »i.th owes made • all counted, medium hoggets, mixed werhmsTssTd d ’ sm *» ‘"o-tooth wearers 18s 6.1, mixed hoggets 16s 10d. Fat sceep about rates ruling at last Burnside sale About 200 head "of cattle were £ arde< \ f n r , w! " dl ' vith the exception of ? pa k" 1!oc -' s the demand was dull. Up 4 P aid for very forward stock „ Ab, * ‘J° n afcont 600 sheep were offered, a good demand being experienced. Old ewes and lambs made 13s 10<1 (o 19 s 4d. all counted, good mixed hoggets 24s 2d good ewe Romney hoggets 27s lOd. N.B.—The lots of ewes with lambs mentioned above IvO per cent, of lambs were gu-ai-anteed. STOCK NOTES. Values of store sheep in Otago indicate an appreeiatnm which appears warranted by values ruling in the Home Country. 1 . ”L plentiful, while the sharp rise in wool which occurred m Christchurch at the recent sale cannot be overlooked. Even brokers of the non-conservative type were far out m their estimated values, but they can stand the shock if wool growers ale content It is estimated that this rise in wool if continued wnile our wool is raar . £2T) (Vn r ?nTi ell ni at W . an additional £<.00,000 on the Otago provincial clip alone those -wool-growers who have sold thrir wool cups forward will now perhaps appreciate our Cft-repeated advice* “not to » U” till their wool was in front of Icca! and tSb 1 ”” * h “ “i The weather has been somewhat. c.f a ahteVn tUre q b ’ J 'i « progressing q- ■ v,e “. ,in der the circumstances Hie ordinary run.of store cattle show no fn l .ts at r n lI \, Val T iS - but forward big bullocks have attention and remain very firm at latos ruling early in the month. the snares in the newly-formed Co-onera off" fZ? v C T Pan A ° f 0i **° Wiring oft freely, the cheese factories bring generous stmporters. Should the company l«-ide to buy out a working concern™ hris to he hoped that nothing but. the best- will content the directors. Sound the lot. •n • £nrm (Invercargill) is now milking 203 cows, dairying bavin- proved a pa Al n ' g pywosition on this cheap land • f ; h C. following importations of stud stock into A eve Zealand from overseas were made during the year ei«sed 3'lst March lasi (states the Journal of Agriculture). Cattle 22 head (five Shorthorn. 14 Jersey, 3 Avr’- \ t(seven Hampshire, three English Leicester): swine. 13 (3 Berkshire rJat™'U r 10 xT Yorkshire) ; horses’, burg) *’ 1 10 Ar ‘ s! o-Nub;an, one Toggen- . A thg Canterbury Show Mr Brwo 1 ' "M<U™edale,” Mount biw X l Awt - r,,l,a \ a well-known hreedei rJ no.ee! merino sheep, was on the -nlrlri r I r r inn ■ C!iU]e - An exchange M o information (bat in the North Island Ml Collins paid 800gg for a two-year-od heifer which has produced 72Slb of butter-fat and has since won the North Island championship at the PalmerstntiMtl Show. He also purchased a cow tra- 600 gs. which has produced over 8901 b of butter-,at per annum two years in suc--cession. Tn Canterbury, the three-year-old heifer Ellesmere Eileen, which was champion at last year’s Christchurch Show, and which as a two-year-old Produce] 6501 b of ,iulter-fat. was second. ‘This heifer was owned bv Mr L. R. Stoddart, of Willowbv and bred by Mr T. IT. Overton, of Lakeside. .At the show Mr Collins was successful in purchasing the champion Friesian bull, Longbeach Big King from Mr Ktorldart, a bull which has won numerous prizes. Following upon the strong representations made to the Government by the North Canterbury executive of the Farmers’ Union as to the necessity for dairy farm instructors, news has been received by the secretary, Mr O. Beniamin, from ihe Hon. W. Nosvvorthy, Minister of Agriculture, to the effect that. Cabinet has approved of the appomtmute of four dairy instructors for (be South Island. Word has been received from the Argentine stated that the Aberdeen-Ang-us bull’s imported by Mr James Sidey have been sold at Buenos Aires at an average price of £3OO. Tho top figure was £700.. while two heifers.

bred by Mr Kennedy of Dconholm, aver aged £2OO.

