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COMMERCIAL.
SOIL AND STOCK.
SALE OF SIIOItTUOBNS IK THE
AiiU iiv li'.
Twonty-fivo all or thorn bulla sold at :
Buenos Aires iu September, ut an avo- j
mgo of JB&23/15/* The champion bull*!
ut. Perth (Scot 1'uhd), Ilauwuou Kegeut,,
which woe sold for £00 guineas, reu>.
Used at tho Sotttu American.'!
aaloj mad another prize-winner at Perth, i
tho tv.o-ycar-old bull lteUgato Censor* >j
bought then for GUO guiucuu, mado,j
DAIRY COW TEST.
Mr, J, E. Fraser scored a decisive
victory in the dairy cow test ut the
Truralgon (Victoria; show, if is repre
sentatives finished first, second and
third in r> good entry. The test wna
for tho morning milicing on Urn tiuy o»
tho show* Tho records of his cows aro
its follows:'
Weight
of milk. Tost. Putter Fat.
lb, lb.
28 5.4 1.512
... 211 8.0 I.2i» •
... 23 4.8 1.104
A HIGH-PRICED BOLT,.
Reports to hand by tho last mail
from America state tliut the Holstein
Hull King Segm Pontine Koauigen, i>7,
08S, him just luien purchased by the
Fred F. Field Holstein Co., DuLchhut.l
Farm, of Massachusetts, for 85,000 dol
lars IT7000). *Hia former owner owiur
w;is Frank A. Smith, of Now York.
Mr. F. F. Field states:—“The three
nearest dams of this bull have the
largest milk and butter records of any
bull in the United State**. I p*ud
0i:0 dollars for him, and believe this to
bo .the highest price over paid for a
dairy animal.*'
PRICK OF DAIRY SttOKTHOIlNS IN
ENGLAND.
Dairy Shorthorns have boon selling
at very high figures in England, ac
cording to papers by the last mail. A
newly cubed cow, Silvester Prel*y
Maid (with cult' at foot;, sold for A* 103/
■ij; mid a heller, Silverlou Pride 3ru,
just under tnico ymira old (with calf
at fott), rculUed XOU/IS/, Thirty-livo
cows made an average of X46/10/ euen.
At a fcab of Jorsays at Stowoii Xhuk,
Wiltshire*,. 115 cow.i and hoifers averaged
105 guineas, nmlscvoji buliB made lutD
guiueim, Masquerade, a cm which wim
ut Om Munch.Bier Royal, nrought the
top price, -S1U guineas. The bull Merry
Boy sold for 253 guineas.
A PROLIFIC SOW..
■ .Mr, II. E. .Berry, of.Eclaeiga, wrote
<m November 22: —"Having txxjn in the
agricultural cdiunn of 'The Advortiflor’ 1
records of breeding sows at different
times, I felt tempted to let you know
j^bout u white Vork cross sow of mine.
She has hud nino litters, for u total
of 1112 pigs. They came an follows: -
12, 12, H, 17, IS, 17, 11, H, 17, She
Inis never reined more than 12 ut n
time herself, although a very careful
mother, in* she has only 12 teata, but
I have frequently hand-reared what aim
could not. X think this takes a bit.
of beating, ami she will make over 500
lb. of incut fat when done with. L
have a young mw or tv.to from b?i*
which started off with 12."
BRICE OF J13R&I3VS'- IN ENG-IAND,
A record-sale lor Jerseys wan mudo
ut too dispersal of Mi. j. li. Suulm
Burry’s herd m England at the end
of/ septum usr, ‘i mi ly-tivo: eov/s uii4
heil’Crs averaged Xil5/d/; eight bulla
and calves,. -tl2v/x.i/o. hiaaquoraMo,
v.fiiicli wau first ut the Manchester
lioyal, wna bought by Mrs. AUotin.ior
Juki guinea.*. liW huuic'buyer guve iU*J
guiutuis tor Duekwing, mid 205 guineis
iur a iKimi-inornhs-oui bull, can, Fit*
mate, by Mulvolio. A lour-moullw-oM
bull cub, Merry Boy, was sold at 2o3
guineas*. A cow, Anisette, reached 210
guineas*; and another, Frealige, sold for
zAo guineas.
