STOCK MARKET.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10008, 2 April 1910, Page 6

STOCK MARKET.

Messrs Dalgety and Co. Ltd report having held a very., successful clesrir™ «ale.on account of Messrs Beattie and Crooke, veslerriay mere was a large attendance and bidding throughout was brisk, Cows made from £5 5s • draught horses £B, £9; mare and foal, £lB 10s; aged mare, £is; foals, £7 15s. We also submitted a large catalogue of farm implements and sundries, and these brought satisfactory prices. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report at their weekly sale yesterday■:—We submitted a heavy catalogue in sheep, rams, cattle and pigs. The quality of tne stock being fairly good, and an unproved market, we were' enabled to make a total clearance at rates in advance of recent markets. The hulk of the breeding ewes offered, although young, were on the poor side, I which considerably affected the re- | suits. Four and 6 tooth ewes, poor ' 9s to 9s 6d; 2 tooth ewes, poor 9s; j good sound f.m. ewes, 8s to 9s; medi ium class. 7s 6d; failing, 7s; culls, j ss; best shorn lambs, very forward 8s; strong lambs, 7s; others, 6s; small, ss; 2 tooth Lincoln rams, | threequarter guinea to one guinea; : ased. 10s; Romneys, 15s; forward | erown bullocks, £7; 2fcyr steers, £4 | IBs; 2yr, £3 15s; store cows, 40s to ' 455; weaners, 255; store pigs, 10s; I weaners, 5s to 6s. Messrs Dalgety and Co , Ltd., report on their sale held at Eketahura on Ist April. We had an ex-

ceptionally heavy yardMtr «'f sheep, and '.he cattle pens were well filled, consideiably more than advertised numbers coming forward' SheeD sold much bet»er than at last sale, and we have on the whole to report a very successful sale. Lambs of good quality were in good demand, and sold readily, as did all sheep of good descripc.ons. We quote:—2 tooth ewes ( lis, 3s to 12s Id; lambs, 5a lOd, 6s 4d, 7s 4d, 7s to 7s 6d; mixed ages breeding ewes, poorer sorts, 3s 6d to 6s 9d; better sorts, 7s, 7s 3d, 8s to 9s 6d. Cattle. - 2 year steers £3 8s 6d; mixed weaners, 22s to 25s 6d; store cows, £2 10s to £2 19s.