WONDERFUL KAUPOKONUI.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1343, 22 January 1912, Page 8

WONDERFUL KAUPOKONUI.

EEGOKD SEASON. The Kaupokonui Dairy Companv—the concern with'the largest dairy l'iiciory in the world—threatens to out-rival nil its previous existing records as the must successful institution of its kind in NewZealand. Speaking to a Dojii.viox travelling representative, Mr. D. Hughes, one of the directors of the company, remarked that 011 Friday they paid out'a monthly total of .£l-1,000 to suppliers. The season was innking n splendid reeoverv from the dry spring, and with the present excellent prices being now obtained for cheese, he would not 1,0 surprised if Is. 3d. per lb. was not paid on butter-fat by the end of .lime or .Tilly. The manufacture of butter from the whey over-run had proved a thorough success, and a payable proposition. About ten boxes of butter wore being made daily, and latest advices from London informed the companv that their "whey butter" was bringing liiis. p, ;r owl. Mr. Unfiles estimated that this season the company would clear on butter manufactured from whe.v. Ho also considered that the lCaupokonui dairy suppliers would net J2lO per cow on the season's sales. The company's co-operative store was also in a nourishing condition, the turn-over being ,C3fll!0 per month. I'rorn the foregoing it can l>e very easily undersliiod that dairyfariners generally in Xew Zealand arc in for a very good season, a consummation thoroughly do- • served by their hard-working '-nferprise, and the many hardships I liey are contimidly confronted wiUij

Live STOCK SALES. Mess!*?. Dulgoty ami Co., Ltd., report on their Levin sale hold on Friday as folj low*:~\Ve had a. full yarding of sheep. I and a very full yarding uf cattle. Stock I of nil sorts Fold well, and we quitted nm.n j | of the entry at prices in favour of the ! vendors. Wo (juote:—Sheep: Fat ewe", lis. Gd. to 31s. 10d.; breeding ewes, 10s. «?{!.; j storo ewe*, 6«. Id. to Bs. 6d. Cattle: Fat I cows, £4 15s. to .£5 3?.; store row?, £3 19*. | 6d. to «C 4 Is.; 18-nionths Shorthorn fleers, I .€4 18s.; IBononlliH Shorthorn heifer*. £3 ! 95.; 18-months steers, £3 3s. to £3 row s ; : and ealvL-s. £<i 'Is., ,£A Q*., £<1 95.. to £4 155.; I weaners, 2Cs. 6d.; yearling heifers, £2 15s. 6d.; empty two-year heifers, £4 2s. 6d. to £5; bulls, £3 2s. 6d., £3 to £3 13j. 6d.; cows in milk, to £4 14s. Messrs. Dalgety and Co. report having had a good entry of stock at their Pal-mers-ton North sale on Friday, all of which met a ready sale, at prices as follow Cull lambs, 55.; awes, 7s. 3d.; small lambs, 75." fid.; forward empty ewes, to 10s.; mixed wool lambs, 9s. fid.; small weaner steers, 225.; do. heifers, 245. 6d.; Jersey bulls, £2 10s. U) £3 65.: 15-months heifers, £3 lis. to £3 155.; yearling steers, £2 10s. 6d.; well-bred station steers, £4; choice Jersey weaner heifers, £4 ss. 6d. