STOCK SALES.

Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 78, 18 April 1918, Page 2

STOCK SALES.

MATAMATA. At the Fanners Auctioneering Co.’s sale, on Wednesday beef was a little easier than at some of our previous sales, store cattle selling at market rates. Prices were :—Fat wethers, 36s 6d ; twotootb wethers, 24s to 25s sd; woolly hoggets, small, 8s 9d to 10s ; prime heavy steers £l6 8s to £l7 4s ; lighter, £l4 5s to £ls 6s; heavy cows, £l2 Is to £l2 17s; lighter, £lO 15s to £ll 7s; fresh conditioned cows, £9 Is to £lO 2s ; store cows, low condition, £5 18s to £7 2s ; 18month to 2-year-old steers, £9 7s to £lO 10s; others, mixed colors, £7 Is to £8 Us ; choice Shorthorn heifers, in calf, 2 to 2.1 } car old, £lO 10s to £ll 11s; good steer calves, £4 Is to £5 4s; others £2 17s 6d to £3 12s 6d ; heifer calves, £3 12s Od to £3 19s; poorer sorts, £2 7s 6d to £2 18s ; heavy bulls £ls ; others, £9 10s to £lllss. The New. Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency held its monthly sale at Matamata on Wednesday. There was a good yarding and a large attendance. Prices were : —Fat'cows £lO 10s to £l2 sa, fresh conditioned cows £7 12s Od to £9 16s, store cows £6 15s to £7 10s, 15-month steers £5 10s to £6 2s Gd, hulls ll]gns, dairy heifers £ll 5s to £l2 10s, others £8 to £9 10s, dairy cows £l4, good calves £4 7s 6d to £4 12s, weedy calves 11s 6d to £1 13s, fat ewes £1 5s 6d to £1 12s 6d, s.m. ewes in fair condition 13s to 15s, aged ewes 7s 6d to 9s, store lambs 10s 3d to 11s, pigs, porkers £2 ss, wearier slips Pis 6d to £1 10s. MOBIIINSVILLE. There was a large yarding at the Farmers’ Auctioneering Co.’s Morrinsville sale on Friday. Sheep sold well. For fat steers yarded reserves were not reached. There was no demand for young store cattle. The yarding of calves numbered 500 and there was an upward tendency in prices. Prices were: — Fat lambs, 21s to 26s 0d ; fat wethers, 33s Gd to £2 for 8 wethers from Smith Bros ; fat ewes, 28s 9d to 32s 6d ; shorn lambs, Pis 6d; good woolly lambs, 13s 4d to 17s Id ; heavy fat cows, £l2 15s to £l3 10s; lighter sorts, £lO 17s Od to £ll 11s; fresh conditioned cows, £8 lls to £9 19s ; store eows, low condition, £5 16s to £7 12s0d; cows and calves, £9 19s; heifers and calves, £6 to £8 6s ; good steer calves, £4 7s to £5 5s for an entry from Mr 11. V. Wells, Kiwituhi ; smaller sorts £3 3s to £3 10 ; mixed sexes, £2 to £2 18s ; bulls, £9 to £l3 10s; dairy cows up to £l2 10s; dairy heifers, £9 15s to £l2 ss.