COUNTRY STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21716, 3 February 1934, Page 7

COUNTRY STOCK SALES

VALUES AT TE AWAMUTU GOOD DEMAND FOR SHEEP The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports having held its usual Te Awamutu stock sale on Thursday, when a full yarding of all classes was yarded. Sheep found a ready sale. Fat lambs remained very firm, 500 being penned. A line of 361 sold at 21s, and a line of 182 at 19s lid. Other fat sheep also remained firm at late rates. Store sheep, comprising mostly lambs, sold under brisk competition" A good yarding of well-finished ox beef sold firmly at late rates. Cow and heifer beef was also yarded in full numbers, these showing no alteration. A heavy yarding of boner cows and bulls sold at schedule rates. There was a medium entry of pigs, comprising mainly porkers. Competition was good and values were on a par with other sales. Values were:—• Sheep.—Heavy prime fat lambs, 24s to 275; medium, 19s to 21s; fat ewes, 13s lid to 14s 6d; two and four-tooth wethers, 19s to 193 4d; four-tooth to five-tooth breeding ewes, 18s to 203 3d; pood Romney wether ipmbs, 13s Id to 14s 9d; good black-faced lambs. 13s Id to 14s; medium store lambs, 10s 6d to 12s 4d; cull lambs, 8s 6d to 9s 6d; sound-mouth ewes, 12s to 13s 6d; Southdown rams, ljgns to -liens. Cattle: Medium fat steers, £6 6s to £6 12s; lighter, £5 5 s to £6; forward conditioned steers. £4 to £4 ss; runners, £3 lis; vealers, 20s to 30s; heavy fat cows, £4 4s to £4 14s; medium fat cows and heifers, £3 7s 6d to £3 18s; lighter, £2 12s 6d to £3 2s 6d; killable cows, 38s to £2 8s; heavy boner cows, 28a to 355; lighter, 16s to 255. Pigs: Choppers, 37s to £2 10s; baconers, £2 4s to £2 10s; heavy porkers,. 37s to £2 Is; medium, 32s to 365; light, 25s to 30s; stores, 20s to 245; slips, 15s to 19s; weaners, 10s 6d to 14s; Tamworth boars, £2 to £2 lis. MATAMATA QUOTATIONS At Dalgety and Company's fortnightly stock sale at Matamata on Wednesday a full yarding of cattle and a fair yarding of sheep came forward and sold at prices fully up to late values. A medium yarding of fat and store pigs was penned. Competition for baconers was keen. Porkers met with fair competition, while stores and weaners were not in much demand. Top-weight baconers made £3. Values were:—Cattle: Light fat heiferii, £3 10s to £3 15s; lighter sorts, £2 10s to £3; light fat cows, £2 15s to £3 ss; fat cows, 35s to £2; boner cows, 25s to 355; backward cows, 18s to 255; Polled cows, with calves at foot, all counted, £2 9s; Hereford cows, calves at foot, all counted, £1 16s; cull cows, calves at foot, 30s; two and a-half-year Polled steers, £3 3s; small yearling Polled-cross steers, 365; small yearling Polled-cross heifers, 255; heavy potter bulls, £4 to £4 10s; light potter bulls, £2 19s to £3 15s. Pigs: Heavy baconers. £'J 15s to £3; medium. £2 10s to £2 14b; light, £2 4s to £2 9s; heavy porkers, 38s to £2 2s; medium, 345.t0 375; light, 28s to 335; large stores, 20s to 26s 6d; best weaners. 12 3 to 14s; others, 6s to 93: choppers, up to £2 18s: Tamworth sow, in pig, £3. Sheep: Twotooth fat wethers, £1 Is 2d "to £1 Is 6d; fat ewes, 13s lOd; fat lambs. 17s 6d to £1 Is; light fat lambs, 16s 6d; woolly store lambs, 15s to 16s 4d; smaller, 13s to 14s 6d; good shorn lamljs, 14s to 15s 7d; small twoand four-tooth ewes, 19s 4d; sound-mouth ewes, 143 to 163; Southdown rams, £2 2s. PRICES AT KOPU [by telegbaph OWN correspondent] THAMES. Friday A good yarding of all classes of stock was offered by Dalgety and Company, Limited, at the Kopu stock sale on Thursday. There was keen and sustained competition. Prices were: —Pigs: Light baconers, £2 3s to £2 6s; heavy porkers, £1 18s to £2 2s; medium, £1 14s to £1 17s; light, 31s to 345; small and unfinished, 27s to 31s; large stores, 233 to 30s; other stores, 19s to 233; slips, 15s to 19s; best weaners, 15s to 18s; medium, 12s to 15s; light, 8s to lis. Sheep: Fat weaners, to 255. A line of 200 two-tooth ewes realised 255. going to a Coromandel buyer. Good woolly storo lambs made 16s 6d to 16s 9d; others, to 13s 6d; cull lambs, 6s; failing-mouth ewes, 10s; Southdown rams, 2J guineas; full-mouth Romney rams, £2 ss; potter rams, 5s to 17s 6d. Cattle: Killable steers, to £4 4s; four-year-old store steers, £4 2s 6d; three-year store steers, £3 16s; two-year storo steers, £1 13s to £3; best fat heifers, ,to £4; other fat heifers. £2 3s to £2 15s; best fat cows, £3' Is to £4 4s; medium, £3 10s to £3 19s; heavy, aged, £2 17s to £3 9s; killable cows. £1 15s to £2 14s; boner cows, £1; cows, with calves at foot. £2 10s to £2 