Stock Sales.

Matamata Record, Volume XVI, Issue 1445, 27 July 1933, Page 8

Stock Sales.

MATAMATA. Fat Stock Prices Firm.

Good Demand for Pigs. At the Farmers’ Auctioneering Co.’s fortnightly stock sale at Matamata on Wednesday cattle were penned in heavy numbers, beef and stores selling at late rates, while a heavy entry of yearling heifers was not sought after, and a poor sale resulted. There was a large entry of dairy cattle which met with a quiet market, only good sorts of heifers, close to profit, being in demand. A medium yarding of pigs, consisting mostly of porkers and stores, sold at slightly firmer rates. Sheep were yarded in medium numbers and sold at late quotations. Cattle.— Medium prime steers, £5 ss. Medium prime cows, £3 15s to £3 19s. light prime cows, £3 to £3 9s. Killable cows, 38s to £2 15s. Store cows, 30s to 355. Boner cows, 16s to 28s. Young sound cows, 30s to 355. Two-year empty heifers, 35s to £2. •Choice yearling Jersey heifers, £2 7s 6d to £2 12s 6d. Jersey, bulls, sound, £2 to £5. Jersey bulls, yearling, 30s. Potter bulls, 25s to £3. Dairy Cattle.— Choice Jersey heifers, close to profit, £7 to £7 10s. Choice Jersey heifers, August calvers, £5 10s to £6 10s. Jersey-cross heifers, August calvers, £5 to £6 ss. Jersey-cross heifers, backward, £4 to £4 15s. Pedigree Jersey cow, Bgns. Aged dairy cows, £3 to £3 10s. Inferior dairy cows, 35s to £2 ss. Pigs.— Light baconers and heavy porkers, 33s to 375. Medium porkers, 25s to 29s 6d. Light porkers, 21s to 245. Good stores, £1 to 235. Medium stores, 17s to 19s 6d. Slips, 12s 6d to 16s 6d. Best weaners, 11s to 13s 6d. Others, 9s 6d to 10s 6d. Sheep.— Heavy prime wethers, to 23s 6d. Light fat wethers, to 16s. Fat ewes, 13s to 16s. Prime lambs, 15s lOd to 18s Id. Medium prime lambs, 13s to 14s 6d. Forward lambs, 10s 9d to 11s 6d.

FRANKTON.

Rise in Fat Sheep Prices. There was another heavy yarding of fat sheep at she Frankton saleyards on Tuesday. Competition was brisk, and prices for both fat ewes and wethers rose from 3s to 4s a head on last week’s quotations. A line of prime wethers sold on behalf of Messrs. Van Houtte and Nolett, of Te Uku, realised 27s each. Lambs were in small supply, and there was no alteration on late rates.

Competition for ox and cow beef was steady, and prices were on a par with last week’s quotations. There was a large yarding of fat pigs, these being mainly unfinished porkers. Values were slightly easier for all classes. A large entry of stores met with spirited competition until near the close of the sale, when most requirements had been filled. Cattle.—

Heavy prime steers, £6 14s ta> £6 19s. Medium, £5 17s 6d to £6 ss. Light, £4 19s to £5 Bs. Heavy prime cows, £4 4s to £4 17s. Heavy prime heifers, £4 5s to £4 11s. Medium fat heifers, £3 19s to £4 3s. Medium fat cows, £3 7s to £3 17s. Light, £2 16s to £3 2s 6d. Killable cows, £1 17s to £2 Bs. Boner cows, 15s to 28s. Jersey heifer calves, £2 4s to £2 10s. Small heifer calves, 27s 6d to 355. Sheep.—

. Heavy prime wethers, 24s 4d to 25s 9d. Medium, 21s 3d to 23s 7d. Light, 17s 9d to 19s 6d. Heavy prime ewes, 20s to 20s sd. Medium, 15s 6d to 16s 9d. Light fat ewes, 10s 9d to 14s 6d. Heavy prime lambs, 18s 6d to 19s 3d. Medium prime lambs, 16s to 17s lOd. Light lambs, 12s to 15s 6d. Pigs.—Baconers, 38s to 455. Heavy porkers, 30s to 325. Medium, 25s to 28s. Light and unfinished, 20s to 245.