STOCK VALUES

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVII, Issue 9984, 24 January 1929, Page 1

STOCK VALUES

SALE AT FUANKTON. A short supply of beef nu>( wilh ;i spirited demand ul the Frankton slock sale on TiuNiiuy. ami prices reached t; 18 .As and £l7 as for prime tat bullocks, Uio highest prices realised since lagi winter. Sheep sold voiy well, although there was an easing in price compared with last, week’s rates. The auctioneers.’ reports are as follows: The Farmers’ Auctioneering Company, Limited,—'Time was only a medium yarding of beef and fat sheep, but a full yarding of store sheep came for. ward. Beef wa s again in good demand and Jinn at lute rales. Prices for fat sheep were slightly easier. Although the demand was good for all classes of slt.u'r sheep, prices did not realise recent values. Medium fat steers brought £l4 7s Cid to £ls 4s; lighter pnme, £l2 11s to £l3 10s; heavy fat cows and heifers. £9 12s (id to £10; lighter, £8 5s to £0 ss; killable, £0 17s OJ to £7 15s; runners, £0 15s to £7 ss; coalers, £4 10s to £5 ss; fat wethers, 30s Od; lor ward-condition two.toolh wethers, 2Ss •id; tut lambs, 28s to 29s lid; lal owes, 20s to 22s (id; fat hoggets, 28s to 30s; store two-tooth ewes, 27s lid; foui'-tooth ewes, 30s; good framed S.M. ewes, 275; live-year ewes, 25a 6d; ewes, failing mouth, 18s to 22s Gd; mixed sox woolly lambs,’ 22s lOd; shorn ewe lambs, 22s 8d; .shorn wether lambs, 19s 10d; cull iambs, 13s 3d to 14s (id. 1 here was a heavy yarding of fat pigs of good quality which sold at advanced prices under' keen competition. Prices were: Bacouers: Heavy, £3 lo £3 8s; lighter, £2 12s to £2 17s; porkers, heavy, £2 9s to £2 13s; lighter, £1 18s to £2 3s; slips, 22s to 28s; weaners, 12s lo 18s. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited.—Prime fat bullocks brought £ls to £ta l<s (id; liirhler fat bullocks, to £l3 2s 0d; fat cows, £9 IGs to £ll 18s; lighter cows, £7 5s to £8 2s Gel; fat wethers, 32s to 32s 4d; fat ewes,, lo 23s Gd; heavy buconers, £2 18s to £3 7s; lighter, £2 3s lo £2 15s; porkers, 33s to £2. Messes Dalgely and Company, Limit-ed.—-Good ful cows brought £8 to £9 15s - ordinary fat c-ows, £G 10s to £7 l()s; fat heifers, £9 5s to £10; fat ewes, 18s to £1 Is; fat wethers, 31s to 32s 3d; well.grown lambs, 19s to £1 Is; woolly lambs, 19S Gd to 22s Gd; breeding cwc.s, 27s Gd; two-tooth ewes, 31s Gd; inferior ewes, 15s to 235. ■