PUREBRED STOCK SALE.
GRIFFITHS’ AND CORNWALL’S HERD. [Press Association.] NEW PLYMOUTH, Nov. £7. Great interest was taken to-day in the sale of Griffiths’ and Cornwili s purebred Jersey 'herd. Seventy-eight. -lot s were submitted to. the hammer. The prices aggregated 2592 guineas, an average of 33i guineas per head* There were a number of outside buyers, but all the higher-priced annuals were secured by Taranaki buyers. Tw.enty-three of tlie animals wer-; calves, from 3 days to a month old, an 1 -about twenty were yearlings. The .imported sire from Jersey sland, Campanile’s Sultan, fetched . 40gns The champion butter fat cow, Grannie’s Girl, which was suffering, from ■udder complaint, contracted -at _ the Palmerston Show, only realised Ssgns, a similar price being paid for Magnet’s Pegg-s. Other high prices for cows were: GGgns, SOgns, 7Sgns, 55 gus., sGgns, 40gns, 74gns. One yearHim heifer fetched 55gns, and a heifer calf, *l7 days’ old, brought 30gns.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2360, 28 November 1908, Page 5
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152PUREBRED STOCK SALE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2360, 28 November 1908, Page 5
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