COMMERCIAL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 1857, 4 September 1923, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

STOCK SALE REPORTS. HAMILTON. The Farmers’ Co-op. Auctioneering Co., Ltd., report:— At the Hamilton sale on Tuesday, August 28, it was again demonstrated that there exists an unsatisfied demand for beef. The yar.ding was comprised mostly of steers, several pens of good heavy-weight quality being entered. Although strong competition ruled at the start, values improved as the sale progressed, trading at the close of the sale being very free. We quote:— Extra prime steers sold from £l4 Is to £l4 19s, good quality £ll 12s 6d to £l2 15s, others from £lO 7s 6d. A line of 23 steers averaged £l2 10s 9d, and another eight extra prime £l4 10s. No heavy-weight cows were penned. Good tillable cows made from £4 to £6 10s, store cows 16s to £l. A small yarding of sheep met with a brisk sale, fat ewes selling from 32s 6d to 365, prime fat hoggets £2 2a 6d to £2 ss.

Competition for the dairy cattle which consisted mainly of heifers was not very strong, best selling from £5 to £7.

A good entry of pigs sold slightly better than last week, heavy baconers making up to £4 18s, medium baconers £3 15s to £4 2s 6d, heavy porkers to light baconers £2 16s to £3 12s 6d, light porkers £2 9s to £2 15s, slips and stores 25s to 355, weaners £1 Is to 255, weedy 14s. CLAUDELANDS. The Farmers’ Co-op. Auctioneering Co., Ltd., report : At our Claudelands fortnightly stock sale on Thursday last all classes were well represented. There was good competition throughout, practically everything changing hands. All fats again met a strong market, three pens of wethers making £2 10s, fat ewes £2 2s to £2 5s 6d for two pens of extra heavy from the Government Farm, ituakura.. The entry of beef was larger than usual, over 80 being ' penned, mostly steers, which was easily absorbed, best selling from £l2 19s to £l3 7s Od, lighter weights (good quality) £lO 10s to £l2 Is, smaller £9 2s 6U to £lO ss, fat cows £6 to £7 9s for the best; others £4 7s 6d to £5 15s. Forward cows £2 15s to £3 10s, store cows £1 to £2 ss, 3 to 4-year steers £4 2s to £5 16s. Over 100 pigs were yarded, mostly fats, prices being quite on a par with values ruling elsewhere. Baconers, not very weighty, sold to £3 Bs, porkers £2 Is to £2 15s, stores £1 4s to £1 Bs, weaners 18s to 21s. The entry of dairy cattle included a number of undersized heifers, for which there was a little enquiry. Any quality sold well, best heifers making from £7 to £9 10s, good £5 to £6 15s, poor and weedy £2 10s to £4 10s, best dairy cows £6 to £8; one extra good Jersey cow made £ls 10s, others from £5 upwards. HIDE AND SKIN SALE. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Auckland, report having held their usual hide and skin sale on Tuesday, August 28, 1923, as under:— Hides: Market quiet. Best butchers’ ox, stout to lOd, 59/69 6d to Bd, 53/58 sid to 7d, 45/52 4d to sd, 33/41 3£d to 4£d; cow, best, 4£d to od, seconds 32 cl to below above. First faulty hides, all weights, 2£d to 3d; second do Id to 2d. Kips, best to s£d, seconds 2£d to •Id. Yearlings, best to 6£d, seconds 4d tu sd. Calf, good quality lOd to 114 d, seconds 7d to B|d, cut to B£d, first faulty to 7j<d, damaged Id to 3d. Sheepskins.—Market a little lower. Salted skins, full wool, large to 8s 6d, small to medium 5s to 7s, lambs 3s to ss. Dry skins, fine wooled to 12d, first quality crossbred full wool to 9d, second do 6d to 7£d; first do half wool 5d to 6£dj full wool, dead and damaged, 4d to 5d • short to quarter wool 2d to 4d. . Tallow.—Market quiet. Good quality in shipment casks 31s, broken packages 17s to 21s.