COMMERCIAL

Waikato Independent, Volume XX, Issue 2317, 12 October 1920, Page 5

COMMERCIAL

THE FARMERS’ CU-OPERATIVE AUCTIONEERING CO, LTD.

At Morrinsville on Friday last we yarded 1260 head of cattle and 600 sheep. The demand for all classes of cattle was good and with the exception of a few pens of young cattle the whole yarding changed hands at the following prices:—Heavy fat steers £lB to £23 5/; lighter weights £l3 10/ to £l6 7/; fat cow’s £l2 15 /to £ls 15/; medium £lO 5/ to £l2; fresh conditioned cows £7 10/ to £9 7/6; good framed store cows £5 5/ to £7; poorer sorts £3 to £4 15/; cows with calves at foot £5 2/6 to £6 15/; Syr steers £8 5/ to £lO 11/; 2 to 21yr steers £6 9/ to £7 18/; 2yr empty heifers £6 14/ to £7 10/; 18 to 20 months heifers £5 7/6 to £6 6/; good yearling heifers £4 13/ to £4 19/; late calves 32/6 to £2 15/; best dairy cows made up to £lB 10/; others £.12 to £l4; choice heifers £l6 to £lB 10/; medium quality £l2 10/ to £l4; backwmrd and poorer heifers £8 to £lO 10/; fat wethers £2 5/; prime fat ewes £2 2/ to £2 4/3; fat ewes 32/6 to 37/0; fat hoggets 34/6; ew’cs and lambs 37/9.