STOCK SALES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 1, Issue 64, 31 January 1913, Page 2

STOCK SALES.

Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons report: At Pukekohe, on Monday, January 27th, we held o'jt usual monthly sale in t'.e Pukekohe yards and yarded 1108 head of cattle, l'here was a lar?e attendance and a good demsiiJ existed for all classes. Dairy cows £5 03 to .£ll ss, empty cows £2 IDs to £3 15s, yearling to 18-month heiiers £3 on to £5 sj, two to three-year-old steers £4 153 to £5 15s. 18-month to two-year-olds £3 15s to £4 10s, good calves to yearlings £2 8i to £3 3s, strong calves £1 16s to £2 6s, others 15s to £1 13s, fat steers £7 10s to £9 15a, cows £4 5i to £7 7s 6d —109 beef sold. A number of farm implements and a quantity of sundries sold at fair values.

We held our list she:p and rim fair of the season m the Pukekohe she p fair yards on Tuesday, January 28th, and penned about the advertised number. There was a very l-.rge attendance, and almost a total clearance was effected at most satisfactory prices. Two-tooth ewes 14a Gd to 16s, four anci six-tooth ewes 14s 6d, large-framed, good-conditiuned, fresh, lull-mouth ewes 12s 6d to 14s, &econd-cla3s fuil-mouth ewes 10s 6d to 12a, failing-mouth ewes 7s Gd to 10s Gd, cuil ewes 4s 6J to 6s 9d, best two-tooth wethers 15" to 16s Gd, smaller 3j 3d to 14s 6d, fat lambs to 15s 6J, gocd sloie lambs, woolly, 8s to IDs 6d, small 53 to 7a 6d, shorn 5s to S3, weedy 3s to 4d Gd. Romney rams ljgns to 4fgns, Lincoln rain 3 ligns to 3gns, Shropshire rams 2gns. A large numter of old rams brought from 5s to 17s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., reports as follows:

At Bombay on Saturday we held a clearing sale of Mr A. Dtane's live and dead stock, '.ihere was a large attendance, and a satisfactory sale was held. Dairy cosvs in milk sold at from £5 to £ll 59, lieifers £4 10s to £lO, springing heifers £4 to £5 2i 6d, calves £1 5s to £2, horses £ls to £2l, pigs 20s to £4. Farm implements and sundries sold at satisfactory prices.