COMMERCIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 32, 7 February 1914, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

MESSRS MATTHEWS, CAMLJN AND CD'S. WEEKLY REPORT.

On the 4th iusti we held our usual weekly sale in our Inglewood yards and had a very large yarding of stock, all the pens being well filled,' including a lot of good conditioned cows, which sold very well, and practically everything was sold at the hammer, with the exception of weaners, which were hard to quit, reserves being too high. We quote: Fat and forward cows £5 to £6 7s, good store cows £4 16s to £5 ss, others £3 10s to £-1 7s, small, low conditioned, old cows £2 9s to £3 ss, 2 year in calf heifers £3 5s to £3 lis, 2 year steers £4 9s to £5, 15 to IS

months steers £2 9s to £3 7s, springing heifers £5 5s to £6 15s, small yearling heifers £2 to £2 7s, cows and calves £3 12s to £5 lis, bulls £3 12s to £7 17s 6d, store ewes 12s, 2 tooth ewes 14s, woolly lambs 10s Id. On the sth hist, we held our annual sheep fair in our Matau yards, about ,'5500 being yarded, chiefly lambs and aged ewes, most of which wove sold at tne hammer at the following prices:— Aged ewes 6s Bd, 6s lid, 3s, 10s fid to lis, fat and forward ewes 12s 9d to 14s 2d, 2 tooth wethers 13s to ]Bs o*l, 4 tooth do. 14s 6d to 15s 5-1, shorn lambs-5s 6d, Bs, to 9s 6d, cuils 3s 6cl to 5s Gd, aged rams 10s, 15 to 18 a ontb heifers £2 13s to £5 18s,.stents £8 2s.