COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10033, 6 July 1910, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

PAIiIATUA STOCK SALES. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report hav«ng held their usual weekly sale in Pahiatua, this week, in their Mangahao yards, when they offered a good yardini of cattle and sheep. The district was well repreae.ntel by buyers, although the weather has not been good, and competition was brisk right through the sale. Amongst the entry was offered on account of Mr J. E. Hewitt, of Mangamaire, a line of woolly lambs, and also a line c£ full mouth ewes, which topped the day's market. The lambs brought 12s 6c), and the ewes 13s lid. Quotations:—Woolly lambs to 12s 6d, down to 9s Id; f.m. ewes, good order, 10s 10:1 to 13s lid; poorer sorts, 5s Bd, 63 lOd to Bs. Cattle.—Empty store cows, £3 to £3 8s; 2yr steeis, £3 123 to £3 18s; weaners, puor, to 21s. Our next sale will be held next Tuesday, at the Pahiatua Farmers' yards.

Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their sale of 15tti inst. as follows:—An extra heavy yarding of sheep and a good one of cattle. We disposed of the bulk of the sheep at good values, and all cattle changed hands at prices well up to late rat's. Good young ewes in la';nb, 13s 6d to 16s; sound mouth ewes in lamb, 9s 3d to 12s 8d; full mouth ewes in lamb, 6s to 8s; fat ewes, lis to 12s 6d; wethers, 14s 4:1 to 153; good hoggets, 10s to 129; medium hoggets, 7s 4d to 9s fid; springing cows, £5 to £5 10s; cows in calf, £3 103 to £4 10s; tat cows, .£5 10a to £6 sa": empty cows, 33s to £3 17s; springing heifers, £5 to £5 15s; good weanere, 37s 6d to £2 10s; others, 22s to 27s 6d. PROGRKSd OV THR LK.G. MILKING M «CHINE. I 1 lis annual stock returns of the New Zealand Wovernnientshow that the nuni bar of dairy enwe and baiters colved or to calve far the season 190tf-10 amount to 633,316. The total Lawrence-Kennedy-f-Hllies Miik ng Machines sold in New Zealand at end of March last amounts. tu 1510 pulaators, each capable of milking 18 cows per hour. A ssuming the average milking to last two hours the total cows milked daily throughout New Zealand by the L.K.G. Milking Machine amounts to 54,612 In other words 1018 per cent, of the total cows in JN'ew Zealand are now milked by these weli-known and reliable machines, This is a record which no other country or machine can even approach, and net only shows New I Zealand leads in mechanical milking but also that the L.K.G-. is the leading ma chine in the premier milking machine country in the world. As we won't bi.' content vill we milk all the cows in New Zealand and save all the farmers theipresent worry and labour, let us haye your orders promptly either on liberal cash terms or easy instalments. Apply to J. B. MacEwan & Co,, Ltd, Wellington,