Dairy Cattle Market Shade Easier

Franklin Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 43, 19 April 1940, Page 5

Dairy Cattle Market Shade Easier

PUKEKOHE STOCK SALE BEEF VALUES FIRM PIGS IN KEEN DEMAND' - An easier tone prevailed in the dairy cattle section at the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited’s fortnightly, sale at Pukekohe yesterday. This class of cattle was in short supply.* There was an average yarding of cattle. Springers were easier, and beef sold well up to Westfield rates. Boner cattle met with keen competition and values showed an improvement on the previous sale. There was a good yarding of all classes ol' pigs which sold on a par with recent rates, almost a complete clearance being effected. Quotations: — Dairies: Best heifers, £9 to £lO Os; others, £7 to £8 10s; backward, £0 £6 10s; best cows, £8 to £9 17s fid; others, £5 to £7 10s. Beef: Light prime steers, to £10; heavy prime cows, £7 10s to £8 12s 6d; medium, £6 to £7 ss; light, £5 to £5 15s: fat Jersey cows, £5 10s to £6 4s; lighter, £4 15s to £5 ss; prime heifers. £5 to £6 ss. Boner and store cattle: Heavy boner cows, £4 to £4 19s; lighter, £3 to £3 18s; inferior cows, £2 to £2 17s; heifers, r.w.b., £5 to 2s 6d; 18-months Shorthorn steers, to £4 17s fid; Shorthorn weaner heifers, to £2 17s; Shorthorn weaner steer calves, to £2 12s fid; Jersey weaner heifers, £R to £4; small Jersey weaner heifers, £2 to„£2 15s. Bulls: Potter bulls made from £4 to £8 17s fid.

Pigs: Choppers, £2 10s to £4; heavy baconers, £4 4s to £4 10s; medium, £3 15s to £4 Is: light, £3 5s to £3 11s; hfeavy porkers, £2 15s t,o £3 Is: medium, £2 8s to £2 13s; light, £2 to £2 ss; large stores, £1 10s to £1 15s; 10s to 14s; others, 4s to 8s: sows at profit, £3 3s to £6.