STOCK SALES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 54, 1 November 1907, Page 3

STOCK SALES.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report as follows: —

On Tuesday, October 22nd, we held our First Annual Bull Sale at Ohaupo, when 136 bulls, from yearlings to four-year-olds, were offered, Eight-een-month to 3-year-old bulls (fit for service) all sold at satisfactory prices. Well-grown 18-month to 2-year-olds realised 5 guineas to 9?4 guineas ; 3 to 4-year-old bulls 4% guineas to 10 guineas ; yearlings £2 10s to 4 guineas ; 4-year-old and aged bulls (in good condition) £4 19s to £7 10s. 500 head of store cattle were also yarded. Young cattle were in good demand and sold at prices now ruling. Three to 4-year steers (in good condition) made £6 15s to £8 ; 3-year-old steers £5 5s to £6 ; yearling steers £2 6s to £2 16s; well-grown mixed yearlings £1 15s to £2 3s; fresh cows and heifers £3 5s to £4 4s ; store cows £2 7s 6d to £2 16s. At Ngaruawahia yards on Friday, October 35th, we held our monthly sale, when everything sold at current prices, Eighteen-month-old and 2year steers were in good demand, the latter making £3 10s ; empty cows £3 3s ; empty heifers £2 10s to £2 I2s 6d; aged cows £4 ; strong calves £l I2s ; dairy cows £4 15s to £6 15s. On Wednesday and Thursday we held our annual spring horse fair at Ohaupo, and during the two days offered 126 draught and light colts, and 380 odd draught and light horses. A large number of buyers attended from Auckland, Te Kuiti, Otorohanga, Kawhia, Raglan and neighbourhood, and notwithstanding that rain came down incessantly on the first day of sale, we report one of the best sales yet held in Ohaupo. Competition was keen throughout for sound animals of any class, the prices realised being quite equal to Cambridge September fairs. With the exception of a few light colts and some aged draughts in poor condition, everything was sold at the hammer or before leaving the yards. ,Three-year-old draught colts and fillies realised from £34 to £43 ; heavy draught mares and geldings £3B to £49; medium draught colts £24 to £32 10s; aged draughts and medium draughts £l6 to £3O ; strong harness colts £l2 10s to £2l; light colts £8 to £l4; upstanding hacks £l7 ios to £2B; good buggy horses £j6 to £25 ios; useful harness sorts £7 ios to £l2 < light hacks £6 to £lO ios ; good ponies £4 15s to £8 ; small ponies £2 iqs to £5 ss. On Wednesday, October 30th, at Te Kuiti, we held our first sale of the season. A number of cattle entered did not come forward owing to bad roads, and stock generally being in low condition. Over 400 head of young cattle and steers sold readily at prices about equal to Waikato rates. Three and a-half and 4-year steers in poor condition realised from £5 15s to £6 8s; 18-month to 2-year steers £3 to £3 16s ; yearling steers £2 lis to £2 16s ; mixed yearlings in poor condition £1 18s to £2 6s ; 4-year-old empty cows £3 4s 6d ; 2 to 3-year-old empty heifers in low condition £2 10s to £3"l6s ; quiet cows and heifers in calf £3 to £3 7s 6d ; empty 18-month heifers £2 9s to £2 16s ; cows and calves £2 I2s 6d to £3 3s ; a useful cob, saddle and bridle £jo ios,

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