COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1917, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

FARMERS' CO-OP. KEPOKT. Opunake yards on Monday at our usual sale there was a good yarding of stock of all descriptions. Fresh conditioned cows £lO 10a to £l2, forward cows £9 5s to £lO, store cows £8 to £9 3s, small store cows and emptv hsifers £0 to £7 17s Od, 3-year steer's £l3 ISs, yearling steers £5 2s to, £0 lis, yearling heifers' £4 to £5 17s 6d, Shorthorn bulls logns to ISigns, Holstein bulls lOgns to 16y z gns, Jersey bulls 7gns to flgns, springing heifers £lO to £l3, dairy cows £9 to £1.3, hoggets £1 10s, store pigs lCs to 22s <Sd. Manaia sale on Tuesday there was a full yarding of cattle, etc„ and we report a good sale, almost the whole yarding beign sold at the hammer. Prices Were in favor of the vendors. We quote fat cows £l3, £l3 19s, fresh condi: tioned.cows £ll to £l2 10s, forward flows £lO to £lO 17s fid, store cows £S to £9 12s Od, empty heifers £0 2s oil to £7 10s, dairy cows £l3 to £l7, springing heifers £0 10s to £l2 17s fid, ewes and lamba 37s 6d, store pigs 32s to 38s 6d, weaner pigs 12s Od.

Stratford yards on Tuesday at our usual sale there was a good yarding of stock of all descriptions. Forward cows £9 10s to £ll ss, store cows £7"las to £», empty heifers £6 to £7 10s, yearling steer's £5 10s to £0 13s, yearling heifers £4 10s to £5 ss,springing heifers £9 to £ll 10s, ewes and lambs 30s «d.

Inglewood yards on Wednesday. We held our usual sale, there being a good yarding of cattle, but only a small entry of sheep. Prices were tjje same as late sales. Ewes and lambs £1 10s Od to £2 Is Od, shorn hoggets 21s, Shornhorn bulls 13gn s to £22, Holstein bulls lOgns to 17gns, Jersey bulls 7gns to 12gns, fresh conditioned cows £ll 10s to £l2 2s, forward cows £lO 10s, £ll 3s, store cows £7 10s to £9, empty (heifers £5 las to £6 15s, 2-year stwrs £lO 18s (Id to £l3, yearling steers £5 15s to £8 Bs, yearling heifers £4 18s to £7 2s. Amoa. yards on Friday we held our usual fortnightl/sale. There was a full yarding of stock which met with a keen demand and pric?s advanced on late sales. Fat cows sold at from £l3 to '£l3 12s 0;. l, 'fresh conditioned cows £lO 15s to £l2 ss, forward cows £9 10s to £lO 2s,'store cows £8 to £9 ss, yearling heifers sold to £6 iIOs, dairy cows £l2 10s to £ls, sprinJng heifer's £9 to £ls, bulls £lO to £*2.

N.Z.L. AND M.A. CO. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Ct'„ Ltd., Hawera branch, report as follows: Kakaramea—Fat tows £ll 10s to £l2, forward cows £9 2s fid to £9 10s, stores £0 5s to £7 15s,'yearling'heifers £0 2s Od to £6 10s, dairy cows close to profit £l3 10s, heifers'£9 to £l3, backward sorts £0 10s to £8 ss, bulls lOgns to HHgns. ewes and lambs 34s Cd, weaner pigs 10s to 17s. Eltham—Good forward cows £8 to £9 10s, stores £0 Ss to £7 17s, Jersey bulls IHgnSj others Bgns to lSgns, yearling heifers' £0 13s. 18-month heifer's £7 13s, springing heifen: £8 10s to £l2 ss, dairy cows £l4 10s, shorn hoggets 27s 4d, pigs, weaners 25s to 28s. stores 325, Cambridge roller £2l 10s. milk cans Ids to £1 0s

Hawera—Fat cows £ll 13s to £l2, good forward cows £8 10s to £lO lis, stores £5 lis to £(! 7= —y cn Shorthorn bulls 17gns to lfljgns, others Sgns to 13gns dairy cows close to profit £l3 to £l4, springing heifers £lO to £ls 15s, backward sorts £6 159 to £9 10s, yearling steers £G 7s Od, yearling heifers £5 as to £o 17s 6d, ewes and lambs 365, hoggets 31s fid, weaner pigs 13s Od tolas.