NEWTON KING'S REPORT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 1 September 1919, Page 3

NEWTON KING'S REPORT.

At Waiwakaiho on 22nrl inst. mixed yoariings realised.£4 2s, yearling heifers £3 15s to £5 4s, -poorer sorts 35s to £2 10s, yearling steers £2 18s 6d to £i 10s 6d /; 2-year-old empty heifers £0 10s to £6 17s 6d, store cows £6 10s to £9 ss, 4-tooth ewes (in lamb) 34s 6d f m da IZs 6d to 235, fat ewes 3Ss. Best cows in Mr W. George's herd realised £15 to £23, others, £11 to £13 10s Dairy, cows on account of other vendors sold from' £10 to £18, 2-year-old dairy heifer's (close up) £11 5 S * to £12 15s 3-year-old do (poor conditioned and backward) £8 to £10 I.os.

;_ At Douglas on 25th inst , mixed yearlings (134 in line) made £4 7s, others £3•■•to/£8 15s yearling steers -£4 Bs'•+<> £0, pbomr jsbi-ts 35s to £2 10s, yearling heifers £4 6s to £5 19s, 2-year-old empty heifers £6 16s to £7 lOs 18» month steers £5 18s /to £6 9s, 2-year-old do £7 6s to £9 35,3-year-old do £9 15s to £11 10s, fat cows £12. store do £6 10s to £9, bulls .£ll 15s to £12 10s dairy cows £9 to £15, 3-yetir-old dairy heifers £14 to £16, backward sorts £9 to £11, mixed sexed hoggets 26s 6d to 295, smaller soi-ts 17s Id to 24s 4d mixqd aged wethers 36s 6d to 375, fat ewes 32 Si 6d; f.m. ewes (m lamb) 19s 6d.; At Stratford-on 26th inst., I report a full yarding of both sheep and cattle. Sheep sold at late rates, good hoggets being mostly.in demand; In the store pens young battle again came forward in big numbers, good sorts seisin<* well Mixed yearlings £2 10s to £3 Is, yearling steers £4 6s to £5 6s colored and smaller, sorts £2 15s 6d to £3 10s yearling heifers £4; 2s to £5 10s, smaller do £3 to ; £ 312s 6d, 2-year steers (colored) £6 15s, /S-year-old do £11, 2-year-old empty heifers £6 10s to £7 6s,'forward conditioned cows £9 6 S to £10 2s 6d, store do £6 10 s to £8 10s. The dairy , sale attracted a. good muster of dairymen, a big yarding of good quality cattle, mostly heifers, coming forward. I offei-ed a small herd on. account of Mr O.; Kerrisk, of Stratford, this although containing many poor conditioned cattle, sold, well. Mr E. Walter, of Douglaa, again yarded some, fine quality heifers, which met with a/ready sale.Jn Mr Kerrisk's herd b?st cows realised £14 to £19, pooreivconditiahed soi-ts £9 to £12 cows on account of other vendors £10 to £26, dairy heifers £12 ,to £16! smaller and back ward, sorts £8 10s to £10 10s.