MESSRS BUCKLAND AND SONS REPORT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12975, 30 September 1905, Page 8

MESSRS BUCKLAND AND SONS REPORT.

Auckland, September 29. Messrs Buokland and Sons report :— Horses.— Aged draughts realised £14 1 5s to £21, spring-cart horses £15 to £31 10s, buggy horses and goad hacks £17 to £21, light and ordinary £4 to £8 10.s. Hides, skins, .tallow, etc.— Hides, ox 4-2 dto Tiki, cow 42 d to 4gd, kip 4£d to 4gd, calf 5-id to sfd, damaged 2d to 3£d, tails Is Gd dozen,] horsehair Is 2£d to Is 4d, bones 5s J tallow 22s 6d; skins, best lines 6s; Gd to Ss, .good 4s 8d- to 6s, small 2s 7d to 4s 3d, damaged 6d to 2s 3d. Grain, etc.— Maize in short supply, *old at 3s* 3d ex wharf to 3s 6d ex | store ; oats? 2s 4d to 2s 6d ex store ; fowl wheat 3s (sd, chaff fairly plentiful, prime local £5 5s ex store, £4 17s Gd ex rail, bran £4 ss,sharps £5 ss, carrots £1 10s, .pressed straw £3 ss, hay £3 10s to £4. Cattle. — At the 1 Spring sale of store cattle at Eunciman, on Wednesday, w« yarded 1000 head of good quality, and ■with few exceptions all were sold at the hammer/ Prices were lower than last season from 10s to 20s per head. Grown steers from £6 to £6 }6s, three to four year steers £4 17s to £6 ; two to three years up .to £5 14s ; calves at late values ; dry cows £2 10s to £4. At Tlemuera on .Thursday a full muster of dairy stock cows at profit sold up to £7 5s ; dry cows to £4 3s ; fat and young calves sold freely, small to 18s, heavy to £2 11 s; 102 sold. An average yarding of fat cattle sold Ireely throughout at recont quotations, steers ranged from £7 2s ftd to £11 17<3,6d ; cows £0 10s o £8 15s; 257 '501d. The sheep pens Iwere well filled with a good class of mutton, best, wethers selling to 35s sd, lighter weights to 255, heavy ewes to 30s 3d, others to 235, hoggeis to 19s Gd, 1300 sold; spring lambs 12s to 19s, 995 sold. Pigs were in modes:-' ate numbers and required, small selling to 15s, porkers to 355, baconers to £3 19s ; 64 sold. • '