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report as follows:—At Levin, on Friday, we offered a yarding: of 35 pens of sheep and 37 pens of cattle, the total entry comprising 36C0 sheep and 350 head of cattle, mostly of good quality. Competition for all lots throughout the sale was ksen, and we have to report a most successful sale; only two pens of sheep and one pen of cattle going out unsold. Quotations:— Fat and forward wethers, 14s. 2d. to 14s. 6d.; fat swes, prime, 13s. 7d.; medium fat ewe?, 12s. Id., 12s. 6d., and 12s. lid.; forward ewes, 10s. Bd.; full-mouth ewes, 9s. Bd.; cull ewes, 4s. 3d. to 55.; good fourtooth ewes, 14s. lOd.; small four-tooth ewes, 13s. 6d.; a good line of two-tooth ewes on account of Mr. C. C. Ifigginson mads 14s. 3d.; another line of 200 made 13s. 6d.; good two-tooth wethers, 2d.; medium two-tooth wethers, lis. 6d. to 12?. 6<L; small mixed two-tooths, 103. 7d. and 10s. 9d.; good rape lambs, 10s. 10d.; medium lambs, Bs. 6d. to 95.; store lambs, ss. lid. to, 6s. 3d. Prime maiden heifsrs, £6 10s.; fat cows, £5 45., £5 10s. 6d„ and £5 13s. 6d.; forward rows, £4 to £4 135.; store cows, £2 13s. to £3 18s.; two and a halfyear steers, £4 175.; two-year steers, £3 13s. 6d„ £3 15si, to £3 195.; 12-mouths, £3 ss. 6d. to £3 10s.; yearling steers, £2 15s. to £3; good weaner steers*, £2 to £2 45.; mixed weaners, 21s. to 38s. Od.; l&-raonths dairy heifer:? in calf, £3 to £3 165.; yearling dairy heifers, £2 Is. to £2 35.; six bulls, from £3 Bs. 6d. to £4 10s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. report:—At our Levin sale on Friday we offered a fair yarding of both sheep and cattle to a full attendance of buyers. The sale opened rather draggingly, but improved as it progressed, and prices, if anything, were a shade above those ruling at our last auction. We sold dairy heifer?, springer?, up to £6 65.; dairy cows, winter calvers, from £5 to £5 10s.; empty store cows from £4 10s. to £5 i JQs. 6(1.; 18-months steers, up to £3 lis.; •Tersey heifer calves, up to £2 25.; weaner calves from 20?. to 285.; vealers, up to 305.; bulls, to £2 lis. Mr. Newton King's weekly stock report is a3 follows:—At Itahotu, on Tuesday, I had a good entry of stock and a good ! attendance. Bidding throughout the day ! was brisk for all lines, except 18-months I heifers. A nice pen of steer bullocks I were yarded, and after keen competition wen sold at £6 Is. 6d. Two pens of wcaners were offered, but were passed in at : 15s. 6d.; yearling to 15-montfis mixed realised £2 10s. 6d.; yearling to 18-mouths heifers, £2 7s. 6d. to £2, 145.; 18-months ! steers, £2 16s. to £3 23.; empty two-year heifers, £2 7s. 6d. to £2 14; 18-months Jersey heifers, good colours, £5 35.; two and a half-year steers, £5 35.; store bullocks, £6 Is. 6d.; store cows (strong demand), £2 10s. to £3 19s. 6d.; forward cows, £4 55.; fat cows, £4 16s. to £5; bulls, £4 7s. to £7 ss. During the week I have sold a good number of cattle privately, at the following rates:—Mixed wearers, good quality, £1; 18-months steers, £3; 18months heifers, £3 to £3 7s. 6d.; 18-months mixed, £2 15s. to £2 165.; two and a halfyear steers, £4 ss. to £4 IGs.; store cow?. £3 10s., £3 155., £3 165.; store bullocks, £G 65.; fat bullocks, £8 10s.; fat cows, £5 65., £5 10s., £6; lambs, 9s. to 10s.; ewes and lambs, 10s. 6d.: ewes, Bs. 3d.; wethers, lis. 6d„ Us. 9d., 135., 13s. 6d.; fat ewes, 135.; fat wethers, 15s. fid.; mixed sheep, 7s. 6d., 9s. Gd.; team of bullocks, £71 10s. Messrs. A. H. Atkinson and Co.. Feilding, report:—We sold on Friday a medium yarding of pigs, and good values ruled for all sorts, weaners making to 17s. Gd. and porkers selling well. Poultry was in good supply, and made higher prices than last week, with keen demand for young durkss Of fruit wc had a large quantity offering, aud quitted some 160 eases of peaches, plums, and apricots. Wc lield during tho week successful sales on account of Mr. S. Stan-den, at Aorangi. and Dr. Johnston, in Feilding. Quotations:—Wear.org, 13i. to 17s. 6d.; slins and small steers, 175., 18s., 205., 2&. 