STOCK SALE REPORT

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 452, 21 February 1919, Page 1

STOCK SALE REPORT

Messrs Bnckland and Sons, Ltd., reportWe held our usual monthly sale at Pokeno and Runciman on Monday and Tuesday, and had average yardinga at both places. Calves were in better demand. Best dairy cows and heifers brought from £lO 7s 6d to £ls ; Others, £6 10 to £9 2s 6d ; empty cows, £5 12s 6d to £8; fat cows and heifers, £8 Iss to £l2 12s 6d ; 3 to 4-year old steers, £lO 5s to £l3 Is ; 2 to 3-year old steers, 46 15s to £8 7s ; yearling to 18 months steers, £4 15s to £6 5s ; heifers in calf, £5 15s to £8; good calves, £2 10s to £3 ; others 15s to £2 ss; heavy bulls, £ll 10s to £18; others £2 12s 6d to £lO 15s. We held a successful sheep and ram fair at Pukekohe on Monday. About the advertised number came forward, and found buyers at prices similar to those which were obtained at Westfield on the previous Thursday. Good two and four tooth ewes, £1 7s to £1 10s; smaller twotooth ewes, £1 3 to £1 5s 9d ; f. f. mouth ewes, £1 3s to £1 6s 6d; older ewes, 18s to £1 Is fid ; cull ewes, lis to 14s 6d; fat ewes, £1 3s to £1 5s 9d ; prime heavy wethers, £1 12s 6d to £1 18s for a pen from Mr M Whalen, Ararimu South; forward two and four tooth wethers, £1 7s to £1 9s 6d ; other two tooth wethers, £1 3s 6d to £1 6s 6d ; best woolly lambs, 16s 6d to 235; smaller, 14s to 16s ; small, lis to 13s 6d; best shorn lambs, 14s 6d to 18s; smaller, 12s to 14s; small, 7s to 10s 6d; Romney rams, 21s to £5 ss; Lincolns, 31s 6d to £6 6s; Leicester, 2gns. to s£gns; Shropshires, 3gns. to sgns ; old rams, 10s 6d to 255. The N.Z Loan and M.A. Coy., Ltd., report:— At Westfield fat stock market, on Wednesday, beef was penned in average numbers. Competition was keen, last week's prices ruling, Choice ox sold to £2 lis per 1001b., others £2 8s to £2 10s; cow and heifer beef, £2 4s to £2 9s per 1001b ; steers sold at from £l3 10s to £22 ; cows and heifers, from £9 to £l6 17s Cd. Calves were penned in average numbers, and prices advanced over last week's rates, anything choice Belling well. Runners sold to £G ss; heavy vealers, £3 5s to £5 ; medium, £2 las to £3 Is ; light, 37e 6d to £2 12s 6d; small and fresh-dropped, 3s to 255. Sheop were penned in large numbers. Competition was keen, prices being fully equal to last week's quotations. Best wethers, £1 13s to £1 18s 6d ; medium wethers, £1 9s 6d to £l 12s Gd; two-tooth and small wethe.s, £1 3s to £1 9s 3d; lest e.eg, £1 8s to £1 13 ; one small pen extra heavy ewes sold to £2; medium ewes, £1 2s to £l 7s 9d; small owes, 18s to £1 2s; aged and inferior ewes, lis 6d to 17s. Lambs were penned in average numbers, and sold at late rates. Best £1 4s to £1 9s 9d ; medium lambs, 18s to £1 3s 9d; small lambs, 13s to 17s 9d. Figs- A good yarding, with prices slightly lower than last week. Heavy baconers, £4 13s to £5 12s 6d ; small choppers and light baconers, £4 to £4 10s; large porkers, £3 to £.3 15s; medium, £2 5s to £2 17s fid; small, 28s to £2 2s 6d; weaners, 19s fid to 255. On Saturday, at Waiuku, we had a full yarding, and report a good sale. Dairy cows and heifers, £9 to £ls ss; bulls, £7 to £ls; empty cows and heifers, £6 to £8 17s 6d; fat cows, £9 to £l4 ; fat steers, £l3 to £lfi ss; calves, £1 to £2 (is; yearling to 18 mouth heifers, £o 15s to £ r > os; ditto steers, £4 10b to £6 15 ; weaner pigs, 15s to £1 ss. On Tuesday, at Pukekoho, we held a special horso oalo. There wa3 au average yarding, c mpetition was keener than last sales, aud a goud clearance was effected. Heavy draught \ £22 to £37 ; medium draughts, £l6 to £27 10s ; aged aud worn draughts, £9 to £ls ; hacks, £7 to £ls ; li^lit harness sorts, £8 10s to £l6; ponies, £3 to £8 10s; weeds, 10s upwards: un broken were neglected, and hard to quit. la—ihm——M—iiiib un m——aa