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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4456, 31 August 1909, Page 4

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He New. Zealand Loan and MercanH Agency Company’s weekly report Hs follows : . Horses On Friday, at the Durham Hrds, there was an average yarding Hiorses, which' sold at late rates. Havy draughts sold at from £27 lOs ■£36 ; medium do., £22 to £31155; Hks and light harness horses, £6 Hto £25. The thoroughbred stal* H Gladstone realised 290 guineas, H the heavy draught stallion Arawa ■9 guineas. 0* Wednesday we held a sale at bitford: There was a good muster Stock of all descriptions, and prices to good. Dairy cows sold at from 2s 6d to £7 17s 6d ; do. heifers, 7s6dto£7 12s 6d; backward do., to£s 15s; calves, 11s to £1 12s Sheep : Hoggets, 12s 9d. Horse, rt and harness, £l4 ss; horse, £ls. On Thursday we held a special sale dairy cattle, when 300 were yarded, jibre was a good! attendance, and ices were satisfactory, although not high as the previous month, liry cows close to profit sold at from 17s 6d to £9 ; backward do., £3 s6dto£6 2s 6d; bulls, £3 2s 6d £6 6d. . At Wainku on Saturday we had an rerage yarding. Dairy cows sold at om £5 10s to £9; do. heifers, £4 5s >j£7 ; empty cows, £1 15s to £2 95.5 Steers: Yearlings, £1 18s to 12 6s; two to three-year-old do., £2 7s 6d to £5; calves, 15i to £1 Bs. j Cattle : At the Newmarket Yards n Tuesday dairy and store stock were enned in usual numbers. Dairy pws sold at from £4 5s to £7 7s 6d ; Biptycows, £1 15s to£2 18s; calves, 6s to £2 4s. There was a full yardng of beef of nice quality, which sold t scarcely late rates, oxen selling to Is per 1001 b, and cows 17s to 19s. feers solid at from £6 5s to £11; bws, £5 »10s to £7 ss, Sheep: On- Tuesday sheep were lenned at the Newmarket Yards in ferage numbers. Wethers sold at rom 12s 6d to £1 4s 6d for two pens f extra large well fatted ; ewes, 12s dto 17s t 9d; hoggets, 6s to 14s; paring lambs, 1.2 s 9d to 15s. Pigs: Porkers sold at from 19s td to £1 17s; weaners, 10s 6d to 4s; baconers, £2 2s to £3 2s. We submitted and sold large cataogjies of hides, skins and tallow on Tuesday, all lines meeting with good ompetitioh at late rates. Hides : Market firm. We quote— Sxtra stout ox, 7d to 7|d; stout do., $d to 6|d ; medium do., sjd to 6£d; ight do. id to s|d; good, s£d to s|d; scored, |d to sd; kips, sid to 5 Jd; calfkins, s|d to 7d; stags’ 4d to 4id ; amaged, 2d to 4d. Sheepskins : Market firm. Best Hitchers’ skins, large to 6s, good ines 5s to 5s 7d, medium 4s to 4s 6d, mall 2s 6d to 3s 9d. Tallow: Market firm. Best mixed, 024 s 3d; good, 22s 6d to 23s 3d; oferior, 18s to 20s 6d ; rough fat, l£d o l|d per lb. Bones, £4 17s 6d. Cowtails, Is 8d dozen. Horsehair, Is to Is 4Ad. Wheat is slow of sale at 4s 8d ex tore. *Chaff is selling at £3 15s to £4 ex tire. Oats : In good demand at 2s 3d. Bran and pollard are worth £4 5s ttd £5 5s respectively. Barley: In good demand at 2s Bd. Potatoes are selling freely at £5 5s o £5 Ids. Butter: Supplies are very small. Luling rates : tfld for choice farmers’ eparator, first grade, 9d; second rdde, 8d to B^d. Cheese .* In good demand at s|d for tedium factory* Eggs are selling readily at 10d doz. Fungus is selling at 5d lb.