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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9022, 9 December 1907, Page 2

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WOOL SALES. • Press Association —Copyright. Received December 9. 7.12 a.m. Loudon, December 8. Wool had a moderate sale yesterday. Only the inferior crosses offered were sold, slightly in buyers' favour. Merinos were unchanged. The sales included Pareora clip, which sold at To date 170,206 bales have been offered and 81,133 sold. Messrs Abraham & Williams, Ltd., Wellington, report that they offered 500 bales, the greatest part of which was a very good seleotion of medium crossbred, showing eood condition and a fair length of staple. Bidding was fairly animated for all good wools, which, however, showed a fall of about }6d per lb, while all shabby and faulty wools showed a decline of %& to Id on November sale rates. Growers were loth to accept the prices offered, and we did not sell a very big proportion of our offering under the hammer, though ■we expect to quit a good number of our passed-in lots The range of •prices offered for our wool was: — Southdown 10%d, „good^_brigh J L^^a^^^^M &Co , Ltd., report i good yarding of sheep and Jiunv- entry of cattle at their t - j- §,"> atant. Bidding was keen for sheep, j gjf and we quitted all lines under the c E hammer with the exception of one E I pen. Following are the prices $ W rsaiised-.—Shorn 2 tooth wethers, £ t' backward in condition, 12s Bd, mixed £ I- sex woolly hoggets, well grown, and £ I well wooiled 17s 9d to 18s 4d, mixed a f sex hoggets, medium sorts lCs Bd. £ Oatde were eagerly competed for, T and all lines sold by auction, jj Yearling heifers 30s Cd, yearling E( steers £2 IGa 2% to 3 year steers £4 p t. 9s; 3to 'i% year bullocks £6, fat and * ( . erry forward bullocks £6 19s 6d. FEILDING MARKET REPORT. , ' us V Messrs A. H. Atkinson & Co., * Ltd., report:—At our usual Friday '.' sale we offered a large entry of a good claso,'which were competed for . by a and representative at- 3 n tendance of buyers. A fair entry of poultry came to liand and sold at us prices gafcLifactory to vendors. Cow« and calveß made tip to £2 ss, cowh - close k»'profit £3. Quotations:— " * Horses: fl ymr old farm mare £2O, j , 4 year old raddi" i:n«l ha-nosa hon-e Or, '£i4, aged gelding £4. Figs: 7 Weaker* 10-: 'it to i'U, Hips IDs 3d t.» I t :.45» Cd, stores 21s ftl to 27b M, J* amall lbs,' medium 32**, J boats Us. Poultry; Hens gad i\ g

chicks Is 3il each, h«ns Is 10d to 3s M roosters Is 8d t"> 2s sd. ducks 2s ail turkevs 5a lid t-> tfs 11(1, all ac o»oli. Produco:' Pig potatoes Is to 2-3 3d eating ditto us Gd to lCs 6cl per sack.'barlcv 5s por bushel, feed oats 4s 3d to 4s 6d, chaff 5s Cd to Gs per sack. CLEARING SALE. Messrs A. H. Atkinson & Co., Ltd., report:—On Wednesday we held a successful clearing sale at Mr F. J. Saxby's farm at Makino. Wo had a good attendance of buyers, and cows sold well, averaging £5. Quotations: Cows, empty £3 2s Gd, in milk £'3 to£B 10s.- Pigs: Weaners Ss Gd to 10s 6d, slips lis to Ids Gd, stores 18s 6d to 225, porkers 28s 6d, sows, youni? 80s to G7s 6d, boar 20s.