STOCK SALES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20324, 3 August 1929, Page 11

STOCK SALES.

GOOD DEMAND FOR CATTLE

LATE RATES AT OPOTIKI

[llY TEt.EGUA L'H. —OWN' CORRESPONDENT. ]

OPOTJKI, Friday

The monthly stock sale wus held at the Opotiki saleyards yesterday. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Limited, reports as follows:—We had a good yarding of sheep and dairy cattle, trices for sheep were easier, especially for good four-tooth wethers. Cattle soul well at late rates, the demand for dairy stock still being 11;;■ .-'.tiMiied. Prices) were Sheep: Mixed t-eN ~ :uets. IPs Gel to 2os; four-tooth wethers ue.c pLsicd at 32s Cd. Cattle: Store cow,, i": Is to 13 Is; fat cows, it; to IS: yoailing steers. 375: dairy lieifers, Jerseys, to X'l'i 10s; Shorthorn heifers, to £9; row with calf, £11; dairy cows. Shorthorns, £7 12s lid to £9 us; Jerseys, to £l2. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report:There was a small yarding of sheep, mostly fat and forward wethers, but competition was dull, and all pens wero passed in. Iho entries of cattle were below the usual yarding. Prices of store stock were on a par with last side. and fat cattle showed an advance. Quotations.- —Fat cows. £7 15s to £l2 ss. the top price being obtained by Mr. John McCallum for a prime Shorthorn cow. purchased by Mr. F. J. Bennett; forwardconditioned cows, £5 to £'G 15s; storo cows, £3 10s to £4 Is; two-year-old steers. £7 2s Cd to £7 19s; bulls. £5 10s to £7 10s; springing cows, £ti 10s to £7 17s fid. GOOD PRICES FOR JERSEYS. Tho Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company Limited, report having held a successful sale of pedigree and grade Jerseys on account of Mr. J. P. Flynn in tho Hamilton East yards on Thursday. There was a largo attendance of breeders from all over the Waikato, and competition was keen throughout.. The best price was paid by Mr. \V. L. Magnet- of To Kowhai. for a choice cow. Jv.iie May, which realised tfi guineas. Other purchases were:—Betty May, bought by Andrew Mc.Farlane, Tfautupu. Princess May. to same buyer. Signs; Enid May. J. W. Schole3, Lichfield. 26gns; Ina May, W. I\. Shattock, Hamilton. 26ghs; Dale May, William Henry. Taupiii, 2Cgns. The highest price paid for a yearling Jersey heifer was given by Mr. J. A. Sanders, .Piako. for Sybils Actress, 21gna. The Jersey bull Ttidgv.-ay Master Viola was secured by Mr. O. H. Capper, of Ohinewai. for IGgns. All the pedigreo cows averaged Q7gns., and the heifers li'giis. Tho grade cows were a choice lot and averaged £l7 Ps, the highest price being £2O, paid by E. C. McCormick. of Matamata. The same purchaser also paid £23 for another cow. The company reports having held a. successful rclearing saloon account Of Mr. R. Sproul, of Eastport Bond. Waihou, on Wednesday. when his whole herd of choice Jersey and Jersey-cross dairy cows were sold at satisfactory prices. Tho herd averaged £l7 :is per head. Quotations:—-Choice Jersey and Jersey-cross cows, close to profit. £l7 10s to £22 10s; September culvers, fcl'2 lo £l7; choice Jersey and Jersey-cross cows, in milk, £ls 10s to £23; cows in milk. £lO to £ls: yearling Jersey heifers, £5; wean or heifer calves, to £1 7k; grade Jersey hulls, 2-venr. £'7 to £11; farm horses, £l7 10s to £23 10s.

