HAMILTON STOCK SALES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 213, 8 September 1926, Page 4

HAMILTON STOCK SALES.

BEEF MUCH FIRMER. PRIME BULLOCKS TO £10. I-AT SHEKL' IXAVX. The Farmers' < o-operative Auctioneerin;.. Company report a- follows: — At the weekly -to k -ak' in t;:o Irankton yard* ye-terday »ye hal ;i entry of beef and a L-ood yardinj! of fat Bml store riiee;>. A fair number of fsit pigs came forward and store? w*re pen-lit-d in the α-ual large number:. Bet-i vviii mic-li turner than the pro vioua week, prime IntMocks selling to £15. medium prime £13 12, tj to €13 14 . fat COWS £11 to £11 10/. The fat sin-en market «as uuvthin? but bn?k, and in mini: ra-e- tin-re was a drop in value- from the previous .veek of from three to four -!iillini- a head. Shorn fm 'Aether.- hroii.'ht 2'i/: Mir.it ehorn. 22/: primp i-wi-a an 1 ivetiicr*. mixed, sol'] l.t :j:5/: prime woolly Imil'{.'eU, 27/: medium wether-, in wool. 2i>/; medium weight fat ewi-». 2-"i ': lii'ht. 21/G; forward conditioned lilack-faci-il hoggets, lrt/; c.ill-. 7/('i; two and f.iiirtooth store wethers. 24/1: small. 2i)/!) ; cull.-, 13/3; cull twoj in lamb, 17/ i;.

Store cattle: Fre-h doiirlitionrd njivj brought £4 7/0 to £4 I<> i; ; sood-frame.l fctore?. £.') S/ii to £4 1/; cull?. 20/ to :!•")/; in calr heifer.-, backward. €4 .">/ to C"i: empty heifers, £.3 to -£:s 10/.

l'il's: Fats solrl firm at Kite rate-. while store: in mo?t eases sold as well as the previous week with exception of a few lots towards the cml of tlie ?a!e. which were cheaper. Heavy baconcrs. £4 10/ to £4 17/; medium prime. £4 10/ to €4 12/; medium. £3 13/ to £4 2/; jrood porkers and Imeonors, £3 S/ to £;i 12/: medium porker-. C.'i to ■C 3 5/; li<rht porker?. £2 10/ to £2 IS/: choppers. £3 in/ to £3 10/; store porker?. 35/ to €2 2/; slips. 27/ to 33/; best weaner-. 10/ to 25/; interior, 0/ to 15/; Tamworth cross sows in [)!<.', £0 2/0; others, C 3 7/1! to £0 10/.