COMMERCIAL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 564, 3 May 1913, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

Messrs Dalgety .and Company, Limited, report. We held our monthly sale in the ie Awamutu yards on Saturday, April 26th, when we had a yarding of 460 head of cattle, 114 sheep, also pigs, horses, etc. There was a good attendance of buyers and most of the lines offered were disposed of under the hammer. We quote: -- a 15s to £8 10s, forward empty cows £4 2s 6d to £4 15s, empty cows ±2 10* to £3 15s, two year steers ±4 to £4 15s, eighteen month to two year steers £3 17s 6d, Holstein heifer calves £3 2s, two and a half year heiferß in calf £4 15s to £5 10s, eighteen month do. £4 2a, good calves 30s to 455, poor calves 10s to 12s 6d, spring heifers £5 7s 6d to £6, shorn lambs 10s to 10s 2d, weaner pigs 9s 6d 15s. We held a clearing sale at Otorofaanga on April 28th, on account of G. Cutfield, Esq., who had sold his faim. There was a good attendance of buyers, and everything was disposed of at the following prices:—Milking cows £4 15s to £6 10s, heifers in calf £4 to £5 12s 6d, cows with calves £6 ss, calves 25s to 365, medium draught mare £l9, unbroken hacks £si 15s to £7, waggon £l9 ss, sulky £l4. set disc harrows, £5 15s, harness, tools, and sundries at usual rates. We held a sale of Mr W. Griffith s Btock, imDlements, etc , at Te Rata on April 30th, when we had a good attendance of buyers, the dairy herd averaging £7 14s. The following; are prices received: Dairy cows to £6 10a, dairy heifers £5 5s to £5 If a 6d, milk cart £lO 15s cart horse £8 15a, pigs 16b to £2 10s, furniture at usual prices.