STOCK SALES.

Matamata Record, Volume III, Issue 146, 21 August 1919, Page 4

STOCK SALES.

TIMU. Tho Farmers’ Auctioneering Co., Ltd. held its monthly stock sale at Tirau on Wednesday. The yarding was large, especially in connection with dairy stock, and the attendance was good also. Prices were: Pigs—Weaners £2, slips £2 11s ; sow in pig £7. Sheep—Ewes in lamb 33s 3d, five pens empty ewes (sold by Mr W. C. Rollett to Mr W. R. Clarke, Peria) 2Gs 4d, store hoggets 19s (id, 2(is 3d, and 30s, aged ewes in lamb 17s (id, rams 12s. Cattle—Forward steers £l3 10s to £ls 15s, fat cows £l7 15s, ordinary killablo steers £ls 15s, forward store cows £8 to £9 10s, 3yr forward stoers £ll to £l3 10s, 2 to 2Ayr steers £8 5s to £ll 10s, good yearling steers 4 to 5 gus., others £2 to £3 15s, 2yr empty heifers, good, £6 to £8 Is, yearlings, good, £4 to £5. Dairy stock, cows to £23, heifers to £l7 103. MORRINSVILLE. There was a large yarding of all classes of stock at the Farmers’ Co-operative Anctioneering Coy’s sale on Friday, and competion though not as keen as the week before, was • fairly brisk. Beef especially made big money, and fat sheep sold at extreme prices. There was a fair demand for calves. A line of 45 fat bullocks sold on behalf of Messrs Whitechurch Bros., Tabuna, found owners at £22 10s (for one beast), £2l 12s 6d, £l9 15s, £lB 15, £l7 10s, £l4 14s and £l4 ss, other fat bullocks £l4 17s 6d to £l7 7s 6d, fat cows £l2 to £l4 17s 6d, fat heifers £5 12s to £lO. A pen of cows offered b.y Mr W. Dickie, of Walton, sold at £l4 4s, and heifers at £14155, 3-year-old heifers brought from £l3 3s to £l4 4s, 2s-year steers offered by Mr F. H. White sold at from £9 2s 6s to £l2, 2-year-old steers brought from £7 to £8 10s, empty heifors £5 12s to £6 10s, Jersey-cross empty heifers £8 15s, yearling steers £3 6d to £4 15s, heifers £4 to £5 11s, small calves 27s 6d to £2 10s, good dairy cows close to profit sold from £2O to £25 10s, good cows in milk £ls to £2O, others £l3 to £l4, poor and backward £8 2s to £ll, 3 year heifers close to profit £ls to £l7 10s, others £l2 to £l4 15s, backward £9 to £ll, small and poor £6 to £7 10s, fat wethers £2 0s 6d to £2 2s, fat ewes 34s to £2 4s, fat hoggets 34s to £2, store, wethers 35s owes ill lamb 38s Gd, store ewes 36s Sd. MATAMATA HORSE SALE. The Farmers’ Auctioneering Company Ltd. conducted its annual horse fair at Matamata on Tuesday. About 100 horses were on the lines, and any tiling of quality sold at rising rates. Tho top price was realised for a good 3-year draught gelding at £3B 10s, sold by Mr F. Barugh, In the light horse section Mr Graham secured top price—£lß 10s for a bay gelding.