STOCK SALES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 67, 31 January 1908, Page 3

STOCK SALES.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report as follows: — On Wednesday, January 22nd, we yarded about 500 head of cattle at Rangiriri. There was a good attendance of buyers and bidding was brisk. Three and steers made £5 5s to £6, 2%-year steers £4 £4 ss, 18-mcnth steers £2 12s to £3 ss, fat cows and heifers £4 13s, empty cows £2 15s to £3 12s 6d according to condition, calves 19s to 255, others 15s to 18s 6d. At Hamilton, lon Thursday, January 23rd, there was a fair yarding :of cattle, and more sheep than usual. Beef was plentiful and of good quality but competition was poor. Fat cows and heifers all sold —heifers £5 4s, cows £5, 3-ypar steers £4103 to £4 15s, good 18-month steers £2 9s, heifers 355, rcalves 15s to 17s 6d. Sheep.—Fat wethers 16s 3d to 17s 6d, mixed 14s 7d, lambs 13s lOd. A good number of pigs were penned, but prices were lower than last sale. On Friday, January 24th, at Ngaruawahia, we yarded nearly 500 head, and competition was keen for all classes, and a most successful sale resulted. Fat cows made from £4 16s to £5 18s, 2-year steers up to £3 10s, 18-months to 2-year steers £2 14s to £2 19s, yearling to 15-month steers £2 2s to £2 ss, 18-month heifers £2 17s 6d to £3 3s, empty heifers in forward condition £3 10s to £3 15s, store cows £2 to £2 18s 6d, best calves 255, smaller sorts I2s to 15s.

On Wednesday, January 29th, we held a cattle and sheep sale .at Te Kuiti, and yarded over 400 cattle and 3700 sheep and lambs. Competition was good throughout for all classes of cattle, everything selling at the hammer or afterwards, excepting a few pens of steers. The sheep did not elicit much bidding, no doubt on account of the dry weather, and several pens were reserved. "Wellbred 2% to 3-year-old steers realized from £4 12s to £5 2s 6d; 2-year-steers, £2 18s to £3 10s; 15 to 18-months steers, £2 6s to £2 10s ; mixed yearlings, £1 12s to £2 2s ; quiet 2-year-old heifers in calf, £2 10s to £2 18s ; empty heifers, £l 16s to £2 8s; 3-year-old bulls, £3 15s to £4 ; fresh full-mouthed ewes, 14s to 14s 6d; full-mouthed ewes, ios 6d ; shorn lambs, 7s 6d to 9s ; fat sheep, 17s.