Stock Markets

Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 122, 24 May 1940, Page 12

Stock Markets

CLEARING SALE AT ASHHURST Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held a particularly successful sale of dairy cattle, horses, pigs, implements, etc., on account of Mr. U. A. Wycherley, on the farm, bioeria, Ashhurst., on Tuesday last, 21st instant, when there was a large attendance of buyers from the Pahiatua, Woodviile and surrounding districts. The herd of GO cows which had been tested for a number of years commanded keen attention, and bidding from the commencement of the auction was animated, values showing a definite improvement on the recent clearing sales held in this district. The top price paid tor a cow was £l7 ss, quite a number of others selling from £l4 to £lO 10s; 47 sound cows averaging the good price of £ll 12s per head. The three-quarter cows also sold remarkably well at prices ranging from £5 to £8 10s; IS dairy heifers sold from £6 10s to £lO ss; 14 Jersey weaner heifers at 3 16s. A great deal of interest was taken in the sale of pigs, the best sows selling from £7 to £9 ss. The following is a range of prices:— July cal vers, £B, £lO 10s, £ll 15s, £l2 ss, £l2 15s, £l4, £l4 15s, £ls, £l6, £l7 ss; August/September cal vers, £9, £lO 10s, £ll 15s, £l2, £l2 10s, £l3, £34, £l4 10s, £ls 10s, £l6 10s;Jieifers r.w.b., clue July, £6 10s, £7 15s, £B, £8 os, £8 10s, £lO os; weaner Jersey heifers, £3 16s; store pigs, 225; porkers, 295; sows r.w.b. £3 15s, £4, £7, £B, £8 ss, £9, £9 ss; 20mos. pony, £7; 4yr. hack, £l4 10s; oyr. pony, £4 10s; lucerne hay, 3s lid per bale; good meadow hay, 3s 3d and 3s 4d per bale. Implements and sundries sold at full market rates. RONGOTEA SALE The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report on the Rongotea sale held on Wednesday, a follows; A medium entry was yarde<