COUNTRY STOCK SALES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21239, 20 July 1932, Page 9

COUNTRY STOCK SALES.

PRICES AT FRANKTON. GOOD DEMAND GENERALLY, [fROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT,] HAMILTON, Tuesday. All classes of stock yarded at the weekly Frankton sale to-day met with, a much improved market, values generally showing an appreciable increase onlat® rates. Competition was very keen for the .smaller offering of both ox and cow beef, prices advancing from 20s to 80s per Bead on recent quotations. Store cattle also met with. ft ready sale. Values for fat ewes and wethers, which came forward in jnoderate numbers, shared in the hardening tendency, while .late rates wore fully maintained for a small entry of fat lambs. Fat pigs were offered in smaller numbers than usual, values being very firm at recent quotations. A full yarding of Btores and weaners sold under keen competition.

The auctioneers quote as follows: New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd.—Cattle: Medium quality ox beef sold at £6 5s to £6 14s; very prime fat cow and heifer beef, £5 15s to £6 10s; prime, £5 to £5 12s 6d; medium fat cows, £3 17s 6d to £4 7s 6d: lighter, £2 15ii to £3 12s 6d; light, £2 to £2 14b; Btores, £1 Is J to £1 12s; vealers, £1 17s to £2 7s; others, £1 5s to £1 15s; medium-conditioned yearling heifers, £1 12s to £1 13s; poorer, £1 5s to £1 10s. Sheep: Prime fat wethers. 12s 6d to 13s lid; fat, 10s Od to lis 9d; lighter, 9s to 10s; prime maiden ewes, 10s 3d; to, 10s 8d; fat ewes, Gs Gd to 8s; lighter, 5s to Gs; fat lambs, 10s to lis; poorer, 9s to 10s. Pigs: Heavy porkers. 28s to 30s; ?. medium, 24s to 275; light, to 225; large stores, 15s to 18s; medium, lis to 14s; small, 7s to 10s; weaners, 8s to lis. Dalgety and Company, Ltd.—Sheep; Extra prime fat wethers made up to 13s lOd; prime two-tooth wethers, 13s 6d; ordinary quality fat ewes, 7s to'>Bß 6d; fat lambs, , 8s Gd to lis; 143 full-mouthed ewes in lamb to Southdown rams, 7s 2d; cull, 4s. Cattle: Prime jax beef sold at about 20* per head higher than last week, making up to 20s per hundred; prime cow and hoifer, to 18s per hundred; on account of Mr. E. W. R. Leslie, a truck of medium-weight bullocks averaged £G Gs; a truck of heifer# averaged £4 Gs; other prime cows and heifers, £3 ,15s to £5 8s; aged fat cown £2 to £3 ss; good runners, 27s to £2; Polled. Angus steers, £2 10s; empty 2-year Jeirseycross heifers, 31s to 38s; yearling Jer-sey-cross heifers, small, 235; boner cows, 13s to 18s. Pigs: Best porkers, 25s to 30s; medium, 18s to 23m best stores, 14s to 17s Gd; slips, 10s t<rlSa; weanerß, 5s Gd to 10s Gd; a special entry of breeding sows on account of Mr. R. Chilcott averaged £3 ss; maiden Berkshire bows, £2 10s to £3; maiden Tamworth sows, close to farrowinp. £3, £3 ss, £3 7s Gd, £4 7s 6d; others, £2 10s to £3. Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Ltd.—Sheep: Prime wethers sold to • 13s to Kb lOd; lighter, lis 3d to 12s 6df prime fat ewes, 9a Gd ie 10s lid; lighter, 7s Cd to 8s 9d; prime lax lambs. 12s 6d to<133 9d; lighter, 7s 6d to Bs 9d. Cattle: Heavy prime fat cows, £7; prime fat cows, £6 to £6 8s; medium, £4 10s to £5; prime fat heifers, £5 12s to £5 ISs; medium. £1 18s to £5 6s; priino medium runners, £2 17s to £3; lighter, £2 5s to £2 12s; two : year empty Friesian heifers, 325; two-year empty Shorthomrcross heifers, 26s to 30s; two-year Jersey and Jersey-cross heifers, 31s to 38s; yearling Jersey hfiifer3, 38s to £2 ss. Pigs; Heavy porkers, 27s to 31s; lighter, 22s to >• 265; stores, 13s 6d to 19s; slips, 9s to 14s; weaners, 8s to'l2s. 6d. T . , G. W. Vercoe and Company, Ltd. —Sheep: Prime fat wethers, 12s to 133 Gd: fat owes,5s to 10s 4d; fat lambs, 10s 4d to. 14s. Cattle: Prime heavy fat. bullocks, £7 15s » •to £8 10s; 'heavy, £7 to £7 10s; lighter. £6 10s to £6 18s; heavy fat heifers, £5 8s to £6 8s; heavy fat cows, £5 10s to £6; light, £3 to £3 15s; lighter, £2 to £2 15s; heavy vealers, 30s to £2 ss. Pigß: Good porkers, 2Ss to 31s; light, 24s to 265; lighter. 20s to 235; good stores, 15b to 18s; sups, 10s to 14s; good weaners, 10s to 13s; . weaners, 6s to 9s; choppers, to £2; sows, in pig, to-£2 7s Gd. .

