COMMERCIAL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 199, 14 October 1909, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

Tbe Farmers)' Auctioneering Company, Limited, report as follows : At Waibou yards on Saturday. Sth iust., we held a special Hale of dairy cow-i and heifers but had a very small entry—76 head. Buyers were plentiful and decent sorts close to profit were required. Heifers made from £5 10s to XT 10s: cows £7 to £7 1 os: more backward sorts £4 10s to £5; a few bulls 6| to 8J gu : ncas. On October Sth we held our usual monthly stock sate at Morrinsville yards, and had an entry of 450 sheep and 396 head of cattle. There was a good attendance of buyers and prices showed an improvement on sale of previous month, due to grass being more plentiful. Fat woolly wethers DTs 6d: shorn wethers Us: fat ewes in wool lis Id to 13s 3d; fat shorn ewes lis fid: small hoggets in wool 10s 3d; weaner pigs His fid to 12s: fat and forward steers £G to £6 7s fid; fat heifers £5 Ms to £5 19s: fat rows £1 lOs to £5 2s fid; fresh 3 year slesrs £4 17s to £5 9.4; two year steers £3 12s: eighteen month steers £2 l«s to £2 19s: yearling steers £2 2s fid to £2 (ss; yearling beifers 34s to 38*; two year empty heifers £3 to £3 10s: a pen of Holstein cross hciferj made £3 9s: bulls £4 I" fj guineas: dairy heifers at profit £"» 10s to £7 ss; more backward sorts £ I to £ 1 10s.

Dalgety and Company report having held their usual monthly sale in the Ngaruawahia yards on the 9th inst.; About £OO bead of rattle were yarded all of which sold at satisfactory prices the following being realised: - Fat heifers £4 10s: 2 year steers £2 lf>s to S3: 2? year steers £3 lo«; empty h'-ifers IS month to 2 year £2 12s »U to £3 10s; yearling heifers 355; mixed calve? 15s to 2«>s; springers £4 5s to £»» 7s fid. Mes.trs Dalgety anil Company. Limited, report having held their usual stock safe nt Cambrdige yards on Friday Sib Octol>er as under: - There was* a good attendance and a moderate entry of slock, which met a ready -mle at market prices. With the exception of a few backward dairy cows the whole yarding was cleared at auction. Fat heifers and cows medium quality sold up to £1 ss: store empty cows £3; 2 year empty heifers niee quality for dairying purposes £3 10s to £ I fis: others £3: yearling heifers to £2 rist; best dairy heifers to £0 7s fid: medium to £5 10s: inferior and small £■!•"?•: faulty dairy cows up to £fi; sows Inpig£l7sfid: good slips 245: weancrs 1 Is.