STOCK SAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 214, 8 September 1921, Page 10

STOCK SAMS.

AUCKLAND. Alfred BneMand and Sons Ltd., Tcport: During the week we held sales of dairy anil store cattle at TVestlield. Waiuku nua Runeiman. and clearing sales at Avondale. ■Buckland and Manurewa. I>iiry cattle of good qnality continue to be in demand. Hie store cattle market remains dull. Best dairy cows at profit are selling at from £>4 to £2!>, good cows £1S to £- v i, second quality £12 to £17, otliers £2 to £11: best springing heifers £I<i to £22 good heifers £12 to £15. smaller £S to £11. others £2 10/ to £7: empty young cons £2 to £.'!. store cows 10/ to £110/: yearling to 2-year-old dairy heifers £3 10/ to £!> according to breed and quality: 2 to 3-year-old steers £3 to £4 Si/, yearling steers £1 5/ to fl 15/; calves 10/ to £1 5/. The >ew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency. Company. Ltd.. report: We lield sales of dairy and store <-atlle during the past week at W-estfielil. Ngatea and Papaturn. The demand for dairy stork tas not been so good Rest, close to profit £15 to £21. others £10 10/ to £14 10/; backward. £!) 15/; aged cows and inferior heifers. £2 10' to £C 5/. The store cattle market remains the same. Grown steers £5 7,' to £7 10. :> to 31-year steers £3 r>/ to £5 4.'. 2 to liJ-ycar steers £2 to £3 2T>, yearling to IS-niontli steers 15' to fl 15/: yearliiiß to 18-month heifers £1 17/6 to £3, 18-month heifers £3 10/ to £5 IT-β: empty cows and heifers, £1 to £2 5/; beef ai fully >Vestficld prices. ADDIXOTOX. (Hy Telegraph.—Press Association.) CriRISTCHURCU, Wednesday. At the Addington market to-dny there nan a large attendance. The ynrdinjES of fat sheep and cattle were large. Store sheep were yarded In small numbers. In other sections the peunlngs were about the average. Store Sheep.—The yarding wns one of the .smallest for ;i lonp time *l*ho ontrv consisted chiefly of ewes ami lionets. Bidding »'js lifeless aufl sales rtiftleult to make. Sound and failing mouthed ewes and lambs made 10/3; good lmlf-bred failing mouthed ewes in lamb. 15 C>; four, six and eight toothed ewes, 144 to 14/0; failing-mouthed ewes. In lamb. 110 tn 13/: welher hoggets. G/9 to S/4: cull hoggets, 3/fl: forward two and four tooth wethers, H/0; four and six tooth wethers, 12/10. ward, mostly wethers. The quality generally was good, with some really prime lots. Bidding opened at slightly lower rates than last week, and nil round there was an easing In values of about 1/ per head. Four I freezing buyers operated. Kxtrn prime wethers made 23 0 to 2S/0. prime ISO to '220, medium 159 to 18/, light and unfinished 14' to 15/3; prime ewes 13' lo 114 0, light and unfinished, I<V!> to 120; i prime hoggets 14/9 to 20/1, ordinary 9/0 to 115 '6. I Fat rattle.—The finality all round was 'above the average. The sale opened moderately well, but eased as it progressed, prices receding 30/ to 40' per head. Extra prime steers made £24 15. prime fir. to £18 7 fi. medium £10 10/ to £14 10. light and unfinished £G to £10. extra prime heifers '£14 5,'. prime £0 13/ to £10 10 f>. ordinary £5 to £0: prime rows £9 to £12 13/, ordinary .£5 13/ to £S 10/. I Veulers.—Runners made £7. good vealers ,£3 10' to £3, medium £2 10/ to £?. 5.', small T>' to £° 5/ I Store Tattle.—Four and flve-yenr-old ■ steers made £5 12'(!. IS-months-old heifers £4, yearling steers 30', cows in fair condition £2 12'G to £.'t 126. I Dairy Cattle.—Extra good second and .third calvers £15 10/ to £24, ordinary third and fourth calvers £15. springing heifers £!) 10/ to £13, extra good cows In milk, just calved, £13; aged inferior cowa and cows iv milk 15/ to £4 10/. I Fat Pips.—Choppers £5 to £S 5/, light baconers £4 13/ to £o 10/. heavy £6 to £7. extra heavy £7 12/6 to £S. average price per lb., 0d to 9}d; light porkers. £2 IS,' to £3 10/, heavy £3 15/ to £4 12/, average price per lb., IOJd. Store Pigs.—Best Rtores £2 15/ to £3 i> 0. medium £2 5/ to £2 12. snrall £1 10/ to £2 3/: weaners 18/ to £1 14/; sows in pig .£j to £7 15/.