STOCK SALES.

Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 97, 29 August 1918, Page 3

STOCK SALES.

• WAIHOU. There was a good yarding of stock and a large attendance of buyers at the Farmers' Auctioneering Co.'s fortnighly sale on Friday last, but prices were easier. Pigs were most in demand, and sows made from £3 Is to £3 15s, stores £3 to £4, porkers 375, good weaners 22s to 255, others to 19s. Hoggets made from 26s to 34s Id, ewes 17s 9d to 235, wethers 365. There was a fair yarding of young calves, but prices were not up to vendors' expectations. The best made to 10s 6d, others from 3s 6d to 7s 6d. Fat steers made from £l2 7s 6d to £l3 12s 6d, fat cows £ls 3s to £ls 10s for best sorts, others from £lO 12s 6d to £8 17s 6d, fat heifers £9 12s 6d to £9l7s 6d, store cows £7 to £8 10s, 3-year store steers to £ll 7s, 18-inonth steers to £6 6s for forward sorts, others making to £5, good dairy cows £l3 to £ls os, others £ll to £l2 10s, heifers close to profit £8 5s to £ll, othors £7 to £7 14s, one Holstein heifer made £l4 ss. MOKRINSVILLL At Dalgcty & Co.'s sale on Tuesday dairy cattle predominated. Prices showed an upward tendency for anything good, but backward sorts were hard to quit. Cows made up to £l7 10s for an animal yarded by Mr C. Cameron, and a similar price was paid for a heifer entered by Mr Williams.