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Waikato Argus, Volume III, Issue 187, 23 September 1897, Page 2

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The Waikato Argus Office, Wednesday. MR W. J. HUNTER'S OHAUPO

SALE. Ox Tuesday at Mr W. J. Hunter's sale about 450 head of cattle were yarded, of a rather mixed variety. About tifty dairy cows, most of them young springers, were entered. There was a fair demand for those of a eood class. Anything good fetched their full value, cows up to £O, and a young springing heifer made £5 10s, the highest price for a three-year-old heifer this season. She was a real good one, and was sold by Mr, W. J. Thompson and bought by Mr J. Corrigan. Calves were dull of sale, hut there was a fair demand for yearlings and two-year-olds. Several pens of grown steers were offered, some of which were well-bred and in good condition, and some rather coarse animals, but the bidding was languid ; however, after a good deal of persuasion on the part of the auctioneer, most of them were sold at about their value, the highest price for fresh steers being £5 ss. Empty cows sold fairly well, but very few of a good class were offered. Beef a'so sold fairly well, considering the low price ruling in Auckland. Prices were as follows : Dairy cows, from £3 10s to £0 ; springing heifers, from £2 ISs Od to £5 10i : calves, mixed sexes, low condition, from 13s to IS3 ; yearling steers, in good condition, 3Ss ; grown steers, in fiesh condition, from £4 16s to £5 5s ; do., coarse, from £3 to £3 10s ; eighteenmonths old steers, from 37s to £2 u's Gd ; twn-year-old heifers, from 31s to .S7s ; empty cows, from 36s to £2 5s ; fat steers, from £5 5s to £5 7s Gd. Hogget sale : Abouc 2000 sheep were yarded, most of them being hoggets, all of a very good class, clean and healthy, and appeared to have weathered the winter well ; not a great many fat, but all in good condition. There was a good attendance of the public. The tone of the niarket was moderate, and although nearly all the lots were sold, prices were hardly up to vendors' expectations ; of course the low price of beef and mutton now ruling had its effect on the sale. The following prices were obtained :—1 pen hoggets, (is Gd ; 1 pen hoggets, longwool, good conditiou, 10s; 1 pen hoggets, wethers, 7s 3d; full-mouth ewes, with lambs at side, 7s and Ss Gd ; 1 pen crossbred two-tooth wethers, 8s; 1 pen wether hoggets, 7s 3d ; 1 pen crossbred hoggets, Ss ;"1 pen do., small, (is ; 2 pens wethurs, Si lid; 1 pen small hoggets, 5s 4d ; crossbred wethers, Ss; crossbred ewes, with lamba, 10s 6d ; two and four-tooth wethers, Sj 4d ; fat hoggets, Ss 7d ; good longwool hoggets, Ss Id, 9s 3d and its 4d; a line of fat. wethers Withdrawn, 13s wanted, Us Gd offered ; aline of longwool ewe hoggets, Gs «JJ.-(Ohaupo Correspondent).