STOCK SALES.

Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 99, 26 September 1918, Page 3

STOCK SALES.

WAIHOU. Suckers made up to 525, weaners to 41s, porkers to £4 and breeding sows £3 17s 6d, goats 355, fresh-dropped calves up to lis, empty ewes 17s 6d, ewes with lambs 15s, woolly hoggets 2.'Js 6d to 295, two fat woolly wethers made 48s Gd, good fat cows made £ls 17s fid to £l7 15s, smaller sorts £8 l(i.> to £11? 15s, good dairy cows £l4 Uh to £l6, others close to profit £ll to £l4, more backward sorts £6 15s to £los, 2-year steers to £8 15s, 2-year heifers to £B, yearling steers to £4 ss, yearling heifers to £4 Is. CLEARING SALE At Mr J. Kelso's clearing sale at Shaftsbury last week big prices ruled. The dairy herd of 48 grade Jersey cows and heifers averaged £2O 18s, three animals bringing £35 each. A pedigree cow made 56 gns., a yearling heifer 26 gns., and a two-year heifer 23 gns. MATAMATA. Tbe Farmers' Auctioneering Company held its monthly sale at Matamata on Wednesday. There was a full yarding and spirited bidding. Sheep were very firm. Fresh dropped calves brought good prices, as high as 265, sold by Mr J. Vf. Finncrty. Others were in the region of that figure. Prices were : Fat hoggets, 30s to 345; good store hoggets, 23s 9d to 28s Id; heavy fat wethers, £2 9s (bought by Mr W. C. Vincent); good yearly steers, £5 17s to £0 9s; good yearling heifers, £6 3s to £7 ss; mixed sex yearlings, £3 12s 6d to £4 15s; smaller, £2 5s to £3 Is; heavy fat cows, £l7 5s (sold by Mr A. J. Tong); smaller, £ll to £l2 10s ; fresh conditioned cows, £8 6s to £9 16s ; store cows, £4 10s to £6 17s ; good 2-year empty heifers, £7 7s to £8 12s 6d ; 'others, £6 15s to £7 ; 20-month to 2-year steers, £6 15s to £7 7s; fresh dropped calves (good), 1q.3 to 26s (J. W. Finnerty) ; smaller, 7s tQ-l*2s ; choice dairy heifers, £l3 to £l7 ; others, £lO 10s to' £12; choice dairy cows, £l4 10s; others backward, £ll 10s to £l2 10s.