6d. to 245.; light porker?, 235., its. to 375.; aged horses, £2 to £8. Poultry fat per pair): Hens, 35., 3s. 6d., 3s. 9d. to 4s. 3d.; half-grown cockerels, 25., 2s. 3d., 2r>. 9d. to 35.: roosters, 3s. 3d. to 45.; indifferent ducks, 4s. to 4s. 3d.; chicks. Is. 6d. to 25.; sheen pups, 7s. 6d. to 13s. 6d.j barley, 4s. per bushel; wheat, 55.; gage plums, 3s. to 3s. Gd. ease; cherry, 2s. to 2s. 6d.; choice apricots, 4s. 6d., 4s. 9d. 'to 6s. 3d.; peaches, 45.. 4s. 6d.. 55., ss. 3d.; cucumbers, 3s. 9d. to 4s. At Mr. Staitden's clearing sale barley made 15a. sack;' dray, £7 5?.: pig, £7; harness, £2 to $4; mower, £5 10s.; harrows, £4 10s.; draught horse. £37; 18-months steers, £3 7s. Gd.; dairy cows, £9. £9 10s. to £14.; line of 18-months-heifers, £3 18s. Gd. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report;—Wc held cur weekly sale at Solway on Wednesday hist, wheu we submitted fair yardings of both sheen and cattle to a large attendnnce. We made the following sales:— Sheep: Woolly rape lambs, Si. 6d. to 9s. 9d.; good' store woolly lambs, 7s. Gd.; store woolly lambs, ss. 9d. to 6&. 3d.; stubble woolly lambs. 4s. lid.; shorn rape- lambs, Down cross, 9s. Id.; 2-tooth ewes, lis. 3d.; 2-tooth wethers, small, 10s. 3d.; store ewes, 6s*.; .Southdown rams, 2-tooth, 4igns.; Southdown rams, 4-looth. 4Jgns.; aged Liucoln rams* lgn. Cattle: Two-year steers, £4 155.; yearling steers, bad colours, £2 12s. 6d.; fat cows, light, £4,155. , The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. (Feuding branch) report for the week ending January 19, as follows:—At Feilding. on Friday, we had a moderate entry of sheep, consisting mostly of lambs, which sold at average prices, un to Bs. 6d. We had a good yarding of cattle, which sold as follows:—Mixed weaners, 2&%; weaner heifers, 345.; better do., 375.; Jersey cross heifers, £2 45,; yearling steers, £2 sloTe bullocks, £4; yearling heifers, £2 155.; fat bullocks, £8; fat cows, £6 45.; empty cows, £3 10s.; Jersey. heifers, £7; springing heifers, £7 to £7 2s. Gd.; a. number of bulls up to £3 17s. 6d.; horse and gig, £15. At Apiti, on Tuesday, wc had only a small yarding of sheep, of indifferent quality, but a good yarding of cattle. Cattle sold well, particularly weaners and steers. Good woolly lambs, 10s.; forward ewes. 125.; cull ewes, 3s. Pigs: Slips, 17is. Cattle: 2£-yenr steers (good), £4 145.; 15-months steers, £2 175., £3 3s. to £3 55.; mixed wcaners (good), 285., 335. to 345.; empty cows £3 lis.. £3 15*3. to £3 18s,; springing heifers. £3 195.; yearling to 18months heifers, £2 18s., £3 165., £3 £?. to £3 7s. Gd.; dairy cows. £7. At Kimbolton, on Wednesday, wc had a. fair yarding, chiefly of cattle. Forward ewes, 10s., 10s. 2d.; 2year steers, £3 155.: 3-year s*teers, 52r*. 6d.; 2-yea.r heifers, £3 155.; yearling heifers £2 ss. 6d.; empty cows, £3 ss. 6d., £4 Bs. 6d.; mixed weaners, 3fis.