STOCK SALES.

Matamata Record, Volume III, Issue 201, 18 November 1920, Page 3

STOCK SALES.

MATAMATa. Dalgcty and Co., Ltd., held their monthlv 'stock sale at Matamata on Wednesday last. There was an extra •largo yarding, over a thousand head I of cattle being forwarded. Prices were:—Fat cows, £l2 15s to £ls 17s. ] (id; medium weights, £lO to £l2 10s; ( fresh conditioned cows, £8 to £0 15s; store cows, £0 to £7 ss; empty 2-ycai heifers, £7 10s to £9 ss; fifteen-months heifers, £3 15s to £5 17s Gd; 15-month steers. £2 10s to £5; 4-ycar store steers (low conditioned), £ll 17s; 2 to i 2‘-year steers, £7 15s to £8 10s; dauj cows, £l7 to £24 10s; good dairy heif- j. era, £lO 10s to’£24 10s; backward sorts, £9 10s to £l2 10s. There was a heavy ■yarding of bulls, but figures were low, I there being little demand for good ones consequent on farmers killing theiyalves.j. pA^NET > s SALE .s The Farmer’s ' Auctioneering Co. conducted a clearing sale for Mr li. J. Pannet, on the latter’s farm, Mata-mata-Waharoa road, on Thursday. There was an exceptionally large attendance, and real good prices were the result. Prices were:—D.f. R. and G. plough £29, Champion disc harrows £!)?, Massey-Harris drill, £43, fai'n waggon (Oat top) £lO, 18-months empty heifers (18) £5 Holstein cross heifers (15) £4 10.., 15-months Shorthorn heifeis (17) £1 (is yearling heifers (13) £2 12s, light draught mare £37 10s, draught gelding £4O, 4-year upstanding medium draught mare £4O, hack and harness horse £6 10s, light farm gelding £lo boy’s pony £4 10s. The who the household furniture was sold at high rates. A 7-year draught ghldmg offered on behalf of Mr. W. Bondic“liSC" TI°ilAU HORSE FAIR. The Framers’ Co-op. Auctioneering Co., Ltd., held its annual horse fair at Tivau on Fridav, when there \\ as a giod attendance. About, 200 horses were yarded, but quality in the hca\> horses was not well represented, even so prices for heavy draughts were no lin to those recently lullng. ingiu horses showing any quality, showed well, but inferior sorts wei e not wanted Prices for unbroken hoises were-— Two-year medium draughts, w. e „ no?. 3-vear medium draughts £l2; 2-year 'draught filly, So- 5-year-old hacks, £5. Marcs and m were sold as , 085. „ 00 d horses from Auckland, £2O, UJ, an 1 SS- others, £2O to £22 10s; hacks, <ng: S.*' solTonWiSf’of'Mi-. W.,S. Wilspn, of Taihoa, the breeder of both hot% brought £25. Major Samuel, PaSfc was the'purchaser oi both hors” which should make an ideal pair for show purposes. morrinsville. There was a fair yarding ot a lines except sheep at Dalgcty and Co.’s sale on Tuesday. Prices writ rather low on, the whole, and few dairy cows or pigs were oilcicd. lat cows sold at from £9 to £lO 2s Oil, lighter and unfinished £7 to £H las, empties £5 17s Od to £7, others £4 18s to £5 15s,' two-year-old stceis £0 to £6 17s fid, 15-months empty heifers others £4 2s fid to £6, yearling SerefflV bull. £8 IoIH Us. .A small yarding of dairy cows and pigs jyere sold at late rates.