Sales of Live Stock in Showy ard. 55 
Polled Cattle Societies, English Aberdeen Angus Cattle Association, Galloway 
Cattle, Ayrshire Cattle Herd Book, Royal Jersey Agricultural, Longhorn 
Cattle, English Kerry and Dexter Cattle, and English Jersey Cattle Societies. 
Sheep.- — Oxford Down Sheep Breeders’, Shropshire Sheep Breeders’ 
Associations, Southdown Sheep Society, Hampshire Down Sheep Breeders’ 
Association, Suffolk Sheep Society, Lincoln Long Wool, Kent or Romney 
Marsh, Dorset Horn, and Ryeland Sheep Breeders’ Associations. 
Pigs . — National Pig Breeders’ Association, British Berkshire and Large 
Black Pig Societies. 
Poultry . — Sussex Poultry Club. 
Sales of Live Stock in Showyard. 
The sales of live stock effected in the Showyard at Park 
Royal, both at public auction and by private treaty, may be 
considered as one of the most satisfactory features of the Show. 
The auction sales took place on the Thursday, and the bidding 
was especially brisk for the cattle and sheep. A good con- 
tingent of foreign buyers was present. Cattle realised a total 
of 6,117Z. 6s., nearly the whole of this sum being paid for 
Shorthorns, of which sixty head were sold at an average price 
of over 100/. each. The top price was given by Mr. F. Miller, 
an Argentine buyer, for Mr. J. D. Willis’s two-year-old short- 
horn bull, Daynton Brave Archer. This animal, which took 
the first prize in its class, realised 1,000 guineas. 
The auction sales of sheep were also excellent, especially 
those of Sliropshires. For this breed the prizes included a 
special selling class, in which four prizes of 20/., 15/., 10/., and 
51. were offered for shearling rams, on condition that all the 
exhibits were put up for sale by auction without any further 
reserve than entering them at 15 guineas. In this class the 
first prize ram was sold for export to Argentina at 51/. 
A statement is given below of the amounts realised for 
horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs at each of the auction sales for 
the three Park Royal Shows : — 
1903 
1904 
1905 
£ 
s. 
d. 
£ 
s. 
d. . 
£ 
s. 
d. 
Horses .... 
561 
18 
0 
724 
10 
0 
327 
12 
0 
Cattle .... 
2,377 
14 
6 
3,517 
10 
0 
6,117 
6 
0 
Sheep .... 
48 
6 
0 
421 
1 
0 
1,316 
13 
6 
Pigs ..... 
281 
13 
6 
412 
18 
3 
424 
9 
3 
Total 
3,272 
12 
0 
5,075 
19 
3 
8,186 
0 
9 
Excellent prices were given for sheep in the sales by 
private treaty, and the sums stated to have been paid for the 
first prize Lincoln yearling ram (1,000 guineas) and the first 
prize pen of five Lincoln yearling sheep (1,500/.) constitute 
records that deserve mention. 
