STOCK SALES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 39, 16 February 1928, Page 4

STOCK SALES.

WESTFIELD MARKET.

BEEF SHORT AND DEARER

BACON' PIGS SELL WELL

A marked reduction in the entry of beef cattle at Westfield yesterday resulted in keen competition and a sharp advance in value?. Sheep sold at about last week's rates, with best ouality lambs subject to brisk bidding. Bacon pigs were again in demand, anri a further rise in prices was recorded. Good quality veal valves sold readilv, but unfinished sorts were hard to quit. The range of prices compared with those of the previous week was as follow: —

BEEF (per 1001b) — This Week. Last Week. Extra choice ox 33/ 30/ Choice and prime ox 28/ to 32/ 27/ to 29/6 Choice and prime cow und heifer 25/ to 29/ 22/ to 27/ SHEEP (per head) — Prime wethers 21/6 to 29/ 22/6t031/3 ITnfin. wethers 15/ to 2:5/ 18/ to 22/6 Prime ewes . . 15/ to 22/ *° I'nfln. ewos . . 13/ to 14/!) 11/6 to W I'rimc lambs .. 20/ to 31/9 13/ to 30/ CALVES (per head) — Runners 60/ to 107/6 65/ to 97/6 Vealers 35/ to 89/ 39/ to 89/ PIGS (per head) — Baeoners .... 53/ to 76/ 48/ to 62/ Porkers 35/ to 53/ 34/ to 02/ Weaners 2/ to 10/ .>/ to 10/ Slips 9/ to 18/ 8/ to 15/ Large stores . 15/ to 27/ 12/ to 23/ ALFRED BUCKLAND AND SONS. Alfred Buckland and Sons, Limited, report:—Our beef pens contained 261 nead, as against 581 at last Wednesday's sale, comprising 103 steers and 158 cows and heifers, the short yarding accounted lor a keen demand, with a sharp rise in values. Extra choice ox sold to £1 W per 1001b; choice and prime ox, £ 1 10/ to £1 12/; secondary and plain ox, £17/ to £1 9/; prime young cow and heifer beef, £1 5/ to £1 9/; ordinary cow beef, £1 1/ to £14/. Extra heavy prime steers ranged in price from £13 5/ to £14 10/; a truck of steers from Mr. H. E. Reed, WaerengA, averaged £13 13/2; and a truck from Mr. B. Reed averaged £12 15/; lighter prime steers, £11 10/ to £13; hgut prime steers, £10 to £11 7/6; small aud unfinished steers, 1 £7 to £9 15/; extra heavy prime young cows and heifers, £9 to £10 12/6; heavy prime cows and heifers, £7 10/ to £8 17/6; lighter prime cowi and heifers, £6 to £7 7/6; other killable cows, £4 to £5 17/6. There was a moderate yarding of sheep. The demand and values were on a par with last week 8 ■ale. Extra heavy prime wethers made £1 7/6 to £1 9/; heavy prime wethers, £1 5/6 to £1 7/; medium to heavy prime wethers, £1 3/6 to £1 5/3; light to medium prime wethers, £1 1/6 to £1 3/3; unfinished wethers, 18/6 to £1 2/6; extra heavy prime young ewes, 19/ to £11/6; two pens of. prime 2-tooth Down ewes irom Mr. H, Bayly, Tirau, made £15/; heavy prime fcwes, 17/ to 18/9; lighter prime ewe*7 15/ to 16/9; dther billable ewes, 1V to lVPflOOtf sheep sold). The 381 lambi which earn* forward sold readily, especially anything prime. Extra heavy prime £1 8/6 to £1 11/9 for Down lambi from Mr. J. H. Webb, Tirau; heavy priiiw lambs, £1 5/ to £1 8/; lighter prime lambi £1 2/ to £i 4/9; light prime lambs, £1 tc £1 1/9; -small and plain lambs, 14/ tt 17/6; small stores, 12/ tp 13/9. Calves wer« penned to the number of 163. All good quality vealers met with steady»compcti tiofl/other classes being dull of sale. Run MrfPMMlde from £3 4/ to £5 7/6; heavy vailetli, £3 8/ to £4, 9/; medium, £2 17/ tO?£3l*/; light, £1 15/ to £2 5/; rough and ,- slain, 10/ to 19/; small and freshdropped, 5/ to £17/. There was a smal'ei yarding of fat pigs. Bidding was again keen for heavy prime baeoners, and out quotations show a further sharp increase. Prices for the lighter class of pigs remain at late rates. Choppers made from £1 8/ to £3 10/, according to weight and quality; extra heavy prime baeoners, up to £3 16/; heavy baeoners, £3 1/ to £3 12/; medium, £2 13/ to £2 18/; heavy porkers; £2 7/ to £2 10/; medium, £2 to £2 5/; light, £1 If/ to £1 17/; small and unfinished, £1 4/ to £1 12/; store« sold at last week's prices; good framed and conditioned, up to £1 4/; smaller, 15/ tc £1; slips, 9/ to 13/; weaners, 5/ to 8/ (461 pigs' sold). *

