COMMERCIAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 17935, 31 July 1920, Page 8

COMMERCIAL.

Dalgety and Coy., Limited, Palmerston North, report having a small yarding of sheep and a fair yarding of cattle at their Hunterville sale on Tuesday, the 17th inst., which sold as below. Quotations:—Sheep: .Mixed hoggets 25/; woolly mixed hoggets 28/8; small do. 21/. Cattie: Run snorthorn cows £7; S.H. 3yeur heifers £10; empty cows £4 17/6: cows at drop £7 .15/ fat cows £7 to £9 ; J. ; 2-year heifers £4; 15^-year steers £5; , weaner steers £5 0 t>; weaner heifers £3 j 10/; bulls £lO. CLEARING SALE AT BULLS. The N.Z. Farmers’ Co-operative Distributing Co.. Ltd., report having held a highly successful clearing sale at Branj don Hall Road, Bulls, on account of Mr •H. G. McDermott. There was an cxcepHlonally large attendance of farmers and ; others interested, a large number of outside buyers were also present who secured a large quantity of the stock. Tiie sheep neing all well-bred were in keen demand; the 2-tooth ewes which realised 53/6, were secured by a Raetithi buyer. Dairy cows sold up to £B5, and horses and implements were all keenly competed for. Appended are tlie principal prices:—-23 2 in.a. ewes, in lamb rams, 39/; 20 p.b. hoggets 40/3; 71 2-tooth ewes, in lamb to stud Romney rams, 53/6; 49 4-tooth p.b. ewes, in lamb Romney rams 47/; 47 ewe hoggets 32/6;* wether lambs 27/; stud Romney ram 7V-> gns.; 6 4-tooth flock’Romney rams 1 gn.“; 17 2-year steers, poor condition, £4 15/; 14 2-year heifers £7 2/; 26 yearling steers 47/6; 24 yearling heifers £3 11/; well-bred dairy cows in good condition and close to drop £25 to £35; well-bred cow-s, slightly poorer condition, £lB to £24; late cal vers £l2 to £l7; unsound cows £5 to £8; Jersey bull £25; B.H. bull £6 10/; horses £29 £3B 10/, to £4O: aged gelding £2O; aged trap gelding £10; ponies £5 5/ to £5 10/. 90-gal. Alfa I Lava separator £36; 45-gal. Perfect do. £18;22 2 h.p. Hornsby engine £80; 3-fur-row plough £5O; d.f. ploughs £lB 10/ to £2l; Cambridge roller £27; cultivator £l9 10/; drays £lB 10/ to £26; older sorts £9; mower £11; M.H. binder £2l; swamp plough £2B 10/; chain harrows £l5; manure distributor*£4o; totara posts 2/3; blocks and chains £5 10/ to £7; 800-gal tank and stand £l4; J. 50 sacks oaten chafi. £ll 15/ per ton. A large quantity oi useful sundries were all disposed of at satisfactory prices.