THE HAMILTON MARKET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19452, 7 October 1926, Page 9

THE HAMILTON MARKET.

BEEF PRICED MAINTAINED.

Reports on the weekly stock sale at Hamilton last Tuesday are as follow: —

Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report:— There was a good yarding of beef, which sold at fullf late rates. Prime heavy bullocks made to £lO, a truck from Mr. R. Hannon, Cambridge, averaging £ls 7a 6d a head; light steers, £lO 103 to £ll 17s 6d; prime young cows and heifers, £lO 5s to £l2 for choice; ordinary quality cows, £S to £9 10s; inferior quality cows, £6 103 to £7 12b 6d; runners, £2 15s to £3 7s. Store cattle were yardedin fair numbers. Good store' cowa sold at late ' rates, best making £4 to £5 10s. Store grown bullocks were in good demand and sold at higher rates. Small bullocks in low condition sold at £8 3s; small utore cows, £3; yearling steers, £3 12s Gd: bulls. £3 5s to £4 10s; dairy cows, £4 15s 2d to £7 10s; best heifers, £8 to £10; inferior, £5 10s to £6 15s. There was a small yarding of sheep. Fat sheep' were in belter demand. Prime heavy woolly hoggets ni£,de 2Ss 3d to 29a- prime heavy fat ewes, '.tea to 293 3d; inferior, 21a 6d; fat shorn wethers, 24a (id to 2Gs Gd for extra heavy; .store woolly wethers, medium size, 22s There was a medium yarding of fat pigs and prices were on a par with last week. Heavy baconers made £4 4s to £4 16s; medium, £3 16a to £4 2s; large porkers, £3 9s to £3 18s;-small, £2 9s to £3. There j was a small yarding of store pigs and prices firmed considerably. Best weaners made £2 to £2 18s; good slips, 30s""to £2; weaners, to £1 10s; small, 12s to £l. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., reports;— Cow beef was penned in more than average numbers with a small entry of fat steers. Good competition ruled throughout and prices for prime were< a trifle firmer. Light fat steers made £ll 10s; well finished young cowa and heifers, £lO 17s Gd to £ll 10s; medium fat cows, £6 10s to £7 6s. Pat sheep were in better demand and improved in value. Good quality ewes made £1 3s Gd to £1 9s 9d; light fat wethers in'wool, £1 6s; springing heifers, £8 10s to £lO ss. There was an average yarding of fat pigs and prices advanced on last week's quotations. There were fewer store and weaner pigs offering and prices advanced considerably. Prime heavy fat baconers made £4 18s to £4 19s for two pens of quality pigs; heavy baconers, £4 2s to £4 12a; medium baconers, £3 14s to £4; light baconers, £3 8a to £3 12s; heavy porkers, £3 to £3 6s; good porkers, £2 14s to £2 18s; light and unfinished, £2 8s to_ £2 12s; good stores, £2 7s to £2 12s; slips, £1 6s to £1 12s; weaners, 18s to £1 Ss. OTHER COUNTRY SALES. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., reports:—We held sales during the past week at Westfield, Ngatea, Pukokohe and Papakura, all classes of cattle selling at late quotations. There ib a good <iemand for steers and cows in forward condition, backward condition cattle and young steers being dull of sale. There a steady demand for dairy bulls, although values at the special bull sales already held are not as good aa last year. We quote: Best dairy cows and heifers, £lO to £ls; others, £5 10s to £9 10s; aged cows and inferior heifers, £3 to £5 ss; empty cows, £2 10s to £5 sa, according to condition: spoyed 2-year heifers, £3 15s to £5 ss; empty heifers, yearling to IS-montbs, beat, £4 to £5 7s 6d; others, £2 to £3 15s; yearling to 18-months steers, £3 to £4 10s- 2 to 2}-year steers, £4 15s to £5 153; 3 to 3*year steers. £6 to £7 2s 6d; 4 to 4*-year steers, £7 5s to £8 ss; grown 3teers in forward condition, £8 10s to £9 ss; S.H. bulls, ogna to 12gns, according to age and quality; Jersey bulls, 4gns to 15gns; other bulls, 3ens to 9ngs Alfred Buckland and Sons, Limited, reDuring the week we held sales at Vestfield, Waiuku, Runciman, Kumeu and Maungaturoto, also a pig sale at Waiukn. there was an extra large yarding at Wai'uku and average entries at other yards. Ihere continues to be a steady demand for all classes of cattle at ruling values. Pigs at "Waiukn' sold freely at fully Westfield quotations. Grown steers in forward condition made £8 10a to £9 12s 6d- best four-year-old steers, £7 10s to £8 7s Gd; other £6 10a to £7 7s 6d: three to lour-year r qJd steers, £5 15s to £6 10s; two to three-year-old steers, £4 10s to £5 15s; yearlings to two-year-old steers. £2 15s to £4 10s; empty young cows, £3 10s to £4 15s; store cows, £1 10s to £3 ss: fat steers, £lO 5s to £l3 2s 6d: fat cows and heifers, £6 10s to £ll 10s; rough fat cows, £4 10s to £6 ss; boner cows, £1 15a to £4 ss; yearling to eighteen - month old dairy