LOAN AND MERCANTILE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports:— Owing to the unsettled conditions, beet wM Penned in small numbers, and consequently values-/or choice and prime quality beef, were better, plain and unfinished quality remaining the same. Extra choice ox sold to 33/ per 1001b; choice and prime ox, 28/ to 32/; ordinary and plain ox, 25/ to 27/; prime young cow and heifer beef, 38/ to 28/; ordinary cow beef, 23/ to 25/; no extra heavy prime steera were penned; heavy prime steera, £11 5/ to £12 10/; lighter prime 'steers, £10 to £11-2/6; light prime steers, £8 10/ to £9 15/; unfinished and small, £8 to £8 5/; extra heavy prime, young cows and heifers, £8 to £9 10/; heavy prime young cows and heifers, £7 to £7 17/0; lighter, £6 to £6 17/6; light cows, £5 to £5 17/0; other cows, £4 to £4 17/o.< Sheep were yarded in small numbers and prime quality sold readily at late values. Unfinished sheep were dull o£ sale. Heavy prime wethers made £1 7/ to £1 8/6; medium prime wethers, £1 5/6 to £1 6/9; light prime wethers, £1 ft/6 to £1 5/3; small and unfinished wethers, 15/ to £13/; heavy prime ewes, 19/6 to £12/; medium prime ewes, 17/ 13 19/; light prune ewes, 15/ to 10/9; infenorily fatted ewes, 7/0 to 12/0. Lambs were penned in small numbers, prime quality selling readily under keen competition. Store lambs sold at late values. Extra heavy prime made £1 8/ to £1 0/0; heavy prime, £1 6/ to £1 7/9; medium prime, £1 4/ to £1 5/9; light prime, £ I 2/6 to £1 3/9; unfinished, best, 15/ to 18/ti; others, 12/ to 14/6. Pigs were penned in average numbers. Competition was keen and there was a sharp rise in values, especially for baconers. Choppers soil from £2 10/ to £3 8/; heavy and medium baconers, from £3 5/ to £3 11/; light baconers and heavy porkers, from £2 15/ to i,i 3/; medium porkers and. light porkers, from £2 5/ to £2 13/; small and unfinished porkers, £1 10/ to £2 2/. Stoie pigs were penned in average numbcrb, values being at late quotations. Large' stores made £1 to £1 7/; slips, 10/ to ' 18/; weancrs, 2/ to 10/. Calves were pennect in average numbers. Values were easier on late quotations, especially for rough calves. Runners made £3 to £4 1/; heavy vealers, £3 18/ to £4 6/; medium, £3 to £3 13/; light, £2 8/ to £2 IS/; smaller, £ 1 10/ to £2 6/; small and fre«!idropped, 3/ to £1 15/; rough calves, 8/ to 10/.

