COMMERCIAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4470, 22 September 1922, Page 4

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CAMBRIDGE SPRING HORSE FAIR. The Farmers’ Auctioneering Company reports as follows: At Cambridge on September 12, 13, 14, and 15 we held our annual Spring Horse Fair, and yarded 804 horses of all classes from all the best known Waikato breeders. The entry consisted of 1,24 unbrokens, 494 medium and heavy draughts, and 186 hacks and light harness sorts. Buyers were present from Wlhangarei, Bay of Islands,, Auckland, Feilding, and ajl parts of the Waikato and King Country, and we report a most successful sale, quitting 539 of the yarding. There was a splendid entry of heavy draughts, medium draughts, and useful spring-cart and farm sorts, but very few good hacks or light harness horses ; also a poor class of unbrokens. The top prices realised for heavy draughts were as follows : R, Shaw, gelding £7O; A. S. Wallace, 5-yeariold gelding, £6O, and a 4byear-old filly, £52; Frank Richr mond, three heavy 4 and 4-year-olds, average £57 ; Hon. J. Fisher, two 4-ye.ar-old fillies, £53 and £5l 10s. Other heavy draughts made from £43 to £5O, aged draughts £2o' to £3O ; 3 and 4.year medium drafts £34 to £4.2 ; useful farm sorts, £25 to £32 ; spring-hart horses, £lB to £23; old and worn draughts, £5 to £l2. Light harness hores brought from £l7 to £24 10s, aged harness horses £7 tp £l4 ; hacks £lO 10s to £22; ponies £4 to £10; heavy unbroken 4-year draughts £34 to £43 10s; 3-yeanjold medium draughts, unbroken, £l3 10s to £24 ; unbroken spring-cart horses £9 to £l2 10s. HAMILTON STOCK SALE, At Hamiltion on Tuesday, September 19 we had a better yarding of sheep, but cattle and pigs were in shorter supply. The fat sheep pens were well filled, and although competition was not so heated as at some recent sales values were nevertheless fairly well maintained. Wethers sold from 30s to 335, light weights from 27s 6d to 29s 6d ; eWes to 27s 9d; hoggets 21s 9d. The quality of the beef yarded was not of a very high standard, there being a total absence of prime steers.. Good cows, heavy, made from £5 10s to £7 10s, lighter weights £4 5s to £4 15s ; forward cows £3 10s to £4 ; steers, in killable condition £5 7s to £6 5s ; fat heifers £5 5s ; 4-year store steers £4 6s to £4i 18s ; empty cows 27s 6d to 355. There was a smaller entry of young cattle, and steers received fair attention, but heifers were the reverse of popular. Inferior quality dairy cows were penned, and the best sold up to £7 10s, others £5 to £6, culls £2 10s to £3 10s; best Jersey cross heifers, well forward, up to £lO 10s, small and backward £5 to £6; poor quality Shorthorns, well forward, £5 10s to £6. backward £3 to £4 10s. A small number of pigs were penped, and a marked improvement in price o,f all classes was shown as against last week’s report. Medium to heavy baconers made from £2 10s to £2 13s ; medium to heavy porkers £2 6s to £2 9s, small and lighter £2 to £2 ss, unfinished to 32s ; slips 19s ; best weaners 12s 6d to 14s, others to Ils.