Stock Sales

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 245, 17 October 1935, Page 10

Stock Sales

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report on their usual fortnightly salo held at Bulls on the 1-1 tli instant, when an average yarding of all sections came to hand. Figs were a littlo slower of sale, and prices were somewhat easier. Sheep sold.at late rates. Fat cattle and yearling Jersey heifers sold to a good inquiry, also Jersey bulls. Quotations: — Fat shorn ewes, 15s; fat hoggets, 13s. Weaner pigs, 10s, 12s, 12s Gd, 14s; storo pigs, 14s, 16s, 17s, 20s, 24s Gd, 355; Simps, p.b. Tamwortk boars, 4J gns., 44gns. Devon sows, 27s Gd, 343 6d; Berkshire sows, £2.. Fat cows, £3 ss, £3 13s Gd, £3 17s Gd, £3 .19s, £1 sy, £4 10s, £4 17s Gd, £5 ss, £6 7s Gd, £6 Ss; fat heifers, £3 12s Gd, £4, £4 ss, £5 ss; fat Jersey heifers, £2 7s; store cows, £1 103; store heifers, £2 2s, £2 Ss; yearling heifers, 30s, £2 7s Gd;. yearling Jersey heifers, £3 8s; yearling pedigree Jersey bulls, Ggns., Glgns., Bgns., 9gns., lOJgns.; yearling grade Jersey bulls, £1 lds,j£3 12s Gd; heifers r.w.b., £3; Jersey cows r.w.b., £3 10s-

MARION CATTLE BALE The X.Z, Farmers’ Co-op., llistributing Co., Ltd., report a yarding of 570 sheep, -JLOO head of cat-tie, arul 40 pigs at their fortnightly sale held on Tuesday. There was an exceptionally largo attendance, and an excellent all-round salo resulted. >Somo very fino lines oi P.A., Shorthorn and Bed Polled yearling steers came forward and elicited keen competition. A nice lino of 72 on account of Mr. It. E. Beckett realised £4 9s, Mr. Edgar Galpiu’s realised £4 12s, Messrs Simpson Bros., Heaton Park, £4 ISs, Mr. P. A. Chapman’s £4 14s, and Mr. H. H. Marshall, Porewa, topped the market with an exceptionally fine pen of Bed Polls which realised £o. Mr. D. Pranke’a P.A. yearling heifers came forward in excellent condition and realised £3 Ids, while an extra good line of 2-year P.A. heifers on account of Mrs. Baldwin reached £5. We also sold a very fine pen of prime bpllocks on account of Mrs. M. K. Grice for £lO Ss. With the exception of one pen of Jersey heifers, we disposed of the whole yarding as follows: Prime fat bullocks, £lO Ss; forward bullocks, £S 2s; fat cows, £4 Ss, £5 2s to £5 13s Gd; ditto cx dairy, £2 los, £3 3s Gd to £3 12s 6d; yearling steers, £4 9s, £4 12s, £4 14s, £4 ISs to £5; yearling P. A. heifers, £2 £3 to £3 12s; 2-year P.A. heifers, good, £5; small tail-end m.s. yearlings, 233 Gd; yearling Jersey heifers, £2, £2 12s Gd, £2 ISs, £2 19s; empty heifers, 30s, £2 4s to £2 17s 6d; dairy heifers, October calvers, £3, £3 10s to £4 10s; Jersey heifers, at drop, £5 10s to £5 15s; medium sorts, £3 7s to £3 10s; small Jersey bulls, £2. Good wother hoggets, 245; medium wether hoggets, 19s sd; small ewe hoggets, 235. Best weaner pigs, 14s Gd to IGs; smaller sorts, 11s to 12s Gd.

WOODVTLLE SALE Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report a good yarding of dairy cows and heifers. with a heavy yarding of pigs at the above sale. The demand for both cows and heifers was very keen with practically a total clearance at auction at values ahead of any previously reached so far this season at this fixture. Pigs of all classes also mot with spirited competition. A small penning of sheep sold readily at late rates. Quotations: — llest springing cows, £-1 10s, £4 15s, £5, £5 10s, £5 15s, £6, £G 10s, £7, £7 ss, £7 10s to £S; best springing heifers, £4 10s, £4 15s, £5, £5 10s, £5 15s, £6, £0 10s, £6 15s, £7, £7 10s, £7 los; fat cows, dairybred sorts, £2 10s, £3, £3 10s to £4; yearling Jersey heifers, 30s, 355, £2, £2 10s to £3. Meaner pigs, 10s, 12s, 15s, 17s to ISs; porkers, 30s, 35s to 38s. Pat ewes in the wool, 20s, 20s 60, 20s 9d to 21s; wether hoggets. ISs, 20s to 21s.