STOCK SALES.
MATAMATA. The Farmers' Auctioneering Company had a good yarding and attendance at .its ordinary sale at Matamata on Wednesday. Heel' sold well and showed an improvement on recent sales. Prices were:—Cattle: Fat bullocks £U 5s to £7 7s; light weights i'4 I.os to £5 7s fid; heavy cows £4 13s to £5 15s; lighter £2 15s to £3 15s; empty' cows, much on the business of late sales, from 80s to £2 ss; aged cows 15s to' 255. Competition for calves was quiet except for Jersey heifers; Small heifers in this class brought £3 Is. Good Shorthorn steer calves brought to 2fis; Shorthorn heifer calves to 31s. A small line of 18-monlhs Friesian steers brought £2 2s, 6(1. Dairy cattle: Competition was poor and values easy. The highest realised for heifers was i'7 and cows from i.'"» to ■£'> 10s. Hulls brought from 25s to S-"> 10s according- to weight and.condition. Sheep: Competition was' better. Fat wethers brought to 355: ewes 20s fid; fat lamb- 23s fid. Competition for pigs was strong, good slips making from 22s I 0 3fis; weaners from 0s fid to 1.4 s (id.
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Matamata Record, Volume VI, Issue 439, 24 May 1923, Page 2
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189STOCK SALES. Matamata Record, Volume VI, Issue 439, 24 May 1923, Page 2
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