HAMILTON STOCK MARKET.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 210, 5 September 1928, Page 4

HAMILTON STOCK MARKET.

ANOTHER GOOD SALE. PORKERS ADVANCE. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., Hamilton, report having held their usual weekly stock sale at Frankton ealeyards on Tuesday, September 4, as under:— There was a email yarding of beef. Prices were on a par with last week's rates. Choice ox sold at equal to 43/ per 1001b. Choice cow and heifer beef at equal to 40/ per 1001b. Heavy bullocks made up to £18 17/6, sold by Mr. E. W. R. Leslie, his three pens averaging £18 5/ per head. On account of the same vendor we sold choice heifers up to £15 7/6, and bought by Messrs E. A. Bryant and Sons. Ordinary fat cows, £10 10/ to £13; inferior and unfinished, £7 10/ to £9 15/. Choice vealers, £2 15/; smaller, £2 8/. Only a few store cattle yarded. Wellgrown Jersey yearling heifers, £7. Jersey cross yearling heifers, £4 10/; Friesian yearling heifers, £5; store cows, £3 10/ to £5. There was a moderate entry of fat sheep. Heavy prime sheep sold at late rates. Extra heavy wethers made up to I £2 10/; medium wethers, 38/' to 40/; I extra good fat ewes, to 38/; unfinished and I medium ewes, 25/ to 28/; extra heavy fat hoggets, to 49/6. A line of forty full and failing mouthed woolly ewes (with 100 per cent of lam'bs) sold at 42/6. Pigs were yarded in large numbers. Prices of baconers were on a par with last week's rates. Porkers sold at increased rates, whiilst weaners and stores were a little easier. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneeringr Company, Limited, report:— At the Frankton weekly stock market yesterday we had an average yarding of cattle and a large yarding of fat and store pigs. Quotations follow:— Beef: Prime fat bullocks, £16 15/ to £18 5/; medium fat, £11 5/ to £14 10/; prime fat cows, £13 16/ to £15; medium, £9 15/ to £12 19/; light, £7 6/ to £9 2/6; store cows, £3 17/ to £5 5/; yearling jersey and Jersey cross heifers, £4 to £5 14/; yearling Shorthorn and Jersey cross heifers, £3 12/ to £3 17/. Sheep: Prime fat wethers, £2 9/ to £2 32/6; fat ewes, £1 14/1 to £1 18/; fat hoggets, £1 11/2 to £1 13/. Pigs: Heavy baconers, £3 10/ to £3 17/; medium, £3 3/ to £3 9/; light, £2 14/ to £3; heavy porkers. £2 6/ to £2 12/; light, £1 17/ to £2 2/; good stores, J £1 5/ to £1 9/; slips, 16/ to 22/; weancis, 7/6 to 12/.