70 DUAL PURPOSE CATTLE 



a 19-m. old, to 8-6% by a 32 m. old. Only 4 Shorthorn sold: highest 

 realized 10-0% per st. A 23 m. Dexter, 10-4% per st. Of 7 Scots, 

 a 19% m. steer realized 10-5, a 36% m. heifer 10- per st.; the others 

 from 9-6% to 9-1% per st. A 19% m. cross-bred heifer realized 

 10-7% per st., a 20% m. steer 10-5%. 



Prices at the 1914 sale ruled high. Of 13 Red Polled, a 21% 

 m. steer, which gave percentage 63.31, the carcase realized 11-3% 

 per st., a steer 11-6%, the remaining 11 from 11-2% to 10- per st. 

 Of 6 Shorthorn, a 21 m. steer 11-4% per st., the others from 11-0% 

 to 9-10. A 21 m. Scot, 10-8%, and a 18 m. old, 10-3%, and an older, 

 9-8% per st. Cross-breds blue-grey polled and Angus-Shorthorn, 

 from 11-2% to 9-2% per st. 



The 1915 sale included 11 Red Polled: 21 m. 27 d. heifer cham- 

 pion, 1,136 lb., 710 lb., 60.50 per cent, 13-9 V 2 per st. 22 % m. steer, 

 56.70 per cent, 13-8% per st.; 20% m. 57.97 per cent, 13-6% per st.; 

 15% m., 62.60 per cent, 12-9% per st.; 5 12-9% to 12-1%; 34% m., 1,308 

 lb. heifer, 60.81 per cent, 11-4%. (All these from registered stock). 

 A 21 m. 1,132 lb. cross-bred, 59.71 per cent, made the highest return, 

 14-0% per st., while the 35% m. 1,596 lb. champion steer, 65.87 per 

 cent, sold at 9-8% per st. The highest priced Shorthorn, 20 m., 

 1,172 lb., 60.58 per cent, sold at 13-9% per st. A 35 m. 19 d. Aberdeen- 

 Angus, 62.27 per cent, 12-4% per st. The average of 21 beasts under 

 2-yr.-old was 12-8 per st.; of 11 under 3-yr., 10-11%. 



