COMMERCIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 30, 6 October 1913, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

Newton King's Weekly Report. On Friday, 26th nit., at my W.iiwakaiho yards I had a good entry of cattle, and several pens of sheep. Thciv was a good attendance of the public,! but competition was quieter than at previous sales. I supply • prices : ColoVed yearling heifers £3 2s, £3 7:< 6d, good gfade yearling heifers £2 12s, £2 19s, small yearling heifers £1 -"is to £2 4s, yearling steers £2 8s to £2.1 7s and £1 16s tor poor conditioned, 2iyear steers £1 10s, choice line of G Jersey 2-year empty heifers, £5 18s, colored yearling heifers.£l 10s and £i\ 10s Gd, lino of Shorthorn 20-month to 2-year boilers, looking rough £3 12s Gd, yearling Jersey bulls £2 to £2 2s Gd, dairy bull, grade £5, yearling Hol- ! stein bull £3 18s, small store cows £2 110 sto £3 lis, good store cows from £3 'l!)s to £4.14s for good conditioned cows, fat cows £6 7s, springing heifers £5 5s to £8 7s Gd, small and poor conditioned £3 ss, to £3 17s Gd, dairy |cows- guaranteed £4 12s Gd to £6 ss, Leicester ewes atid lambs 28s 9d, hogSgets (woolly;) 245, black faced owes and I lambs 275, hoggets 19s. On the same day at Kaponga I had a small entry, prices obtained being as follows:—Empty heifers £3 5s to ,€4 Bs, good store cows £4 to £4 lis, small storo cows, £3 to £3 Bs, springing heifers £7 lt)s to £lO. j'j "

On the same day, in conjunction with the Hawera branch of the Loan and .Mercantile Co., 1 conducted Mr It. H. Phillips' annual dairy sale at Xgaere. There was a good attendance of buyers, and the s,toc ( kbeing of good quality and condition,, there was 'excellent competition for both cows and heifers, a very satisfactory blearing being irade. Dairy cows sold at from £8 to £l6 15s, and £s''ss to £7 lUs, choice springing; heifers £8 10s to £l2 ss. others £5 10s to £7. On Monday at Toko, yearling heifers realised from £1 15s to £3 10s, empty cows £3 to £4, forward cows £5, empty hoifers £3 12s 6d, yearling bulls £2 Is, springing heifers £5, mixed ewes and hoggets 18s.

At my Sti-'atford yards on Tuesday, 30th ult., I had a fair entry of al! el isses. There was a good 'attendance of the public, but bidding was quiet, consequently several pens were passed but I was able to clear most of the y: rding either: at. the hammer or privately at th,e following prices:—Yearling loiters'£2 19s; ; £2T2s (3d, £2 £2 7s 6d, £2.,6s Gd, small £1 14s. yearling Jersey.bulls £1 17s to £2 IDs, grade bulls £3 lasoa to £5 ss, empty 2--ear heifers $4 2"5,. £3.12s 6(L rough Htfes' £3' : 7s Gd'' to £3 %* 6d, 2-ykr steers ,£4 55," 3-year bullocks .£6, 'ss, Vged ! storo cows £i'l9s I lb'£2,los; fighv store eows £.3 s>s .to £3 good store ,cows £4. ,to'"£jl and from £4 12-; to £o 5s foi\lines in .forward;condition, small fat cows, £6 to. £6 lis. in the dairy peps T had a (mi entry of springing heifors, but the quality kwh*ii not up, to previous yarding, ; Be t st. heifers sold very readily, making excellent prices, . but , kinds wero very hard of sale. Pricp s obtained 15s, £8 10s,'£8'5s,_£8, £7, i'O 15s, £G 10;, £6..55,,- ; £6, ss, £4 17s 6d' ; '£4 I>, ' £i 10s; £l, £3 i5 S £31.05,;"; ~ h ~)

. At my Stony 'River yards on \Wpm::;day, Ist inst., there:, was only ;> i'r,i.- entry and attendance. Yearjuig steers made £3 3k, £3; £2 19s, snriil or bad colored £2 to £2 3s, yearling ■boilers £1 19s to £2 6s, bulls £2 .10s to £1 10s, empty 2-year colored Mersey heifers £4 18s, • grades £3 12s to £t. storo bullocks £7. aged cows £1 3s, small store cows £3 to £3 os, good store cows from £3 16s to £4 15s for cows jrith condition, forward cows £5 to £5 16s, fat cows £6 ss" to £7, dairy cows £9 10s, £B, £4 17* 6d, £4, springing heifers £B, £6 7s 6d, £6, £5 12s 6d, £5 10s, £5 7s 6d, £4 10s/£4. purebred Berkshire pigs (8 weeks) £1 4)s 6d, others 17s.

Private sales during the week have been made at the following prices:

Choice line of 27 Jersey yearling heifers to a Hawera client at £5 10s, grades £2 15s, yearling steers £3 Is to £3 3s, 2-year empty heifers £4 7s 6d, £4, £3 16s, store cows £3 17s 6(1. £4, £4 2s, and £4 os to £4 10s for a real good line of 150 for jMahoenui, forward £5 15s, fat cows £7, fat bullocks £lO, £lO. 10s, £ll, 3-year store bullocks £5 15s, £6 10s, £7, dairy co,ws £l4 10s, £9, £B, springing heifers £S Bs, £7 17s 6d, £6 15s, £6 12s (kl, £6, £5 2s 6d. £5, grade bulls £5 10s to £6, grade Shorthorn bulls £l2, hoggets 15s to 16s 6d, fat ewes 19s to £l, fat withers £1 4s 6d, £1 4s, £1 3s, good i -tooth wethers 19s, ewes in lamb £l, culls lis 6d, 13s. lis, 10s.

At my Haymafket on Saturday 1 had a full yarding of pigs, calves, etc., to offer before a large attendance of buyers. Prices ruling were about on a par with last isale. I quote—Slips and wcaners 7s 6d to •295, small stores £1 2s 6d to £1 Bs, medium do. £1 12s 6d to £1 18s 6d, so.vs £2 12s 6cT, calves 3s 6d to £1 18s, sundries at usual rates.

THE MEAT TRADE.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyrighi [United Press Association.] Washington, October 5.

\ The Department of Agriculture has ii'ormulated new rules lor the importation of foreign meats. These require Foreign certificates, both post- ! mortem and ante-mortem inspection of animals in the country of origin, 'r.nd also inspection at the ports oi entry by Departmental agents.