STOCK SALES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 44, 23 August 1907, Page 3

STOCK SALES.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report as follows : On Tuesday, August 13th, at Ohaupo, we yarded 600 odd head of cattle, and over 2000 breeding ewes, hoggets, and fat and forward ewes. The prices for young cattle and other classes improved as several ontside buyers were present, and every pen sold at the hammer or afterwards. Good 9-months-old steer calves and yearlings £1 18s to £2 6s, mixed do. £1 12s 6d to £2 3s, strong good calves £l 8s to £l lis, 18-month to 2-year steers £3 3s to £3 lOs, 2 T /<-year steers £3 15s to £4-ls, quiet empty 18-months and 2year heifers £1 5s to £4 lOs, fat cows £5 lOs, store cows £1 15s to £2 lOs, stags £3 5s to £4. Sheep.—4so shorn hoggets 14s 2d, culled hoggets lOs iod, woolly hoggets 16s 6d, 400 long woolled ewes in lamb 18s 6d, 520 cross-bred ewes 18s 4d to 19s 7d, fat and forward ewes lis 3d, cross-bred wethers 16s 6d. On Wednesday, August 14th, we held a clearing sale on the property of Mr C. J. Clark of Humera. Fiftyfive dairy cows brought from £5 5s to £8 15 s, 20 springing heifers £5 to £6 ss, young cattle £1 ss. Pigs.—Sows in pig £4 to £6. On behalf of Mr J. S. Browne and other clients : Dairy cows from £4 lOs to £9, store pigs 16s to 18s. Implements and farm sundries made full market prices. On Saturday, August 17th, we held a clearing sale of dairy stock and implements on the property of Messrs Casey Bros., Tamahere.' The dairy herd were the principal attraction, and was undoubtedly one of the best offered this season. The majority of them were due to calve in a month, and realised £8 15s to £l2 lOs, a few cows in milk £7 15s to £9,. half-bred Jersey heifers £6 lOs to £8 7s 6d, others £5 5s to £7, young cattle £1 3s to £1 9s, bull £4 15s. Pigs.—Sows in pig £2 17s to £3 20s, empty sows £l lis 6d to £2 lOs, Boar £l 15s, young pigs 14s 6d. Horses. —Draught mare £27, harness cob £l9 lOs, pony, trap, and harness £25, sulky and harness £l7 15s, riding cobs £8 lOs to £ll lOs, 2-year-old colts by " Merrymaker " £8 lOs to £ll 15s, yearlings £2 17s 6d to £3 2s 6d. , All the implements, tools, and sundries made satisfactory prices.