BONER PRICES FIRM

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3106, 15 April 1942, Page 3

BONER PRICES FIRM

big YARDING AT MORRINS VILLE

BETTER DEMAND FOR PIGS

The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report that at their weekly Morrinsville stock sale on Friday a small yarding of fat sheep sold under steady competition, at firm values. A light entry of store lambs recorded a sharp rise on recent sales. A large yarding of all classes of cattle, including a medium entry of j beef, and a very heavy offering o_ boner and store cows. . Values for all classes remained very firm. A steady demand existed for store cattle, while a full entry, of weaner Jersey and Jersey Cross heifers was keenly sought after at improved rates. Dairy cattle sold'freely. A very large yarding of pigs, wi baconers selling fully up to quotations. Porkers showed a slight rise, whilst stores and weaners also realised better prices. Quotations: — Sheep.—Medium fat wethers, 255; light fat Black Face Sheep, 19s 3d to 22s 6d; prime young ewes, 14s 3d to 16s 6d; medium fat lambs, 26d to '23s sd; light, 19s 6d t 0.215; o ward conditioned shorn White Fac. wether lambs, to 19s 9d; for ™ c ditioned White Face ewe lambs to 16s 6d to 17s M; good shornWhite Face wether lambs, 16s 6d ’ ’ m- 3d to 11s 2d; small shorn smaller, Ws 3d to . White'Face ewe lambs, to ’ and fi-tooth ewes, r.w. Romney > to CatUe.-Medium fat Shorthorn C ° WS ’ Z t to 11 S’ 5 X« » cows, £5 to £6 4s, medium, heavy boner cows, £4 to m s ZZ® - 43 i6s; 2 r t : cows, £2 10s to £3; cull cows 20s to 85s; cows and calves £4 Ss ; -potter bulls, 24s to 29s Polled Angus steers, £7 ’ coloured 21-year.steers, £5 _ 16s; IS-months P.A. steers, to vpar P.A. heifers, £4 iiS » , £ . end Hereford steers, Polled Angus ana neieiut ronea ® pmipd Angus and £3 18s; weaner Polled w Hereford heifers, £2 Ws; empty 2- « 10s to £2 14s; best weaner Jersey heifers, £3 5s 7s : Jcr t' isfJ'sX; Zn Jersey rTZdZX Cioss Cross heifers, r.w.b. £3 18 Ringing ers, springing Jersey cow , cows in milh, to £lO • 12s ; Pigs.—-Choppers, b to £4 prime heavy 16s; ligh t, 6s; medium, £.>l2- t .£2 £3 5s to £3 10s, nea vyy £2 18s to £3 3s; medium, £2 10s to 12s; weaners, 2s to us bd.