STOCK SALES.

Matamata Record, Volume III, Issue 136, 12 June 1919, Page 4

STOCK SALES.

MOEBINSVILLE At tho Farmers' Auctioneering Co's Morriusvillo sale on Friday, there was a small yarding. Sheep sold well. Springing heifers showed a tendency to advance, and the prediction was made that in a few months prices would run high. Fat bullocks were firm. There wrs an entry of some fine beasts from Hawkes Bay, the top price of £2O 3s being pnid by Mr \V. H. Hopkins, of Morriusvillo. Tho prices were :—Cattle, fat steers ±'lß 10s to £2O 3s, lighter £l3 4s, heavy fat cows £ll 5s to £l2 ss, lighter £8 12s Cd to £lO Is, storo cows £3 2a to £6, good calves, mixed £1 8s to £1 17s 6d, poorer sorts 15» to £l, good li6ifers £lO 5s to £l3 10s, poor £9 10; sheep, good fat wethers 33s 3d to 40s Id, prime fat ewes 27s 4d to 37s Id, fat owes 20s 7d to 26s 9d, forward hoggets 19s 9d ; pigs, baconers £3 to £3 58, porkers £1 10s to £1 15, sows and pigs £5 17s 6d. CLEARING SALES There was a good demand for dairy cows at Mr Blanc's sale at Te Aroha "Wost conducted by Dalgcty and Co. ou Monday. The herd of 28 cows averaged £lB 18s, the highest figure paid for an animal being £27. A few heifer calves were sold making up to 265. There was an attondance of about 100 farmers from all parts of South "Waikato at the clearing sale held by the Farmers' Auctioneering Co. for Mr A . T. Scrineuer, at Putaruru, on Monday. A lino of 45 small cows, second, carvers, sold at from £l2 10s to £5, or on an average of £lO each. A three-yoar-old Holstein bull realised £lO 10s. Horses brought from £l9 2s Gd to £0 ss, farm implements wore sold at satisfactory prices, a milking plant realising £125, a drill £33 and a chaff cutter £ll 12s. A line of 18 20-months good quality heifors. in calf were put up on account of Mr R. Hildreth, of Putaruru, and were knocked down to Mr E. G. Land, of Manawaru at £8 2s Gd each.

The Farmers' Auctioneering Company held a sale of Mr A. Beange's herd at Matamata on Tuesday when there was a good attendanco. Ahi rh average was attained, the 47 dairy cows running out to £lB per head. Horses also Bold well. An B. and G. manure distributor realised £26 and a spring * dray in good ' order £23. Among the largest buyers of cows were Messrs J. W. Finnerty, A. Lambourne, W. F. Harding and F. C. Litchfield.