STOCK SALES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 98, 11 September 1908, Page 5

STOCK SALES.

The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report as At Ohaupo last Tuesday we yarded SGO head of cattle and 400 sheep. There was a good attendance and good enquiry for cattle, but sheep were unsaleable. Weil bred yearling Steers, £2 2s to £2 lCs; others, backward condition 30s to 38s; 13 month steers in low condition, £2 7s 6d: same ,age heifers, £2 10; choice yearling heifers, 30s; steer calves, 31s; forward condition bullocks £6 15s; to £7 8s; fresh empty cows, £2 13s to £3 17s; fat heifers, £4 10s; springing cows, £6 to £8 ss; more backward cows, £3 17s 6d; to £4 15s; heifers closet o profit, £5 10s; to £7 12s Gd; backward heifers £3 to £3 ss. At Morrir.sviiie on Friday, we yarded 350 cattle and 1000 sheep, and have to report a very successful sale, 90 head of beef penned were required and sold readily;" weighty fat steers, £9 to £9

12s 6d; lighter weights, £7 Is; to £S 3s; heavy cows, £6 2s to £7 7s (id; others £4 13s; to £5 3s; forward 3 and Si- year bullocks, =£s 2s 6cl to £5 l£'s; 3 year steers £4 10s to £5 Is; 18 month steers, £2 ISs to £3 12s 6d; yearlings mixed sexes 34s to 375; calves £1 4s; springing cows and heifers £5 10s to £7 12s 6a; one choice cow, £lO 15s; fat wethers, 17s 6d to ISs; fat

ewes, 14s; woolly hoggets, 10s; fowls Is 7d.

At Cambridge on the sth inst. we yarded 600 head of cattle and 670 store wethers. The cattle were a well bred lot and in good order and sold well. Fat steers, £7 lis to £9 15s; fat cows and heifers, £5 2s 6d to £7 15s; fresh conditioned three year olds steers, off turnips, £5 14s to £G 12s; 2 to 2h year steers in good order £3 19s to £4 13s: IS months steers, £3 to £3 3s:

yearlings to 15 months steer, £2 5s to £2 16s; mixed ye-alings, £2 3s 6d; springing heifers :'M 10s to,-'.; 6; springing ctW.£4 lCs to £7: small store wethers, J Is 'id. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report as fellows:On Friday, August 2Sth, we held our cattle sale at Cambridge and yarded 1100 odd head of choice cattle and SOO sheep. The weather unfortunately was exceedingly wet but a large attendance of buyers-came from Mataniata, Tauranga, Hikutaia. back country and Waikato districts, and we report a most successful sale. The beef pens contained 136 prime fat steers and coves. These were all sold at auction or afterwards at ruling prices, excepting two pens of steers. Store cattle sold well throughout, only six small calves remaining unsold. Fat steers realised from £8 7s to £9 15s; lighter weights £7 12s 6d to £7 17s6d; fat cows and heifers £6 tojv£7 15s; small heifers and aged coves £4 5s to £5; fresh conditoined 3 year steers £5 12s 6d to £G 9s; 2 year steers £4 6s to £4 18s; 18 months to 2 year steers £2 18s to £3 12s Gd; empty heifers £1 16s to £3; yearling steers £2 4s to £2 10s 6d; mixed yearlings £1 18s to £2 6s; others £1 7s Cd to £1 15s; poor conditioned calves 18s to 23s 6d; fresh conditioned cows and heifers £2 16s to £3 10s; store cows £2 to £2 10s; 200 ewes and lambs 15s 3d to 15s 8d; fat and forward hoggets lis to 18s 6d; forward wethers 14s 3d; fat ewes 16s; 50 pigs sold at high prices—slips £1 Is to £1 10s; weaners 14s to 18s. We held a'sale at Rangiriri on Wednesday, when we yarded 400 head of cattle of all classes, and nearly every pen. changed hands at satisfactory prig's. Grown steers made from £6 10s to £7 16s. A line of 50 from Matahura in forward condition averaged £7 ss; 3 year steers £4 17s; 2 year steers £2 18s to £3; yearling steers £2 Is to £2 ss; 2 year heifers £2 6s to £2 12s; mixed yearlings £1 12s to £1 16s; fat cows £5 to £6 16s; springing heifers £4 15s to £6 12s 6d; cows £5 5s to £"6 16s; backward springers £3 2s 6d to £4.

AtHamliton on Thursday we penned 70 fat* cattle, and horses in small number; also sheep. Small fat steers made £7 to £7 10s; fat cows £5 to £5 15s; heifers £5 15s to £6 6s; fat wethers £1 store wo»lly hoggets 10s; pigs—slips 17s; dairy cows £6 5s to £8 -2s 6d; heifers close to profit £5 2s 6d to £5 15s.

At Ngaruawahia on Friday over 300 head of cattle came forward, and although bidding was rather dull every lot changed hands. Two to 2% year steers made £3 16s 6d; IS months to 2 year do. £3; 3 year steers in forward condition £5 15s; fat cows £5 to £5 10s; 2 year empty heifers £2 5s to £2 10s; yearling„steers £2 to £2 7s; mixed yearlings £1 10s tp £1 15s; empty cows £2 14s to £3; dairy cows £5 to £6; springing heifers £5.