STOCK SALES.

Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 81, 9 May 1918, Page 2

STOCK SALES.

WAIIIOU At the Fanners’ Auctioneering Coy.’s sale at Waihou on Friday there was a big yarding of cattle and sheep, hut pigs were in poor supply. Bidding was dull and many lines were passed, vendors’ prices not being in accord with offers. Prices were : Breeding sows £2 15s, empty sows £2, porkers 30s to 80s, good line of porkers 50s, • small weaners 5s to 10s, good sorts 15s; sheep were dull of sale and only a few pens were quitted. Fat cows made from £l2 10s to £l4 2s for prime, and £lO 17s to £ll 15s for lighter sons, store cows £7 to £8 os, 18-months to 2-year steers £9 10s to £TO 15s, 18months steers (mixed colors) £5 to £6 10s, heifers in calf (backward) to £’9, 18months heifers £0 to £6 los, springing heifers to £lO ss, bulls Ggns to Bgns, dairy cows close to profit £lO ss. CLEARING SALE. The Farmers’ Auctioneering Coy., Ltd., held a clearing sale for Mr G. Davis at Te Poi on Tuesday, when there was a good attendance. The herd of 28 cows averaged a little over 13]- guineas per head, the top price being paid by Mr P. Going —10 guineas. Other principal buyers were Messrs F. Gibson, Barron (Manawaru), McGillivary (Peria) and Trougkton. A four-year farm gelding brought £l2 10s, an aged farm mare £7, and a rising two-year gelding £lO. A line of well-done calves, consisting of ten heifers and two steers, realisod £3 4s. Implements sold well. MATAMATA. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering company held its monthly sale at Matamata on, ’Wednesday when the yarding was nearly a record. Including IGO dairy stock—nearly all of which were heifers—over 1000 head of cattle were yarded. There was a good demand for dairy stock, but little inquiry for calves. A pen of fat steers were sold for Mr H. R. Harding at £l7 3s, while three cows with bull calves, sold for Mr Alex Weeks, brought £24 each—a somewhat remarkable price. Eighty-three dairy hoifers sold for Messrs Loughlin and Prott, of Hamilton, brought from 9i{- to 15£ gns., the average being about £l2 10s. Prices were :—Sheep—Fat sheep 28s 6d to 295, fat hoggets, 295, fat owes 25s 6d, woolly hoggets 13s Gd to 16s 6d. Cattle—Heavy fat steers £l7 3s, others, £l4 6s to £l4 148, fat cows (heavy) £l2 7s to £l3 4s, lighter £lO los to £ll 9s, fresh conditioned cows £8 8s to £9 2s, store cows £6 15s to £7 Is, cows with calf (all in) £24, good steer calves £4 10s to £5 ss, others £3 12s to £3 19s, heifers £4 to £4 16s, others £3 Is to £3 14s, calves (mixed) £3 7s to £3 13s, heavy bulls 12* to 14 guineas. Dairy cattle—Good 3 yr. Shorthorn heifers from 124T0 15J guineas, 2 yr Shorthorn heifers 94 to 12 guineas, good Freisian heifers 114 to 13£ guineas, Jersey cross heifers 104 to 12 guineas, dairy cows 9.J to 13 guineas, backward heifers 6 to 7fgns. MORRINSVILLE. There was not a very large yarding at Dalgety A Co.’s Morrinsville sale on Tuesday. Sheep were easier but cattle, especially dairy stock, sold well. Prices : Fat steers £l4 17s 6d, fat cows £9 16s to £lO 15s, store cows £7 10s to £8 2s 6d, cows and calves £8 to £9 10s, heifers in calf £7 10s to £l3 10s, cows in milk £7 7s to £9 12s 6d, calves (mixed sexes), £2 to £3 ss, empty ewes 15s 6d, ewes in lamb 12s 6d to 17s 6d, lambs 13s 3d,