STOCK SALES.

Putaruru Press, 18 October 1923, Page 3

STOCK SALES.

PUTARURU. -. i~. The yarding of stock was big and business substantial at the stock sale held in the Putaruru yards on Friday by Dalgety and Co. The prices realised were as follow: —Fat steers £7 10s, three-year store steers £4 5s to £5 7s, store cows £1 10s to £2 10s, old bulls £1 to £4, 15-months empty Shorthorn heifers £2 14s, dairy cows £7 10s to £l2 10s, dairy heifers £5 to £7 10s ewes with lambs 365, sows in pig* £3 5s to £4, weaner pigs 14s to 21s. A line of 60 bullocks were passed at bids ranging up to £5 5s but practically everything else yarded was sold. . MORRINSVILLE BULL SALE. At the Farmers’ Auctioneering* Co.’s bull sale on Tuesday there were yarded 30 Shorthorns, 80 Jerseys anti 20 Friesians. Very few pedigree animals were entered; The quality on the whole was poor, although some good material was seen in the yearlings and two-year-old Jerseys. The demand was slack for Friesians* but there was keen bidding among* the Shorthorns on account of the small yarding of the younger animals. Competition was keen among ‘ the tyearling Jerseys, the top price being U 1 'gn.(. In Rliei Friesian ; *>edig>ee classes, Mr. A. Topham’s 2-year bull 1 realised 20gns, Mr. J. Hart’s yearling i. 21g*ns, and Mr. Topham’s yearling 2Ggns. Four-year-olds brought lT,om 5 to Ogns, anti grade Friesians 3 to sgns. Yearling Red Polls sold from 5 to 6gns. Among the Shorthorns two-year-olds realised from £lO to £22, the top price being* obtained by Mr. H. Miller, of Kiwitahi: aged bulls from £3 to £7; 3-year bulls, £5 to £lO ss. There were only about half-a-dozen pedigree Jerseys mustered, and these were disposed of from 6lgns to 14gns, the highest price being given for a bull owned by Mr. G. Parsons, of Kiwitahi. In the grade Jerseys tlie prices were: 3 to 4-years, 2igns to Ogns; poorer and low-conditioned, lgn to 2gn:s; 2-year, 3igns 1o lOigns (highest bid from Mr. P. McNaughton’s); best yearlings, Sgns to lligns (top price for a unit of Mr. T. Luxton’s herd of Eureka); others from 2igns 1o 7gns.