COMMERCIAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4064, 24 June 1938, Page 6

COMMERCIAL

CLEARING SALE AT CAMBRIDGE. Messrs Newton King, Ltd., report holding a very successful clearing sale for Mr W. F. Gardiner., of Whitehall. The herd comprised 34 Jersey cows, young, early-calving cattle, selling from £lO 10s to £l2 15s, more backward sorts £8 10s to £9 15s. A line of extra good store pigs realised £1 17s 6d. Small Jersey yearlings made £2 7s 6d. CLEARANCE AT NGAROMA. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company Limited, report having held a Clearance Sale at Ngaroma on Wednesday on account df Mr H. G. Babbage. The herd came forward in fair condition, and although competition was not as keen as at some sales, a satisfactory average was obtained. We quote: Jersey-. and Jersey cross dairy cows, July cal vers £9 5s to £lO 19s; Jersey and* Jersey cross cows, later calvers £8 to £9; backward £6 to £7 15s; calved £lO 5s to £11; Tamworth cross sows to farrow £4 10s; aged farm gelding, chain work £25. Implements and sundries sold at usual rates. OTOROHANGA SALE. Messrs Abraham and Williams Limited, Te Kuiti, report as follows: At Otorohanga on the 22nd, we had a full yarding* of cattle and a small penning of sheep and pigs, sheep were not in demand, store and boner cattle were rather easier in value while dairy stock taking the quality of the yarding into consideration sold very well. Fair quality cows no records and no calving dates £7 to £8; later •and rougher sorts £5 to £7; low conditioned £4 to £5; small Jersey heifers r.w.b. made to £6 10s; late sorts £4 to £5; boner cows sold at ruling rates; fat Jersey cows to £5 7s; Jersey weaner heifers £3 Is to £3 19s. CLEARANCE AT NGAHAPE. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Limited, Te Kuiti, report as follows: On the 21st instant we held a clearing sale of cattle, sheep, horses, pigs, and plant on account of Mr F. H. Hooper, at Ngahape. There was a large attendance of buyers, and a most successful sale resulted. Prices for dairy cows and brood sows were in advance of anything realised in the district for a number of years. The horses sold particularly well, but sheep were not in such good demand.

Implements were sought, and made more than the usual prices at clearing sales. Quotations: — Jersey and Jersey cows, with records and calving dates, ranged from £7 10s for later calvers to £l6 for cows with good records and coming to profit early, the line making the good average of £ll 4SSpringing heifers rising two years and close to profit made £8 10s to £9 ss; later calvers ranged from £6 10s to £7 15s.

Heifer calves sold at £3 16s; mixed sex Shorthorn weaners made £3 6s, empty and unsound cows made £3 10s to £4; Jersey bulls £4 5s to' £6 6s; good sows close up £7 to £8 ss; sow with litter £10; later farrowing sows £4 to £7; good stores 31s to 325; smaller 25s to 28s; weaners 17s; f.m. ewes in lamb 20s 9d to 225; ewe hoggets 21s; wether hofe’ets 14s 9d: small m.s. hoggets 13s; Romney rams to 2£ gns., draught mares £34 to £34 10s; aged gelding £29; light working horses £2O to £23. Implements sold well, a two-stand Lister shearing plant, without engine making £5l, engine £l7. Separator £l6.