STOCK SALES.
MORRINSVILLE. The rough weather affected the entry of stock and attendance at the Farmers’ Auctioneering Co’s, sale on Friday. Beef was firm, there was a good demand for 18 months steers but the prices lor calves were low, probably accounted for by poor quality of many entries, Prices : pigs, weaners 9s to 14s, slips 17s to 235, porkers 27s to 345. Sheep, fat ewes 26s 3d to 29s od, woolly hoggets 17s 2d to 21s, empty ewes 20s 3d. Cattle, fat steers £ls 3s to £l6 10s for an entry from Mr F. W. Seifert, heavy fat cows £l4 to £l4 Is, lighter sorts £lO 18s to £ll 10s, fresh conditioned cows £8 5s to £9 11s, store cows £4 12s 6d to £6 16s, 18 to 20 months steers £7 7s to £8 ss, others mixed colors £6 12s to £6 16s, best Shorthorn heifer calves £4 4s, steer calves £2 los to £3 10s, inferior calves 21s to 37s 6d. Dairy cattle, there was a fair yarding and prices remained on recent lines for anything at all good, cows close to profit £l3 178 Cd to £l7 for an animal from Major J.*B. Whyte, heifers close to profit £l3 7s 6d to £l4 ss, others ±'B to £ll os.
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Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 88, 27 June 1918, Page 3
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213STOCK SALES. Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 88, 27 June 1918, Page 3
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