STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21254, 6 August 1932, Page 7

STOCK SALES

TE AWAMUTU PRICES The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report:—At the Te Awamutu stpck sale a full yarding of cattle came forward. Cow and heifer beef were penned in excess of requirements, and many lots were passed, but prices remained right up to late rates. There was only a small yarding of sheep. There was a heavy yarding of dairy cattle, comprising mostly . heifers. Cattle of duality sold , well, but email and inferior sorts were hard to auit. Pigs also came forward in large numbers, prices remaining at late rates. Quotations: Medium fat wethers. 10s 2d to lis Cd: fat hoggets, 9s to 10s; light fat ewes. 5s to 5s 6d; light fat steers. £5: heavy fat cows. £5 to £5 10s; prime fat heifers, £4 15s to £5 2s: lighter fat heifers. £3 15s to £4 ss: medium fat cow*, £3 15s to £4 12s Gd: lighter fat cows. £2 10s to £3 Ss: killable cows, 35s to £2 53: fresh-conditioned cows, 23s to 30s; boner cows. S3 to 14s: young Jersey cows. 20s to 3ls; two-yea* Jersey heifers, empty. 305.t0 £2 2s: wellgrown yearling Jersey heifers, £2 8s to 14s- yearling Jersey-cross heifers. 36s to £2 '6s; smaller. 21s to 30s: choice Jersey heifers, close to profit. £6 to £6 15si: Jense* heifers, later calvers, £4 "10s to £o 10s: Jer-sey-cross heifers, close to profit, £5 to £G ss: Jersey-cross heifers, later calvers, £3 158 to £4 ss; sound dairy cows, close to pront. £4 . to £4 10s; Jersey-cross cows, later calvers. £2 5a to £3 10s; aged and backward sorts, £1 to 355. Piss: Light porkers, 20s to 21t Gd: store pigs, lGs to 18s: slips. 12,1 15s: weaners, 8s to 10s Gd: smallet weaners. 5s to Gs Gd; breeding sows, due to farrow late, 20s to 355. HORSE SALE AT WAIHOU The Farmers' Co-operative _ Auctioneering Company, Limited, report having held a successful horso sale at \V aihou on Thurs day. Thero was a good attendance of buyeri and competition was keen on any «nuin reliable young draughts The top price oi the sale, was paid by the Estate of J.B Thomas for a six-year bay peldintr. sole for £3B. on nccount of Messrs.- Barron B . of Manawaru. Prices ; _T'nbroken mcdim« draughts. £ll to £l7: others £6 to iU voung draught horses, with , tual ; rii £33-"older draught horses, with trial. £l. tn V°l a' T ed and inferior horses. £3 1W to £§V good stamps of horse. chains. £2O Ss to £35: Kood sorts of hack £6 to £8: others. £1 10s to £4. RATES AT OPOTIKI [BY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] OPOTIKI. Friday Dnlgety and Company, report th«j at the stock sale held at the upouK ard . n) yards yesterday there w . , dairy stock of sheep, but a large J^ingr of ■ d»'«7 ftve . Fat and store cattle came d qU a!it; age numbers. Competition fo 6 all< Jersey heifers close to Quota satisfactory prices were obtained. w , ir S r^s St "^T y £G h j" r : B 'spring?nf co\vs i "it to 16; ?•! COW™ K 1«; cemdition cows, to £2: jtorocowa. to pSi. s»i to a.,