STOCK SALES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 97, 28 August 1908, Page 5

STOCK SALES.

The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Ltd., report as follows : At Waihou yards on 21st inst. we yarded 694 head of store cattle, 80 fat cattle, 70 springing cows and heifers, and 676 sheep. The fat cattle were required and sold readily; fat steers £7 4s to £ S 19s; fat heifers and cows £5 to £6 19s; 3-year store steers £3 10s to £4 ; 18 months steers £2 15s to £3 2s 6d; really good steer calves and yearlings £2 to £2 ss; mixed calves 30s to 355; smaller sorts 20s to 265; 2 year heifers 45s to 50s; fresh empty cows £3 5s to £4 ss; best dairy cows and heifers £5 10s to £8 ss; more backward sorts £4 to £5; fat wethers 15s to 20s; forward ewes lis; fat hoggets 10s 3d; 500 ewes in lamb 13s. At Ohaupo on Tuesday last, we yarded 2000 sheep, 800 store cattle, and 110 dairy cows and heifers. There was a good attendance and good enquiry for store cattle, but sheep showed no improvement. Fat and forward 3J and 4 year steers £6 5s to £7 8s; same age steers less condition £5 10s; 2$ year steers, extra choice, £2 9s; others in low condition 33s to £2; mixed sexes calves and yearlings 36s to £2 2s; younger sorts 25s to 33s 6d; fresh conditioned empty cows £3 2s; springing cows and heifers close to profit £5 to £7 ss; more backward sorts £2 10s to £4; fat wethers 22s 6d ; store wethers 13s 9a to 16s; woolly hoggets 10s 9d; others 6s 6d to 8s 6d; empty 2-tooth ewes 10s 6d; fresh full-mouthed ewes in lamb lis to 12s 6d; 1400 sold.

On Wednesday we held a sale of Mr John Frost's dairy herd on his farm Te Rahu and have to report a successful sale, the 22 cows averaging £6 13s; and 18 heifers £5. The best cows made from £6 2s 6d to £8; and heifers up to £6 17s 6d; sows £3 7s 6d; slips 22s 6d ; w T eaners 14s. On Thursday we held a clearing sale at Waiomo on account of Mr N. J. Holt. There was a good attendance and satisfactory prices were realised; 306 ewes with lambs 12s 9d; 2 and 2J year steers £4; 15 to 18 months steers £2 15s; heifers £2 2s; calves 19s; heifers in calf £2 10s to £4 ss; springing cows up to £5 15s; medium draught mare £37 10s; sow £2; weaners 12s 6d.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report as follows — On Tuesday and Wednesday, 18th and 19th August, we held a special sale of horses in the Horse Bazaar, Hamilton, and during the two days offered 280 odd draught and light sorts and 20 colts. A large attendance of buyers competed briskly for anything really sound and good, though heavy draughts were lower in value. Medium draughts especially young mares, sold exceptionally well. Heavy draught mares and geldings realised from £34 10s to £43; active medium draught mares and geldings £24 to £32; aged heavy draughts £l4 to £26; strong harness horses £ls 10s to £2O; upstanding hacks and buggy horses £l7 to £22; strong good cobs £l2 to £l6; light hacks and gig ponies £6 to £lO 10s; good ponies £4 10s to £8; weeds £1 15s to £2 10s; unbroken 3-year draught colts and fillies £lB to £26; strong harness colts £lO to £l4. A lot of drays, harness, d.f. ploughs, etc., on account of Mr Ellery and Wm. Lovett, elicited brisk competition. D.f. ploughs £8 10s to £l3; drays £8 10s to £l2; plough harness and shaft harness at usual rates. On Saturday, August 22nd, at our Te Awamutu sale, cattle were yarded in large numbers, and with the exception of a few culled dairy cows and backward heifers everything offered realised satisfactory prices. Strong good calves realised from £1 6s to £1 13s; others 20s to 235; small calves 15s; 2 year steers in poor condition £3 6s; fresh conditioned cows and heifers £2 12s 6d to £4; fat cows £5 ss; stags £3 3s to £3 15s; choice springing heifers £5 10s to £6; dairy cows near calving £5 5s to £6 10s; culled cows £2 10s to £4; aged ewes in lamb 10s 6d; pigs offered in large numbers and sold readily at high prices: weaners 14s to 18s; slips 20s to 255. A lot of produce, poultry, etc., were sold at the usual prices. At Hamilton on Thursday we held our usual fortnightly sale, when 60 fat cattle and 250 sheep, mostly wethers ,were penned. A good demand existed and all sold under the hammer or afterwards, competition being exceptionally keen for cow and heifer beef. Light weight fat steers made from £6 15s to £7 7s 6d; fat cows good quality £6 lis to £7 ss; others £5 7s 6d to £5 14s; steer calves £2 4s; springing heifers £4 to £4 10s; fat wethers £1; forward do. 15s 6d to 17s; fat ewes 15s 3d; hoggets lis lOd; store do. 8s Id.