COMMERCIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 53, 8 February 1916, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

NEWTON KING’S REPORT. On Monday, 3,lst January, at my Douglas yards, I had a fine entry for rny annual sheep fair and cattle sale, with a representative attendance of myers from all parts. Bidding right through was brisk, prices for sheep being right in advance of all previous sales as follows: 2 tooth ewes 19s, 2 tooth mixed sheep 22s 2d (good),, 2 moth wethers 19s 10d, 4 tooth ewes 21s Id, 2, 4 and 6 tooth wethers 22s id, 2 tooth to f.f.m. ewes 17s 3d to 225, 4 and 6 tooth and f.f.m. ewes LBs to 21s, small 14s .3d, fat and forward ewes 21s 3d, f.f.m. ewes 18s 7d to 19s 6d, f.m. ewes 12s 8d to 16s, woolly lambs 14s 5d to 14s 9d, good shorn lambs 12s Id, smaller 8s lid to 10s 6d, fat bullocks £l4, 2.)- and 3 year steers £9 18s, 2 year steers £4 to £5, l 8 month heifers (good) £4, 15 month neifers £2 10s to £2 18s 6d, springing heifers £5 17s Gd, bulls £7 2s Gd to £7 17s 6d, small £4 10s to £5, fat and forward cows £7 Is to £9 4s, store cows £5 to £G 15s, small store cows £3 13s 6d. At Stratford on Tuesday, Ist inst., 1 had a fine yarding of both sheep and cattle. Bidding was good, practically everything being cleared at the following prices :—Weaner steers £2, mixed weaners 27s to 38s, weaner heifers 15s, 15 month heifers £2 5s to 03 6s 6d, 18 month heifers (good) £3 9s to £4 7s, 18 month steers £4 to £4 14s, 21 year steers £G 19s, fat 2) year heifers £8 16s, fat cows £lO and £lO Is, light fat cows £8 13s 6d to £9 12s, forward cows £6 12s Gd to £7 10s, store cows £4 13s to £6 12s, mils £6 10s to £lO 10s, springing neifers £4 10s to £7, small lambs 9s -id, fat lambs 16s lid, fat to forward ■wes 21s lid, fat woolly ewes 28s 7(I, fat to forward wethers 12s id to 23s Gd, sound mouthed owes 19s, f.m. ewes 10s 9d to 1.7 s 2d, 2 tooth ewes 20s, 2 tooth wethers 20s Id to 21s 6(1. At Stony River on Wednesday, 2nd inst., both sheep and cattle came forward much in excess of advertised

.lumbers, a very satisfactory sale resulting at the following prices:— Weaner steers £1 14s to £2 7s Gel, mixed weaners £1 Is to £2 4s Gd, weaner heifers 20s Od to £1 7s Gd, lo month heifers £2 IGs 6(1 to £2 Gs, 15 month steers £3 13s, 2 year steers 05, 2.1 year steers £7 Is, tat cows 29 to £9 19s, forward cows £G 18s to £7 13s, store cows, according to frame £3 15s to £G 14s, springing heifers £5 13s to £G 12s Gd, hulls -£G 12s Gd to £ll 15s, lambs Us 4d to 13s Gd, culls 9s <6d ( f.m. owes 17s to 18s Bd, mixed fat ewes 23s Bd, mixed fat sheep (lambs and hoggets) 18s Id, fat end forward ewes 20s Id, slip pigs 14s to 17s, weaner pigs 8s Gd. Private sales for the week:—Weaners from 23s Ito 44s to make a line of 300 for Oh uru, 1,3 to 18 month heifers £3 3s to £3 10s, choice 2 year Jersey heifers (in calf) £6, 2* year in calf heifers £3 10s, fat ewes 21s Gd bo 24s 9d, 6 tooth and f.f.m. ewes 18s to 21s, f.m. ewes 14s Gd, 2 tooth wethers 10s to 225, lambs from 11s 4d to 13s small 7s to 10s, 24 to 3 year bullock £9 to £lO 10s, 15 to 18 month steers £4 2k Gd to £4 13s, store cows £*> 13s to £6 17s Gd, fat cows £9 10s to £lO.

The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London house under date 7th inst. : “Sales closed generally tinner than last cable. Inferior scoured merino, greasy crossbred lambs, five per cent, higher.”