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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 182, 31 July 1908, Page 6

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■ MESSRS ALFRED BUCKLAND AND SONS' REPORT. Horses: At the Haymarket on Friday last we had an average entry. Light wagon and I express horses realised from £24 to £-0; I farm sorts, £14 15/ to £23; light harness I and ordinary hacks, £4 15/ to £11 10/; gig j ponies. £2 to £7; Victoria phaeton. £17; gig, i £9 10/: horse, buggy, and harness, £14. j We beid a special sals of dairy rows and heifers at I'ukekobe on Monday, and yarded I about 30il head, including the dairies of Messrs Mclntyre. Beatty. Dromgool, and I Hiiniilton Brothers. There was not a large ' attendance, but those present were buyers, who competed freely for anything young and near profit. A few aged cows and backward heifers were all that failed to change hands. Cows and heifers near calving, £6 15/ to £S 10/ for best: others. £4 7/11 to £5 15/; aged and Inferior. £2 to £3 10/; backward heifers. £3 to £4 10/; milk ! cans, 15/ to £1 10/. At I'ukekohe on Monday we held our I usual monthly sale. With the exception of ! grown steers, all classes were well represented. Dairy cows sold at from £4 13/ to j £7; others, £3 5/ to £4 10/; fresh empty young cows and heifers. £2 6/ to £3 10/; yearling to 38-month steers. £2 6/ to £3; mixed yearlings, to £2 1/; strong well-grown calves, £\ G/'to £1 11/; younger sorts. 15/ 'to £1 1/; weedy. 7/ ro 11/. The ST. beef I yarded met with a fair sale. Prime bul- ] locks, £7 15/ to £0; lighter weights, £fi ' 12/0 to £7 12/6; young cows and heifers. £4 I 11/ to £7 17/(5; aged heavy rows, £3 17/6 to |£o 12/6; small pigs. 11/ each. j The usual number of dairy cattle came I forward at Remuera on Thursday, and met with fair competition. Best sold from £S to £10; others, to £0: dry cows, to £4 10/': no I stores yarded. Young aud fat calves. In 1 short supply, kept late values. The beef I peno were filled with rattle of light weights. • but nice quality. Prices were well up to 1 recent quotations. Steers ranged in price | from £6 to £11 10/; rows. £2 10/ to £8 76; I 286 60ld. Sheep were penned in usual numJ bers, nnd values were lower for all classes. ! Heavy wethers sold from IS/ to 21/; others, !to 17/. Weighty ewes, to 10';; lighter j weights, 12/ to 16/: hoggets. 10/6 to 15/T). Pips of all rlasses were well represented, and met with steady competition right thronrh. Poultry. 1/11 to 2/6. Hides. Tallow. Skins etr.—Hides: Ox. 4ld to (id: row. 3Jd to 35d; kip and ralf. 3d to 4d; damaged and dirty hides. 1W to 4d. j Horsehair. 1/11 to 1/3}; tallow. ".1/ to 23/ Skins: Pest bntrbers', 2/10 to 3/3: medium. 2/1 to 2/9; small and damaged, 3d to 1/0. COT3-TRY SALES. Tne new Zealand Loan an-1 Mercantile Agenry Company, Ltd.. repor' — On Wednesday, July 22, at Hamilton, we hold our annual sale of dairy stork, and yarded over 300 cows and heifers. The weather was deridedly rough, which did not improve the appearance of stork, but all good cows and heifers due to calve within a month found ready purchasers. Good I cows, either at profit or two or three weeks off calving, realised from £6 15/ to £8 5/; good heifers. £5 15/ to £7 5/: good your,™ cows and heifers, rine to calve later. £5 5/ to £6 10/: backward cows and heifers, £3 10/ to £4 13/: aged cows, £2 5/ to £4: milk cans, 10/ to 15/. On Thursday. July 23. we held our stock sale, but only a small muster of cattle were brought forward. Well fattened light weight heifers realised £5 4/ to £5 14/; others, £4 I 10/: heavy cows. £5 1/ to £5 10/; two and I a half year old steers, £4 4/ to £4 11/; strong calves. £1 4/ to £1 1/; fat ewes, 16/ to 16/3; fat and forward hoggets, 12/. TALLOW. Messrs. Dalgety and Co.. Ltd., have reI eeived the following cable from London:— i Tallow: A poor demand at unchanged prices. I There will be no public sales of tallow next ] week.