DALGETY AND COMPANY. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report: —Beef: A very small yarding of both ox and cow came forward." In consequence there war a decided Improvement in both classes. Cow beef advanced as the sale progressed. A line of medium-weight bullocks, on account of H. G. Reed, Waerenga, averaged £12 9/6 and sold to £13 10/. Ex;., choice ox sold to 33/ per 100fl>; choicu and prime, 30/ to 32/; juat billable, ■ 20/ to 29/; prime young cow and heifer , beef, 26/; just billable, 20/ to 24/. A line ®f prime quality bullocks on account of the Jtusknra State Farm £13, and a. I line of'cnWß on account of the same vendors, Sold to £0. Sheep: An 'averttge yard-" tag, which contained very few prime sheep, unchanged. Bwrr

wethers made 28/; medium, 24/ to -6/ ; light and unfinished, 20/ to 23/; heavy prime ewes, 16/ to 19/6; lighter, 12/ to 15/. Lambs: A small yarding met with keen competition, values being very firm and in odd cases better. Heavy prime lambs made 27/; medium, 23/ to 25/; light. 19/ to 22/6. Calves: A good yarding of mostly first quality vealers, which sold under steady competition. Runners made; £4; heavy vealers, £3 5/ to £3 13/; medium, £2 18/ to £3 4/; light. £1 15/ to £2 10/; rough. £1 5/. Pigs: A fair yarding, consisting mainly of prime bacon piys, which showed a considerable rise in values. Choppers made £2 15/; heavy baconers, £3 10/ to £3 15/; medium baconers, £3 to £3 8/: light baconers, £2 10/ to £3; heavy porkers, £2 10/ to £2 15/; medium porkers, £2 2/ to £2 8/; light porkers, £ 1 10/ to £2.

iN THE WAIKATO. Other Reports on the weekly stock sale at Frahkton on Tuesday are:— New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited. —Beef was penned in short supply, consequently coinpetition was keen and a slight advance in values resulted. We sold prime cows r.p to £9. and medium-weight steers at £9 19/. Fat sheep were firmer and stores met with a good demand. Light fat wethers made £1 5/6; fat lambs, 1 £1 0/3 to £1 5/6; fat; ewes,' 14/6 to 14/9; store two-tooth wethers. 19/6; good shorn lambs, 14/10; small, 10/. There was a large yarding of fat and store pigs. Baconers and porkers sold at last week's rates. Store pigs were dull of sale and prices were exceptionally low. We quote: Baconers, £2 11/ to £2 19/; heavy porkers, £2 1/ to £2 4/; lighter, £1 12/ to £1 18/; store porkers, £1 to £1 7/; slips, 10/ to 16/; good weaners, 5/ to 9/; small, 1/ to 4/. Dalgety and Company, Limited. —There was a small yarding of beef, which sold at full late rates, in fact, second qualiiy beef was dearer than it has been for some time. Best young cows made to £8. There was a small yarding of store cattle which sold at late rates. Store cows in low condition sold from £2 17/ to £3 7/. There was a good yarding of sheep, our total yarding consisting of 2967. Fat sheep sold at late rates, and there was a good steady demand for store sheep. Fat wethers made to 25/2 to 27/. Prime woolly lambs, extra heavy, 29/; shorn i'at and forward lambs, 17/; store wethers, to 31/3; four, six and eiglit-tooth «wes, to 25/9; ewes, to 24/; mixed aged ewes, to 20/6. Pigs sold at late rates.

