COMMERCIAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10116, 25 October 1917, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

STOCK MARKET. N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., reportAt Himatangi on Monday we had a gfxid yarding. One or two pens of hoggets failed to make vendors’ reserves, ihe balance of the entry having a ieac.lv sale at, late rates;— Pigs (forward stores) 30s, store wethers 33s 3d, fat wethers £2 Bs, yearling heifers £3 10s, £4, £4 Is. £4 10s to £5 3s, yearling steers £4 2s, £5 7s to £7 5., springing heifers, £7 12s 6d, £8 to £8 12s 6d, .springing cows £7 16s, cows in calf £7 7s, cows with calves £7 10s to £lO, tailstore cows £7, £7 10s, £7 14s, £8 is (<> £8 15s, forward cows £9, £9 4s, £9 Bs, £9 14s to £9 18s, light fat cows £lO 6s, good hit, cows £l3 Is, 2 and 3-yr Jersey bulls £9 17s 6d, £ll to £l6, yearling Jersey bulk £5 7s 6d to £7 So, 2-yr .Shorthorn bull £9 to £9 10s, 3-yr Shorthorn bull 17gns. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report : At Shannon on Friday we had a fair entry of sheep and a heavy yarding of cattle. Competition throughout was keen and practically a total clearance was made at the following quotations; Fat owes £2 On Id, woolly hoggets 34s 2d to 35s 7d, fat cows £lO 12s 6d to £ll. store cows £4 16s to £8 Bs, cows and calves £7 10s to £l2, 3-yr steers £ls, yearling steers £5 15s to £6 10s, yearling heifers £4 10s to £5, mixed sex yearlings £5 10s, 2-yr steers £9, heifers In calf £6 10s to £9, yearling bulls £4 10s to £7, bulls £8 to £ls 15», sows (empty) £3, store pigs 23s 6d. The Wairarapa Farmers’ stock department report on the Masterton cattle fair held yesterday a s under;—An exceptionally heavy yarding was submitted to tho public, considerably in excess of advertised numbers, over ‘3OOO head coming forward, which taxed the yards to their utmostcapacity, several lots of the younger cattle having to he accommodated in the sheep pons. Generally speaking, the yarding can he described as creditable to the Wairarapa district ; in fact, such a large entry of grown cattle, comprising many station lines in forward condition, with quality predominating throughout, is seldom seen nowadays, and the public were not slow t ) appreciate same. The dairy strain was certainly in evidence in the sheep yards, and while tho “Taranaki roans” were somewhat out of place in a fair of this nature, a considerable turnover resulted. The attendance was large, but buyers from a distance were not prominent, and, taken as a. whole, prices, quality considered, were hardly up to expectations. We yarded on behalf of “Braiicepeth” and “Annedale” stations same exceptionally well-bred forward conditioned bullocks, the drafting of winch was favourably commented upon, and whilst, some of the pens were passed atauction, a total clearance was subs qiientlv made at prices satisfactory to vendors. We quote as follows; —On behalf of “Branee--1.. th” station 159 3-year-o!d forward conditioned hillocks £l7. 24 smaller £ls 10s, 44 . ore £ll 3s; on behalf “Annedale’' s'-ition, 23 4-year bullocks £l7 16s. 9 do. 017 5 Si 120 3-vear-old forward bullocks £l6. 70 ante a ,, e but smaller £ls. 20 rows £l4 te ; on behalf M r H. O. Williams. 29 ? v a i'.old steers £l3 12. 24 2-ycar heifers o-o 1-: other (nictations, 3-year bullocks £’3 r <: up to £l6 according to quality and <■ --uLts< '< 2-vear steers £l2 2s 6d to £l3 17s I r. 1 .■ K.nr leers £9 K £9 2s, £9 ss. £9l n rg in-.. £l,O 2s. £lO 3s ;md un to £lO If..- ■ i-JI• >-- <* • -i-.s I-"- 1 h-Ite.-s nti'-ej, low. remit n;j VI 'a 1 l ie- hj if vs £" 12s to on in, 5,1 ar si vs dairy c-orl* £51 19 d-{. h< if- 1 - ■ *'s in £0 10s. enin'e eons £lO no i-i m? 'ls actotdi"" to condition,! fat cows £ls 2- 6d up to £l6.