HAMILTON STOCK SALE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19736, 8 September 1927, Page 9

HAMILTON STOCK SALE.

GOOD DEMAND FOR BEEF. Reports on the weekly stock sale at Frankton on "Tuesday are;— # The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Ltd.—We had a full entry of fat cattle and prices were firmer than the previous week's rates; this refers more especially to ox beef. A small entry of store cattle was penilod and sold at late rates. A full number of fat sheep was submitted and prime sheep sold at late values, while forward and unfinished were easier.' A fair entry of fat pigs and a large number of stores was offered and sold at last week'B rates. Prime bullocks realised clt> to £l3 sa; good Quality medium-weights, • £V2 4s; choice prime heavy heifers. £ll ss; heavy prime cows. £9* to £9 10s; lighter prime cows and heifers, £8 109 to £8 17a Od; medium-weights, £7 10s to £8 2s 6d: iight prime, £6 to £7; plain heavy cows, £6 9s to £7; unfinished cows £4 5s to £5; store cows, £2 15s to £3, prime heavy fat wethers sold to 40a 9d; light to medium wethers. 33s 9d to 33s 4d; fair fat ewes, 27s 6d to 28s 6d; store to forward ewes, 20s 8d; extra prime woolly hoggets, 355; medium fat hoggets. 24s 6d. Heavy baconers. £3 to £3 4s; light baconers, £2 13a to £2 18s. heavy porkers, £2 10s to £2 1 oa; light. £2 to i'l 6s; slips. 24s to 295; best weaners, ISs to 235, small and young. 10s to 14s. sows, in pig, £3 10s to £4 ss-. choppers. £3 to £4. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Ltd. —We had a fair entry of beef and store cattle, with fat sheep_ m good supply Beef sold at late rates, but sheep were a trifle easier, especially toward the end of the sale We quote:—Fat steers. £l2 10s; prime fat heifers, £8 Is to £9 Is; medium fat cows. £5 15s to £7; plain and light cows, £5 2s (id to £5 12s; veal calves, -£1 53 to £2 Gs: fleshy cows. £3 5s to £3 I9s; yearling Jersey heifers, £4 10s to £5 173. Jersey cross. £3 3s to £3 8s; fat wethers £1 16s to £1 18s A good yarding of fat and store pigs came forward Prices for all classes were easier than previous sales. Heavy baconers made £3 4s to £3 10s; medium. £2 16s to £3: light baconers and heavy porkers. £2 5s to £2 12s: porkers. £1 18s to £2 1b: stores £1 fin to £1 13s: sups, £1 Is to £1 ss; weaners. 10s to IPs Dalgety and Company Ltd. —There was a good yarding of beef, prices being well maintained. Only a few pens of store cattle were yarded. Fat bullocks, light-weight, made £lO 10s to £l2 Is; fat cows, £7 16s to $9 2s fid; fat heifers. £9 to £lO 12s: store cattle, foitr-year-o'd steers, £5 7s 6d to £6 Is; two-year-old steers. £4 2s; fresncOnditionpd cow?*. £3 to £4 7s 6d ; store cows, 35s to £2 ss. There was a fair yarding of fat shoep. for which the demand, wtis very fair Pat wethers made 37s to £2: fat hoggets 2t» Rd to 295 : More hbggets, mixed sexes. 23s to 24s 7d Pigs were yarded in large numbers and sold under keen contnetition Porkers, fat, made Pi 3s to £2 9s- store pigs. 22s to 335; weaners, los to 19s. , OTHER COUNTRY ! SALES. Alfred Bwckland and Sorts, Limited, report:—During the week we held sales at Westfield. Wainku, Knmeu. Runeiman and Kftiwaka. also a ptg sale at Wamku. There were average yardings and a good inquiry for all classes. Best dairy cows made £l2 to £l4 10s; extra, to £l9: good cows. £9 to £ll 10s; others. £6 to £8 15s; aged and inferior, £2 10s to £0 10S; empty young cows and heifers, £3 to- £4 10s: store cows. £1 10s tcf>£2 10s; cows with calves, £4 10a to £6 10s: fat steers. £9 to £l2 |os; oritrie young cowh and boiferd, £7 to £9 15&; fat cows and light - heifers. £5 to. £6 15s; boner cows, £2 to £4 10s; gfowri fetters ir. forward condition, £7 10s to -£S 10sj -fresh conditioned three to four-year-old steers, £6 to £7 7s f>d: other three to four-year-old steers, £5 5s to £6 10s; two to three-year-old steers. £4 10s to £5 15s; yearling to 18-month-old steers. £3 10s to £4 7s Gd; good calves. £1 15s to £2 10s: snialbr Calves. A'l 5s to £1 14s: well-bred yearling to 18-month-oicl dairy heifers, £4 10s to £8 -15b; other heifers. £2 10s to £3 15s; heavy bulls, £5 to £6 )0s: sound herd bulls. £5 5s to £lO 10s: other bulls. £2 to £4 10s. A full entry of pigs at Waiuku met with a steady sale at values fully equal to Westfield quotations. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Limited, reports:—We held snles during the nast week at Westfield. Nsatea, Paeroa, Papakura l and Pukekohe. Tn each place we have had large vardinga, and report good sales, with values for all classes of live stock firm at late rites. At Papakura there wiis fkeetl competition for the store bullocks, with an unsatisfied demand for ' grown steers: iri forward condition Dairy cows and heifers, best."made £lO to £l4' 10s; othetg, £5 10s to £9 10s: aged cows and inferior h.pifers, ,£2 15s to £5; bulls. £2 IOS to' £lO/ There is also a keen demand for yearling heifers. Jerseys preferred, values for ihese improving each sale. Yearling heifers, best, made £4 to £6' 10; Others, £1 108 to £3 156 yearling to 18-month steers. £2 15s to £3 17s 6d; two to two and a-half-year steers, £4 to £5; three to three and, a-half-yenr steers, £5 2s fid to £5 2s fid; four to four and a-half-year steers, £6 .5s to £7 2s 6d; grown steers in forward condition. £' os to £8 7s Rd.

