STOCK SALES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 78, 17 April 1908, Page 3

STOCK SALES.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report as follows : On Thursday we held a clearance sale of live and dead stock at Hautapu, on account of Mr C. Halliday. There was a large attendance and spirited bidding throughout. The dairy cows, due to calve in spring, realised from £4 5s to £5 10s, others at profit £4 15s to £7, a few aged cows £2 5s to £2 I2s 6d, 2-year-old heifers in calf £4 I2s 6d, calves 193, yearling heifers 295, bulls 35s to £2 lOs, trap mare £lO 10s, aged mare in foal £l2, hack £8 lOs, drill £22, D.F. plough £3 lOs, 14 pigs 27s to 30s. The balance of farm implements, tools and sundries brought the usual prices. On Tuesday, at Ohaupo, only a small number of cattle were yarded, but the bidding was brisk throughout, everything selling at the hammer, or afterwards, excepting one pen of store cows. Calves realised from 17s to 2is, fresh-conditioned cows and heifers £2 17s 6cl to £3 14s, fat cows £5 5s to £6, store cows £1 lOs to £1 17s (3d, bulls £2 to £3 12s 6d. On Friday, at Cambridge, we yarded over 800 head of cattle, and 600 lambs, store wethers and fat sheep. A large attendance of buyers came from Tauranga, Putaruru, Hikutaia, Morrinsville and Waikato districts, and we report a successful sale. The beef pens contained eighty odd fat cattle, mostly steers of prime quality. Brisk competition ruled throughout, and fall sold at satisfactory prices. The beef steers realised from £8 Us to £9 15s, lighter weights £7 to £8 Is, fat cows and prime heifers £5 12s 6d to £6 15s, aged heavy cows £4 5s to £4 17s 6d, light weight heifers £3 lOs to £4 4s, Calves yarded in extra large numbers and all sold at the hammer or afterwards. The best sorts (mixed sexes) made 20s to 26s 6d, good steer calves 27s 6d, smaller mixed sorts 15s to 17s 6d, yearling to 18-month steers £2 7s to £3 3s acording to size and condition. Yearling to 18-month brought 25s to 31s, fresh conditioned cows arid heifers £2 lOs to £3 7s 6d, store cows 25s to £2, _ 3 and 4-year bulls £3 to £5, quiet heifers in calf £2 lOs. The thirty-four dairy cows advertised were in poor condition, and sold at from £2 15s to £5 lOs, choice heifers and young cows at profit £4 17s 6d to fat lambs Us 6d, woolly lambs 8s to Us I id, cull lambs 5,5, 1(30 2-tooth wethers 13s 9d, heavy fat wethers 20s, full-mouth ewes 9s, weaner pigs 8s to lis, slips 19s. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports as follows : At Te Kuiti on Wednesday, April 15th, we yarded 1678 head of cattle of which 550 were steers from 2 to 4-year-old, well bred, and in really good condition. There was a large attendance from neighbouring districts, and a few Waikato buyers, and fair competition and prices compared favourably with those ruling in Waikato. 100 extra choice bullocks in forward condition made from £6 to £7 13s, forward 3H to 4-year-old steers £5 to £5 lOs, very choice 3-year-old steers £4 15s to £5 ss, 2 l / 2 - year steers £4 to £4 /s 6d, 2-year-okl £3 6s to £3 15s, 18-month, fn backward conditio;-, £2 5s to £2 I2s 6d, same, in better condition £3, : rai and forward cows and heifers £3 lOs to £5. I2s 6d, according to age and quality 232-year heifers in calf £2 ios, iB-month heifers 25s to 335, calves 15s to 245. Sheep.—4B3 2tooth longwool wethers 15s 3d to 16s id, good hoggets 12s 6d, smaller sorts 6s 6d, 250 aged ewes 6s to 9s. Horses. —A few light horses made from £1 to £6.