MESSRS BUDGE & GOOD'S REPORT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2764, 5 July 1894, Page 2

MESSRS BUDGE & GOOD'S REPORT

Manaia, Jnly 5. At Otakeho on 22nd a good number cattle were offered, with satisfactory prices j the fat bullocks being extra prime. We. quote 2-year steers, £3 8s; store cows, JB3 to JB3 10s ; dairy cows. Mto JE6 10s ; 2}-year heifers, springing, £& 16s ; others, £3 14s to JB4 6s; 18-month to 2-year very quiet heifers, £3 6s ; fat bullocks, £6 11s 6d to £6 13 a 6d ; lightweight (butchers') cattle, 4>5105; fat cows, £4756 d; extra heavyweight cow, £Q 19s. At Kaponga, on the 29th ult, there was a large entry of cattle, chiefly dairy stock, for which there was keen competition, bringing prices up to £/J 12s 6d. We quote— At Kaponga— 2-year steers, £3 6s to X 3 13s; 12 to 15-month, steers, £2 5s to J62 10s ; yearling heifers, 455 ; weaners, 27s 6d to 365 ; dairy cows, &\ to-417 ss ; good heifers, near their profit, up to SSI 12s 6d ; others, i 4 to .84 17s 6d. At Manaia, on 2nd inst.. the stock offered was chiefly young steers and dairy heifers, two pens of big bullocks going home unsold, the bidding for dairy stock being spirited, as usual of late. 2^-year steers, JBB 18s; 2-year steers £S 11s; 18-month steers, JB2 14s ; yearling steers and heifers, 40a ; weaners, 30s to 33s 6d ; dairy cows, . JB6 7fl 6d to £7; 3-year quiet heifers, £& 12s 6d to £5 ; , 2 to 2^-year good quality heifers, £% 17s. Sheep. — Empty ewes, 6s.