MORRINSVILLE STOCK SALE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 77, 31 March 1928, Page 12

MORRINSVILLE STOCK SALE.

(By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.! MORRINSVILLE. this day. There was a good yarding of all classes of stock at tlie Farmers' Auctioneering Company's sale at Morrinsville yesterday. The demand was fair and late rates were fully maintained. Prices were: —

Beef: Heavy, fat steers. £13 6 to £13" 7/6: heavy, fat cows. £S 10/ to £10; medium, £0 17/ to £8: light. £5 12/ to £6 9/; plain and unfinished. £4 18/ £5 s'; forward-conditioned. Hereford steers, £8 lo : forward-condi-tioned store cows, £3 15/ to £4 7/6; others, £2 5/ to £3 26; Jersey heifer calves, £2 12/6 to £3 4 : Shorthorn calves, £1 16/ to £2 s'; steer calves, £2 1/ to £2 5/; bulls, £4 to £5 17 6: dairy cows, £7 15/ to £9; springing heifers, £6 10/ to £8; Jersey in-calf heifers, £5 14/ to £6. Pigs: Heavy baconers, £4 to £4 4/; medium, £3 11/ to £3 13': light, £2 18/ to £3; heavv porkers. £2 12' to £2 18/; light, £1 18/ to £2 4'; store. 22' to 27/; slips, 13/ to 17/; weaners, 7/ to 11/. Sheep: Well-grown m.s. store lambs, shorn, 16/6 to 17/3: good well-grown woolly store lambs, 19 6; smaller, 13 10; good shorn ewe lambs, 18 10; shorn wether lambs, 16.3; cull lamlis, 119; forwardconditioned lambs, 20 6.