LIVE STOCK MARKET

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 221, 18 September 1942, Page 5

LIVE STOCK MARKET

MATAMATA YARDIXGS At the Matamata sale conducted by Dalgety and Co., a medium yarding of sheep and cattle met good competition from a lull bench of buyers. Dairies were penned in average numbers and quality springing and calved heifers were sought at prices up to £ 15. while a good yarding of fat pigs came forward. Quotations: Sheep: Fat wethers, 37/ to 40,'. Cattle: Medium fat steers, £12 7/6 to £13 7 6: fat S.H. cows. £7 10/ to £8 15/: medium fat Jersey cows, £5 9/ to £5 19/; light fat Jersey heifers. £6 to £6 10/; medium boners, £4 to £4 12 6: light. £3 to £3 15/; others, £1 10/ to £2: empty twoyear heifeTs, £4 10/ to £4 12/; yearling Jersey heifers, £5 to £5 8/. Dairies: Quality S.H. heifers, £13 to £15: quality calved. £12 10/ to £13 5/; S.H., £9 10/ to £12; backward. £6 10/ to £8 15/: springing cows, £9 to £11 10/: calved, £7 15/ to £10. Pigs: Medium baconers. £3 18/ to £4: light, £3 8/ to £3 15,': heavy porkers, £3 15/ to £3 3/; light, £2 8/ to £2 12. : heavy stores, £2 5/ to £2 9/: medium. £1 16/ to £2 4/; slips, £1 8/ to £1 15/; good weaners, £1 10/ to £1 18/; others, £1 2/ to £1 8/: sows, £6 7/8 to £7 5/.