STOCK SALES.

Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 100, 3 October 1918, Page 2

STOCK SALES.

MORRINSVILLE There was a very largo yarding at the Farmers' Auctioneering Coy.'s sale on Friday, 1224 fat arid store cattle, 298 dairy cattle and 500 sheep being penned. Fat cattle sold up to recent rates, but the cold snap appeared to have affected the market for stores, there being a considerable drop in the prices of yearlings and two-year stock. There was not as keen a demand for dairy cattle as at the previous sale, though anything good sold well. Shei j p were firm. Prices: Prime fat wethers £2 6s for two pens from Mr J. VV. Taylor, fat hoggets 81s to 33s 9d for an entry from Mr ft. Scott, Ngarua, good store hoggets 27s 6d, fat ewes 85s, 4 and 6-tooth ewes and Jambs 34s 6d, others 31s. Cattle, prime fat steers £ls 15s to £l7 10s for a line from Mr C. H. Mellsop, smaller £l4 5s to £ls 3s, prime heavy fat cows £lB 10s to £l6, others £ll 10s to £l2 19s, prime fat heifers £ls 15s for an entry from the Kereone estate, fresh-conditioned cows £8 7s to £9 7s, store cows £7 5s to £8 7s, others, low condition, £5 lis to £6 15s, 2£ to 3-year steers £lO to £ll 10s, 2-year steers £7 18s to £9 28, 2-year empty heifers £7 103 to £7 18s, smaller £0 163 to £6 12s, cows and calves at foot £ll 4s, good yearling steers (polled Angus) £6 7s 6d to £7, 18 mos. steers £7 to £7 10s, yearling heifers £5 lis to £6 2s, mixed sex yearlings £4 5s to £5 Is, small yearlings £3 7s to £3 19s, 2-year Shorthorn bulls 10 gns. to £ll los. Dairy cattle.—A herd of 53 from Mr Windsor, Tauiahere, were yarded, the majority being heifers. Cows made from 15 gns. to £l7 ss, heifers from £l2 10s to £l6 15s, a line of 20 heifers brought £l3 10s. A Hue of heifers from Mr Kenyon madejrom £l6 to £2O. Poor quality cows brought from £l2 5s to £l4 los. Heifers, good quality, made from £l4 10s to £lB, poorer sorts £lO 5s to £l2. Pigs.— Weaners 225, slips 34s to £2 Bs, porkers £3 15s to £3 17s.

There was a good yarding of stock at Dalgety & Co.'s sale on Tuesday, there being especially good entries of dairy stock. Prices in the stores maintained recent rates. In dairies anything good fetched a good figure, but there was not a great demand for backward sorts. Store cows made from £7 10s to £8 15b, cows and calves to £lO, 2-year steers to i'9 10s, 2 pens of yearling steers made to £7 ss, others £6 10s to £7 Is, yearling heifers from £5 10s to £6 03, dairy cows to £l6* 10s, dairy heifers to £l7 ss. MATAMATA The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., held ils monthly sale at Matamata on Wednesday. About 450 head of cattle of all kinds were yarded. The demand for good fresh-dropped calves continued. A dairy cow sold by Mr J. R. Gillingham realised £2O. Prices wero : Fresh-dropped calves (good) 21s to 28s, fair 10s 6d to 20s, others 3s to 10s, yearling steers £2 10s to £4 10s, fifteen to eighteen months mixed sexes £3 His to £6, fresh-conditioned cows £lO to £l2, store cows £7 10s to £9 15s. Dairy stock, bulls £ls 15s to £2O, springing heifers (good) up to £l7. others from £8 to £l4 10s, springing cows (choice) £l2 10s to £ls, others £8 10s to £l2 10s. Pigs, slips £1 14s to £2.