SPIRITED DEMAND

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3159, 19 August 1942, Page 3

SPIRITED DEMAND

CLOSE TO PROFIT HEIFERS £l4/5-/- PAID AT MORRINSVILLE The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company Limited reports that at their Morrinsville stock sale on -Friday a small yarding of fat and store sheep, comprising chiefly hoggets, came forward. Competition was keen throughout and recent high values maintained. A smaller entry of beef sold readily at values in advance of those, ruling last week. Boner cows and stores also sold freely at more than schedule rates. Bidding was spirited for a medium offering of empty and yearling Jersey heifers. A spirited demand existed for all classes with close up heifers of quality selling to £l4 ss. Backward heifers were also more keenly sought after, with dairy cows selling freely. There was another large yarding of all classes of pigs, with competition steady throughout and prices showing little alteration on those ruling last week. Quotations'. —

Sheep: Medium prime wethers, 35s to 35s 6d; medium prime lambs, 24s to 25s 6d; light fat lambs, 22s •to 23s’6d; good woolly lambs, 21s to 23s 6d; medium, 19s to 20s 6d. Cattle: Fat Jersey cows and heifers, £6 15s to £7 9s; light, £5 10s to £6 10s; heavy boner cows, £4 l'ss to £5 ss; medium, £3 10s to £4 10s; store cows, 30s to £2 10s; two-year Hereford steers, £7 Is; two-yeai empty Jersey heifers, £4 to £5; small Jersey heifers, £4 to £4 10s. Dairy Cattle: Best Jersey springing heifers, £l2 5s to £l4 ss; medium, £lo' 10s to £ll 15s; smaller hejfers, close to profit, £9 5s to £lO ss; quality backward Jersey heifers, £7 15s to £8 15s; Jersey and Jerseycross springing heifers, £8 5s to £lO 15s; smaller, £7 5s to £8; Shorthorn and Shorthorn-cross heifers, £7 5s to ■£9 15s; heifers in milk, £& 5s to £lO 15s;'others, £6 15s to £7 15s; young dairy cows, £8 5s to £ll ss; aged cows, £5 15s to £7 15s; cows in milk, £6 5s to £8 15s. Pigs: Baconers, £3 16s to £4 16s; heavy porkers and buttermilk pigs, £3 8s to £3 15s; medium porkers, £3 3s to £3 8s; light, £2 16s to £3; large stores, £2 10s to £2 15s; medium, £2 2s to £2 8s; slips, 32s to £2 2s; weaners, 25s to £2.