SALE REPORTS

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 278, 25 May 1917, Page 4

SALE REPORTS

Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons, Ltd., report as follows : At Pukekohe on Monday we held a special horse sale. Although comj petition was dull, many changed hands. Unbroken 3 to 4-year-old draughts brought from £lB to £3O; ! medium draughts, £ll 5s to £ls 15s; I lighter sorts, £2 to £9. Broken j horses: Lorry and express class, £2l 5s to £33; bakers' and grocers' 'cart sorts, £l2 to £lB 10s; good j hacks and buggy horses, £ll 5s to i £2O ; light harness sorts, £6 5s to ! £lO 10s; gig ponies, £2 10s to £lO ! ss; aged draughts, £9 to £l6 10s; 1 weeds and worn sorts, 12s Gd upj wards; a farm waggon realised £29; ! pair waggon horses, £45 ss. On Wednesday, at our Westfield , fat stock market, the supply of fat ! cattle numbered 296 head, ccmpris- ! ing 200 steers, 90 cows and heifers, I and 6 bulls. There was an improved i demand, and values advanced fully 15s a head. Choice ox sold to £2 Bs, prime £2 6s to £2 7s 6d per 1001b; rough beef and ordinary, £1 15s to £2 2s; cows and heifers, £2 2s to £2 ss. Steers ranged in price from £l2 10s to £lO 12s6d; cows land heifers, £8 to £l6 10s. The i highest averages for steers included : 8 from Mr Geo. Hull, Otaua, £l9 3s I 6d; 7 cows from Mr Isaac Gray, 1 Gray's Farm, Papatoetoe, £ls os2d; I 12 nice heifers from Mr Geo. Niccol, j Kanganui, Papatoetoe, £l2 7s 8d There was a full yarding of sheep. Prime mutton was very lirm at last 1 week's rates. Unfinished wore slightly easier, more especially ewes Extra heavy prime wot hers, £2 2s Gd to £2 5s ; heavy primo wothers, £1 i 18s to £2 Is; medium to heavy ; wethers, £1 15s to £1 17s Cd ; light and unfinished, £1 9s 6d to £1 149 ; extra heavy prime ewes, £1 16s to £2 2s 9,1 : good owes, £1 12s to £1 los ; light and unfinished owes, £1 3s to L'l 10s; old owes, 15s to 19s (1447 sold). Tlio few lambs penned were dull of sale with the exception of an odd lot of prime, which made last week's values. Good lambs, £1 3s to i'l 7s (id, others 18s to £1 2s (176 sold . There was keen competition lor the 106 fat and young calves and last week's prices wero easily maintained. Runners made from £6 5s to £lO 17s 6d for a barren heifor, heavy calves £5 to i' 6, medium £3 15s to £4 ISs, lighter £3 to £3 12h, light £2 to £2 18s, small and fresh-dropped 10a to £1 ISs, weak and inferior .'is to Ns. Pigs came forward in exceptionally large numbers. Bacon ors and porkers sold freely at lato high values, but stores were in oxcess of requirements and were dull of sale,

Choppers made from £4 10s to £7 7s 6il, heavy baconers £4 to £4 los, medium £3 14s to £3 19s, light £3 8s to £3 12s, large porkors £2 153 to £3 7s, medium £'2 .5s to £2 14s, small £1 10s to £2 2s ; slips, l'»s to £1 ss; weaners and suckers 7s to 12s, weedy 3s Gel to 6s. (405 sold .