FAT STOCK SALES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 19, 23 January 1929, Page 4

FAT STOCK SALES.

NGATEA. The Farmers Co-operative Auctioneering to Ltd., report having held their sale at \Btttea, when only a medium yarding came lorward. Beef was in good demand, and sold at late rates. Following are the quotations:—Cattle: Heavy fat cows, £9 10/ lo £10 3/; medium fat cows, £8 to £» 11/; lighter, £7 2/6 to £7 6/; forward conditioned cows, £5 19/ to £6 10/; store cows, £3 15/ to £5 5/; bulls, potters, £6 12/fl to £7 10/; springing heifers, close to profit, £9 10/ to £i 0 6/; later calvers, £tt 10/; dairy cows, close to profit, £b ;»/ to £9 10/; fat sheep, mixed, woolly, 31/6. Pigs: Slips, 21/. CAMBRIDGE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Hamilton, report:—At the Cambridge stock sale on Monday we penned a medium entry of cattle, which sold at fully ruling rates. Pigs came lorward'in average numbers. We quote: Fat cows, £9 to £8 6/; killable cows, £7 7/ to £8 5/; cows, in forward condition, £6 10/ to £7 3/; cows, in fresh condition, £5 8/ to £6 5/; rough store cows, £4 to £4 1"/; 18-months ¥riesian-cross heifers, r w.b., £6 1/; small Jersey-cross heifers, £5 8/; fleshy bulls, £6 7/6 to £7 15/. Pigs: Large stores, £1 12/ to £1 18/; medium stores, £1 5/6 to £1 8/; slips, 19/ to £1 3/6; weaners, 9/ to 14/. HAMILTON. The Farmers' Auctioneering Company, Ltd., report:—There was only a medium yarding of beef and fat sheep, but a full yarding of store sheep came forward. Beef was again in good demand, and hrm at late rates. Prices for fat sheep were •lightly easier. Although the demand was good for all classes of store sheep prices did not realise recent values. Medium fat steers brought £14 7/6 to £15 4/; lighter prime, £12 11/ to £13 10/; heavy fat cows and heifers, £9 12/6 to £10; lighter, £8 5/ to £9 5/; killable, £6 17/6 to £7 15/; runners, £6 15/ to £7 5/; vealers, £4

10/ to £5 5/; fat wethers, 30/9; forwardcondition two-tooth wethers, 28/4; fat lambs, 28/ to 29/11; fat ewes, 20/ to 22/6; fat hoggets, 28/ to 30/; store two-tooth ewes, 27/6; four-tooth ewes, 30/; good framed s.m. ewes, 27/; five-year ewes, 25/6; ewes, failing mouth, 18/ to 22/6; mixed sex woolly lambs, 22/10; shorn ewe lambs, 22/8; shorn wether lambs, 19/10; cull lambs, 13/3 to 14/6. There was a heavy yarding of fat pigs of good quality, which sold at advanced rates under keen competition. Prices were: Bacouers, heavy, £3 to £3 8/; '.ighter, £2 12/ to £2 17/; porkers, heavy, £2 9/ to £2 13/; lighter, £1 18/ to £2 3/; slips, 22/ to 28/; weaners, 12/ to 18/. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd.—Prime fat bullocks brought £15 to £15 17/6; lighter fat bullocks, to £13 2/6; fat cows, £9 16/ to ! £11 18/; lighter cows, £7 5/ to £8 2/6; fat wethers, 32/ to 32/4; fat ewes, to 23/6; haavy baconers, £2 18/ to £3 7/; lighter, £2 3/ to £2 15/; porkers,, 32/ to £2. TAUMARUNUI. At the sale of sheep and cattle on Tuesday, cattle and sheep were in strong demand, and practically the whole yarding was disposed of at late values. The following prices were realised:—Store pigs, 13/ to 16/; good porkers, 25/; fat and forward four-tooth wethers, 27/10; mixed aged ewes, 29/ to 30/; other mixed aged ewes, 19/3 to 2G/9; mixed sex lambs, shorn, 18/1; ewe lambs, woolly, 21/9; wether lambs, woolly, 19/7; rams, 10/; cull lambs, 11/4 to 13/1. Fat bullocks, £12 9/; fat cows, £7 10/ to £9 2/6; prime fat cows, £10 16/; fat steers; £10 10/; fat heifers, £6 12/ to £7 4/; light fat cows, £7 3/; run cows. £5 4/; cows and calves, £4 5/ to £8; steer calves, £3 9/ to £3 12/: heifers, 18-months, £5; empty heifers, £4 4/; steers, 2% to 3-years. £8 12/ to £10 6/; steers,, 18-months. £6 3/ to £6 12/: cows, £4 17/ to £6 17/; Jersey cow. £3 17/; Jersey cow in calf,. £7 18/; heifers, in calf, £6. HAMILTON STOCK SALES. Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held their usual weekly stock sale on Tuesday, January 22, as under:— There was a good yarding of beef. Prices were practically the same as last week. All, good young cows and heifers and prime sold under good competition. Best young cows and heifers sold from £9 7/6 to £10 15/; heavy cows, £10 to £11 2/6; small and light cows, £7 5/ to £8 2/6; small vealers, 30/. Only a few pens of store cattle yarded. Boner cows made £6 12/6; Jersey heifer calves made £3 10/; heifer calves. 30/ to 55/. There was a fairly large yarding of l e uL' lat B,lce P BoUl at ,ate rates. Store lambs were a shade easier, although practically all changed hands at very satis«n°SLEte Woolly mixed sex lambs .hnlr^? 0 " 2 , 1 ' 3 - Shorn m.s. lambs, 20/1; T f * cthw , «"»»«. 18/6; cull aged ewes, sSSfefiMAr and Bix - tooth . fat and