SPIRITED DEMAND

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3156, 12 August 1942, Page 3

SPIRITED DEMAND

HEIFERS CLOSE TO PROFIT

MORRINSVILLE SALE VALUES

The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports’ that at their weekly Morrinsville stock sale on Friday a small entry of fat sheep, comprising mostly of fat hoggets, came forward. Late rates .were realised. Improved prices were paid for forward conditioned and store hoggets, while breeding ewes maintained late rates. A small yarding of beef met strong competition from a large bench of buyers and sold freely. A good offering of boners again showed a further advance in prices. Empty Jersey heifers were also in demand, whilst yearling heifers sold readily.

A full yarding of ■ dairy heifers, with quality animals close to profit, creating a spirited demand. Top price of the. sale was £l5 15s. Backward animals also improved in value. Another full yarding of both fat and store pigs, together with a large penning of breeding sows came forward. Competition for stores and baconers was particularly keen and prices! in advance of recent quotations. On a whole the quality of the sows offering was not up to the usual standard, many backward sorts being included in the yarding. Good quality sows, close to farrowing, sold readily but inferior sorts were not wanted. 'Quotations: —

Sheep: Fat ewes, 23s 9d; fat hoggets, 24s 9d to 275; forward conditioned hoggets, 20s 6d to 23s 3d; store hoggets, 18s to 19s 9d; blackface hoggets, 15s to 17s lOd; cull hoggets, 12s; breeding ewes, 25s to 28 s.’ Cattle: Heavy prime Friesian cows, £7 8s to £8 10s; heavy fat Jersey heifers, £8 to £8 12s; light, -£5 17s to £7 Ils; fat young Jersey cows, £5 10s to £6 5s 1 ; heavy ibonets, £4 10s to £5 6s; medium, £3 15s to £4 4s; store cows, 30s to £3; cows and runners, to £l2; 2-year empty Jersey heifers, £3 16s to £4' Os; yearling Jersey heifers, £4 6s to £5 Is. Dairy Cattle: Best Jersey heifers, £ll 15s to £l5 15s; best Jersey and Jersey-cross heifers, £lOl 10£ to £l2 10s; medium quality, £9 l'Cs to £ll ss; small, £8 15s to £9 ss; backward, £7 5s to £8; smaller, £5 15s to £6 15s; heifers in milk, £8 5s to £ll ss; others, £6 15s to £8; young dairy cows, £8 5s to £lo' 10s; aged cows, £7 5s to £8; others, £5 15 s to £6 15s.

Figs: Medium .baconers, £4 2s to £4 8s; light, £3 18s to £4 Is; heavy porkers, £3 12s to £3 18s; medium, £3 5s to £3 10s; light, £3 to £3 ss; large stores, £2 15s to £3; medium, £2 10s to £2 14s; small, £2 to £2 8s;

slips, 35s to £2 6s; weaners, 22s to 38s; sows and litters, £7 to £10 l 7s 6d>; sows close to farrowing, £7 to £9 15s; others, £5 to £6.