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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4310, 29 August 1921, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

STOCK SALES. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., reports :— At Hamilton on Thursday, August 25, our yarding of sheep and cattle was below .the average,, but pigs were in good supply. The quality of the beef offered was mostly plain, and values, were below those of the previous week. Best steers made from £9 5s to £ll 10s, ligh£ and "inferior £7 10s ; best cows £7 10s to .£lO, lighter weights £5 10s to £7. Store cattle were not strongly represented, nor was any alteration on last week’s rates observaffie. Store bullocks, 3 years, to £6 ".ss; fresh-conditioned cows 15s to £1 7s 6d ; 2-year steers, rough quality, £2 Is. ■ The advertised yearling Jersey heifers did not, reach •the vendor’s valuation tinder the hammer, but were disposed of privately afterwards, the top realising £9 ss, second quality £6 to £B. Yearling heifers, Shorthorn and Holstein, £3 5s to £3 12s 6d. Sheep met with fair competition owing no doubt to the small yarding. Best wethers made to 275, store wethers 11s 6d to 13s, store hoggets 8s 9d. Pigs in point of value ruled much at last week’s rates, baconers making to £6 4s, porkers from £2 10s .to £4 ss, slips £1 7s fed to ,£2 10s, weaners 10s to £1 2s 6d.