STOCK SALE REPORTS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 195, 28 July 1916, Page 4

STOCK SALE REPORTS.

Me ■srs Alfred Buckland and Sons report as follows : At Pukekohe on Monday wo held a special horse sale. There was a good attendance, but the demand was not keen. Young express and waggon horses brought from £26 to £32 ; aged draughts, £l2 to £27 ; plough horses, £ll 10j to £24 ss; creamery cait class, £l4 to £lB 10s ; light harness sorts, £7 5s to £ls ; hacks, £6 10s to £l7 ; gig ponies, £3 upwards. Unbroken sorts were practica'ly neglected. On Wednesday, at our weekly Westfield fat stock market, we penned fat cattle to the number of 363 head, comprising 199 steers, 159 cows and heifers, and 5 bulls. Tbere was a steady demand, with values unchanged. Choice oxen sold to £2 6s per 1001b, prime £2 3s to £2 ss, ordinary £1 18s to £2 Is ; cows and heifers, £1 8s to £2 4s. Steers ranged in price from £ll 5s to £23 (this prica for a steer fattened by Mr Arch. McNicol, Clevedon. Cows and heifers, £7 15s to £lB 2s 6d. This figure was also realised by Mr McNicol. The hightest averages for steers included a truck from Mr H. E. Beed, Waerenga, £lB los 5d ; a truck from Mr Walter Morgan, Pukekawa, £ls 10i. There was a huge entry of mutton and firm demand prevailed throughout, ruling quotations being easily sustained. Heavy prime wethers £1 18s 6d to £2 Is; no extra heavy offered ; medium to heavy prime, £1 15s to £1 17s Gd ; light and unfinished, £1 10s to £1 14s; best heavy prime ewes, £1 14s to £1 16s Gd; good ewes, £1 lis

to £1 13s ; otli9r ewes, £1 03 to £1 | 9s ; really prime hoggets, £1 7 s 6d to £1 lls6d; good hoggets, £1 09 to £1 7s; other hogget®, 17s Gd to £1 3s Gd. We rold 1984 6heep. Fat and young c lives came fjrward in average numbers, and sold at late quotations. Runners made from £7 to £9 ICs; heavy vealers, £4 to £5 17s 6d; medium, £3 3s to £3 18s; lighter, £2 10s to £3; light, £2 to £2 9s ; small and fresh-dropped, 3s to £1 18s; 90 6old. Pigs were penned in usual numbers, and all clas r es were keenlv competed for at late vblues. Choppers sold from £5 2s 6d to £6 7s 6d ; heavy baconers, £4 4s to £4 14e; medium, £3 15s to £4 ; light, £3 3s to £3 12s; large porkers, £2 los to £3 ; smaller, £2 s)d to £2 14s; small, £2 to £2 8s; weaners, £1 lsto£l 9s; suckers, 10s tol7s6i; 242 pigs were sold. '