COMMERCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 435, 2 December 1907, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

STOCK MARKET. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Auckland, report that heavy draughts sold at from £25 to £40 10s ; medium do, £23 10s to £36. A draft of 14 three-year-old, unbroken medium draughts from Okahukura averaged £30 Is. A spring-cart realised £16, and a waggon £24. Cattle.— Dairy cows sold at from £3 10s to £6 15s; empty do, £2 2s to £3 14s; calves, £1 Is to £1 19s. The beef pens were well filled, and, although extra heavy weights were yarded, the quality was good. Oxen of first quality sold at 24s per 1001 b; second do, 20s to 235; and cows, 19s to 225. Steers sold at from £6 10s- to £11 12s 6d; cows, £3 10s to £8 ss. Sheep. — Wethers realised from 18s 6d to £1 9s; ewes, 17s to £1 4s; hoggets, 12s 6d to 16s 9d. Lambs were yarded in larger numbers than for many weeks, and well-fatted sorts sold at from 12s 6d to £1 0s 3d ; other sorts, 8s to 12s. Pigs. — Porkers sold at from 19s 9d to £1 8s ; weaners, 10s 6d to 16s 6d ; baconers, £1 12s to £2 14s. Hides.—Market firm. We quote : — Extra stout ox, 7d to 7|d; stout do, 6Jd to 6£d, medium do, ssd to 6d; light do, 5d to ssd ; cows' best lines, 4|d to 4|d, good 4fd to 4*d; kips, 4d to 4 id; yearlings, 2*d to 3 id; calfskins, 5d to 6sd; horse hides 6s to 7s. Sheepskins. — Market lower. Best butchers', large to 7s 8d ; good lines, 6s to 6s 6d ; medium, 5s to 5s 6d ; small, 3s 6d to 4s. Freeman R. Jackson and Co. report : — At Mr O'Reilly's sale of dairy cows, etc., we had a good attendance of buyers. The cows offered on thfij whole were a good line, although be*' ing in milk, which was a drawback. They made excellent prices, competition being keen throughout. Pigs, sundries, etc., made full values. At Raetihi on the 20th we had a fair yarding, bidding at auction was dull, but we disposed of most of the entry fi" v «^yy> at Jfiftfk 19 * v^flSS; On fln 2%mi w\) nclu a crowing <

■ sale of cows, otc, on account of Mr .R. Canty, Momohaki. The attonj dance was good. Some good dairy j cows were offered, but being in milk ; at this timo of the year made thorn . somewhat harder to ouit, and in con--1 se'quonce sold in buyers' favour. Sheep, horses, sundries, etc., made full values. At our Wanganui sale on the 27th wo ya riled 840 head of mixed cattle. 1400 sheep, and 60 ' pigs. The attendance was good and bidding brisk throughout. We disposed of all the sheep yarded. A nice line of prime fat shorn ewes trom the State Farm, Waverley, topped the market at 20s 4d. AH the rattle, with the exception of A line of bullocks and a pen of cows, found buyers at satisfactory prices. Good competition for pigs at late rates. I At Waverley on the 29th November I some of the cattle advertised did not crme forward In ronsequ.-i cc we 1 had a small yarding of about 200 : head of cattlo, besides several pens of sheep. Birl.lin^ was free through- [ out, and we practically made a total ! clearance. i Wo. quote: — i At Mr O'Reilly's sale best cows ! made £7 2s 6d to £7 12s 6d, good cows £6 10s to £7, others £5 10s to £6 and £3 10s to £5, heifers (15---month) £2 10s, yearling heifers 39s I Fd, calves lla, good porkers 25s to ! 30s 6d. Sundries at full values. At liaetihi 2 and 4-tooth wethers made 17s 6d to 20s, empty owes (forward) 15s 3d to 16s 6d, ewe hoggets 19s, sho.'ii hoggets los 6d, fat bullocks £6 15s, cows and calves £2 to £2 11s. fat cows £4 to £4 10s, mixed cattle £2, store cows £2 2s, horses £5 10s to £11 7s 6d. At Mr Canty 's sale best cows made £6 12s 6d, good cows £4 to £4 10s, others £3 10s, empty heifers £2 6s, small tveaners 10s, well-bred bull £7 10s, best porkers 21s 6d, others 13s to 15s, sows in pig £2 4s, empty sows 28s, half-draught gelding £18 10s, gelding, trap, and harness £lo 7s 6d, other hacks £2 5s to £5, ewes and lambs 20s 3d. Sundries, etc , sold well. At Wangauui sale fat lambs made 13s 7d, 14s 2d, to 15s 6d, prime fat shorn ewes 17s to 20s 4d, fat shorn ewes 15s. woolly fat sheep 25s Bd, empty woolly ewes 14s 3d, 4-tooth ditto 20s 4d, ewes and lambs 19s 9d, good mixed hoggets in wool 19s Id, medium ditto 17s to 17s 3d, empty shorn ewes 12s, shorn hoggets 14s sd, prime fat cows £6 to £7, good fat cows £5 7s to £5 10s, medium ditto £4 10s, forward cows £2 16s 6d to £3, store cows £2 to £2 ss, fresh 2-year heifers £2 10s, forward bullocks £6 to £6 3s, 2 to 2J-year steers £3 17s to £4 2s, others £3 13s, 2-year steers £3 6s to £3 10s, empty heifers £2 xßs, forvard 3-yoar stsers £5 ss, yearling steers £2 4s 6d to £2 6s, 18-month to 2-year heifers 35s 6d, mixed yearlings 22s 6d, cows and calves £2 17s 6d, well-bred bulls £7 to £10, others £2 to £3 10s, springing cows and heifers £3 to £3 12s, yearlings 29s to 31s. Pigs: Choppers £2 4s to £2 ss, best porkers 35s to £2, good porkers 27s to 30s, others 22s 6d to 23s 6d, stores 17s 6d to 21s. *et.ners 13s to 'ss, small ditto 11s. At Waverley fat cows made £4 14s to £4 17s 6d, prime ditto £5 Bb, 3year steers £4 2s, empty cows £2 15s to £3, others £2 10s to £2 13s6d, fresh heifers £2 16s to £2 19s, mixed 18-month (good) £2 14s, yearling heifers 28s 6d to 30s, 2 to 2|-year steers £3 7b 6d, bulls £3 to £5, wether hoggets (good) 20s 6d, forward ewos in wool 17s 4d, weaner pics 12s to 14s 6d, horses £3 10s to U 15b.