BAIIIYLNG IN CANADA.
That dniryiug is u leuding feature nf
Oatario’a agricultures ia shown by tbo
following figures, There are 647 cheque
luotorie* in Eastern Ontario, During
lust aeuson 927,000,000 lb. of milk were
delivered at these ituddriea by 29,007
pn train*. There aro m Eastern Ontario
;>6 creameries*, with 4626 patrons. There
uro 151 cltteae fuctones with 11,119 pat
rons, and 125 creameries and 40 cream
Hupping atr.tioin* with 32,523 patrons iu
Weateru Ontario. Besides these thoro
uio bhueo who aro supplying milk, and
oieum for city consumption, and those
engaged in ir.akiug of butter at homo,
uh Wtdl iib thor*:'bupplyiug milk to tJu
condcurieiri and milk powder lactones,
numbering half *v t!osa*a.
THE MILK YIELD OF A COAT,
The daily milk yield of the gout is
n very variable quantity, but it cun
be greatly* ineieuiod by generous treat
man t in the matter of food. It is said
that a gout Hhould give ut_ least ten
times her own weight of milk in the
year whilst a cow is reckoned to give
five times her own weight. Goats, jt
ban Ixon said, give as much in, 170
gallons of milk in the year, or from
seven to 19 pint*:, a day during tbo
period of luctntion. It is quite possible
by good, enro and feeding • to get a
yield of DJ pints dully for from four
to six months; indeed, eases are; re
corded of goats which gavo 12 or 14
pints per day. Tlio averugc annual
milk yield of Oermau goats is about
] 10 gallons,
GERMANY AND THE ARGENTINE
WOOL CLIP.
Angry comments have been made in
the German preas on reports published
in certain Buenos Ayres papers to tno
effect that for over a year past not'
only Gvnmujs, but, alt© iho German
Govern men t, have been purchasing am!
.storing. largo stocks of wool in Jugou
tiuu au<l Uruguay. Tho purchases mado
uro stated to have amounted in June,
1015, to -20,000,000; in February, 1013.
to .£5,000,000;'and in July this year to
•1*0,030,UOQ. * To nave warchousciatjr ex
petimm the woo! lias . Ixvii placed on
board German vessels lying in thos'i
ImrbaiH. As tho whole wool yield of
the year*wa» valued at ,20,000,000, it*
and *the carry forward .have thus been
practically sold out. New season's
shearing would begin only about tho
middle of September, hut it wilt be hn
puHsiblo to buy up. tin# uip without
forcing prices to it very high level.
Tlieso largo purchases of wool have ati
least, tho German papers claim, great!v
listrictcd ofterhtgs on the Liverpool
wool market, und liavo boon partly Vi
opoiisihlo for tho record prices paid
th«>iv. They dee!axe further that 250,*
<;0Q bales of wool, valued at X5,000,COO,
have been bought in Australia anil Niiw
e'/nhmd, mostly fur account of German
Amerienn Is&uxis.
TAX OX BUTTKR FAT.--NEW ZKa
LAND BYbl'RU,
A deputation of New Zuuland mom
bom of Parliament urged cci Minister
tue abolition of the tax on butter fat
on tho ground that it uus equitable u>
tho dairying industry, it was stated,
in reply, that duiry farmers laid said
the restriction of tiro price to one shil
ling caul, seven pence per pound wtu
harassing, und Unit if the Uovermuo'io
could not incicase it to one shilling and
ten. pence - the wholo supply would i;o
to tho ohoeso factories. That was the
reason why this particular form, of
taxation urns adopted. There wore 70,*
000 .people who owned from one to IC*V‘
0CO ocroy, and controlled tho wJiolo of
tho produce. AVer© they going to allow
70,000 people to raise tho price of pro
duce without limitation, os compand
with pro-war rules? Tho duiry farmers,
aftor talcing off tho levy of three farth
ings pcr pound, were now receiving an
audltlonaf £d. per pound, and could
not lioplo for an alteration until Par*
liamoat meets
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