COMMERCIAL.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 23 July 1920, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

: —•— , CLEANING SALE. k, J Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held a successful sale of dairy stock, etc., at the homestead of Mr L. DD-on, Oban, on Wednesday, the -let ia-tant. Three herds of cows were offered. viz., on account of Messrs ‘ jJi.'.on. Corner and Royal. Mr Dixon f t herd of milking -Shorthorn cross cov/s came forwarkd ,a tip-top order and condition, and keen bidding war elicited for all lots offered, the herd making a satisfactory average •£ jezt on £2O. lt The range of prices are as tinder: — 3 cows at £.'lo, 3 at £2O, 5 at from £2? ,r - to £22, 3at £l7, 7at from £l2 to £ls. l - Messrs Corner and Royal’s herd a!:o sold welL These cows were not in suck !l g'sod condition as Mr DivertV, and as 11 calving dares could not be supplied this d rather cramped competition; still t 1 r ' different lots offered were eagerly “ peted for and ail were sold at sa^> ’■ tore rates, the range of price* & y From £ls to £2O for sound cows, S conditioned lots making from 3 e £l3, cow* in milk £2l to £23. ™ a OTAKI STOCK SALE. d Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report >- offering a good yarding of sheep and a r small entry of cattle at the Otaki yards * oc Wednesday. Competition for sheep 1 under the fcanuner ware good, and all f* lots offered were readily disposed of t M prices-in exee** of vendors’ »- s serves, .bales effected were as under: —Poor conditioned -J-year breeding ewes Z‘js. medium woolly ewes and I hoggets 2*s 3/i. --hurt, hogget* 30s Id, ! cull "hoggets 13> id to lis 3d, fat and i forward ewes 225. g-year-old dairy - heifers £H*. -