COMMERCIAL.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 1596, 28 July 1920, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Wairarapa Farmers’ Co-op. Association, Ltd., report having' held a very successful sale of dairy stock at Te Relumga. on account of Mr N. Inder, on July 21. The herd included a fair number of late calvers and a few unsound cows, which sold at from £9 to £l3. The average price for the herd was £2l 9/. A few high-grade Jersey heifers were also offered, some making, we think, record prices for the the district, the top price being £3l, others making £l6 to £2B 10/. Other items met with correspondingly good prices. Jersey weaner heifers £8 to £9 10/, pedigree red poll bull 325 guineas spring cart horse £3O, sows in pig £l2 to £l3 15/, slips £2 1/ to £2 5/. The Wairarapa Farmers’ Co-op. Association, Ltd. (Dannevirke), report on their usual weekly sale held on July 23rd, as follows: —A good yarding' of all classes of stock came forward. Sheep were in good demand, and we effected a total clearance of our entry under the hammer, prices again being in advance of late sales report. We offered a number of dairy cows and heifers, which met with keen competition. The following sales ■will g'ivo an indication of the tone of the market: —Wethers £2'l2/1. fat woollv ewes £1 17/, fat ewes £1 16/, forward ewes £1 12/ to £1 14/, store ewes £1 7/, two. four and six-tooth ewes in lamb £2 4/, ewes in lamb £1 4/6 to £1 15/, m.s. hoggets £1 4/11 to £1 9/6, dairy cows £5 15/ to £2O i/6, springing heifers £7 10/ to £l7 15/, store cows to £6 10/, empty heifers £5 15/ to £7, weaners £1 14/ to £4 2/6: pigs, slips £2 to £2 1/, spring cart horse £23. Abraham and Williams. Ltd., report having held a very successful clearing sale on account of A. Wallen, Ashhurst, on 2 6th inst. There was a small attendance but bidding was brisk. We Quote as folows: —Cows Just calved £l4 10/ to £2-5, early cal vers £l9 to £26,, later calvers £l2 to £IS 10/, empty cow £8 5/, springing Jersej cross heifers £5 10/, Jersey bull £24, sows £lO 10/ o £lB, maiden sows £2 17/6, sows with litters £l3 10/, store pigs £2. 8/ to £2 12/6, Berkshire boar £lO. ' Dalgety and Co., Ltd.. Palmerston North, repart having an exceptionally large entry of sheep and a very fau entry of cattle at their Feilding sale on Fiday, 23rd July, 1920. There was good competition for all lines offered, and practically a total . clearance was effected. Quotations; —Sheep: Cud hoggets 12/, small do. 16/6 to 19/, medium do. 22/S to 24/6, b.f. do. 23/7, mixed do. 2S/4 to SO/, ewe do. 30/1, 2 and 4-th empty ewes 30/, mixed age empty ewes 29/9, small 2-th wethers 28/ to ! S0/10, mixed age ewes in lamb S.D. rams 82/6, 4 urm 5-year ewes in lamb S.D. rams 38/9 to 40/1, extra good 4 and 5-year ewes in lamb S.D. rams £2 7/1 to £2 8/, 2-th ewes in lamb Romney rams 36/4, 4-th do. 39/4 to 39/7, 6-th do. 37/9 to 40/, extra good 2-th ewes in lamb Romney rams £2 10/6, small 2-th do. 30/2, mixed age S.D. ewes 26/3, mixed age p.b. S.D. ewes 47/3. Cattle; Backward dairy cows £S 10/ to £l3 5/, dairy cows £ls, empty heifers £5 12/6, empty cows £6 5/, light fat cows and heifers £lO. 7/6 to £lO 10/, yearling steers £3 2/6 to £4.