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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43340, 20 June 1908, Page 3

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New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company’s Limited, weekly report:— * • Horses: At the Durham Yards on Friday horses were yarded in full numbers. Heavy draughts sold at from £26 10 to £42 ; medium do., £2O to £32 10s; hacks and light harness horses, £8 10s to £25 ; dogcart, £l6. At Pukekohe on Wednesday »there was an exceptionally large muster of cattle for the season of the year, and with the exception of dairy cattle, which met with a good market, other classes were hard to quit. Dairy cows sold at from £3 17s 6d to £8 ; heifers, £3 10s to £7 ; empty cows, £2 os to £3 7s 6d ; grown steers, £4 10s to £5 12s 6d; two to three-year-old steers', £2 10s to £4 15s ; yearlings, £1 15s to £2 8s ; calves, 15s to £1 9s. Beef sold at Newmarket rates. We held a clearing sale of live and dead stock on Saturday on account of Mr George Ballard, of Buckland, who has j sold his farm. There was a very large at- j tendance and high prices ruled. Daily | cows to calve in spring sold at from £4 to £8 7s 6d ; do., heifers, £3 Ids to £5 10s ; farm horses, £24 to £32; unbroken two-year-olds, £ll to £l6 10s; stud Shropshire ewes, from £2 10s to £3 ; lambs, £1 10s; breeding ewes, 13s: wethers, 12s 3d. Cattle: At the Newmarket Yards on Tuesday there was an average muster of 1 dairy and store stock and a full supply of beef. Dairy cows sold at from £3 10s to I *8 ; do., heifers, £3 os-to £6 10s ; empty , cows, £2 2s to £3 7s ; calvfes, 17s to £1 6s. Beef sold under a steady competition and improved on last week’s rates, oxen selling to 22s per 1001 b and cows at 17s to 20s per 1001 b. Steers sold at from £6 10s to £lO 2s 6d ; cows, £3 10s to £B. Sheep were penned in full numbers at Newmarket on Tuesday and sold at advanced rates, wethers realising from 13s 9d to £1 2s 6d ; ewes, 10s 3d - to 18s ; hoggets, 12s to 17s 3d for well-fatted, other sorts os 3d to 8s 6d. A draft of ewes and wethers from the Karaka Land Company, Limited, Drury, averaged 19s. Pigs : Porkers, 18s 6d to £1 17s; weaners. 10s to 12s 6d ; baconers, £2 4s to £3 10s.

We submitted an average catalogue of hides, skins, and tallow on Tuesday, Sheepskins : Market firm. Best butchers’ skins, Is 9d to 2s ; good, Is 4d to Is 6d ; small, Is to Is 2d. Tallow : Market firm. Best mixed, to 22s 9d ; good, 20s 6d to 21s 6d ; inferior, 15s to 17s 6d : rough fat, ljd to lid. Bones, £4 los. ■ ' Cowtails, Is 8d dozen. Horsehair, Is to Is 3d. ■ Wheat is selling freely at os 3d ex store. Oats are slow of sale at 2s 9id c.i.f. Maize is selling freely at 4s Gd for wholesale lines on wharf. I Butter : Best separator, lOd to lOid ; medium, 9d ; poor, Bid. Cheese : Farmers’, of good quality, is in better demand at 5d to old. Poor is slow of sale at 3d to 4d. ” I Fungus is worth od. |