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



Principal Places of Public Sale, 

 Exhibitions and Shows. 



Average Prices. 



Shows : Royal Agricultural So- 

 ciety's, Bath and West, Royal 

 Lancashire, Great Yorkshire, 

 Peterborough, Royal Counties, 

 Highland and Agricultural So- 

 ciety's and most of the County 

 Shows. 



Sales are held in connection with 

 the Royal Show and on 

 breeder's farms. 



At the sale held in connection with the 

 Royal Show in 1911, 18 animals averaged 

 7 9s. lid. 



Shows : Royal Agricultural So- 

 ciety's, Bath and West, Royal 

 Counties, Royal Lancashire, 

 Warwickshire and other County 

 Shows. 



Sales are held in connection with 

 the Royal Show and at breeders' 

 farms. 



At the sale held in connection with the 

 Royal Show, 1911, 17 animals averaged 

 4 8s. 4c?. At a recent dispersion sale 

 prices ranged up to 15 15s. a head. 



Shows : The Society holds an 

 Annual Show in or near London, 

 London Dairy Show, and Tun- 

 bridge Wells. 



Stud Goats from 8 to 10 ; She Goats in 

 milk from 3 to 15 ; Long-haired Irish 

 Breed from 1 to 2. 



The chief breeds for uiilk in England are the 

 Anglo-Nubian and the Toggenburg, but a 

 large proportion of the best milkers are 

 the result of a cross between these two 

 breeds. Toggenburg Goats are compara- 

 tively scarce in England, and the prices 

 for milch goats of this breed vary between 

 5 and 20. 



