The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 71
Live Stock
Live Stock.
Fat cattle fetch £5 to £6.
The breeding and rearing of horses is carried on with the greatest success. There are about one quarter million in New Zealand.
Good farm horses cost from £20 to £25, and hacks can be bought at from £10 to £15.
Fattening pigs is a profitable investment; in 1891 there were over one quarter million in New Zealand.
According to the live stock returns for 1891 there were 831,830 cattle in the Colony.
The poultry returns for the same year stood at 1¾ millions.