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PRINCIPAL PLACES OF SALE AND AVERAGE PRICES OP ANIMALS OF EACH BREED 



Principal Places of Public Sale, 

 Exhibitions and Shows. 



Average Prices. 



Sales : A sale of bulls is held 

 at Castle Douglas in spring. 

 Other sales at Carlisle and 

 Newton Stewart. 



Shows : Highland and Agri- 

 cultural Society's, Royal Agri- 

 cultural Society's, Dumfries, 

 Castle Douglas, Carlisle, Dal- 

 beattie and New Galloway. 



Sales : Animals in the Islands 

 are sold chiefly by private 

 treaty. 



Shows : Royal Agricultural, 

 Bath and West, London Dairy 

 Show, Royal Counties, Devon 

 County, Royal Cornwall, Tun- 

 bridge Wells and other shows 

 principally in the south of 

 England. 



Sales : The Society does not 

 hold sates, but sales by auction 

 are held throughout the year 

 at various centres and on 

 breeders' farms. 



A show and sale of bulls is held 

 twice yearly, in March and 

 April, by the Society in the 

 Cattle Market, Hereford. Sales 

 are also held at Shrewsbury 

 and other centres. 



Shows : Ro,>al Agricultural So- 

 ciety's and all the principal 

 Live Stock Shows of England. 

 Royal Dublin Society's Show. 



Sales : The Society holds a show 

 and sale of bull-j at Oban in 

 Spring. Other sales are held 

 at Stirling, Inverness, Dingwall, 

 Perth, &c. 



Shows : Highland Society's, 

 Royal Agricultural Society's 

 and local shows in Inverness- 

 shire, Argyleshire and Perth- 

 shire, &c. 



From 18 18s. to 26 5s. for commercial 

 stock. At the Castle Douglas sale in 

 1912, bulls realised up to 78 15s. ; 120 

 animals averaged 23. 



At recent sales, bulls have averaged about 

 26 ; highest price 35. Cows and heifers 

 averaged 40 ; highest price 70. At a 

 small sale held recently, 26 animals 

 averaged 33 3s. Id. 



At the Society's sales in 1912, the following 

 prices were obtained : 



March, 107 bulls averaged 32 4s. ; highest 

 price 84. 



April, 63 bulls, chiefly yearlings, averaged 

 28 10s. ; highest price 63. 



At the recent dispersion of a famous herd, 

 24 yearling heifers averaged 59 17s., 

 20 two-year-old heifers 67 Us. 6d., 41 

 cows and calves 115 10s., and 7 bulls 

 123 6s. Highest prices, bulls 378, cows 

 220 10s. 164 animals, all ages, averaged 

 62 16s. Qd. 



At the Society's sale in 1912, 12 bulls above 

 3 years old averaged 28 13s. 4cZ., 41 

 2-year-olds 24 6. Id., 17 yearlings 

 16 16s.; highest price 67. In 1911, 

 83 animals averaged 28 10s. 7d., highest 

 price 95. 



