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Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 877, 2 February 1878, Page 2

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WAlE^TO;Tn^Office, { Friday Evening (Feb. 2).

. SHEEP FAIR AT pl^kUPO?

MESSB3.HUiraj4B: AND EEPOET : ( About 1,000 shoep and lambs were yarded Prices ware fully 2/ a head bejbtpr thaui a* any of the previous galee.^-Cattle : .Not Bo'to-my as usual: this is attributable] to the fine harvesting weather keeping people busy at 'home. With oneorStSro exceptions they all were sold, tod brought eood prices. Three-year-old' steers; from £5 to £5 17/6; .four-year-old* ;steer&,: m fresh condition, from £6-17/6 to-i£7 7/6 ; yearlings to eighteen-month-olds* i t rom £3 to C 3 15/ ; fat cow&U&tys&Xtii**™™ £6 to £6 17/6.— A'ged, ; ewes,»rfrom Af6 t*u 9/ • wether lambs, 6/ W/6 ; mixed sexes,, 6/ to 7/ • ram lamba, 20/ to" 25/. . six-tooth ram brought £3 2/6. A pen of two-tooth ewes passed, although 11/6 was offered. A lot of wether 4ambs,<, also, parsed at 8/G.— .Of store stook very few wore brought forward.

MR J. B. BTTCICIiAKD REPORTS : At. the Cambridge cattle »ale, held on Tuesday last, there was a large > number , of both sheep and cattle and a numerous attendance of bhyers, but. prices were a little lower than at the sale held the month before. More than the number of cattle advertised were .yarded, .and all sold, with the exception of H head, at the following prices ■.— Yearlings to eighteeni month-old heifers, from, £2/5- to £3/o; empty cows, U ; two to threo-year-old steers, £4 10/ to £6 7/6 each ; fat cattle, about 27/6 the" lOOlbs.— Sheep : 706 were penned. Bidding ,w,aa dull, and only 508 were sold. 'They, were; principally old sheep of indifferent- quality, and brought from 3/6 to 7/. "Wether lambs, 6/6 each. Rams, to the number of 28', were^Bold at prices varying from 4/ to £2 16/ each.