THE SALE AT HARRISVILLE.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1210, 1 April 1880, Page 2

THE SALE AT HARRISVILLE.

There was * very Urge attendance of •cttlera from all parts of Waikato at the sale of Mr L. B. Hams' live and dead stock on Tuesday. Cambridge, Te Awamutu, Alexandra, Ngaruawahia, and Hamilton were all fully represented, and there was also a large attendance from down the river and from the Waipa. The sheep and a considerable portion of the young stock went to Te Awamutu, but the principal part of the dairy cows to Taupiri. The agricultural implements were good, some being quite, and others nearly new, and all well cared for ; but they fetched, as will be seen, very low prices, partly perhaps because, as in the case of some of the most expensive, the season for using them is now over. The cattle realised fair, but by no means high prices, considering that the young stock were all by the champion shorthorn bull King of Barwood, and the cows all in calf to him. The implements were first Bold : a nearly new McCormicks reaper and binder was sold at £30. The wagonette, pair of horses, and harness were sold to Mr Storey for £50 15s ; large dray and frame, £14 10s ; set of chain harrows (unused), £5 10s ; iron ditto, £5 15s; a horse hay-rake, 7s 6d ; doublefurrow plough, £15 j single ditto, £5 10s ; double mouldings ditto, £3 ss. Ihe ploughs were all new, as was also a scarifier with extra blades, which realised £2 6s ; a root slicer, £3 17s 6d ; and a single seed-drill, 355. The Eureka mowing machine was sold to Mr Weatherell for £21, and a threshing machine, with horse-power gear attached, was knocked down to Mr Wood, of Tamahere, for the ridiculous sum of £25. A winnowing machine realised £5 1 7s 6d, and a corncrusher, which it was stated had cost Mr Harris £16, and was in as good order as new, was sold for £2 10s. The threshed oats, sold ten bags at a time, realised 2s per bushel. There was no bid for the immense oaten straw stack, though it was offered for £5, with three months allowed for removal. The sheep (2, 4, and 6-tooth), were bought by Mr Storey at 8s 3d per head, and the fat lambs at 7s. Weaned calves realised £1 10s each : yearling steers, £2 17b 6d to £3 5s each ; and a pen of yearling heifers, £2 15s. Cows with calves sold for £3 15s, £4 los, £5, and up to £6 each ; dry cows, from from £3 15s to £6 7s 6d — one, the matriarch of the herd, realising only 15s ; cows in milk or near profit realised various prices from £3 17s 6d to £8 123 6d. King of Barwood was put up, and £20 was bid for him, but passed in at a reserve of £50. Horses seemed dull of sale. A mare with foal at foot was passed in at £11, and for another mare, with foal by Fancy at foot, only £5 wa» bid.