COMMERCIAL

Northern Advocate, 25 October 1935, Page 12

COMMERCIAL

AT KAMO

STOCK SALES PUKEKOHE VALUES [Special to “Northern Advocate. 1 PUKEKOHE, This Day. A heavy yarding of dairy cattle was offered by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., at its fortnightly sale at Pukekohe yesterday. Dairy cattle were in demand, and anything of quality met with a ready sale, at values well up to last sale quotations. Plain heifer sorts j were harder to place. Best dairy cows i made £7 to £7 10/; medium, £5 10/ to ’£6 10/; smaller, £5 to £5 o/, backward, .£3 to £3 15/; best dairy cows, £5 to £7; others, £3 to £4 15/; aged, £2 to £2 15/Beef was well up to Westfield quotations, and store and' boner catLe sold at improved values. Yearling heifers were wanted, but the demand was not so keen as at last sale. Heavy prime steers realised from £l2 to £l4 17/6 (for a pen of choice steers from Mr J. Douglas and purchased by Mr N. Needham and Sons, Patumahoe); medium, £9 10/ to £ll 10/; light, £7 5/ to £9; heavy prime cows, £6 to £7; medium, £5 to £5 15/; light, £4 to £4 15/i heavy prime heifers, £6 to £6 15/; medium, £5 to £5 15/; light, £4 to £4 10/; killable, £3 to £3 15/; forward, £2 to £2 15/; boner cows, £1 8/ to £1 18/; aged, 15/ to £1 3/; best yearling Jersey heifers, £2 10/ to £3; smaller, £2 to £2 8/; small, £1 5/ to £1 15/; service bulls, 3 gns to lh S ns ; boner bulls, £1 15/ to £4 10/. Fat pigs came forward in large numbers and the yarding consisted oL a large proportion of prime baconers. Competition was steady throughout, and values for baconers were in advance of those ruling at last sale, while porkers were firm at late rates. A good yarding of store pigs and weaners met with a steady sale and the demand was good. Choppers sold from £1 to £2 6/; heavy prime baconers, £2 19/ -to £3 3/; medium, £2 14/ to £2 18/; light and unfinished, £2 9? to £2 13/; heavy porkers, £2 1/ to £2 8/; medium, £1 6/ to £2; light, £1,7/ to £1 17/; large stores, £1 7/ to £1 14/; smaller £1 3/ /to £1 6/; slips, 18/ to £1 2/; best weaners, 15/ to £1; others, 5/ to 14/; sows, due to farrow, £2 10/ to' £3 15/; service bears, 1£ gns to 3 gns.

STORE CATTLE WANTED Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report holding their usual fortnightly stock sale at Kamo yesterday. Competition was keen and a full yarding of all classes of cattle sold readily with prices on a par with late rates, s, Values were. —Springers, good quality Shorthorn heifers, £5 to £5 5/; ordinary . quality, £3 10/ to £4 10/; Jersey springing cows and heifers, £5 5/ to £5 10/; medium quality, £3 2/6 to £4 10/; fat and forward ewes and wethers, to 21/; mixed sex hoggets, 18/11 to 21/; fat cows, £4 4/ to £5 10/; fat and forward store cows, £2 15/ to £3 19/; runners, £2 10/ to £3 5/; boner cows, 25/ to 29/; cows and calves, £2 7/6'to £2 15/; grade Jersey bulls, £2 2/ to £3 5/; yearling Shorthorn steers, £4 5/ to £4 10/; yearling Shorthorn heifers, 35/ to 40/; a 2-year-old P.A. bull sold on account of C. H. Finlayson and bought by J. E. McLean, Waikaraka, realised 20gns.

The supply of cattle was large and all lots changed hands under keen competition, state the N.A. Farmers’ Co-op., Ltd. Store cattle were in demand by graziers owing to the fact that recent rain will make pastures come away. They sold slightly in advance of late sales.

Quotations.—Fat ox, £9 1/ to 10 gns; lighter, £8 15/ to £9; fat cows, to £8; lighter sorts, £6 15/ to £7 10/; fresh and forward cows, £2 15/ to £3; store and boner cows, good, to 2 gns; boner bulls, to £4 10/; herd bulls, Shorthorn, to 6 gns; herd bulls, Jersey, to £5 10/; 3-year-old Shorthorn steers, forward condition, to £6 2/; 2-year-old Shorthorn steers, to 5 gns; yearling Shorthorn steers to £2 15/; yearling Jersey heifers, to £2 15/; weaner Shorthorn calves, 19/; dairy cows, close to profit, to £6; backward sorts, £3 5/ to £4 15/; dairy heifers, in milk, to £3 15/; Jersey heifers, close to profit, to £5 1/; pedigree Jersey cows, in milk, sold on account of R. G. Hosking and bought by C. Edge of Kiripaka, 7£ and 8 gns; sheep, fat hoggets, to 20/; pigs, slips, 18/; good weaners, 17/6; smaller sorts, 12/6 to 15/.