STOCK NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5700, 20 October 1896, Page 3

STOCK NOTES.

[Br Tussock in "Canterbury Times."] At the annual sale of Mr A. E. Mansell's Shropshires, at Harrington Hall, Shrewsbury, on August 11, the largo attendance included most of the leading owners of Shropshire flocks. The following are some of the prices realised for rams :- Phenomenon 8680, by Montford Dreamer (purchased at 175gs), winner in pen of five ram lambs, at Darlington Royal, winner in pen of five shearling rams, Leicester Royal, and numerous other shows, 120gs. Ram by Montford Dreamer, winner first prize Shropshire and West Midland as a lamb, and winner in pen of five shearling rams at Leicester, &c, loogs. Ram, winner as ; a lamb, and in pen of winning rams, at Leicester, 53gs. Ram, first pen of five, Leicester, and .-. Shropshire and West Midland, 51gs. Ram by Montford Dreamer, winner third prize, Leicester, &c, 165gs. (Several of these rams were illustrated in the Canterbury Times a fortnight ago.) Rams let for the season at 42gs, 21gs, 21gs, 36gs, 30gs, 28gs, 30gs, 40gs, 29gs, 17gs, &c. The averages were as follow: — 43 rams, let and sold, .£29 Os 8d; 50 ewes, £i 4s. Altogether a most successful and encouraging sale, the three highest priced rams making .£462, or an average of «£154 each. At the sale of Mr T. I. Minton's Shrop shires a shearling ram sold at 90gs. Mr J. "Bowen- Jones had a most successful sale. The ram Bath Barr — whose portrait, erroneously entitled" Bath Rani/ appeared in the Canterbury Times of Oct. 1 — was let for 75gs ; a shearling ram by Dull Care was bought by "Mr Jameson, of New Zealand," for GOgs : and other prices were 70gs, 55gs, 40gs, &c, the average being .£26 7s Bd. The ewes averaged .£4 2s 3d, the top price lOgs. Mrs Barrs obtained lOOgs (let) for the Leicester Royal first prize shearing ram — also depicted in the Canterbury Times — and sold one at 65gs. The average was .£lB 19s6d. ' Mr Charles Coxon's Shropshires also sold well. Forty rams were catalogued, and every one "was sold at an average of .£l6 14s 4d, the principal prices being 65gs, 3Ggs, 36gs, 36gs, 25gs, 12gs (let), 17gs, lOgs, 30gs, 17gs, 25gs, 13gs, 2ogs, I7gs, 12gs, 17gs, Hgs, 13gs, &c. Ten rams were purchased for South America. Eighty ewes were sold, at the excellent average of £4 12s 7d, top price lOgs (the highest price realised this season for ewes). The Dublin Horse Show this year waß I notice, one of the most successful shows ever held. There were plenty of buyers for hunters— which the bicycle cannot yet supersede. The record price for a pig was made at Springfield, Illinois, on August 5, namely, 1310dol— equal to about £262 sterling— for I a two-year-old Poland-China sow. In the weekending August 22 there were, in the United Kingdom, seventy-one outbreaks of swine fever and. 1238 pigs were slaughtered as being diseased or exposed to contagion.