TARANAKI STOCK SALES

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 20 June 1931, Page 8

TARANAKI STOCK SALES

PRICES OF THE WEEK. FARMERS’ CO-OP. REPORT. More activity has been displayed during the past week in all sections ot the stock market, reports the Farmers Co-operative Organisation Society. More inquiry is being made in the dairy heifer section; a lew outside buyers have been active and some sales of very choice heifers made during the week. There seems little difficulty in disposing of well-grown, well-done, good quality heifers that will calve about the end of July at about £5), but there is a big drop in value after that,' and even quality heifers which appear at all backward are hard to dispose of. Lines of medium heifers put up to auction are making from L- 5 IDs to £7. The clearing sale season is in full swing and the Farmers’ Co-op. sales have been more successful than perhaps was anticipated, the best- herds averaging from £8 10s to £lO for sound cows. .A few private sales of herds continue to he made, with prices slightly higher if anything than the auction sales average.' AVeaner heifers are beginning to find favour again and inquiries are coming forward for good cattle ; sales were made at prices ranging from £2 to £3 : ,os. For fat cattle there has been slightly more inquiry during the . week. Best fat cows make £o 10s and medium £4 to £4 Ids.

The works buyers are still active and large numbers of fat .sheep continue to find their way to the works: The market in Britain is encouraging and it is to be hoped that values will stabilise for next year’s supplies at the rates at present ruling. Fat wethers are worth from 13s (jd to 14s fid. In the fat lambs section competition is keen and best lambs make up to Ids. with good medium lambs 12s 6d to 13. s 6d. Fat ewes are becoming harder to find and butchers are (laying about 12s for the best ewes available. There is a tendency to kill more wether mutton.

In the store sheep -section inquiry has been active during the week for good owes in lamb and ewe hoggets. Sales of ewes have been made at 12s fid for mixed age ewes running with Southdown ranis, Ifis fid for two-tooth owes running with Southdown rams, and 13s for .ronr-vear-olds. Good ewe hoggets are in demand and command about 12s for good lines, with mediums at from 10s to 11s fid, with a-steady market for the hotter sorts. Two-tooth wethers are again difficult to find. AVethor hoggets are beginning to find favour again. Quotations range from 8s fid to 10s for well-done hoggets and a few sales are being made, A'ery little is doing in the store cattle section and yalues consequently are declining. It appears that until fat cattle come into demand there will be little movement in this section. A few sales of bullocks are going through but values are low and there is little demand at the present time throughout Taranaki for any other class of cattle, excepting at very low prices. Store cows continue to come into auction sales, but in decreasing numbers, and rates paid for good store cows vary from 30s to £2. Guaranteed sound empty cows are still making about oos for the better quality .sorts, with empty heifers in demand at about the same figure.

Pigs are coming forward and meet a ready sale at values considerably lower than have been ruling for some time. Store pigs make from Us to 17s, and smaller sorts 7s to 12s.

The firm’s auction sales during the week have attracted good entries, store cows prices ranging from 30s to £2 10s; fat and'forward cows £'2 10s to £3 os; dairy cows at auction from £5 to £8 15s. A sale at Te Kiri on account of E. W. Fasham attracted a large attendance. The cows were backward and not in the best of condition and, oon-i sidering this disadvantage, sold very well, the best cows making £6 to £7, with the poorer-conditioned sorts, calving late in September, from £3 10s to £iy. The sale conducted in conjunction with Newton King on behalf of Clout’s estate drew a very large attendance and was most successful. Tbe cattle came forward in splendid sale condition and the more typey cows coming in early all sold at about £9 to £ll. The average for the whole herd of 52 cows was £8 15s. The top price was £l3 10s, paid for a very young animal of attractive type. The heifers were in good order and, although not well into the Jersey, brought from £5 to £8 15s. Sir William le Fleming’s sale on Wednesday was also most successful and the cattle came forward in excellent order, and once again it was evident that the young early ealver would command a good price, the top price being £lB for a deep-bodied, very . typey August ealver, while the top cows in the herd made from £9 to £l3, the average price being about £9. At Eltliam on Wednesday an exceptionally large yarding of sheep came forward for this time of the year and met with good competition at rates showing a slight advance on previous! sales. The demand for ewe hoggets was keen. A line of good ewe hoggets made Us 9d, two trucks of good medium ewe hoggets 10s 7d and other sheep current rates. At the Hawera sale a good line of mixed age ewes, running with Southdown ram, on account of L. H. Earner met a rather disappointing market and were sold in truck lots at 10s to 10s fid the line. A line on account of a different vendor of four and 'ive-vear-nlds brought 9s. A smaller yarding of store cattle sold at the usual rates, bat cows on account of T. Tarrant made £5 7s, a pen of two-year Jersey heifers on account of B. C Lysaght met a slightly hotter demand and was disposed of at £B. Empty two-year boilers made 35s to 595. and weaner heifers 18s to 3.3 s fid.

