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Waikato Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2577, 27 July 1922, Page 5

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CLEARING SALE. The Now Zealand 'Loan and Mercantile Co. Ltd., Hamilton, report: — We held Clearing Sales last week on account of Mr W. Prentice, Taniwha, Mrs A. Windsor, Tamaherc, and Mr J. D. Milner, Pio Pio. There was good competition for dairy cows, young cattle and farm horses at each fixture. Best Shorthorn dairy cows made from £ll to £l4, others £7 to £10; friesian cows to £IG 5/, Jersey cross cows £l2 to £l6 15/, yearling heifers £2 2/ to £2 12/6, steers £1 to £1 4/, farm horses £IS to £32. TE AWAMUTU SALE The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Hamilton, report:— At To Awnmut'U stock sale on Saturday last, 22nd inst., wo yarded 672 head of fat and store cattle, and an extra large entry of springers. Buyers were present from To Puke, King Country and all parts of Waikato. A very brisk sale resulted, and a decided rise in values of most classes occurred. We quote: Good fat steers £7 15/ to £8 3/; medium steers £6 9/; fat cows £3 10/ to £5 12/6; 3-year steers £3 12/6; 20-months steers £2 5/ to £2 14/ for good quality; others £1 8/ to £1 13/; well-bred yearling steers £1 14/ to £2; others £1 to £1 8/; yearling heifers (choice Shorthorn), £2 to £2 16/; others £1 8/ to £1 15/; Jersey yearling heifers £5 5/ to £6 10/; Jersey cross £4. to £4 2/6; store cows £1 12/ to £2 7/; dairy cows £8 to £ls 10/; cull cows £2 to £5; springing heifers £6 to £11; forward hoggets 14/5 to 15/11; ewes in lamb £1 0/3. HAMILTON SALES. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Hamilton, report:—■ At Frankton yards on Tuesday we had a good entry of fat and store sheep —mainly wethers. Fat wethers made up to £1 9/6; fat ewes £1 4/; fat hoggets 17/; the store wethers failed to reach the reserves. Beef was penned in good supply. Fat P.A. cows £4 17/ to £5 13/; veal calves £2 10/; yearling grade Jersey heifers £5 2/6 to £5 15/; store cows £1 9/ to £1 15/. A large yarding of dairy cows, mostly culls, for which competition was dull. Good dairy cows sold up to £l2; medium £5 to £8; aged and inferior £1 to £3 10/. There was a large yarding of fat and store pigs, which sold under good competition. Baeoners sold up to £3 4/; light baeoners and heavy porkers sold from £2 3/ to £2 9/; light porkers from £1 14/ to £2 2/; slips from 19/ to 24/; weaners from 12/ to 18/. A large number of good class breeding sows duo to farrow early were penned, and sold under keen competition from £5 to £9 12/6; smaller and backward from £2 to £3 10/: • •

The Fanners' 00-oporative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., Hamilton, report:— At Hamilton on Tuesday, July 25, we had an average yarding of sheep and cattle, but the supply of pigs was again small. Beef was plentiful and sold at better value than tlie previous week. Steers made . from £5 1/ to £6 2/; cows heavy to £5 14/; medium from £3 2/6 to £4; forward cows £2 to 2 7/6; store cows 25/ to 39/. Store cattle were not strongly represented in any class, but competition throughout was brisk and everything sold at advanced rates under the hammer. Jersey cross yearling heifers made £4 5/j Holsteins same age £3 .10/; small Shorthorn heifers £2. Sheep of all classes were well competed for, and practically everything changed hands at auction. The entry for fat sheep was fairly large. Wethers, medium made from 25/6 to 27/; ewes from 23/ to 25/6; hoggets from 17/6 to 17/11; forward ewes 18/9 A lino of ewes in lamb to B.F. and Leicester rams was submitted but did not reach owner's reserve at auction. A portion of the line was afterwards disposed of at 25/. Dairy cows were a prominent feature, but the quality mediocre. Those .close to profit made £8 to £ll 5/; for medium quality £5 10/ to £7 10/; backward and poor £2 to £3 15/; 2-year Shorthorn heifers, September calvers, up to £6; small and backward £3 to £i. A fair number of pigs were yarded and sold readily, the prices all round being well in advance of last week. Heavy porkers to light baconers £2 12/ to £3 1/; medium porkers £2 4/ to £2 10/; light and small 28/ to 39/; slips 23/ to 2S/; weaners 17/ to on/ 4.-/ .