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Waikato Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1030, 24 August 1901, Page 2

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The Waikato Argus Office. This Day. AUCKLAND MARKETS. Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons’ Retort.— Horses: At the Haymarket on Friday last we had a really good entry in all classes. Heavy dr?nights were in demand, as were also lighter classes, and hacks and buggy horses sold freely. Heavy horses sold at £3.1 10s to £4O *, medium £27 10b to £3O 10s; backs and light harness £l3 to £23; cobs and gig horses £8 to £l2; ponies and light riding sorts £3 to £7. With few exceptions we sold all entered under the hammer. A lot of harness, saddlery and sundries were sold at fair values ; gigs and spring carts also sold at £5 7s 6d to £8 5s for the former, and £7 to £9 for the latter ; and a pony, sulky and harness £l3 10s. The hunter Starlight sold at £24. Hay and straw : The average number of loads came forward, ani (no doubt on account of the milder weather prevailing) meadow hay was a shade lower, and 2s to 2s 3d per cwb. were the prices. Straw, in demand and at high prices, 17s to 28s the load delivered. Hides, Skins, Tallow, etc : la these linos we had an average supply, demand as usual, and no noteworthy remarks to make. Ox hides at late quotations ; cow hides sell freely under good competition ; calf and kip at late values. For sheepskins there was more competition, though the best did not realise better prices than last week ; lighter and country skins sold better than for some time. Tallow: No good parcels offered ; fat at the usual prices ; and the same remark applies to bones and hair. Small parcels of wool at low values. Grain, etc : Southern feed oats advanced to 2s 7d and 2s 8d ex wharf, and 2s 8d to 2s 9d ex store; white Tartars, 2s 9d to 3s; duns 2a 8d to 2s lOd; maize, 2s 4d to 2s 6d ex wharf, 2s 7d to 2s 8d ex store; chaff £3 5s to £3 10a ox store, £3 ex rail, inferior from 36s to 50s; pressed straw, £3; hay, £3 10s; bonedust, £6 15s to £7 5s for Sydney; superphosphates, £5 ss; root manure, £5 ss; Chesterfield guano, £3 15a. The Romuera Yards vyere well filled on Thursday with stock of all classes, and sold freely throughout, Dairy cows ranged in price from £5 to £8 2a 6d; dry cows, £2 15s to £4 10s; two year steers, £4 to £4 15s. Fat and young cilves were required; fresh dropped, 0s to 9s; medium, 12s to 15s; heavy, up to 41s, 60 sold. Fat cattla came forward in fair numbers, and all of real good quality, but were scarcely up to last week’s values; well-fatted steers and heifers brought from 22s to 24s 1001b aged cows, 16s to 18a; steers ranged in price from £6 18s 6d to £ll 15s; cows, £5 to £9 7a 6d; 250 sold. Fat sheep, penned in average numbers were at late values; heavy weiln rs brought r m 17a to 19s 9d; lighter sorts, 13 s 6d to 16s; ewes, 10a 3d to 15s 6d; hoggets, 9s to 14s 9d; 1350 sold. Store wethers, 12s io 13s 6d; hoggets, 4s 6d te Bs. Pigs, yarded in less numbers than usual; those of good quality sold freely; rough sorts not required: ponters brought from £1 to £1 10s: heavy, up to £2 2s 6d; small, wellbred, 8s to 10s rough, 4s to 6s each. Fowls, Is lid to 2s 3d eaoh.