COUNTRY STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21347, 23 November 1932, Page 7

COUNTRY STOCK SALES

PRICES AT FRANKTON

IMPROVEMENT FOR CATTLE

[i'ROM OUR OWN COnitKSPONDENT]

HAMILTON, Tuesday The short yarding of ox and cow beef at the Frankton stock sale to-day resulted in quotations showing a sharp increase on last week's values. No change was recorded in the rales for store cattle. Fat sheep also came forward in smaller numbers, prices showing little alteration. Values for a good entry of fat lambs remained firm jit last week's quotations. An average offering of fat pigs met with an improved market and sold at slightly increased rates. Store pigs also met with a better demand. The auctioneers quote as follows:

Dalgety and Company, Limited.—Sheep: Prime heavy shorn wethers made up to Us Gd; ordinaiy fat wethers, 30s to 10s lid; extra prime fat ewes, to lis 9d; fair average quality, 5s to 5s 7d; prime heavy fat lambs, to 12s Gd; medium-weight, 10s to lis 3d; Email and unfinished, 7s Gd to 9s 3d. Cattle: Prime young cows and heifers, to £5 12s; choice cows, to £4 18s; medium quality fat cows, 38s to G3s; inferior, 25s to 355; runners, to £'l 12s; fair quality store yearling heifers, to £2 12s; store cows, 15s to 225; Jersey calves, six to ! nine months old, 25s -Pigs: Extra heavy i baconers, £'2 to £2 3s; prime, £1 lGs to £2 Is; medium, £1 12s to £1 15s; heavy porkers, £1 Ss to £1 Us; medium, £1 2s to £1 7s; light, lGs to 21s; choppers, £1 5s to £2 ss; big stores, 17s to 21s Gd; slips, 12s to lGs Gd; weaners, 8s to Its Gd. Messrs. G. W. Vercoe & Company, Limited. —Sheep: Fat wethers sold at 11s to Us 3d; j lighter, 10s to 10s 9d; fat hoggets, 10s to I 10s Gd; fat ewes, Gs 9d to 7s Gd; light, 5s j to Gs; heavy fat lambs, Us to 12s; light, I 8s to 10s Gd. Cattle: Heavy fat bullocks, j £6 to £6 10s; lighter, £5 10s to £5 17s Gd; J light, £5 to £5 7s Gd; heavy fat cows, £3 • 15s to £4 4s; lighter. £2 10s to £3 10s; | light, £2 to £2 7s Gd; heavy fat heifers, £3 to £3 15s; lighter, £2 to £2 15s; light, £1 10s to £1 15s. Pigs: Heavy baconers, £2 to £2 3s; lighter, 3Gs to 395; light, 30s to 355; heavy porkers. 26s to 295; light, 22s to 255; choppers, 30s to 375; good stores, 15s to 19s Gd; slips, 12s to 14s; weaners, 10s to 12s Gd. ■New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited.—Cattle: Prime fat bullocks sold at £5 10s to £5 lGs; medium quality, £4 12s Gd to £5 ss; lighter, £4 to £4 10s; prime fat cow and heifer beef, £3 15s to £4 13s; medium quality, £2 7s Gd to £3 10s; lighter. £2 to £2 7s Od; light, 35s to £2; killable, 25s to 325; good stores, 19s to 245; medium, lis to 18s; inferior, to Us; good vealers, £1 5s to £1 12s; others, lGs to 235. Sheep: Prime fat wethers, 10s Gd to Us Gd; good quality, 9s 9d to 10s 3d; inferior, 9s to 9s 6d; good quality ewes, 5s 9d to Gs Gd; fair, 5s to 5s Gd; poor, to 4s Gd; prime quality lambs, lis Gd to 13s; medium, 10s 3d to lis 6d; superior, 9s to 10s. Pigs: Heavy baconers, 39s to £2 3s; medium, 35s to 38s; light, 31s to 345; heavy porkers, 28s to 30s; medium. 24s to 275; light, 21s to 235; choppers, 30s to £2 7s; large stores, lGs to 18s; slips, 12s to 15s; good weaners, 10s to 12s: poorer, 7s to 9s. , Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited.—Sheep: Medium fat wethers sold at 10s lOd to lis Id; light, 103 to 10s 6d; medium fat hoggets, 10s to 10s 8d; light, 9s to 9s 7d; heavy fat ewes, 5s Gd to Gs; light. 4s Gd to ss; heavy fat lambs, Us 9d to 12s 6d; medium, liis to 30s 9d; light, 9s to 93 (>d. Cattle: Vealersu 12s Gd to 16s; medium fnt steers, £5 16s to £5 19s; hesvvy fat cows, £4 Is to £4 9s; medium, £3 10s to £3 17s; light. £2 5s to £3; killable. 27s Gd to 355; store cows. 20s to 255: boners. Us to 18s: yearling Jersey heifers, 35s to £2 ss: bulls for service, £2 to £2 10s. Pics: Heavy baconers, 39s to £2 3s: medium, 35s to 3Ss; light. 31s to 345; heavy porkers. 28s to 30s; medium, 24s to 275; stores, lGs Gd to 18s; slips. Us 6d to 10s; weaners, 8s to Us Gd.

