FRANKTON STOCK SALE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 204, 29 August 1928, Page 4

FRANKTON STOCK SALE.

(By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.)

HAMILTON, this day. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Ltd., report:—

At the Frankton weekly stock market yesterday we had a good entry of fat cattle. Prices for beef were up to the previous week's standard. Prices for steers were equal to £2 5/ per 1001b, and for prime cow and heifer beef, to 42/. Plain cattle were slightly easier, if anything. Light prime steers, £14 4/ to £14 15/; yonng and light fat steers, £11 18/ to £13 13/; unfinished four-year steers, £11 7/ to £11 12/; fat cows and heifers, £12 3/ to £13 11/; medium weights. £10 to £11 10/6; light. £7 18/ to £9 10/; store cows, £4 5/ to £5; boners, £3 to £4; bobby calves, 9/ to 13/6. A small entry of fat sheep sold at firm rates. Fat ewes, 35/6; fat hoggets, 33/6; light hoggets, 27/. A full number of fat and store pigs i were penned, and prices were unchanged. I Baconers, £3 7/ to £3 15/; porkers. £2 5/ to £2 13/; slips, 22/ to 26/; weaners. 112/ to 18/6. BEEF A SHADE LOWER. Messrs. Dalgety and Company report having held their usual weekly stock sale at Frankton saleyards on Tuesday, the 28th instant as under: — There was a large yarding of beef, including some very choice lines. There was a good demand and prices were a shade lower than last week, choice ox selling at equal to 43/ per 1001-b; choice cows and heifere at equal to 40/ per 1001b. A truck of prime ox, on account of. Mr. E. W. R. Leslie, sold at-up to £20 2/6, these being bought by Mr. W. E. Shattock, the line averaging £17 7/6. One heifer, on account of the same vendor, £14 12/6. Ordinary choice cows and heifers, £10 15/ to £13 7/6. Runners made -£7 12/ to £7 14/. Light cows and inferior qualitv, £6 to £8 2/6. Vealers, £2 to £2 14/. * ' There wa« a small yarding of store cattle, which met with a very keen demand at high rates. A pen of forward good quality Shorthorn bullocks made £11 8/. A pen of Polled Angus cows in calf, £7. A pen of Hereford and Shorthorn cows, £6 17/6. A pen of forward store cows, £6 11/. A pen of Jersey cows, £3 14/. A pen of Shorthorn yearling heifere, £4 4/. There was a small yarding of sheep. , Prime heavy ewes made 34/6 to 39/. Fat hoggets, 30/ to 32 6. A pen of store mixed sex hoggets, 27/7. There was a large yarding of both fat and store pigs. Fat sold firm at late rates, while stores sold on a par with previous sale. Best bacjners, £3 10/ to £3 16/. Medium baconerg, £2 18/ to £3 8/. Beet porkers, £2 8/ to £2 14/. Light porkers, £2 to £2 5/. Best stores, £1 12/ to £1 16/; slips. 18/ to £1 4/; weaners, 12/ to 16/; others, 8/ to 11/.