Large Number of Dairy Cattle Yarded.

Franklin Times, Volume XXV, Issue 63, 4 June 1935, Page 4

Large Number of Dairy Cattle Yarded.

PUKEKOHE SALE. GOOD QUALITY SELL WELL. BEEF PRICES IMPROVE. For dairy cattle, which came forward in large numbers at the Pukekohe sale conducted on Thursday by Alfred Buckland and Sons, Limited, anything of quality sold well at steady rales. There was a large yarding of beef, and values showed an improvement on last sale. The top price, £lO, was pair! for extra heavy prime fat bullocks. In the pig section there was an average yarding of fats and a larger number of stores. The demand for baconers and porkers was keen, but there was a falling off in prices for stores, more especially toward the end of the sale. Service boars were not in request. Prices realised were: —

Dairy: Best cows and heifers, £5 to £6 15s; others, £3 10s to £4 15s; inferior, £1 10s to £3. Beef and stores: Extra heavy prime fat bullocks, £8 5s to £10; four from Mr F. Hull, Olaua, averaged £8 17s Gd; lighter, £5 15s to £G 17s Gd; pert* of three-years-old store steers, £5 Is each; extra heavy prime cows and heifers, £7 7s Gd to £8; five from Mr F. Hull averaged £7 15s; heavy prime cows and heifers, £G 2s Gd to £7 2s Gd; lighter, £4 is to £5 J2s Gd: light, £2 16s to £3 17s Gd; other Tillable cows, £1 15s to £2 14s; boner cows, 13s to £1 15s; good fresh store cows, £1 10s to £2 8s: old cows, 10s upwards; potter bulls, £1 5s to £3 17s: cows and calves, £1 14s to £3 8s; best Jersey heifers, £1 3s to £1 15s; others, 8s to 17s; fat lambs, 14s to 17s. Pigs: Choppers. £1 5s to £3 19s;

heavy prime baconers, £3 7s to £3 10s: medium, £2 17s to £3 2s; light, £2 8s to £2 14s; heavy porkers, £1 19s to £2 4s; medium porkers, £1 14s to £1 17s: light, £1 8s to £1 12s; small and unfinished, 17s to £1 3.5: large stores, 18s to £1 Is; smaller, 14s to IGs; slips, 10s to 12s; good weaners, 7s to 10s: weedy and small,

3s toj 6s: sow with litter of 10, £7; 1 sow§;due to farrow, £l 10s to £3 ss; service boars, £1 10s to 2£gns. The average price per lb. Tor ers and porkers was A*om ,$P to '#2d.''r - b 31 .pf