STOCK SALES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 91, 17 July 1908, Page 5

STOCK SALES.

i 0 | The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd,, report as follows : On Friday, July 10th, at our Ngaruawahia monthly sale we yarded 300 head of cattle, mostly strong calves, 18-months cattle, and dairy cows. _ A good attendance of neighbouring settlers competed briskly for everything, and we report a successful sale. Eighteen month to 2-year steers realised from £2 15s to £3 6s, empty 18months to 2-year heifers £l 19s to £2 10s, fat and forward heifers £3 15s to £4 lOs, forward 3-year steers £5 I2s 6d, strong steer calves £1 16s to £1 19s 6d, good calves (mixed sexes) £1 3s to £l 9s, small calves 14s to i/s, bulls £2 lOs to £4. Messrs Martin Bros.' 35 dairy cows were a really good lot and sold at from £5 lOs to £7, 4 aged cows £4, dairy cows and heifers from other vendors £3 to £3 15s, milk cans lOs to 15s, spring cart £l6, small section of land £25. On Wednesday, July Bth, we held a clearing sale on account of Messrs Solomon Bros, at Whatawhata, and although it rained incessantly a good number of settlers and dairymen attended. The dairy cows were a good lot, and sold from £5 5? to £6 lOs, a few aged cows £2 lOs to £4 lOs, choice heifer caUes 30s, bull £5, spring dray £l4, sulky £l2 15s, harness £6, spring cart harness £5 ss, plough harness £l 15s, milk cans I*2s to 18s, s.f. plough £3 2s, tine harrows £2 lOs, sow pig £3. The furniture, farm tools, etc., being in really iirst-class order realised satisfactory prices. At our Hamilton sale on Thursday, July Bth, the weather was again rough and there was only a small yarding of cattle and 340 sheep. Competition was dull at the hammer, qut we quitted all the cattle and sheep afterwards at ruling prices, excepting a few 18month heifers. Fat heifers £5 lOs, small fat steers £6 Us, aged heavy cows £4 Iss to £5 lOs, 2 and 3-year steers £5 6s, strong good calves £1 8s to £1 I/s, smaller sorts I/s to 19s, empty 18-month heifers £2, dairy cows at profit £5 15s, 120 fat and forward heifers 18s 6d to 19s, 140 store heifers 14s 6d to 16s, fat hoggets lis 6d, fat ewes 14s, sows in pig £4 to £5 ss.

The Farmers Auctioneering Company, Limited, report as follows : We held our anntfal Walffou dairy sale last Wednesday, and yarded 250 cows and heifers. There was a large attendance, and a good demand for young and sound cows and wellgrown heifers. Choice cows £6 5s to £9 ss. others £4 15s to £5 Isn aged and backward cows from £3 down, choice heifers £5 to £6 16s, others £3 lOs to £4 i/s 6d. On Thursday we held a sale of Daniel Curtin's dairy herd at Waitoa, and have to report a successful sale. There was a large attendance and keen competition. The herd of 50 cows averaged £6 each, the best cows making, from £6 to £9 15s, pigs, weaners 15s to 2ls, sow £4 lOs, milk cans /s 6d to 16s. At Morrinsville last Friday we yarded 3000 sheep and 150 head of cattle. There was a large attendance and ruling prices for sheep were maintained, beef being short of requirements. Fat and forward wethers 15s 6d to 19s 3d, store wethers lis to 13s 4d, empty ewes lOs yd to lis jd, fat ewes 15s to 17s 6d, woolly hoggets 9s 9d to lOs, shorn hoggets 7s 5d to 8s 7d, 6-tooth to full-mouth ewes in lamb iSs Id, aged ewes in lamb Us. fat steers £7 5s to £B, lighter weights £6 7s 6d, heavy fat cows and heifers £6 17s to £6 IQs, others £5 to £5 I2s, 15 to 18-month heifers £l 15s, springing cows £5 to £5 12s 6d, backward cows £3 15s to £4, choice heifers £5 to £6 ss, others £3 to £4 ss.