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HAMILTON STOCK SALE. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., report:— At our weekly stock sale at Frankton on Tuesday last we had a good yarding of fat cattle and sheep, together with a large yarding of fat and store pigs, while store cattle were forward in small numbers. Competition for beef, and mutton was a little easier, while fat and. store pigs sold on a par with late rates. We quote :—
Beef.—Heavy fat steers £ll 2s to £ll ss, unfinished sorts £8 15&, prime fat heifers £8 10s, fat heifers £7 9s to £7 17s 6d, heavy fat cows £7 Is to £7 10s, lighter sorts £5 Ils to £6 4s ; unfinished £4 12s to £4 15s ; store cows £1 15s to £2, 4 L year steers £7 12s 6d, choice Jersey 15-month heifers £6 4s, others £3 Ils, dairy heifers £5 15s to £6 10s.
Sheep.—Prime fat wethers 275; fat wethers 24s 6d to 25s 4(3* others 22s 6d ; prime fat ewes 21s ; fat ewes 17s to 18s. F,at lambs were yarded in small numbers and competition was keen, the only pen making 275. Pigs.—Heavy baconers £2 9s to £2 12s, light £2 4s to £2 7s ; heavy porkers £2 5s to £2 Bs, light 38s. to £2 2s ; slips 20s to 26s ; .best weaners 15s to 20s, others 9s to 13s.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5217, 16 December 1927, Page 1
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224COMMERCIAL. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5217, 16 December 1927, Page 1
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