YALUES AT OHINEWAI. : The Farmers' Co.- operative AuctioneeringCompany, Limited, , reports that at th® Oliinewai stock sale on Monday an average number of fat, and store cattle sold freely. An extra large yarding of dairy cattle met with dull competition, but in nearly every case a sale was effected at ruling ratea. Values were:—Prime fat Jersey cows, £2 10a to £3 18s: fat 3h6rthora caws, £3 Josto £3 2s; lighter»fat cows, 34s to 38s; tollable cows. 25s to 275; store cows, 17s /to _ 21s; boner cows, 5s to 15s; fat and forward threeyear Hereford steers, £3 5s to £4 Is; grown forward 21 to Hereford Btceft, £2 10s to £3 Is; yearling Jersey-cross heifers, 30s to 365; raialler yearling heifers, lit to 19s; ciest Jersey cows, close to pront, £5 10s to £6 sa: other good Jersey, ana Jersey-crpss cows, backward, £3 to £5: best, close to' profit, • £5 5s to £C se; others; £4 to £5. V-~

CAMBRIDGE QUOTATIONS. - The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering ( Company, Limited, reports tliat at the Cambridge stock sale on Monday only a mecuum »- yarding of sheep was penired, and sold, at late rates. There was an average yarding of pigs, stores being in good demand. Fat and store cattle were penned in good nambers and beef sold well. Stores remained unchanged. Values were:—Sheep: Fat hoggets. 7s lid to 9s: forward-conditioned hoggets. 5s 6d to 6s; six-tooth to four-year breeding ewes, 93 4d; aged ewes, 48 lid. Pi"s: Stores, 15s'-to-17s; slips t lis to J3s 6d; weaners, 8s to 9s 6d: maiden sows,, in pig £2 10s to £3: ntaiden Berkshire boars, 30s" to 355. .-Cattle:- Fat. heifers. £3 9s to £4; fat cows, £2 15b ; to £4: lighter fat cows and heifers, £2 to £2 10s; tollable-cows: 2os . to 335; store cows, 16s to 22s Gd; boner cows, 6s to 14s; choice Jersey heifer calves, £2 to £2: 4s; mined coloured heifer calves, small, 10s to 13s. Competition was fairly keen for a large yarding of dairy. cattie. young cows and heifers well forward in calf being in fair demand. cows, early calvers, made £5 I,os to £8 10s; later . culvers, £3 10s to £5: Friesian cows,, early calvers, £G io £0; poorer sorts, £4 5s to £5 ss: Jersey Leifers, choice, £7 loe to i.3; fair, £5 5s to £7: inferior and backward sorts, £2'lss to £4 10s; Jersey and Ayrsliirecross heifers, £2 J7s Gd to £3 15s. /' ■ ~~~ . . - TAUMALtUNUI PRICES. [llY TKr.ECJR.VriT.—OWN CORRESPONDENT. 3 TAUMARUNUI, Tuesday. There was A fair demand for ewes at tta stock sale to-day. and all sheep changed hands. The yarding comprised 1000 sheep and about 50 hoiwl of cattle... There was » J arse attendance of farmers and buyers g. from Raetihi. tfjiurimu Owhango and.the Waiknto. Fat owes made lis and two-tooth oweß changed hands afc 12s 2d, _Bidainjr lor hoggets was brisk at time? end mixed sex hoggets made 8s 6d. Good dairy heifers were hard to quit, but best dairy cows, carty calvers. made £B. Good Polled Angus ntcers made 38s~and yearling heifers changed hands at £2. . • y