COMMERCIAL.
HAMILTON STOCK WALE
The Fanners' (io-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report: At. Hamilton on Thursday we had a heavy yarding of cattle and a light yarding vi' sheep. Business was dull and much of the entry failed to reach the reserves. Cattle generally show the adverse eli'ects of the long winter. Beef was keenly competed for, and made up lo £10 for cows. No ox beef was yarded. Empty store cows were in fair demand up to a certain figure; values ranged between £6' 7/6" and £7 15/. Several good lines of 2 and 2_year steers wre penned, but mostly passed in; well-bred sorts of this class made £8 10/. Two-year Shorthorn empty heifers, rough in quality, sold to £0 2/6; 15-month heifers, Jersey cross, £7 15/; 18-months steers, of which there was a good entry, made to £5 12/6, but the bulk remained unsold; heifers of the same age realised from £3 5/ to £5 2/0. For sheep bidding was anything but spirited. Medium, ewes sold to 35/0, ewes with lambs at foot £2 5/. The market for pigs was on a par with the previous week, and everything penned was quitted. Small sows in pig sold at £9; baconers, £0 f>/; porkers, £4 4/ to £5 .">/; weaners, 3(3/ to £2 .1.1/. Fresh-dropped calves realised from (i /io 22/.
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Northern Advocate, 28 September 1920, Page 4
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