OTHER COUNTRY SALES. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Hamilton, report:—At our usual stock sale at Cambridge on Monday a fair yarding of cattle came forward, being cleared at late rates. Several pens of sheep were filled, and also -were cleared. Pigs were penned in full numbers and lacked competition, practically half the entry being passed. We quote: Fat cows, £5 2/ to £6 10/; fat heifers, £5 10/ to £67/; forward cov/s, £3 15/ to £4 12/; store cows, £1 16/ to £3 9/; cows and calves, £3 15/ to £4 10/: 20-month Shorthorn heifers, £3 11/ to £4 6/; springing cows and heifers, £4 10/ to £7 5/; bulls, £3 to £5 5/; forward lambs, 18/3; store lambs, 11/3 to 12/; cull lambs, 7/8; 5-year ew£s, 17/9; others, 6/ to 12/. Pigs: Best stores, 18/ to £12/; slips, 10/ to 13/; weaners, 2/6 to 6/. PRICES AT SHEEP FAIRS. ' "Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held sheep fairs during the past week. At the Westfield pheep and ram fair the entry consisted of slighfly over 3000. In view of the fact that this fixture clashed with the Hamilton ram fair there' was a good attendance of buyers, and competition was Bteady, and pi'actically every pen changed hands at late values. Fair two-tooth eweS made £ 1 6/ to £18/; small, 21/ to 24/; good four, six and eighttooth ewes, 28/6; a line of five-year ewes, ex Crosslands Estate, realised £1 0/9; a line of five-year ewes (small), ex Waiheke, brought 16/9; thin f.m. to failing-mouth ewes. 11/ to 15/; lambs, woolly, in good condition, to 16/; fair- shorn lambs, 11/ to 13/; small shorn, lambs, 4/6, 6/9 to 9/6; Southdown rams, 8% gns; Roinney rams from southern and best local breeders, 4, 4%, 5 to 8 gns; Shropshire rams, 2 to 4 gns; Border Leicester rams (two and three-shear), 2% to 4% gns; Potter rams, 10/6 to 20/. At the Coromandel sheep fair, 2871 sheep 'came forward. Buyers were present from Morrinsville, Hauraki Plains and Auckland. Competition was rather dull, but the bulk of the yarding changed hands. All the wethers, young ewes and lambs, which sold at fully Waikato rates, were purchased by local farmers. Full-mouth ewes were slightly lower than outside lvalues. Four-tooth wethers made 22/3 to <23/6; fair two-tooth wethers, 20/1, 20/6, 21/6; small two-tooth wethers, 18/ to 19/4; fair two-tooth ewes, £1 5/6; small Romney two-tootn ewes, £1 3/2, £1 4/2 to' £1 4/6; small Down cross two-tooth ewes, £1 1/, £1 1/7 to £1 2/6; fair six-tooth ewes, £1 4/6 to £1 5/2; fair f.m. ewes, 15/8, 16/3, 17/, 17/6 to 18/7; cull and thin ewes, 12/ to 13/. Lambs, killable, shorn, 18/9; lambs, killable, woolly, 17/6; fair shorn ewe lambs, 14/; fair shorn m.s. lambs, 11/6 to 13/6; small shorn lambs, 8/, 9/, 9/10, 10/6. One-shear Corriedale rams, 3 to 3ft gns; one-shear Romney rams, .334 to 3ft gns; other, rams, 6/ to 30/.

Alfred Buckland and Sons, Ltd., report:— During the week we held sales at Wellsford, Turua, Helensville, and Tuakau, a pig sale at Tuakau, and sheep and "ram fairs at Westfield. and Clevedon. There were fair yardings of cattle, which changed hands at ruling prices. The recent advance j in pigs was sustained at Tflakau, where there was an average entry. Sheep at both Westfield and Clevedon found ready buyerrf. Old and cull ewes were easier. Other classes sold at values equal .to those realised at Tuakau the previous Monday. Best two-tooth ewes made £19/ to £1 12/3 for two pens on aceouht of Mr. A. D. Bell, Clevedon; other twotooth ewes, £1 3/ to £1 7/9; best four, six arid eight-tooth ewes, £1 6/ to £1 9/; •mailer eWes, same age, £1 3/0 to £15/; best four and five-year-old ewes, £1 3/6 to £1 5/6; others, £1 to £13/; older ewes, 14/ to 19/; cull ewes, 6/ to 11/6; fat and forward wethers, £ 1 3/ to £15/; store wethers, 19/ to £1 2/6; small twotooth wethers, 17/ to 18/6; fat and forward woolly lambs, 18/ to £1 1/; good woolly lambs,. 14/ to 16/; smaller woolly lambs. 12/ to 13/9; shorn lambs, 12/ to 14/; small shorn lambs, 9/ to 11/6; best two-tooth Romney rams, £4 4/ to 0% gns; others, 1U gns to £3 3/; two-tooth' Southdown i rams, £8 8/ to £10 10/ for best; others, £6 6/ to 7*A- gns; Leicester rams, £2 2/ to £55/; Shropshire rams,' £2 2/ to 3% gns; sound aged rams, £1 1/ to IV4 gns; old and 'worn ranis, 10/6 to 18/. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., reports:— We held sales of cattle during the past week at Warkworth, Ngatea, Paeroa and Pukekohe, all classes of cattle selling at late, quotations. Best dairy cows and heifers, close to profit, made £10 to £14 5/; others, close to profit, £6 10/ to £9 17/6; backward springers, £5 to £7 10/aged cows and inferior heifers, £2 10/ to £4 15/; bulls, £2 to £8 10/, according to weight and quality; 18-months to twojl,"'e™ suitab le for dairy purposes, £315/ to £5 15/;, yearling to. 18-months heifers, best, £2 15/ to £5; others, £l' 15/ to £2 10/; weaner calves, 15/ to £1 12/6yearling to 18-mdritli steer's,' £2' 10/ t6 £3 10/; 2 to 2%-year steers, £3 15/ to £4 17/6; 3 3%-year steers, £5 to £6 5/; 4 to 4%-year steers, £0-7/6 to £0 17/0; .grown pteers, forward condition, £7 to ' £7 12/6; beef at fully Westfield quota-' .ti6ns.r We also held sheep fairs at Westfield and Tuakau, when more than- the advertised numbers were yarded. There was • steady demand for breeding ewes and store lambs, all classes of these sheep realising satisfactory prices. Rams were *idull of sale. Two-tooth ewes made £13/ to 11 m four mi* six-tooth ewes. £14/ to £1 8/6; fijn. ewe®, £1 to £1 «/•;