NEWTON KINO REVIEW. Newton King, Ltd.’s, market report for the week states: Sustained lack of enthusiasm prevails in most sections of the stock market. The dairy section continues to he the main attraction, and so far as the northern end of the district is concerned comparatively little other business is being transacted. Shortness of feed is giving cause for anxiety wit.li some holders, hut. as a result of the continued low prices reluctance to yard is displayed. Beef has shown no improvement since the last report and requirements are being filled on a par with last week’s rates. Supnlies of fat sheen in North. Taranaki are not plentiful. and where holders choose to yard competition is j keen and realisations show a hardening tendency. The Inglewood sale on Wednesday drew a good entry of fat wethers, which .sold under spirited competition at from 14s 3d to 15s 2d. A small entry of lambs was also submitted and sold at 13s 6d. Quotations of ewes *

are scarce and sales through private treaty for local consumption are refolded at from 11s to 12s fid. Works buyers continue to show keenness tooperate in this section, and good numbers of wethers are being purchased at from 13s fid to 14s fid. while lambs are readilv absorbed at from 13s to 14s fid.

No improvement in the market for in-lamb ewes is noticeable, and where shortness of feed causes holders to /quit lealisations are little above prices that were ruling at the February fairs. At Inglewood on Wednesday a line of good mixed age ewes, in lamb to Southdown rams, was submitted, but met with little competition and. realised Us 3d. Wethers and lambs find a readv market, hut quotations are not plentiful. Forward conditioned wethei’s sell at up to 12s, while lighter conditioned sheep realise from 10s fid to Us. The limited nature of quotations of good lambs is causing holders to quote at advanced rates, hut as yet i few sales of ewes can be reported at above 12s fid. while wethers realise from 8s fid to 9s fid. Yardings of store cattle continue to iconsist of entries of cull cows, supplemented hv fair entries of yearling Jersey and Jersey cross heifers. Works buyers are absorbing cows at prices on a par with schedule—Bs fid per hundred —and values range from 25s to 455, according to condition. Yearling Jersey heifers of quality continue tn find good favour, hut inferior-bred ana small cattle' are hard to quit. Goodcoloured cattle or size* sell under spirited competition at from £3 to £3 ss. with a few exceptional lines realising a better figure; prices for others range from 15s to £2 ss. according to -breeding. -size and condition. Wound empty cows are in demand, and young sorts of breeding cows change hands' at from £2 to £2 10s. Two-vear empty heifers are inquired for hut few genuine linos are offering,. ( and of the odd lots submitted wellhied sorts make up to £3 ]os. Others realise from £2 to £2 15s. Dairy cattle are coming forward in good numbers to our various sales and buyers at a price seem plentiful, with j a preference over heifers being shown I for good young dairv cows due early. ! hut this can lie attributed to the fact that few heifers due in .July are offering and it is just a matter of time for heifers to come into their own. Private sales of heifers continue, and best sorts, where selected in one-truck lots, are purchased at up to £9, while larger selections of good cattle are obtainable at from C 7 15s to £8 ss. I Values (hr crossbred sorts range from Cfi lo £7. Crossbred cattle are yarded/ ui (air numbers, hut except where j “jirlv culvers, are submitted there is j little competition and prices range)! from 15s to £6. ' | The clearing sale season is in full I j swing, and practically every sale at- I tracts a strong bench of buyers, who operate with confidence where go-od j v-oung herds with individual calving , dates available are submitted, and

during the week some good averages have been recorded. The Inglewood sale on Wednesday drew a good entry of dairy cattle, and although the day was a boisterous one the -sale drew. a large attendance of buyers and competition in the dairy section showed keenness to a point. The entry included a herd of Friesian cows submitted on behalf of Tuck Bros., the best of which realised from £9 to £lO 10s, while others isold at from £5 10s to £7 os. Realisations for cows offered on behalf of other vendors ranged from £8 10s to £2O for top quality cattle, while more backward sorts realised from £5 to £6 10s. Crossbred heifers came forward in fair numbers and realised from 5s to £7 15s.

At Mr K. Clout’s clearing sale at Tairorohenni there was a large attendance of buyers from all parts of Taranaki. The bidding was brisk and a satisfactory clearance was effected, cows realising up to £l4, while heifers sold at up to £8 10s for the tops. At Mr George Gedge’s sale the following day there was another large attendance and as a result of spirited com net it ion throughout the sale the herd of 44 rows realised the splendid average of £ll ner head, the highest price being £l4 10s. A number of incalf lieifers were submitted, the tops of which realised £lO 15s. Meaner heifers from the herd realised £2 18s. At Mr Cottrell’s sale at Kapuni on Thursday keen competition was again in evidence for the small herd of tested cows, and an average of £lO per head was recorded, the too mice he-, ing £l3.

At the New Plymouth haymarket sale on Friday a moderate entry of all classes of pigs came forward, and a full clearance was effected at late rates, realisations being: Well-bred "callers 14s, others 9s to 12s, stores 13s to 15s 6d. lighter porkers 26s 6d, unfinished porkers 24s od. sows in farrow £3 10s', sow with litter £5 19s.