Dairy Cattle Bought At Kamo For Waikato

Northern Advocate, 27 July 1939, Page 5

Dairy Cattle Bought At Kamo For Waikato

Walter Wakelin reports having held his usual weekly sale of cattle and pigs at Kamo yesterday when good entries of both classes were submitted to a large attendance of buyers. Dairy cattle, which came forward in large numbers, were keenly competed for, several trucks being bought for the Waikato district. A small entry of beef sold at improved prices, while a medium entry of pigs showed a sharp rise, wcaners selling to £1 5/. Quotations:

Medium fat cows, £5 15/; fat Jersey cows, £5; boner cows, £2 to £2 18/; potter cows, £1 to £1 10/; best dairy

cows, £7; good quality backward cows, £4 tq £6 10/; Shorthorn dairy cows, £4 10/ to £6 15/; Ayrshire cows, £5 2/6 to £7; springing Jersey heifers, £3 to £7. according to condition and quality; Shorthorn dairy heifers, £4 to £6; backward and inferior cows and heifers. £3 to £3 10/; cows in milk, £3 to £6; Jersey heifer calves, 18/ to £2; cows and calves. £4 to £5 10/; Jersey bulls, £3 to £5 5/; boner bulls, £4 5/ to £5 5/; r pen of cull hoggets realised G/L Pigs: medium baconers. £3 to £3 If)/; light

porkers. £1 15 to £2; stores, £1 7/ to £1 15/; slips, £1 5 to £1 10/; best weaners, 18' to £1 s'; small weaners, 13 to 16 6; breeding sows, to £5.