FRANKTON STOCK SALES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 29 June 1927, Page 4

FRANKTON STOCK SALES.

VALUES WELL MAINTAINED. HAMILTON, this day. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneer- , ing Company, Limited, report:— At the weekly stock sale at the Frank- ( ton yards yesterday, small entry of fat • cattle and sheep was sold at prices well I up to the previous week's rates. - fair > number of dairy cows and heifers was i submitted. There was good competition ' for anything choice and close to profit. " A good number of fat pigs was penned I and sold at improved prices. Stores sold 1 at late rates. ! Beef: Good quality prime heavy cows, : £7 11/ to £7 17/6; heavy prime, £6 to 1 £7; prime medium weights, £5 10/ to \ £5 19/6; prime heavy cows, £4 15/ to ; £5 10/; etores, £2 5/ to £2 11/; eighteen- ; months empty cows and shorthorn cross heifers, £2 15/ to £2 19/8; dairy cows and heifers, well forward, £8 10/ to £10; good spring calvers, £9 5/ to £10 10/; t medium, £7 to £< ' 12/; inferior and i backward, £3 to £5. j Sheep: medium fat ewes, 18/; prime i woolly hoggets, 24/6; medium fat wethers, i 24/9; store to forward four and six i tooth wethers, to 24/2. i Pigs: heavy baconers, £3 10/ to £3 15/; i light to medium baconers, £3 to £3 10/; i heavy porkers, £2 15/ to £2 19/; lighter r sorts, £2 6/ to £2 10/; heavy choppers, t £4 to £4 5/; good stores, 37/6 to £2 4/; - sows due to furrow, £5 to £5 10/; slipe, • 24/ to 29/; best weaners, 17/ to 2i/, i smaller, 10/ to 15/.