£5250 FOR A COW.
RECORD PRICE PAID AT SALE
OF FRIESIAN CATTLE,
Record prices were realised in London recently at a sale of Friesian cattle. Forty-seven cattle brought £25,000, an average of over £540 each.
An imported cow was bought for 5000 guineas. Another cow with a two month' calf was sold for 3000 and 1600 guineas respectively. An imported bull sold for 1500 guineas. . ,
The top price for English-bred heifers were 1650 and 1200 guineas.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17734, 6 December 1919, Page 9
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76£5250 FOR A COW. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17734, 6 December 1919, Page 9
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