STOCK SALES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 129, 8 February 1909, Page 2

STOCK SALES.

| c ! Messrs Alfred Buckland.jsnd Sons 'report as follows: — At Remuera on Thursday dairy cows i sold freely, bringing from £3 10s to £8 10s, according to age and quality. '• Few stores yarded kept recent values. Fat and young calves, short of requirements. sold freely, selling from 2s to £2 17s 6d. Less than the -werage number of fat cattle came forward, and all of nice quality. Prices were steady at recent quotations, ox beef ' bringing up to 21s per 1101b. and cow ■to 18s. Steers ranged in price front |£6 li'is to £9 17s 6d: cow. £3 30i to £6 2= 6d. Sheep, penned in moderate | numbers, were in slightly better demand, wethers selling from 12s Sd to 17s: ewes, 9s to 14s 9d: iambs, 6s 3d ito lis Pd;. Pigs: Small, 7s 6d to 10s | 3d: porkers, to 30s: baconers, to £2; : ail swine being at lower values. Poul- ! try, Is 6d to 2s 6d. j At the annual ram fair held at Fieldj ing on Thursday, 1600 rams were 1 offered, and a large number were passed ; in- The highest price was 10 guineas, | for one of Mr E. Short's stud rams. Messrs Daigety and Co., Ltd., AucU*^ 1 i land, have received the following cable 1 from their London office, under date the 3rd Inst. : - j "Tallow: Low and inferior descrip- ! tion« unchanged. Medium 6d lower. 1 Good descriptions unchanged nominally j but none sold."