LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 266, 30 July 1918, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

: , The Xew Zealand Loan and Mercantile lAuency Company, Ltd., report having conducted a most successful clenrinv sale on arcouut of Mr. Harold Taylor at the ] farm, Otaki, on Friday. There was a ; large attendance of buyers present. The herd was a good lot, being in nice condition and mostly close to profit, met with keen competition. Tim 70 cows, including Into calvcrs and three-quartered cows.uvernued £17 per head. Cows recently calved : realised £13 10s. to £26 10a,; July ealvera, , £18 10s. to £20; August. £14 to £25 55.; September, £14 to £20 10s.; October, .£l4 . 10s. to £18; three-quartered and late ; calvern. £8 to £14; good quality two-year .lersey cross heifers, spring culvers. £13 (» ■ £15 2s. 6d.; heifers, r.w.b., £5 55.; two-vear i Holstein bull, £12 55.; store cows, £5"155.; ; mixed-sex weaners. £2 55.; sows to farrow £7 to £7 10s.; boar. 305.; store nigs. 345.; '■ Gane milking machine and releaser. £7(i; spring drays, £17 and £23; pier, £25 2s. 6d.; sprint' cart mare. £20 55.; unbroken throe, year three-quarter draught lillies, £14 and £18. Wcssi's. Palgety and Company, Limited, report having held a successful clearing pale of dairy stock, etc., on Friday, on ' nccount of the Brentwood Farm Company, , Trcnthnm. Cows, offered were in »oo<l ' order, and although a number hod been ' inilkinr? for some months the prices rca- , Used all through were satisfactory. Prin- ; i-itMil sales effcefnd were aB under:—Early i soring calvers. £15 10s., £16, to £17 10s.; ; ficptcmber-Oclober cnlvers, £13 to £16; cow 3 ' in milk, £10 to £15; ycnrline heifers, £5; ; heifer cnlves, £2.