STOCK SALES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 58, 29 November 1907, Page 3

STOCK SALES.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report as follows : On Tuesday, the 19th inst., we held our Ohaupo Spring Cattle Fair, and second Bull sale, and offered over 100 bulls of all ages, and 2100 head of store cattle of all classes. Competition for bulls was not brisk, excepting for well-grown two-year-olds, which class realised sVz to 11% guineas. Twelve to 18-month bulls £3 3s to.£4 lOs. Forward bullocks and 2-year steers elicited good competition, but low-conditioned 3-year steers were rather dull of sale. Forward 314 to 4-year steers made from £6 18s to £7 14s ; fresh 3-year steers £5 15s to £6 12s 6d ; 2-year steers £3 5s to £4 lOs ; yearling to 18-months steers £2 4s to £2 18s ; mixed yearlings £l 16s 6d to £2 2s ; fresh cows £2 17s 6a to £3 I2s; store cows £2 4s to £2 15s ; fat cows and heifers £5 5s to £6 IOs; quiet empty 2-year heifers £2 lis to £3 2s ; cows and calves £2 17s 6d to £3 10s. On Friday, November 22nd, we held our Spring Cattle &ile at Ngaruawahia, and over 1200 head of all classes came forward, necessitating a second yarding. Competition throughout was inclined to be dull, and prices were lower than recent sales. Fresh 3 and 3%-year steers realised from £5 12s 6d to £6 8s ; 2%-year steers £3 17s to £4 15s ; 2-year steers £3 6s to £3 I2s 6d ; 12 to 18-month steers £2 is to £2 16s ; mixed yearlings £1 16s 6d to £2 4s ; this season's calves lOs to 17s ; quiet 2-year empty heifers £2 lis to £3 3s.

The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report as follows: — On Monday we held a clearing sale on account of Mr Thos. Napier on his farm, Whatawhata, and there was a good attendance. The furniture and implements made the lusual prices. Five-year harness cob £l4 10s, spring cart £l2; aged draught mare and foal £ls 10s, 60 pure brown leghorn fowls 13s, springing cow £lO, wheat 6s 4d bushel. On Tuesday and Wednesday, we held our annual Hamilton horse fair, and have to report a most successful sale. There was a large attendance buyers being present from all parts of the province. More than the advertised number of horses came forward, which necessitated our continuing our sale on Thursday morning at 8 a.m. and finishing about II a.m. The quality of the horses submitted was considerably better than we usually get at this time of year, and a keen demand existed right through the sale. For all sorts prices were quite up to those ruling at Cambridge last September. Six hundred horses were offered for sale, being 112 unbrokens, 178 draughts, and 310 light horses, and 405 were sold. Unbroken 3 and 4-year medium draughts £26 10s to £32 lOs, 2-year draughts £l9 to £29, yearlings £ll to £ls, 3-year light horses £7 15s to £ll, weeds 20s to 50s. The number of horses expected from the Main Trunk line did not come forward, the sellers having obtained more work. Only 43 of these horses were submitted, and met with keen competition. Heavy draught geldings 5 and 6-year-old made £SO to £56, mares £42 to £4B, medium draughts £29 to £39 lOs, aged horses £l4 lOs to £22 lOs, from other clients, 4 and 5-year heavy draughts £49 to £SB, 3-year heavy draughts £37 lOs to £54, medium draughts £2B lOs to £36, light draughts £l4 to £22 lOs, aged draughts £7 to £2l, light horses really good hacks £2l 10s to £3l, rough sorts £7 lOs to £l4, several pairs £2O to £3l, other harness sorts £l4 to £23, cobs and ponies £3 to £B. At Hamilton, on Thursday, we yarded 400 head of cattle, there being a good attendance, and prices r-uled about the same as late quotations. Eighty-six beef were yarded. Those wellrfinished sold well, fat steers realising £8 to £9 2s 6d, fat steers £6 9s 6d, extra choice fat heifers £9, others £6 Is to £6 fs, fat cows £4 19s gd to £§ 12s 6d, frssh cows £3 12s to £4 4s, 2 x /2 and 3-year steers £4 185 to £5 lOs, 18 and steers £3 I2s 6d to £3 14s, yearling and isbmonth steers £2 lOs to £3 3s, smaller yearlings £2, 18-month and 2-year heifers 35s to £2 I2s, store cows £2 2s 6d to £3 is, springing cows £5 10s to £6 17s 6d, springing heifers £5 lOs, fat wethers shorn 18s 6d to 19s 9d. The 55 pigs penned were wanted; slips made 17s 6d to 25s 6d, weaners 13s to 16s. At our Morrinsville sale on Friday, we yarded 250 head of cattle, the majority being sold at auction, prices ruling about the same as late quotations. Forty-three beef penned were required. Fat steers £8 17s 6d to £9 lOs, fat cows and heifers £5 2s 6d to £6, 2 and steers £4 4s to £4 16s, 18 to 20-month steers £3 gs to £3 15s, yearlings tp ;v§-mp}iths'sleeps £2 }2s'p,cj, palvts's to. 3§s, empty 18/-month heifers £2 8s to £2 16s, yearlings 37s 6d to 425, bulls £3 7s 6d to £5 SS»5 S » springing cow £9 2s 6d, springing heifers £4 7s 6d to £5, 240 store sheep penned were wanted; fat wethers 21s 4d, ewes 16s 6d to 19s 6d.