STOCK VALUES.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXI, Issue 10905, 3 September 1932, Page 4

STOCK VALUES.

PRICES AT OPOTIKI. .Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, report that at the monthly stock sale at Opotiki on Thursday there was a small yarding of both sheep and cattle. The quality of the dairy stock was not up to the usual standard and no fat cattle came forward. Prices were on a par with the previous sale. Store cows made up to 2Ss; springing heifers, to £5 10s; springing cows, £5 2s Gd to £6 2s 6d; grade Jersey bulls, £3 3s to £4 4s; fat wethers, 13s; store pigs, 13s 6d to 18s 6d; slips, 8s Gd. MATAMATA QUOTATIONS. The Farmers’ Auctioneering Company, Ltd., held its usual fortnightly stock sale at Matamata on Wednesday. A good yarding of all classes of cattle came forward. Beef cattle were penned in larger numbers than usual and quality cattle showed a sharp increase on Frankton rates. A good entry of yearling heifers sold under keen competition. There was a medium yarding of store pigs and a small yarding of fats. Values for all classes were easier. Quotations are: Cattle: Good quality young cows, on account of R. F. Hall, averaged £6 11s. Dairies: Jersey heifers, close to profit, medium £4 10s to £5 10s; small and backward heifers, £3 to £4; calved heifers, £3 10s to £3 15s; cows, close to profit, £2 15s to £3; inferior cows, 15s to £1 15 s. Beef; Prime fat cow’s, £6 5s to £6 12s; fat cows, £4 12s Gd to £5 Is; light fat cows, £3 12s to £4 3s; killable cows, £2 10s to £3 3s; freshconditioned cows, 33s to £2 ss; heavy boner cows, ISs to 265; poorer boner cows, 6s to 12s; choice quality yearling Jersey heifers, £3 19s to £4 2s; choice yearling Jersey-cross heifers £2 12s to £2 19s; other yearling Jer-sey-cross heifers, £1 15s to £2 ss; two-year-old Jersey and Jersey-cross heifers, £1 15s to £2 Is; .two-year-old Shorthorn heifers, £2 17s; other two-year-old Jersey and Jersey-cross heifers, 22s 6d to 30s; sound young cows, 20s to 275. Pigs; Baconers, 30s to 355; heavy porkers, 24s to 28s; light porkers, 17s to 225; stores, 14s to 18s Gd; slips, 10s to 14s; weaners, 7s to 10s; sows, in pig, up to £3 10s. Sheep: Fat hoggets, 10s to 11s.