STOCK SALES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 73, 13 March 1908, Page 3

STOCK SALES.

The Farmers' Co-operative ' Auctioneering Company, Ltd., report as follows :

On Tuesday of last week we held our second Ohaupo sheep fair and report a very successful sale. We yarded 16,000 sheep, mostly fullmouth ewes and lambs. For sound mouthed ewes there was a good enquiry and prices were, if anything, a little better than late quotations. Two, four and six-tooth ewes macte 14s 9d to 18s 6d ; sound full-mouihed ewes, lis 2d to 13s 6,; 1 , f two, four and six-tooth hlaek face ewes, I2s to 13s 6d ; ewes, slightly failing mouths, 9s to 10s ; others, 6s 6d to 8s 6d; forward lambs, 9s 3c! to lOs ; store lambs, 4s 8d to 8s 7d ; shorn lambs, 3s 8d to Id ; two and four-tooth lis 9d to 16s 6d. Pi-acticaUy all sheep SC,U, '.vith the exception of Hawke's Bay and Gisborne importations,

The New Zealand Loan and MerCSrtfiW Agency Company, Limited, report as follows :• —■

At Hamilton on Thursday last, we had an extra large yarding of cattle. A good demand existed for 18-months-old steers and calves, all of this class being quitted at advanced ' prices. Small fat steers made £6 Is to £6 lOs ; fat heifers, prime quality, made £6 IJs; others, £4 4s to ; fat £Q\v.s, heavy weights, Lo j6<j Ss ; others, £4 6s to %4 12s fec'iT iS-months to two-year-old steeds £2 lOs to £3 ; strong calves, £l 6s 6d to 8s ; smaller sorts, 16s to £l; sheep, very few offering, fat ewes, 14s 6d; lambs, 9s.