HIKUTAL4 QUOTATIONS. The Farmers' Co-opcrntivo Auctioneering Company, Limited, report that nt tho usual Hikutaia stock sale on Wednesday an average yarding of beef and a good yarding of dairy cattle were penned. Theio was keen competition for good finality dairy cattle, and practically tho whole yarding was cleared at satisfactory prices. Beef was also keenly sought, and sold nt increased prices. Quotations: —Fat bullocks, heavy, Cl.'! 10-; light, £lO ss; fat cowb, heavy, £lO to .til 7s; medium, C 7 l(h to £3 Ms; light, XT> 10s to £7 7s: forward rows, £t 10s to £5 15a; heifer calves, £:"! 15s to £1 Is: dairy cows. Jersey-cross, close to profit. £lO 15s to £l3 10s; backward sorts. £9 5s to £lO 10s; rows in milk. £C< 10s to £lO 10s; Jersey and cross heifers. £!) 15s to Cll 10s.

JERSEY BULL SALE AT AWAKEBI. fnv TT'XEORAPir. —OWN COmtF.srONDENT. ] OPOTIKI. Friday

Dalgety and Company, limited, report on the Awaken special pedigree Jersey bull and heifer sale as follows:—A full yarding of pedigree Jersey bulls and also female rattle was submitted to keen competition from n liirsre attendance of buyers from the whole of tho Bay of Plenty district. Tho company sol i a line of highly-bred Taranaki bulls and also bulls from leading local breeders. Tho fop price of tho day was secured for a two-year-old Jersey bull, N'gahivi Groves Star, sold on account of Mr. Alex. McLean, of Avvakeri. for 70 guineas, and purchased by Mr. A. W. Thorne. of Opotiki. Other Jwo-yenr-old hulls on recount, of the sr.mo vendor sold at .'!Sl;;ns, .'irigns. 32igns, and oOlgns. Among the yearling bulls top price was secured by Mr. I). O. Murray, of Edgerumbe, for his yearling bull Tarn weni Golden Semite, which was bought for Glgns by Mr. J. Edwards, of Opotiki. Other yearlings from the same breeder brought 251, 21 and 17 guineas. On account of Mr. ft. Fleming, of "Woimoana. the yearling bull Myrtles King Pin was sold for 45gns to Mr. Campbell, of Awnkeri. and another yearling, Uncles Gift, at IlOgns. Other prices for yearling bulls were:—On. account of Mr. J. S. Rao. of Tanentua, 171gns. lOJgns, and 15gns; on account of Mr. Alex. McLean, of Awakeri, HOgns, to 27gns; on account, of Messrs. Holdsworth Brothers, of Edgecumbe, 15gns. On account of other vendors, grade yearling bulls realised 8 to Iljgns. Springing dairy heifers and cows met with strong competition, best heifers selling from £l3 lOs to El.'; others, £ll to £l2 15s; Inter calving, £8 to £lO 10s; backward, £5 10s to £8 10s: dairy cows, £M to .I*l.l 10«.

THE rALUKS AT FETLDIXO. [UV TELEGRAPH. —PIIFSS ASSOCIATION. ] FEILDJNG, Friday. There was a medium yardinc at (lie stock sale - to-dnv. Prices for fat sheep wore 011 n par with lato rutoa: Dairy, cattle wore still in keen demand. Deef cnttle sold readily. Prices, were:—Sheep: Fat lambs, v.-oolly, 25s Id to 30h ; hlack-fiico Inrabs, Ms 2d to 23s 10d: ewes. 24s Id to 29s 4(1; maiden owes, od to 31b Gel; wethers, 33s to 37a; store two. four and six tooth ewes, running with Southdown ranis. 30s: mixed age owes. 2Cs fid; two-tooth owes, running with ftomney rains, 325: empty ewes, 7s i)d to 12s Id: ewe hoggets, 21s lid to 2!ls 3d; black-fa.ee lambs, Mb Od; wether hoggets, to 21a Id; forward ewes. Us; two-tooth wethers. 27a 10(1 Dairy r.itlle: Springing heifers. £5 10s to Cl 5 in s: springing cows. £5 to ,Cl 3 10s; s'oro Polled Angus heifers, in cnlf, £l2 17s; stoic Jersey cows, .t'3; fat heifers, i' 10; fat cowb, 15 loa to X 9 18s; fat bullocks, i'lo 17s to £l6 17s 64.