full-mouth to failing, 10/ to 19/; poor and inferior ewes, 5/ upwards; ewe lambs, 17/ to £1 6-/3; store wethers, 18/ to £13/; store lambs, shorn, 7/6 to 14/; woolly, 11/ to 16/6; 270 5-year-old ewes from Ngapuke Estate, Wairamarama, averaged £1 6/6; Romney rams, two-tooth, IVz to gns; Southdown rams, two-tooth, 7 to 10 gns; E.L/. rams, two-tooth. 3 to 5 gns; B.L. ranis, two-tooth, 3 to 5Vz gns; Shropshire rams, two-tooth, VAi to 3 gns; older rams, 1 gu upwards.

ADDINGTON MARKET. A "LIGHT" SALE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. Entries were on 'the light side at Addington to-day. Store and fat lambs sold keenly. Ewes sold slowly for all but the best. Fat lambs made good prices, while fat cattle improved slightly on account of a small entry. Fat sheep showed practically no change. There was another small entry of lambs, owing to rains having improved the feed prospects. There was a good sale, values hardening and being up on three weeks ago by 4/ to 5/. The ewes included North Island lines of poor to medium class, and these sold draggingly. Good local halfbreds, however, were snapped up.

Two-tooth Romney cross ewes realised 27/6 to 29/6; ipferiorj 25/3 to 26/9; four and six-tooth, 30/ to 34/6; good four, six and eight-tooth, 26/ to 30/; failing-mouth crossbred ewes, 18/6 to 22/; aged, 8/ to 15/6; good toothed half bred ewes to 40/6; four-tooth, 33/6; four, six and eight-tooth, 26/6 to 30/; low-conditioned, 22/6 to 24/9; aged ewes, 8/9 to 14/6; forward three-quarter-bred lambs, 22/ to 24/5; forward halfbred wether ' lambs, 21/6 to 23/; medium, 17/ to 18/6; small and inferior, 12/6 to 15/; cull lambs, 10/ to 12/.

Fat Lambs. —There were 3200 entered. There was a good sale at full export rates. Best made 32/ to 33/7; prime, 28/6 to 31/6; medium, 25/6 to 28/; light, 23/ to 25/.

Fat Sheep.—An average entry, with more wethers. Butchers' sheep were inclined to be easier, but lighter sorts were taken by exporters at about last week's values. Extra prime wethers, 32/6 to 36/1; prime, 28/8 to 31/; medium, 25/6; light, 21/ to 25/; extra prime ewes, 25/ to 28/; prime, 19/6 to 24/; medium, 17/ to 19/; light, 14/ to 16/6.; aged, 12/ to 13/6.

Fat Cattle. —Best beef made 36/ to 39/. .per 1001b, and in some cases 40/; medium quality, 33/ to 36/; heavy-weight, 32/ to 34/; medium cow beef, 26/ to 29/. Fat Pigs.—Porkers, average per lb, 5d to 6%d; baconers, 4d to 5%d.