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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4677, 21 March 1924, Page 1

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HAMILTON STOCK SALE. The Farmers’ Cp-operatlve Auctioneering Co., Ltd., report:— At the Hamilton stock sale on Tuesday last we had a fair entiy of beef, •sheep, and pigs, there being practical■ly no store cattle penned. Beef, mutton, and fat pigs again showed a forward movement on last week’s report and store sheep met with good competition. Prime fat steers £ll 12s 6d, heavy prime fat cows and heifers £8 5s to £8 15s, heavy fat cows and heifers £7 2s 6d to £7 15s, medium £6 to £6 15s, light and unfinished young cows and heifers £4 10s to £5 10s, forward cows £3 17s 6d to £4. good framed store cow's £2 10s, small £1 5s to £1 10s, small 18-months empty Shorthorn heifers 255, steers same age -and class 22s to £2 Is. Good dairy cows, Jersey, close to profit, made up to £ll 10s, good Jersey cows in milk up to £ll. Prime heavy’ fat wethers made up to £2, prime heavy fat ewes 33s 9d to 345, lighter 295. fat lambs, good, £2 Bs, 5-year-old to f.m, ewes 17s lid, small-framed 4-tooth to f.f.rn. ewesr23s 6d, s.m. ewes £l. culls Ils 6d. Heavy baconers £4 6s to £4' 7s, medium £3 10s to £3 17s. Good porkers and light baconers £3 to £3 6s, medium porkers £2 10s to £2 17s, light and unfinished 35s to £2 ss, stores 28s to' 335, slips 15s to 255, weaners 5S 6d to Ils.