NORTHERN STOCK SALES.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 209, 3 September 1919, Page 10

NORTHERN STOCK SALES.

The North Auckland Farmers' Co-Oi>-i Ltd., reports:— * On Tuesday. August 25. we held. onr monthly sale at Maungakaramea. when ""» yarded .200 head of cattle and 200 sheepThere was- only one pen of growii steer". These brought £13: l"-year steers sold "ran" £."" 12/ to £3 17; 1J to" 2-yeal- heifers brought £4 7/ to £0 7/; empty cows, £5 12/ to £61* Dairy cows yarded were in low conditloa generally, consequently prices ruled rath"? low; the better sorts fetched from £9 to £11 10/. Hoggets brought 13/4 to £1 V< empty ewes. £1 1/. On Thursday, August 2S. we held Q« monthly sale at Whangarei, when *Ji c yarded just under 500 head of .cattle. Dairy cows and heifers came forward M large numbers, and there was a noticeable improvement in the number of store cattle penned. Dairy cows brought from £U t0 £13: backward sorts. £.3 to £9; 3J t0,4-v'? r steers, £11 2/ to £12 6/; 2* to 3-year steers, ;£<*• 5/ to £10 17/6: 2-vear t steers, £5 15/ t0 £7 8/; yearlings. £3 to £5 4/: l*-year heifers, £5 to £5 13/; empty cows, £5 2/6 io"» »/• caU'os. £2 to £2 12/. '-. , j On Friday, August 2">, we held our usual • monthly sale at Kamo -cards, when ther? were 500 head of cattle yarded. The"nariet showed a firmer tone, and prices an upwara tendency. We had a good vartltug of b**?> -which realised from £17 to £20 17/0", P* 1 cows. £10 ->/ to £13 2/6: dairy cittle eatne forward in satisfactory numbers; good gJHf brought £10 5/ to £12 15/; backward sort* £B 2/0 to £"> 10/; 3* to 4-year steers. £19 m to £12: 2-year steers, £7 11/ tc £S; l-yea r to l"-year steers, £4 r>/ to £5 .0/; cilveH £1 10/. A i>eu of eW es brought El 5/3. -V