PRICES AT ALDINGTON. FAT CATTLE SHOW RISE. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] - CHEISTCHURCH. Wednesday. Sheep entries at the Addingion .yards today were fairly heavy, but fat cattle and fat pigs were in short supply. Fat sheep sold at easier' values, but fat cattle recorded a pronounced rise. • Store Sheep.—A good-sized entry of hoggets sold particularly well and wethers also showed an advance. Ewes and lambs sold well but aged ewes in lamb were hard to quit. Halfbred ewe hoggets realised 29s 6d to 31s -Id; cull and inferior halfbred ewe hoggets. 2-ls' to 26s 3d; crossbred ewe hoggets, 33s 9d; crossbred wether hoggets. 21s to 22s lOd; inferior crossbred wether hoggets, ■ J7b 10d> to 18s lOd; forward four and six-tooth Imlfbrea wethers. 33a 6d to 36s' 4d;; four and six-toothed halfbred . ethers. 28s to 31; inferior four and six-to6th halfbred wethers, 26s to 275; sound-mouthed cross bred ewes and lambs, 15s 4d (all oou'nted). aged crossbred ewes with good lambs, 16s 9d (all counted): failing-mouthed • halfbred ewes in lamb. 24s to 27s 3d; aged halfbred ewes in lamb, 13s to 20a; sound-mouthed crossbred ewes, 28s 9d Fat Sheep.—A slacker market th&n last week by Is 6d to 2s 6d a head for big gheep. : Outside entries included South land and West Coast sheep. Extra prime heavy wethers made '493 to 595; prime wethers. 42s 6d to 475; medium wethers, 34s to 41s: , light wethers. 31s to S3s fid. extra prime ewes, 3Ss to 48s lOd. prime ewes. 33s 6d to 36s fid; medium ewes, 2S? to 33a.. light ewea, 22s to 27a, 6d; .prime hoggets 348 to 40s 4d medium hoggets. 25? to 333.' Fat Cattle.—The r-malle?t entry ot the vear;'- comprising 360 head, following on ( W1 Bmall pennings. The market, showed an advance of from 35s to £2 10s a head Specially good beef made to 48s per 1 DOlb.. prime. 43s 6d to 475: medium, ,40s to 435; inferior, 36s to '39s. rough, down to 30s. There , were no North Island- lines forward, but good drafts came forward from' South Canterbury, South Otago and Southland. Show bullocks. £25 7s 6d extra heavy prime steers, £2O to £23. prime heavy steers. £l7 to £l9 155.-medium steers, £l4s to £l6. light steers, .£lO 10s to £l3 103. extra prime heifers 'to £ls ITs fid. prime heifers. £l3 to .£ls 10s : medium heifers £lO to £l2 IDs: light heifers, £7 10s to £9 15s. extra ' prime tows to £l7 2s fid. prime cows. £l3 to £ls 103; medium cows. £9 10s ta £l2 ss; light cows. £7 to £9 aged cows. £5 to £fi 10s. Spring Lambs.--A few of these were forward and sold at from 33s to 475. Vealers.—A rubbishy showing. Good sorts sold well Best vealers made £5 to £6; medium. £3 to £4 15s. Calves realised 10s to £2 5s D&iry Cattle. -A poor quality and easier in values. Best second to fourth t-alvers made £7 10s to £9 10s; medium, £5 10s to £7; inferior, £3 to £5: heifers, £3 10s to £6. old cows in profit. £2 15s to £4 ss. Store Cattle.—A large ntry of mostly , old cows, but including reveral pens of 18-months heifers and steers All fairly conditioned sorts sold at an advance Good cows realised £3 15s to £5; old cows. £1 to £2; 18-months heifers to £3 17s 6d others. 30s to 455. bulls, £3 to £7 10s. Fat Pigs.—A small entry The market improved as oale progressed. Choppers made £3 10s to £5 6s: baconers, £3 83 to £5 average price per lb.. 6Jd to 7d; light porkers. 43s to 475. heavy porkers, 52s to r >2*. average price per lb.. ,7d to 9d Store Pigs.—A full entry and a good sale. Weanera made to 5-1 s fid: slips. 22s to 28s; stores, 28s fid to 325; young sows in pig, to £5 ss. SPRING HORSE FAIR. PRICES AT CAMBRIDGE. fBY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] CAMBRIDGE Wednesday There was much brighter tone and better prices at the second day's proceedings of the spring horse fair to<iay. - There were ifully 300 in attendance Broken draughts were under the hammer, bidding being brisker' than on the' first day, especially for good quality animals, which avenged from £25 to £3O. Four and five-year-olds were in demand . Medium. ,horses averaged £ls to £2O. inferior £lO to £ls. Better class Sales effected ' were as followsßay mare, four years. Ferguson and Williamson, £27; black mare, five years, A D. Knight, Auckland, bay mare, five years.. £3O; brown gelding. fouT years. £32; brown mare, five years, Wright and' Sons. Auckland, £36; grey geldine. four years, Amburya. Ltd.. Auckland £27 10s; bay gelding, five years. J. W. Anderson, Piarere. £36. Several other four, five and six-year-olds sold from , £3O to £35. 1