COMMERCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15873, 12 July 1922, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

MATAWHERO STOCK SALE

.'There was a moderate attendance of buyers at the Alatawhero stock sale today. Bidding was rather on the slack side, except tor one or two lines. The ydtdings of the different classes of stock were "small. The quality-of the stock offered! in, the fat sheep pens was flot up to. that yarded last week, the best price obtained being 18s 6d. Prices generally in; these lines were on about a par with those ruling last Wednesday. There was si. poor yarding of fat cattle, •one cow only being sold, at £3 ss. Pigs were not numerous, but seemed to show a slight increase in value. There was a, small yarding of store sheep, all the pens being sold before the luncheon adjournment. The demand for ewes in lamb was poor to-day when compared with previous weeks. The mast sought after were hoggets. 'One good line of mixed sex woolly hoggets bought 15s lid. There were, however, not many pens of good quality store sheep offered. The yardings included 246 fat sheep, 7 head of fat cattle, 9 pigs, and' 2636 store sheep. The following business had been dealt with up to the luncheon adjournment:— Fat Sheep: 40 .ewee 17s lOd, 8 wethers 18s 6d, 13 ewee no bid, 82 do. (p) 16s, 65 do. 16s 6d, 26 do. 18s 4d, 4 do. 18s, 8 wethers (p) 17s. Fat Cattle: 6 cows (p) £2 10s, 1 do. £3 ss.

Pigs: 2 good weaners 16s 6d, 2 pork crs 355, 1 do. 31s, 4 young sows 345.

-, Store Sheep: 125 s.m. ewes in lamb (p) 17s, 171 5-year do. (p) 19s, 28 m.s. hoggets 14s 3d, 153 m.a. ewes in lamb (p) 16s, 143 do. (p) 13s 9d, 180 2-tooth to 5-year do. 16s 9d, 446 do. 17s, 197 2-tooth to 5-year do. (p) 17a 6d, 217 m.s. woolly hoggets 15s lid, 127 ewes in lamb (p) 17s, 64 empty ewes 13s 9d, 30 6-tooth and up ewes in lamb (p) 16s, 28 do. (p) 16s, 52 wethers 20s, 79 acred' ewes in lamb (p) 14s 6d, 8 hoggets 8s 6d, 29 do. 13s 9d, 14 do. lis Id, 35 do. 8s Bd, 20 do. 10s 7d, 44 aged ewes in lamb 7s (>d, 27 2-tooth do. (p) 20s, 29 hoggets 13s 9d, 20 do. 12s 6d', 16 aged ewes in. lamb 13s 6d, 34 m.s. hoggets (pi lis 6d, 36 ewes do. 12s 2d, 16 wethers 18a, 23 empty ewes 12s 2d, 14 2-tooth ewes in lamb (p) 22s 6d, 32 m.a. do. (p) 15s, 105 4, 5 and 6-year do. 18s lid, 94 m.s. hoggets lis 6d.

Store cattle: 45 18-monlh steers and heifers (p) £2 12s 6d, 1 steer (no bid), 1 P.A. steer (p) £2 IDs, 2 cow* £4, 2 yearling steers (p) £1 10s, 1 Jersey cow £2 7s 6d, 1 do. £1 is. Nineteen steers, part of a line of 45 head of store cattle, offered on behalf of Mr Rutledge, sold at* £3 a hend. Store tattle generally were poor, and no buy- ■ crs were operating. There was little or no demand for dairy stuff, owing probably to so many clearing sales. A few lines of weaners sold at satisfactory prices. Dairy cattle: 1 heifef fori the drop) £ll 10s, 1 Jersey-cross heifer (on the drop) £lO ss, 1 Shorthorn heifer (just calved) (p) £5, 2 heifers in calf (p) £7 10s, 1 cow in profit (p) £lO, 1 cow (com ing to second calf) no hid,',3 heifers in calf (p) £6 15s, 1 Jersey-cross cow (due in 5 days) (p) £lO 10s, 1 Jersey cow (due in 7 days) (p) £B, 1 cow (due Sept.) no bid, 1 jersey cow (p) £4, 1 Jersey-cross i cow in calf no bid, 1 Jersey cow (due { Sept.) (p) £B, 1 heifer in calf £7, 1 do. *~?£1, 1 Shorthorn heifer in calf (p) £5, 1 heifer in milk £5 10s, 1 Jersey cowin calf no bid, 1 Jersey heifer'in calf (p) £7, 2 heifers in calf (1 in milk) no bid, 1 cow in milk no bid, 1 yearling empty Holstem heifer £4, 1 cow (due August) (p) £5 10s, 1 cow in calf no bid, 1 Jersey do. no bid, 1 Jersey-cross cow in calf £2 15s, 1 cow and heifer (p) £lO, 2 cows, coming to 2nd calf (p) £7 10s, 3 heifere due early (p) £B, 1 Hereford .heifer in calf no bid, 1 Jersey-cross cow, due end of July £ll, 1 cow due October ((») £9, 3 yearling heifers £4 10s, 2 d'o. £4, 2 do. (p) £3, 3 weaner heifers £3 12s 6d, 5 do. (p) £3 ss, 4 do,, £2 12s 6d.