Newton King’s Weakly Report.
On Friday, sth met., at iuy Waiwakaiho yards, I had a full yarding of all classes of cattle, the qualityright through (with the exception of weaner steers) being an improvement on previous yardings. The attendance was very good and bidding brisk. Some very choice lines of Jersey weaner heifers were yarded, these meeting an excellent sale. The dairy cows offered on account of Mr Cl, . ."Mitchell, of Maugorei were a hue lot, and sold very readily at prices from £7 to £ll and 15i and 17Jgus for 2 prize-taking cows, the line- averaging £9 9s. Practically everything was sold, prices being as follows Jersey weaner heifers, nice lines, £2 14s, £2 10s, £2 Bs, £2 7s, £2 6s, mixed breeds of weaner heifers £1 15s to £2, smaller stuff 18s 6d to £ij 10s 6d, weaner steers (poor quality) best offered realising from £2 to £2 3s, others £1 5s to £1 12s, 2-year steers £4 15s, bulls £3 10s ty £5 6s, empty 20-month heifers £2 18s to £3, small 20-month heifers in calf, but late £2 13s to £3 7s, dairy cows £7 5s to £8 10s, cows, guaranteed sound £4 40s and £4 15s, springing heifers £6 10s to £8 ss, in calf heifers £1 IDs to £5 ss, forward and light fat cows £1 11s Gd to £6 2s, no heavy cows offered, good boners £.! Is'to £4, aged cows £1 15s to £2 14s, young cows (stores) £3 8s to £4, lighter framed stuff £2 12s to £3, forward owes 13s 9d to 16s, f.m. ewes 9s Id, lambs good line 14s, small 12s sd, 19s Od, 7s lOd, 4s Id, goats 8s 6d. . At Toko on Monday, Bth nisi;, mixed weaners made £1 10s, 20-months
heifers £3 to £3 7s 6d, forward cows £4 12s to £5 3s, store cows £3 14s to £4 Is, aged cows £1 10s (3d, fat ewes 18s 9d. On Tuesday, 9th inst., at’Stratford, for my fortnightly sale, i had a good entry of sheep and a fair varding bf cattle. There was a good attendance of buyers,/ wno made good competition for all cattle offered, practically all of which were cleared at satisfactory prices. The majority of the sheep were sold at tin* hammer, all that were passed being taken up quickly by private treaty. .Prices obtained were: Weaner heifers £1 11s to £2 2s, weaner steers £2 5s 6d for a fair lino of 105, and £2 for others, 2-year steers £4 9s, 2J-yoar steers (good d-*al of color) £5, rough 15-mum b steers £3 Is. The in-calf heifers, 20 month to old, entered on account of the Stratford Racing Clu * realised £5 13s for a nice line web forward and £4 42s 6d to £5 7s 6<l for others, fair line of 2j-year in cal: heifers from the hack country £5 15s, springing heifers £5 7s 6d for‘a smah heifer to £9 17s 6d fqr an* excep tionally choice Jersey, good sz. bulls £6 ss, good fat cows £0 17s to £7 /shufwifard cows £5 15s, £5 12s, £5 Bs, £5 ss, £5 2s 6d, £5 Is, £4 17s, £4 12s, * £4 11s,. gbod store cqws ,£3.,l4(srifjdftiq/£4, smaller trimed cows £2 7s to £3 4s, good l‘no of lamljs 14s 10s, eu.lls 8s 7d, very fine pen of 100 ,'2-tofffh to f.f.m. Liucoin ewes in lamb ,tq. Lincoln rains, on account of Messrs Hanne Pros to a Taraca client at £1 4s 6d, this being a record .price for this class of sheep In; Those,.;yards, good ' ne of 500 2-tooth to .f.m. ewes in lamb (few old sheep) n at £l, fat aethers (on small side) £1 3«, aged ewes Ss 7d to mixed. 2-toouh sheep, mostly weth.ars. 17s ,6d, fan line of 4-tooth and 4-yoar ewes In , him l ) at £1 2s. Air!,! ■* . i
At Stony River'bn Wednjaday, 10th inst., I had a full yarding • of all classes, in most cases very nice conditioned cattle, which met with keen competition throughout.' Messrs Carey Bros., of Okato, yarded a pen of Shorthorn weaner steers, which were much admired, realising £2 17s 6d, the top price for this class u: Northern Taranaki. uthor prices were:—Weaner heifers £1 13s' to £1 18s 6d, small £1 to £ 16s, good pen of Jerseys £2 ss, mixed weaners £1 Ss to £1 17s, weaner steers £2 os 6dto £2 8s 6d, weaner imils £2 2s to £2 18s, small bulls £-3 2s to £3 8s 6d, empty 20-month heifers £2 13s to £3 7s, small in calf 18-month heifers £2 16s to £3, others £4 17s 6d to £6, springing heifers £5 to £6 17s 6d, dairy cows £7 to £7 10s, young store cows £2 7s to £3, good store cows £3 5s to £3 19s, forward cows £4 12s 6d to £5 12s, fat cows £5 19s to £7 4s, rough .steers £2 10s, 2-year steers very 'well done £4 13s to £4 18s 6d, fat 31-year bullocks £lO 2s 6d.
On Thursday, 11th inst., at the Robson Road, Stratford, for Air Al. Howard’s clearing sale, i had a good attendance-. The herd of cows wore a very fair line, containing some nice milkers, but a good number wore calving a little late for present buyers, these reducing the average somewhat, but, nevertheless, I was able to make the satisfactory price of £8 IGs Gd for the line of 4(5 cows. vßest young cows sold at from £lO to £ls, fair stuff £G 15s to £8 10s, late culvers and ij-eows £5 to £7 15s, store cows £0 17s Gd to £4, breeding sows £4 to £6 15s, store pigs £1 Is Gd, cart £lO. Private sales for the week as folhn’s ;—AVoaner steers £2 11s, £2 6s Gd, £2 4s, £2 Os, weaner heifers £l. Gd empty 20-month heifers £0
0s to £0 7s, dairy cows £8 8s to £ls, far cows (nil liglit) £5 10s to £6 17s 6d, forward cows £1 IBs Gd to £5, 2V to 0 rear steers £7 to £7 os, 18mon Hi steers on poor side £0 10s and £0 'ss, mixed weaners £1 12e, fat and fontard ewes £1 Is, £1 19s, J.Ss, 17s Gd. TGs od, IGs, 15s Gd, 14s 9d, lambs 13s Gd, 13s, 12s 9d, 12s, 11 s Gd, 10s Gd, 9s 9d, ewes in lamb £1 2s, £l. 19a, 18a. 17s 9d; 17s Gd, fat wethers £1 ss, store wethers £1 2s. £1 Is, £1 0s 6d, £l. 19s od, 19a, in calf heifers (niaw lius ef Jerseys) £7 10s, £7, £8 10s.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 45, 15 June 1914, Page 7
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