17s 6d; runners. £1 10s to £1 15s, No heavy bulls were o<Te»ed. Medium potter bulls made £2 15s to £3 ss; others, £2 to £3 2s Gd. OFFERING AT OPOTIKI [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] , OPOTIKI, Friday Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held their usual monthly stock sale yesterday when a small yarding of all classes v ,s penned, a total clearance being effected i full late rates. Prices were: Heavy fat cows, £2 ISs to £3 Is; lighter, £2 3s to £2 12s; fat Jersey cows, £1 10s to £2 Is; light fat Jersey heifers, £1 -4' ito £1 8s; boner cows, 15s to £1 3s; aged and poor. 103 to 12s 6d; medium potter-bulls, £3 3s to £3 ss; good weaner pigs, to 13s 6d; smaller, lis 6d; aged ewes, 10s lid; medium lambs, lis. The Loan'and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report that an average yarding of cattle was offered, meeting with good competition at an advance on le-te rates, bulls being keenly bid for. Fat and forward cows sold well, but poor quality wore neglected. Prices were: Fat cows, £2 10s to £2 15s: forward covs,_ 30s to 4Ss; boners. 7s 6d to 20s; heavy-weight bulls, to £4 10s: lighter sorts, to 355; 18-month Holstein heifers, 255; weaner heifers. 7s 6d to IPs: yearling steers, to 37s Gd; store pigs, to 26a 6d. PRICES AT MATAWHERO [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] GISBORNE. Friday At tho Matawhero stock sale to-day the yarding and attendance were well above the average. In the fat cattle section Jersey heifers made £1 15s 9d t" £2 10s, and Holstein-cross bullocks £4 10s. The fat sheep entry totalled 394, and the market was firmer. Ewes made 12s to 13s, a few solid Downs, two-tooth, realising 19s. Secondgrade ewes were worth up to 10s. Therewas a full j'arding of store sheep and buyers competed well for several wellknown lines of station ewes. The sale as a whole was a good one, the values being tho same as ruling lately. Six-year ewes made to 13s 3d; five-year, to 18s; choice pens of four and five-year ewes, to 15s 9d and 16s lid; four-tooth to four-year ewes. 17s 7d and 18s 7d: two-tooth, to 21s 3d: fonrtooths, to 18s 7d: fat and forward wethers, 17s 6d; fai.ly good storo lambs, lis sd. MORRINSVILLE SHEEP FAIR GOOD PRICES REALISED The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company. Limited, roports having held a special sheep fair of outside sheep at Morrinsville on Thursday, when approximately 10.000 were yarded. The entry comprised annual drafts of breeding evves from well-known stations in the Tokomaru Bay, Hast Coast. Hawke's Bay and North Auckland districts. There -WOS u larpe and representative attendance, buyers being present from all over the South Auckland districts. Competition was keen throughout and prices ruled at recent high levels. The top price of the season so far, 3-is Id, was realised by an excellent lino of mixed are breeding ewes, sold on account of Mr. J. H. Taplin, of Mokoiwi Station, Tokomaru Bay, the purchaser being the well-known Ngarua farmer. Mr. W. C. Mears. A dyft. of ewes from Mr. K. S. Williams, of Tokomaru Bay, also attracted a good deal of attention, and mixed'ago ewes sold from 25s fid to 26s 9d. while four-year-old ewes from the same vendor made up to 265. A siraisht lino of five-year ewes realised 20s lid. A feature of the sale was the excellent prices realised for the better class of young sheep. Two-tooths weri also in good demand and a draft from Mokoiwi station realised 29s lid. Other prices were:—Twotooth ewes. 26s torf to 29s 10d; four-tooth ewes 25s to 2Ps Od; six-tooth ewes, 23s 3d lo 26s 9d; four-tooth and four-year-old ewes. 23s Id to 31s Id: four-year-old ewes, 20* 9d to 265; poor conditioned four-year-old owes. 18s Dd: four and five-yeav-old ewes. IS* 6d to 21s 4d; five-year-old owes, 17s S>d to 223 4d; full-mouth ewes, 17s to IBs 6d; soundmouth ewes, 14s 6d to 17s 8d: cull eves, 9s fid to 12s; two-tooth wethers, 19s 6d to 20s 3d. NORTH AUCKLAND PRICES [by telegraph—own correspondent] KAITAIA, Friday The North Auckland Farmers' Co-opern-tive, Limited, roports holding shrep fairs at Kohumaru on Wednesday, and Herekino yesterday. There were heavy ynrdings of sheep at each sale, over 4000 being penned at Herekino. There was n large attendance of buyers, competition being fceen and all lines changing hands. Quotations: Four to six-tooth wethers, 10s; two-tooth, lfis 7d to IBs 2d; two-tooth ewes. £1 to £1 Is; fpuryenr ewes. 15s to 17s 3d: five-year-old, lis 6d to 14s: full-mouthed, 8s to Us; best woolly lambs, 14s: best shorn, 32s to 13s ( lOii; rape lambs, 15s 9d; culled sorts, 7s to i 8s lOd.