Mr A. W. Montgomery, Lessnessock, Scotland, has consigned to China 40 young Ayrshire cows and heifers, and also two lngh-class milk record bulls. Although there was a big drop in prices mi . 1921 in England, breeders of the Berkshire pig have every- reason to be satisfied with the way the oft-called “Aristocrat of tile Porcine World” has justified its existence, both in the show vard and in the sale i' l!l g (says a writer in the Live Stock Annual Journal). Mr James Nagle’s boar Pamber Ugly Duekland, after winning first and supreme champion at the R.A.S.E. Derby Show, was, as previously stated, sold for eyport to South America at 750 gs, tho record price for any individual pig of uny breed in Great Britain. # On the 9th inst. the Otahuti Dairy Factory held their official opening, Mr F. J. O’Gonnell presiding over some 109 local residents and visitors, the occasion being the recognition of the fact that Otahuti now- had an up-to-date cheese factory ready for action. The factory had 300 cows guaranteed at present, and the directors anticipated another 200 bead in the near future. The two-vat installation (2000 gal) cost £2400, and 1690 shares had been allotted and 5s per share called up. Six-per cent, will be paid on the capital paid up. Mr Cameron, late of Wright’s Bush will manage the factory. A lady Sh or thorn breeder. Miss Sylvia Brocklebunk, at the Dalmeny sale (Scotland), secured a dark roan two-year-old nefler, Lothian Princess Mary, for 730grs. J he habit of the high price’ in ram transactions again appears to be. more clearly developed m the north than in the south (comments a Home paper). It was stated recently that a Mountain Blackface lain m i Lajiark. This figure remained well above any obtained at the subsequent sai f. s Kelso, and Edinburgh, but with £3BO as top price for tile mountain breeds at Perth, and £350 fnr a Border Leicester at Kobe, it will be seen that northern flockmasters have cultivated and maintained the high level standard of’ values o. carefuliy-l>red sires with remarkable sue-A-t Kelso Suffolk ram lambs made to and Oxford Downs to £IOO. SADDLE HORSES IN FAVOUR. Already marked scarcity of riding horses exists in L.S.A. Orders have accumulated at every centre in the country, the weekly supply at terminal paints being closely scanned for by order buyers for animals adapted to saddle purposes. Riding is now a furore, espeoiallj- in urban communities, where paths have teen constructed as a feature of park systems. Chicago, for instance, is developing a forest reserve or outer park system, embracing many thouS£ ) r ‘ ,cl suburban acres, in which recognition ot riding as a recreation has been made proyidniff scope for those who are thus enabled to todow this pastime without using highways. now practically closed to them by reason of motor traffic. Many of the urban communities already boast of more or less elaborate ruling schools, scores of saddle horse liveries have been established that, they do not know whence the horses noc-7a-sary to meet, a demand, created almost over night, is coming. That riding is merely a passing tad is doubtful ; in fact, it would seem to be the logical reaction to the automobile Be can sell anything adaptable to saddle purposes,” said a dealer to the Breeders Gazette (Chicago) recently, t.ome people do not jib at price provided they can get what they want. I sold a round dozen within a week recently at prices ranging from 6Codol to 18CCdol/ and have orders for many move. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. (Vide Journal.) Ine revenue of the department for the financial year 1921-22 was as follows .-—Sales of stock and produce from experimental lai.nis and areas, also horticultural and poultry stations, £27,461: quarantine sustenance fees for imported live stock. £7798; sales cf poison for destruction cf rabbits, £10.64u , destruction of rabbits on Crown and private lands, £1888; fees for semiofficial testing of purebred dairy cows and cow-testing associations, £5813; services of farm dairy instructors, £3192; dairy- produce grading- fees. £12,563; sales c.f Journal of Agriculture and photographic material, :02212 ; fees for testing seeds, £505; fees for fumigation and destruction of diseased fruit. £186: meat inspection fees. £26.222; dairy registration fees, £2890; nursery registration fees, £533: brand registration and other fees, £4580; _ miscellaneous, £lo,l33;—total, £110.434, Note.—The amount shown for sales from experimental farms, etc., does not include wool, neither the 1921 clip (nor that of 1920) produced on the farms having been marketed during the financial year. Hie purchases of the Department cf Imperial Government Supplies since 1915 have comprised the following aggregates; 3.671,085 quarters beef, 17,447.046 "carcases mutton, 17,681,218 carcases lamb. 370.469 601 b freight carcases other meats, 3,148,510 boxes butter, 3,137,765 crates cheese, 2,348.143 hales wool. 7,665.854 sheepskins. 370,507 hides and calfskins. 774 tons sbeeiite, also considerable quantities cf frozen and canned rabbits, canned meats and milk products other ilian butter and cheese. The total sum disbursed by the department for these goods was £163,604,710. The administration costs of the business amounted to only 0.C59 per cent., or 14-jd for each £IOO of business done. Official information has been received that a World’s Dairy Congress wi 11 be held in the .United Stales early in October, 1923, at a city to be designated later. The congress is being organised under the direction of the World's Dairy Congress Association, acting as a committee of management. While I his congress will not be conducted under the patronage of the GovermneSit of the United States, great interest is taken in it by the United States Department of Agriculture, which is co-operating with the committee of management, and the Congress of the United States has requested and authorised the President to extend invitations to foreign Governments to participate. The British Government and the Governments of the British dominions and colonies have accordingly been invited to be represented by delegates. In addition to official delegates, attendance at the congress by commercial and scientific men interested in the subjects to be considered, including those connected with Cattle-breeding establishments and plants manufacturing dairy products and dairy equipment, would be welcomed. It is also pointed out that because of the relation of milk to public ■health, especially that of children, representatives of child-welfare, public health, and similar organisations will find much value in tho congress. It is believed that the proposed congress will be of great value to all participating countries, both from a scientific and commercial standpoint, by

the consideration of all the larger problem* involved, with a view of making available the best information in existence concerning the importance of milk to the consumer, as well as the most effective and economic method of production, distribution, and official regulation.