STOCK SALES.
, MORRINSVILLE At the Farmers’ Auctioneering Coy’s sale on Saturday there was a yarding of 520 cattle and 1750 sheep. Mutton and beef were up to recent rates but stores and young stock were neglected. Prices were:—Fat steers £l2 7s Oil to to £l4 15s, lighter £'lo to £ll 19s, fat cows £9 15s to £ll, fresh forward cows £7 to £9, store cows £5 to £0 15s, 2A to 3-yr old heifers in calf £8 10s to £lO, 18-moutlis to 2-yr old heifers £4 15s to £5, good calves 20s to 32s Gd, mixed colors 7s Gd to 15s, springing heifers £lO 5s to £l3, cows,£B 5s to i'li?ss, hulls £7 5s to/£lO 15s; fat wethers 20s, fat owes 25s 6d to 28s 2d, fat woolly lambs 245, shorn lambs 13s 3d, smaller sorts Gs 3d to 10s,'store ewes 11 s 3d to 14s. CLEARING SALE. A clearing' salo of Mr T. 11. Samll’onl’s herd at Okauia, just under the hill was hold on (Monday. Thors was a fair attendance and farmers who can hold dairy stock missed an opportunity to secure bargains. Tho cows, due in July and August, brought an averago of about £8 for 41 ( . A number of those had boon drii>d off while others had calves running with thorn. The top price was about; £l2, while fair heifers in calf brought as low as £G. Tho demand for Vann implements was not as keou alaitici- ||
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Matamata Record, Volume III, Issue 130, 1 May 1919, Page 2
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241STOCK SALES. Matamata Record, Volume III, Issue 130, 1 May 1919, Page 2
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