COMMERCIAL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 643, 14 February 1914, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:— HAMILTON SALE. At Hamilton, on sth inst., we offered a fair yarding of cattle and eheep, which nearly all sold. Prices —Fat cows £5 7s to £6 103, cows in fresh condition £4 4s to £4 7s 6d, store cows £3 12s to £3 17s 6d, 15 morth old steers £2 15s to £3 Is, 15 to IS months old heifers £2 15s to £2 ISs, cavles 27b 6d to 36b, fleshy, bulls £4 10s to £7 15s according to weight, fat ewes 16s 6d, fat lambs 14s, 2 tooth wethers 13s to 15s, bacon pigs £2 5s to £2 15s, good porkers 28s to 365, Blip 3 20s to 255, weaners 9s to 17s 6d. TE AWAMUTU SALE. At Te Awamutu, on 7th inst., we yarded 894 head of cattle which were required by buyers present from the King Country and Waikato dinticts. practically the whole entry being cleared. Fat cows made £6 to £7 12s 6d. 2* to 3 year old steers in good condition £5 10s to £6 2s 6d, 16 to 18 months old steers £3 14s to £3 18s, 12 to 15 months old steers £2 10s to £3 0s 6d, heifers £2 5s to £2 15s, one pen good quality £3 2s 6d. 2 year old heifers been with bull £4 5s to £4 16s, empty cows £3 4s to £4 5s according to condition, strong calves 25? to 31s, others Is to 18s, bulls £6 2s 6d to £6 15s, store pigs 2s to 36e, slips 16s to 23b.