Dairy Cattle In Demand At Kamo

Northern Advocate, 13 August 1942, Page 5

Dairy Cattle In Demand At Kamo

COMMERCIAL

Walter Wakelin, Ltd., report an excellent dairy sale at Kamo yesterday, when a large entry met with an exceptionally keen demand from a large attendance of buyers, mostly from outside districts. Medium entries of store cattle, pigs, etc., also sold under keen competition. Dairy Cattle. —Choice Jersey cows, close to profit, £8 to £ll/10/-; Jersey and Jersey cross cows, of medium quality, £6 to £8; backward and inferior cows, £4 to £5/10/-; choice springing Jersey heifers, £7/10/- to £10; medium quality Jersey and Jersey cross-heifers, £5 to £6/15/-; small heifers, £3/15/- to £5/5/-; Shorthorn dairy cows, £5 to £8; Shorthorn dairy heifers, £4/17/6 to £7/5/-; cows and heifers, in milk, £4/15/- to £B/10/-. Fat Cattle.—Fat Jersey cows, £4/15/- to £6/5/-, forward-conditioned Shorthorn cows, £4/10/- to £5/17/0; boner cows, £2/10/- to £3/18/-; cows and calves, £2/10/- to £5/5/-; yearling Jersey heifers, £3 to £3/18/-; small yearling heifers, £2 to £2/15/-; boner bulls, to £2/15/-. Pigs.—Heavy porkers, £3/5/- to £3/15/-; medium porkers, £2/16/- to £3/3/-; large stores, £2/5/- to £2/15/-; medium stores, £2 to £2/5/-; slips, £l/16/- to £2/4/-; best weaners, £l/13/- to £2; medium weaners, £l/5/- to £l/11/-; small weaners, £1 to £l/5/-; choppers, to £ 2/a/-; sows with litters, to £7; breeding sows, to £5/5/-. Sheep.—Woolly wether hoggets, £1; small m.s. hoggets, 17/-; light fat wethers, £l/12/-; s.m. breeding ewes, £l/2/3.