heifers. £2 15s to £5 ss; according to breed and quality; calves, £1 5s to £1 17s; small and weedy calves, 10s to £1 Is; good young herd.bulls. £8 8s to 22 guineas: other bulls. £3 to £7; dairy cowa and heifers. £lO to £ls lt)s foi best: others, £4 to £9 10s. We held a clearing sale at Mount Roskill on Friday, October 1. on account of Messrs. F. and W Carbines, and in spite of the rough weather there was an extra large attendance and we report a. very successful sale. Dairy cows of which there were 230, sold at £lO to £l6 for best-: pedigree Ayrshire? made up to J24 other cows, £7 to £9: cows that had been milking through the winter. £3 10s to £6 10s. A full ranges of implements realised full values. RATES AT ADDINGTOK ADVANCE IN FAT CATTLE. [BY TEEEGKAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. Entries at the Addington market to-day were smaller in the major sections of stock. Fat cattle represented an under supply for butchers' needs and tbfere was a jump of about 40s a head in value for good beef and to 35s for medium quality. Fat sheep also sold better as did store hoggets. Spring lambs and fat pips were cheaper. Store Sheep. —Ewe hoggets sold better than last week by 2s to 2s 6d a head, and ewes and lambs were also in brisker demand. The rain over the week-end was the cause of a brighter tone. Good three-quarter bred owe hoggets made 32s 9d to 355. Extra 1 good three-quarter bred hoggets, 38s Id. Three-quarter bred wether hoggets, 22s to 24s 4d. Halfbred wether hoggets, 22s to 25s Gd. Sound-mouth three-quarter bred ewes, with lambs, 16s Gd, all counted. Good aged halfbred ewes. Iwith lambs. 16s to 16s Id. Aged three-quarter-bred ewes, with lambs, 12s to 15s: two and four-toothed threo-quar-tcr-bred wethers, 23s to 26a. Four, six and eight-tooth halfbred wethers, 25s 9d. Spring Lambs.—An over supoly. 290 being entered. Prices ranged from 21s to 31s 6d, or about 9d to lOd per lb. The bulk of the entry were well grown and prime. Fat Sheep.—An entry of nine races, about 25 per cent. _ less than usual. Most of it whs very prime. Good wethers and ewes advanced on last week by 1s 6d to 2s a head, and medium by up to Is 6d. Two freezing companies were operating. Extra heavy wethers made to 45a. Prime wethera, 35s 6d to 3Ss 6d. Medium wethers. 32s to 355. Light wethers. 2Ss 6d to 31s 6d.' Extra prime ewes, to 37s Id. Prime ewes, 29s to 335. Medium ewe 3, 2ns Gd to 28s Gd. Light, ewes, 22s to 255. Prime hoggets, 28s to 31s. Medium hoggets. 21s to 27s Gd. Prime shorn wethers, 27s to 30s. Medium shorn wethers, 24s to 26s 6d. Fat Cattle.—A small entry and a keen sale. Good heifer and cow beef and medium steers selling at a big advance on last week. An occasional pen or two of heifers made to near 50s per 1001b. Good steer and heifer beef. 39s to 445. Heavy beef, 3Gs to 38s. Good cow, 36s to 39s Medium beef, 33s to 355. Inferior beef, 30a. Extra heavy bullocks, to £2O 7s 6d; prime heavv steers, £ll to £l9. Prime medium-weight steers, £ls 10s to £l7 10s. Medium quality steers, £l2 10s to £ls. Light steers. £lO to £l2. Extra mime heifers, to £l6 17s 6d. Prime heifers. £l2 10s to £l4 10s. Ordinary heifers, £9 10a to £l2. Light heifers, £6 10s ,to £9. Extra prime cows, to £ls 2a Gd. Primo cows, £ll 5s to £l3 10s. Ordinary cows, £8 to £ll, Light cows. £5 ,10s tq £7 10s, Vealers.—A small entry and poor quality, Thero was a brisk sale. Medium runner! made to £7. Calves. £4 to £6. Small calves, 15s to 30s. Store Cattle. —A pen of four-year steers made £lO. Fresh cows, to £5 2s 6d; others, 30s to £3 10s. Dairy Cows.—Good sorts were better thar last week by £2 a head. Best second U fourth calvers, £7 10s to £10; medium, £f to £7: inferior, £2 10s to £4 10s. Bnringini heifers, £2 15s to £5 15s. Aged cows, 15i to £3. Pigs.—A medium entry and an easier sale Choppers. £1 to £4 15s. Light baconers, £■ 5s to £4 Ins. Heavy baconers, £5 to £6 2s Average price per lb., Sjd to 9d. Porkers 50s to 745. Average price per 1b.,, 9d. t< lOd. Store Pigs.—A good entry and an im proved sale. "Weaners, 22a to 30s. Stores 35s to 465. Large stores, 50s to 645. Sowa, ii pig, up to £7 10s. GOOD PRICE FOR BULL CALF, SDM OF .150 GUINEAS PAID. [BV TETJ.GRAFH.— OWN -CORRESPONDENT. NEW PLYMOtJTH. Wednesday. The sum of 150 guineas was paid by Mr W. H. Carter, Pukekohe, for a younj bull calf, recently calved bv Mr. F. W Cornwall's champion Jersey cow, Oak land's Princess, to Sybil's Oxford Noble. LOSS ON FREEZING. SOUTH OTAGO COMPANY. [bv telegram.—own correspondent.; DUNEDIN. Wednesday. The operations of the South Otagi Freezing Company for the year endec August 31, showed a loss of £5913. TKit follows on a loss of £941 sustained m th< preceding year.