COMMERCIAL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 658, 8 April 1914, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

STOCK SALES. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., report: —■ OHAUPO SALE. At Ohaupo on March 31st, we held a special sheep fai 1 * and cattle sale, yarded 5598 sheep, and 350 head of cattle. There was a good demand for both sheep and cattle, and we quitted most of the yarding. Well-grown shorn lambs made Sa to 10a 4d, good woolly lambs 10a Gd, small lambs 5s to 6a lOd, two tooth wethers 14a 9d, four tooth wethers 15s 9d to 17s 7d, four, six and eight tooth ewes 12a 6d to 13s 3d, two tooth ewes 15s 9d, sound mouth ewes 10s 6d to 12s, two tooth Romney rams 2gns to 3Jgns, fat cows £5 17a fid, eighteen months to two year steers £3 8s to £3 18s, well grown calves 37s to 39s 6d, others 26s to 325.

TE KUITI SALE,

On Ist inat., at Te Kuiti, we yarded 1612 sheep, and 683 cattlle, and raport a good sale, prices being in advance of late sales. Fat wethers sold from 19s to 20s, prims fat ewes , IGs 6d, choice shorn lambs 13s, sound mouth ewes 12s to 133 lOd, two tooth ewes 15a, three and a half year steers, forward £7 'ls to £B, two and a half to three year steers £6 15s to £7, four year steers £8 Ps, eighteen month steers £3 3a to £3 15s, dairy heifers in calf £4 4s, calves 28s to 38s, bulls £3 Is to £4. HAMILTON SALE.

At Hamilton, on Thursday, we held our usual stock sale, and had a fair yarding of sheep and a full yarding of pig? and cattle. We quote: —Fat wethers 20s to 21a 6d, fat ewes 16s lOd to 17s Gd, fat lambs 15s .to 16s, store shorn lambs 8s 4d to 9a 9d, fat cows, heavy £7 2s, lighter £5 18s to £6 4s, vealers 455, forward cows £4 to £4 9s, choice dairy heifers £4 7s 6d to £5, good calves 40s, others 25s to 325, eighteen month heifers £2 16s, heavy bull 51gns to 6Jgna. pigs, woaners 14s to 18a, porkers 35b to 40s.

Newton King reports:— STRATFORD SALE. At Stratford on Tuesday, 31st March, I had a fair entry of both sheep and cattle. Competition for the former was quiet, but all cattle yarded, with the exception of two pen 3, were sold at tha hammer. Competition for good conditioned cows and bulla was well maintained, several pen of wsaners were yarded, one particularly fine line of 30 Shorthorn steers realising £2, these were the best weaner steers seen in these yards for some years, other weaners were sold at the hammer. I supply price:—Mixed weaners 22s Gd to 27a, weaners hsifera 29s for colour, grades 22s Gd to 26s Gd, fifteen and eighteen month steers £3 4a 6d, yearling coloured heifers £2 12s. in-calf heifers £3 17s Gd, springing heifers, small £3 10s, two and a half year steers £5 ss, bulls £5 to £8 10s, forward and fat cows £4 10s to £6 14s, store cows £3 2a to £4 ss, aged cows £1 7s Gd to £2 lis, cows and cavles £5 15s, f.m. ewea 10s 2d, cull ewea 5s lid, cull lambs ss, two tooth ewes 14s "Bd.