Northern Stock Sales

Northern Advocate, 19 November 1941, Page 2

Northern Stock Sales

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Messrs. Alfred Buckland and Sons. Ltd., report having held sales at Maungakaramea and Waiotira. At Maungakaramea there was an average yarding, but the quality was not up to the usual standard, and prices were lower than late sales. Best dairy cows and heifers made from £5/5/- to £6/10/-; poorer quality and more backward, £4/10/- to £5; medium fat steers, £lO/5/lo £ll/5/-; medium fat cows, £6/7/6 to £7/15/-; store cows, £3/5/- to £4/10/-; boner cows, £2 to £2/15/-; potter bulls, £1 to £l/15/-; herd bulls, £5 to £5/10/-; weaner pigs, £l/7/6 to £l/10/-; good stores, £2 to £2/11/-; sows to farrow, £2/10/-. Beef sold better at Waiotira, and the quality of stock yarded was higher. Best dairy cows and heifers made from £6 to £7/5/-; later calvers, £4/15/- to £6; medium fat bullocks, £lO/15/- to £ll/3/-; fat cows, £7/10/- to £B/10/-; lighter, £6/8/- to £7/5/-; good store cows, £4/15/to £5/2/-; three-year Shorthorn steers, £7/17/6 to £B/12/-; two-year steers, £5/12/6 to £6/17/6; yearling Polled Angus heifers, £2/19/-- to £4/2/6; cows and calves, £6/5/- to £7.