FRANKTON STOCK SALE

Northern Advocate, 21 March 1934, Page 10

FRANKTON STOCK SALE

LAMBS IN DEMAND. | ; j OX BEEF VALUES HOLD. i ■ ■ ! 810 PEICES STEADY. j (Special to ‘’Northern Advocate.”) j HAMILTON, This Day. j Reporting on the fat stock sale, hold at Frankton yesterday, the Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Co,, Ltd., states there was an average supply of wether and ewe mutton, which sold under steady competition at late rates. A feature of the sheep sale was the entry of fat lambs, which numbered about 11000. With the quality in : most cases good, and brisk competition from export buyers, prices remained at late levels. One pen of extra prime woolly lambs realised 27/8, Ox beef was yarded in smaller numbers than at last week’s sale, but little alteration was recorded in values. : l 'nw and heifer beef, of which there ! was an exceptionally heavy yarding, was not up to the usual standard of iquality. Prices generally remained 1 about equal to last sale. A particularly heavy yarding of fat pigs again came forward. Competition throughout remained steady, 'with values showing no alteration, on last week’s quotations. A large yarding of stores met with a dull sale. Baconers and porkers both sold at about equal to 64, d to old per lb. I The following prices were realised: I Sheep.—Prime wethers, 26/6 to '26/7; medium, 24/6 to 24/.10; light, j 20/6 to 22/9; prime maiden ewes, to *23/3; heavy prime fat ewes, 18/6 to 119/; prime, 17/4 to .18/; medium fat I ewes, 16/3 to 16/8; light, 12/6 to 1 14/8; killable, 10/ to 1.1/0; extra prime woolly lambs, 26/ to 27/8; prime, 23/2 to 26/7; medium woolly , lambs, 20/6 to 22/3; light, .17/4 to 19/10; prime Down lambs, 21/ to j 23/6. j Cattle. —Heavy fat steers, £7 1.1/ Ito £8; lighter, £6 10/ j o £7 3/; med'ium fat cows and heifers, £4 2/6 to £4 13/; light, £3 2/6 to £3 16/; killable and heavy second quality, to £2 16/; boners, to 36/; bulls, £2 10/ to £4 10/. Pigs. —Prime heavy baconers, 66/ to 68/; heavy, 62/ to 66/; medium, j 66/ to 61/; light, 60/ to 66/; unfinished, 44/ to 48/; heavy porkers, 38/ to 43/; medium, 33/ to 37/; light, 29/ to 32/; unfinished, 26/ to 28/; heavy j choppers, 60/ to 64/; light, to 36/; ’stores, 17/ to 20/; slips, 8/ to 11/6; , weaners, 4/6 to 7/6.