FAT PIGS IN DEMAND

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 55, Issue 32703, 17 April 1946, Page 5

FAT PIGS IN DEMAND

STOCK SALE AT PAEROA

BEEF SELLS FREELY A good yarding of cattle with a medium entry of pigs and sheep came forward at Messrs G. W. Vercoe and ■Company’s sale at Paeroa on Monday. iFat pigs met a keen demand selling to higher levels. Butchers' and exporters eompeted- freely in the cattle section, values being on a par with recent sales. Quotations: — Fat iS.H. cows £B/1570 to £lO/4/0; fat Jersey cows, £B/10/0 to £9/2/6; medium fat. cows, £7/5/0' to £7/12/6; light cows, £6/1/0 to £6/17/6; heavy boner cows, £4/19/0 to £5/15/0; medium boner cows, £3717/0 to- £4/15/0; light boner Cows, £3/5/9 to £3/15/6; Potter bulls, £7/17/6 to £B/10/0; lighter- bulls, £5 to £6/2/6; 2‘J year P.A. cross steers, to S8IZI&, la year P.A. steers to £6; cross breed, heifer calves £3 to £3/16/0; Jersey heifer calves, £2/16/0 to £3/14/0; medium Jerseyheifers r.w.b., £6/10/0 to £B. Store wether lambs, 1473 to 16/-; ewe lambs to 14/2; store 2th wethers, 24/-

Heavyi bacon er s £4/19/0' to £5/15/0; medium baconers, £4/10/0 to £4/16/0; light baconers £4/170; to £4/5/0; porkers £3/8/0 to £3/1270; lighter, £27170 to £2/10/0; slips, 16/- to 18/6; smaller 107'6 to 12/-.