STOCK SALES.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20256, 27 July 1937, Page 12

STOCK SALES.

RATES AT CAMBRIDGE. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held their Cambridge stock sale yesterday as under: A small yarding of sheep met with a ready sale at satisfactory prices. Fat and boner cattle also were offered In small numbers and prices were satisfactory. Good heavy prime fat hoggets made 31s 6d: cull store lambs, 15s 6d; fair quality Shorthorn fat cows. £8 to £fi 10s; heavy fat Jersey cows. £5 5s to £5 15s; medium, £4 5s to £4 15s; heavy Holstein cows, £6; good store cows. Jersey cross sorts, £3 5s to £4 Is; light store COWS, £2 to £2 19s; empty three-year-old heifers. £3 to £3 4s; potter bulls (light), £3 10s. A full yarding of dairy cows’ and heifers came forward. CompetJtltlon for dairies was not as keen as at previous sales and consequently a decline in values resulted. Choice quality young cows made £8 10s to f 9 10<s; good quality dairy cows, £7 tOs to £8 l""; g 1 quality, more backward sorts, £G 10s to £7; good quality lighter conditioned cows, £5 11s to £G 11s; good quality springing Jersey heifers, £7 lo £8; calved heifers, £5 10s to £6 10s; calved cows, £6 to £6 10s. A medium yarding or pigs camo forward and prices realised were on a par with previous quotations. Large storo pigs made £2 to £2 4s; medium. 30s to 355; best slips, 20s lo 245; best slips, 15s to 20s. CLEARING SALE AT NEWSTEAD. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company. Ltd., report having held a successful clearing sale at Newstead yesterday on account of Mr J. H. Marston. The herd sold well before a good bench of buyers at most satisfactory figures. Morses, pigs and farm Implements also met with a keen demand. The advertised herd on account or Mr T. M. Gavin, of Piarere, was oft' high, hard country, and I lie majority were backward*. Competition for these was not keen, and mans were passed. Realisations Jersey and Jersey cows, springing, £lO to £11; August and September calvers, £8 10s to £9 15s; in milk, £9 to £ll ss; aged, £G 15s to £8 ss; unsound, £3 tOs to £i 15s. On account Mr T. B. Gavin, Fries! in cow s, springing. £10; Jersey cows, £7 15s to £9 ss; later culvers. £5 lo £7 ss. On account Mr J. M. Marston, aged mare, trial, £3B 10s; aged gelding, trial, £3B 10s; aged gelding, trial £2G.