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Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 7004, 8 May 1906, Page 2

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TE AWAMU ri3 STOCK SALE The New Zealand Loin and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd , reports: -At our monthly stock sale at Te Awamutu on Saturday, May 3rd., we yarded 200 head of well-bred cattle. Well-bred to 21-year-old steers realised from X 3 lus to £1 5s ; 18-months steers, £2 7 s tit to £2 12s 61; fiosh conditioned cows, £2 18s to £3 35; quiet dairy heifers in calf, £4 43; fat cows, Xi 12s fid to Xo 5s ; strong fjood calves, 17s to 11)3; store cows, £1 10s to £2 2s 6d; 18-month-old bull, £2 10s. Pisjs were In demand and sold we'l throughout, weaners, 5s 61 to lis ; slips, 15s to !8s; sow in pit?. XI 10s to XI 15?; a lot of produce and poultry at usual prices.

AUCKLAND GROCERS' MAKKET QUOTATIONS. The following are the quotations for butter and eggs for the week ending May 12, as arranged by the Dury Produce Committee-.-Factory butter, lid per lb; separator butter, Sd ; farmers' butter (best), Sd ; do. (second), 7d. Eggs, Is 151 per dozen ; preserved, lid.

MR J. JONES' REPORT. Mr J. Jones, auctioneer, Auckland, reports sales as follows :—Poultry : Roosters, is lOd to 2s 10d; cockerels, lOd to Is sd; bens, Is to Is 3d ; ducks, Is 3d to Is Ul; turkeys, gobblers, 7s to 12s Id ; hens 3s to to Is (id; geese, 2s bl. Pigs, small, Is to o's Gd. Potatoes : Prime, Xll iO- to Xl2 ; others, X 7 6a to XIO Onions, X 5 10s to XG; pumpkins, X 3 10s to Xllss; swedes, XI to XI ss; carrots, XI 10s to XI 15s. Butter .- Keg and box, Sd to '.id; pats, Sid to <Jjd. Eggs: Fresh, la Gd to Is sd; preserved, 10Jd to lid. Cheese, 4fd to 5Jd. Bacon: Sides, 6d to 6fd; hams, 6Jd to "' ' Honey, 3s Gd to 3s 9d. Fruit : Choice jrt apples, 5s to Gs Id; others, -Is to •Is 7d j cookers, 3s Cdto 4s 6d ; pears, dessert Gs Gd to Sd i othera, -Is to ss; cookers, 3s to Is Gd; pissioa fruit, 2a 6d to 3s; Cape gooseberries, id to sd, tomatoes, 2s 3d to 3s; grapes, chuice 7Jd to &Jd, poor, 3d to 4|rt. Maize, 3s 9d; wheat, 3s <Jd; sharps, X 6 10s; bran, XI lUi; oats, 2s Gd ; chaff, X-i 10s.