STOCK SALE REPORTS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 144, 11 February 1916, Page 1

STOCK SALE REPORTS.

Messrs Alfred Ruckland and Sons report as follows: We held our lirst Tuakau sheep and ram tair on Thursday, the 3rd ii.st, and had considerably Itsa lhan the advertised number. For various reasons many entne3 did not come torward. There was a gcod attendance of buyers. Bidding was extra keen, record prices ruling. Best lresh lull-mouthed ewes £1 4s 6d to £1 63 i)d; second grade fullmouthed ewes, £1 Is to £1 Is; ordinary two and four tootb ewes, £1 3s to £1 6s 3d. There was only one pen of ewes sold at under £l, and this- made lite 9d. Fat ewes, to £1 5s 9d; two and four tooth wethers, £1 Is to £1 4s; store woolly lambs, 14a 6d to 17s, shorn 12s to lis, cull shorn lambs 10s to lis 6d, Romney rams, £3 3s to Sfgns; Lineolus, £4 4s to £5 ss; English 4Jgns; Shropshire?, £4 4s We held our monthly sale in the Waiuku yards oti Saturday last, and had a large yarding, every pen being full. Buyers were numerous and practically everything sold at ruling rates. Sprirgers brought from £6 to £9 10s; empty cows, £4 to £6 12s 6d; eigiheen-month steers, £1 10s to £5 16s; heifers, same age, £3 3s to £4 12s 6d; good steer calves, £2 6s to £2 13s; mixed sexes, well grown, £2 to £2 8s; smaller, £1 13s to £1 18s, Bmall £l 3* to £1 lis. Fat cows and heifers, of which there was a record yarding, made from £7 to £ll 10s, equal to Westfield rates-105 beef sold. Weaner pigs, l Jd to 12s; slips, 16s to £1 3s; suckers, 5a to 8s 6d. Onions, 2i 6d to 3s 6d per bag

The New Zealand Loan Company report: — At Fukekohe on luesdav we had an average yarding of store and dairy stock. We report a successful sale, everything being sold, Best dairy cows and heii'ers, £8 10a to £ll 103; otheis, £5 to £7 lUs; aged and interior cows, £1 10s to £4 53; empty cows, £5 to £7; buils, £(5 to £ll 10s;, 3to 3* year steers, £9 5s to £lO 11b; 2 to 3 year Bteers, £6 5s to £8 17s; yearling to 18 munth steers, £3 10s to £5 15s; yearling to 18month heifeis, £2 17s 6d to £4 10s; weaner calves, steera £1 15s to £2 16s, heii'ers £1 Si to £2 3s, inferior calves 12s to £1 33 At Tuakau on Monday we held our first sheep fair, when there was an extra large yarding, and although the yards have lately been added to there were not sullicient pens tor the number that came forward, which totalled 7300 sheep, lambs, etc. Competition was keen and with the exception of one small pen of 30 ewes everything changed hands at high rate-. Aged ewes, 16s to £1 5s 3d; t.t. mouth, Ills 9d to £1 7s (id; 2 tooth ewes, £1 3s 6d to £1 4s 9d; 4 and 0 tooth ewes, £1 3s 9s to £1 8s 0d; wethers, £1 Is to £1 4s (3d; lambs, in wool 13s 6d to lbs f Jd, Bhorn 8b Gsd to lis 'Jd, according to quality; raro-s Komncys 3gns to OAgns; Lincolcs figns to Signs At the Wisttied tat stock market on Wednesday beef was yarded in smalller numbers than usual and sold at late rates, oxen Belling at £2 3s per 1001b, cuws and heifers £1 15s to £2 2a; steers selling at from £ll to £lO ss; cows, £5 15s to £l3 15s. Calves were penned in average numbers and sold at improved rates. Kunners, £5 to £8 10s; heavy sucuers, £3 10s to £4 10s; medium suckers, £2 17s ti £3 13s; light Buckers, £1 7s to £2 12-; small and fresh dropped, 4s to £1 3s. Sheep were penned in full numbers and advanced in jinces from 2s to 3s per teal Best wethers sold at from £1 7a Od to £1 lis 6d, others £1 Is to 2bi 01; ewes, heavy weights £1 la to £1 8a 3J, others 18s Od to 233; hoggets, £1 2s to £1 63 GJ. Lambs, in average eufpiy, eold well. Best, 20s to 24s 6d; others, 15a 6d to l'Js bd. figs were penned in average numbers and advanced in prices. No choppers were yarded. Heavy bacuners, £3 lis to £4 ss; medium, £3 la to £3 8s; light, £2 15s to £3; heavy porker:;, £2 3s to £3 10s; medium porkers, £3 tu £3; light porkers, £1 18s to £2 9s; slips, £1 2s to £1 Ids- no wcancra varded