VALUES AT TOWAI [from our own correspondent] WHANG AHEI. Tuesday The Xoi'th Auckland Farmers' Co-operative. Ltd.. reports having held a sale at Towai yesterday. The attendance was not as large as usual. Hiddins "'was dull, but everything changed hands. Values were:—Dairy cows. HOs to £2 7s (>d; dairy heifers. A'2 0s to 7s (Jd; yearling Shorthorn bulls, 12s to £'l Is; yearling Shorthorn heifers,. 10s: yearling Jersey heifers, JL'2 2s; boner cows, 8s; hacks, £3.

ILANGIRI EI PRICES

The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Ltd., reports having held its Rangiriri stock sitle on Monday, when an average yarding of fat and store cattle was penned. Practically no dairy cattle came forward. Values were:—Fat cows, £2 5s to £3 ss; fat heifers, 32s to £2; lighter cows. £1 7s 6d to £1 15s; killable cows. 19s to 2Gs; Polled Angus and Hereford store bullocks. £2 to £2 10s; other good store steers, 35s to £2; Jersey heifers, 37s to £2 10s; springing heifers, £2 5s to £3 10s; dairy cows, close to profit, £3 to £4 10s.

CAMBRIDGE QUOTATIONS

The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Ltd., reports that at the Cambridge sule on Monday a medium yarding of cattle came forward. Late rates were maintained on all classes. Values were:— Fat heifers, £2 to £2 13s; fat cows, £1 10s to £2 Is: forward-conditioned cows, £1 to £1 7s (id; boners, 7s Gd to 10s; two-year-old steers, mixed coloured, £1 3s; two-year-old heifers, Jersey, 17s to £1 ss; sound Friesian cows, £2 2s; yearling Friesian heifers, £2 las; dairy cows, £-1 10s; dairy heifers, £2 10s to £7 ss. Pigs: A good yarding of pigs met with no alteration on late rates. Medium baconers made 35s to 37s lid; porkers. 21s to 255; good stores, 17s (id to 19s; others, 15s to 17s Gd; slips," lis Gd to 13s; good weanersj 9s to 10s Gd; smaller, Gs to Bs.

GISBORNE CATTLE FAIR

[by TELEGRAM —OWN correspondent] GISBORNE, Tuesday

Low prices ruled at to-day's cattle fair at the Matawhero saleyards and in both the beef and store sections values were lower than at the spring fair. The beef entry totalled 232 head, generally of average quality. Values were below those ruling recently and only top lines brought any competition. A few pens of good cows made £2; others, 35s to 37s Gd, but the highest price was £2 10s for one pen. A pen of prime bullocks made £4 2s (kl a head and single bullocks tip to £3 10s. Ileifers ranged from 37s Gd to 45s and good vealers to 2Bs. Gd. There was a fairly large entry of good-conditioned store cattle, but values showed a big decline, and most of the morning's offering was passed. Three-year steers miide 29s to 455; cows and calves, 32s Gd; Hereford cows, to 355; Polled Angus, 22s Gd to 335; Shorthorn and Hereford steers, to 30s; two-year heifers, to 31s; three-year heifers, to 345; bullock?, to £3

TAUMARUNUI PRICES > [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] TAUMARUNUI. Tuesday

The yarding at the stock sale to-day com; prised 600 sheep. 150 head of cattle and 100 pigs. There was a good demand for pigs at reduced prices. Best weaners made lis Gd; small weaners, 5s to Ss Gd; good quality baconers. 235. There was a fair demand for sheep. Fat ewes made 7s Gd to 9s 2d; good woolly hoggets, 8s lOd; two and fourtooth wethers (shorn), 8s; best ewes and lambs, <>n. Cattle were hard to quit. Fat steers sold at £2 7s to £4; fat cows, £2 4s to £3 7s; largo store bullocks, 37s to £2 13s.

HIDE VALUES IMPROVE

BETTER RATES FOR OX

KEENER COMPETITION SHOWN

There was a better demand for hides at the fortnightly sale held by Auckland brokers yesterday. Some good quality lines cutue forward and t lie competition was keener, as exporters were operating to a wider exteut. The market has recently shown a firmer tendency and values have* already, improved in the South. _Ox hides showed greatest appreciation in price. Values for shipments were on a par with last week. Inquiry for tallow was more satisfactory and values wete a sluido firmer. Prices for the offerings of good quality runted as follows:

Hides.—Heavy ox. 41 d ; medium, 4d; light, 3Jd: cow, best, to 3Jd; kip, best grade, 4d; yearlings. 4Jd; calfskins, 4Jd to sd. Sheepskins.—Dry: Fine crossbred, threequarter to full wool, 33d; medium crossbred, ,3d; coarse crossbred. 23d; half-wool medium to fine crossbred, 22(1;; coarse crossbred, 2Jd; qunrtej'-wools. best grades. 2d; second grade, lid; pelts, lid. Salted: Three-quarter to full wool, large, 3s 3d; medium. 2s 9d: light. Is 8d; pelts, 5d to 7dj lambskins, 8d to lOd.

Tallow.—Best mixed, 16a to 16a Gd * cwt; others, 14s 6d to 15s,