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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 23, 12 September 1911, Page 4

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RISE IN FLOUR. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright United Press Association. Sydney, September 11. Flour has been raised 5s per ton, and is now £8 15s. NEWTON KING’S WEEKLY REPORT. On Friday, September Ist, I held a clearing sale at Rahotu on account of the Estate of the late J. Rothery, when there was a large attendance and, although a large portion of the cattle were old and m poor condition, good prices were /realised. Early ealvers, good condition £7 5s to £l4, later £4 to £0 15s, old and empty £2 10s to £4, springing heifers £o, os to £8 10s, in calf heifers £3 7s 6d to £4 16s, bulls £3 7s 6d to £7, mixed yearlings 39s 6d, light fillies £5 5s to £6, (Sundries sold at usual rates. t At my usual fortnightly sale at Urenui on Monday, 4th, there was a good yarding, especially- of young cattle. Yearling steers were in good demand and sold well, as also did a line of hoggets. Mixed yearlings made 30s 6d to 445, yearling steers £2 2s 6d to £2 14s, 2-year do. £3 to £3 16s, 2.1 year do £4 Is, yearling heifers £2 to £2 15s 6d, empty heifers £3 to £3 17s 6d, springing heifers £4 to £8 2s 6d, dairy cows £5 15s to £8 15s, store cows £2 3Os to £3 8s 6d, forward cows £3 17s 6d to £5 12s 6d, hulls £2 15s to £6 10s, owes and lambs 11s 9d, hoggets 7s Id, 2,4, and 6-tooth wethers 11s 6d to 13s Bd. I had a Food yarding at my Stratford springing heifer yards on Tuesday, including some choice lines which sold as follows ;—Choice springing heifprs £6 7s 6d to £B,2s 6d,. goou,£s; 5S to £5 12s Cdj' calves £3 2s 6d, to £3 18s Gd, springing cows £6. There was no enquiry for poor heifers or cows. At Stony River on Wednesday there was a good yarding, with aj fair attendance of tiie public. Mixed yearlings realised 2?s to 38s, yearling steers 36s to 455, 2-year do. £2 19s to £3 3s, yearling heifers 335. to £2 12s 6d, do. Jerseys £3 Is 6d, 2-year heifers £3 3s to £3 15s, empty heifers £2 10s to £3 6s 6d, springing ‘miners £1 15s to £6 6s, store cows £2 10s to £3 Bs, forward £3 5s to £4, fat cows £6 10s, springing cows £4 to £6, cows Jn milk £5 10s, bulls £2 to £4 15s, 70 shares in the Stratford Dairy Co. realised 7s 6d each.

.On Thursday, at Mr. R. H,;Phillips’s sale at JSgaire, I conducted his annual sale of dairy cattle, when a large number of the public were in attendance. The cattle, the majority of which were blacks, were in good condition, and bidding throughout being very brisk, a very satisfactory sale was completed just on dark, after seven hours’ selling. Holstein cows and heifers were in most demand, although the top price. was obtained for a well-bred Jersey, which realised £l/. Prices were:—For grade cows close to profit and calved £lO 10s to £l7, later £6 10s to £9, cows with wefik quarters £5 to £9 15s, heifers in milk and close to profit £7 10s to £ll 10s, later £6 10s to £7 ss, heifers weak in quarters £5 to £5 10s. On Friday, the Bth instant, at Junction Road, I held a sale on account of Mr. J. Hale, when some 42 of his choice Jersey herd were offered to the public. Altliough' most of the cows were pedigree Jerseys, none of them had been registered, * and consequently they were , sold as grades, realising from £l2 10s to £2B 10s. Of the hulls, only one, named “Dynamite,” had been registered, and ho realised 40 guineas. The yearling bulls made £3 Pis to £l2, 20 month bulls £4 15s, 2 year do. £6 15s to £l3 10s, 3 year do. £9 10s.

Mr. Newton King’s Stratford Weekly Report. At the Haymarket on Saturday there was the usual attendance) but only a moderate yarding of pigs, chiefly weanors and store pigs came forward. Prices, however, if anything, were a little firmer than last sale. I quote slips and weaners- 12s 6d, 14s, 17s, to 22s 6d; small stores, t'l 6s; calves, 2s 6d to 9s; yearlings, £2 2s Gd. I also sold five cows on account of Mr. J. de Fillipi, at prices from £9 Ids to £l2 os. Stratford Factory shares, 8s to 10s. At the Mart.—Poultry: A fair number of birds came forward, the whole line being sold at the hammer at prices in advance of last sale, with the demand exceeding the supply. Killing birds, roosters 2s Id to 2s‘sd, hens 2s Id to 2s 7d; laying hens 2s 9d to Os 9d; ducks, 2s 3d to 2s 6d; potatoes. 9s sack. Furniture, trees, and sundries at usual rates. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, has received tlie following cablegrams from its London house under date Bth instant:— “The market is firm for mutton, steady for lamb, and has improved for beef.” * “Sheepskins are generally lower by »d- oxcont merino combing, line crossbred and crossbred lambs, for which there is no change in the market.”