STOCK SALES

Matamata Record, Volume XIX, Issue 1788, 3 December 1936, Page 8

STOCK SALES

PRICES AT MATAMATA A good yarding of fat and store sheep sold under fair competition at Dalgety and Co.’s Matamata stock sale on Wednesday. In the cattle pens good competition was forthcoming for all good quality sorts, and practically a total clearance was effected.

There was a good yarding of both fat and store pigs. Competition for fat pigs was brisk, and they sold as well, if not better, than late rates. Store pigs were a little easier. Sheep.— Medium quality fat ewes, 19s to 19s 6d. Medium woolly hoggets, 245. Shorn 2-tooth wethers, 23s lid to 24s 2d. Store lambs, 15s 8d to ISs 9d. Small lambs, 12s 6d to 14s Bd. Cull lambs, 7s to 9s. Cattle. — Good fat Shorthorn cows, £6 10s to £7 2s. Heavy fat Holstein cows, £7 10s to £7 16s. Fat Jersey cows, heavy, £& to £6 15s. Medium fat cows, £4 15s to £5 2s 6d. Light fat cows, £3 to £4 2s 6d. Store Shorthorn and Holstein cows, £3 2s 6d to £5 3s 6d. Boner cows, heavy, £2 10s to £2 15s. Light cross cull cows, 25s to 32s 6d. Cows with calves at foot, £4 5s to £5 15s. Others, £2 to £2 19s. Yearling Jersey heifers, medium, £3 10s to £4. Two-year Jersey heifers, £2 15s to £3 17s. Potter bulls, medium weight, £4 10s to £5. Potter bulls, light. £2 10s to £3 10s. Pigs.— Extra prime heavy baconers, £3 11s to £3 12s. Heavy baconers, £3 6s to £3 10s. Medium baconers, £2 19s to £3 3s. Heavy porkers and light baconers, £2 10s to £2 15s. Good porkers, £2 2s to £2 9s. Light porkers, 36s to £2. Unfinished, 32s to 355. Best stores, 30s to 39s 6d. Inferior stores, 24s to 275. Good slips, 24s to 28s.