STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21759, 26 March 1934, Page 5

STOCK SALES

VALUES AT MORRINSVILLE HEAVY YARDING OF SHEEP The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company. Limited, report on their Morrinsville stock sale aa follows : Another heavy yarding of sheep was penned, including drafts of fat lambs from local graziers. which met with keen competition and showed an advance in prices. Store lambs and breeding ewes did not show the quality of r»:cent yarding, and the demand was not keen; however, a total clearance was eSected at satisfactory prices. Cattle: An extra heavy yarding of local cattle came forward. Corapetition on the beef was dull and values eased on late Quotations, while killable and boner cattle sold at late rates. A good entry of yearling Jersey heifers met_ with poor competition. Pigs: A heavy yarding of all classes of pigs, it being noticeable that there was a larger proportion of baconers than usual, this no doubt being due to the improved competition in the yards for ptjs of this class. Baconer3 were again in demand, while porkers remained firm at late rates. The exceptionally large entry of stores and weanera was not wanted. Quotations:—Sheep: Fat ewes, 16s 6d to 17s 9d; fat wethers, 24s to 25s 3d; odd extra prime fat lambs, 9d to 25s I Id: prime heavy fat lambs, 21s to 23a 6d; prime medium fat lambs, ISa (id to 20s 6d; lighter fat lambs, 15s to 13s Id: good store lambs, 12s Bd to 14s Sd; medium store lambs. 10s 6d to Vis; poorer lambs, 8s 6d to 10*; four and five-year ewes, ex-North Auckland, 19s to 19s 3d; mixed age ewes, ex East Coast. 17s to 17s 9d; two-tooth ewes, small, 17s to ISs 9d; two-tooth ewes, cull, 12s 3d to 14s 3d; five-year ewes, 14s 9d to 17s; a.m. ewes. Sa 9d to 12s 6d; store wethers. 15s to 15a Id. Cattle: Medium heavy steers. £6 to £6 15s; young light fat heifers, £3 17s 6d to £4 15s; heavy fat cows, £3 12s to £3 ISs; medium fat cows, £2 15s to £3 ss; killable cows, 3Ss to £2 2s 6d; forward conditioned cows, 35s to 375; heavy boners, 2Ss to 345; light boners, 15s to 263; yearling Jersey heifer calves (good), 24s to 30s; yearling Jersey and Jersey-cross heifer Hs to 225; heavy potter bulls, £4 5s to £6 8s; lighter potter bulls, £2 9a to £4; dairy cowa, springers. £3 to £4 10s; dairy heifers, springers, £2 15s to £3 15s. Pigs: Heavy choppers. £2 las to £3 6s; lighter choppers, 36s to £2 10s; prime heavy baconers, £3 6s to £3 9s; heavy baconers, £3 2s to £3 7s; medium baconers, £2 15s to £3 Is; light baconers. £2 Ss to £2 14s; heavy porkers and unfinished baconers. 37a to £2 5»; medium porkers, 30s to 355; light. 24s to 295; large stores, 19s to_2ls Gd; smaller stores, 13s 6d to 17s 6d: slips, 6s to lis: ■weaners, 3s to 6s 6d; Tamworth boars, £2 to £2 12s 6d.

VALUES IN THE NORTH [by telegraph—ows correspondent] KAIKOHE, Saturday During the week Messrs. Dalsety and Company, Limited, held stock sales at Broadwood. Ohaeawai and Kaikche, there being heavy yardings at all places. Trio bulk of the cattle offered changed hands at prices slightly lower than those ruling at la3t sales. The quality on the -whole waa exceptionally good. Prices rukd as_ follows:—Fat bullocks. £4 to £4 Es to £5 3a: fat -cows, 30s to £2 to £3 17s; three and four-year bullocks, £3 5? to £3 12s Cd to £4 ss: two and a-hali-year steers, to £3 12s 6d; IS-months steera. sood quality. £2 2s to £2 ISs. Poorer quality steers and bad-coi-oured steers were neglected. Dairy cows were dull of sale, prices ranging from 10s to £3; weaner Jersey heifers, 10s to 18s: empty cows, 5s to 30s. Au exceptionally good line of Hereford cows and calves offered at Ohaeawai ins.de £1 9b, nil ' counted.

OPERATIONS AT TE KUITI [from our own correspondent! TE KUITI. Saturday The stock sale at Te Kuiti yesterday «« one of the largest held for many year 3. The total yarding was about 2300 heaa of cattle and 1500 sheep. The whole yarding of «heeD was sold and about *2OOO head of cattle. There was a coed demand for both sheep and cattle. Messrs. Abraham and Williams report that more than the advertised number of cattle came forward, their entry totalling 1437 head. Bullocks were not so , keeniy sought after a» at recent sales, o«m, no doubt. to the dry weather prevailing in the Waikato and North. Prices for all other classes were well maintained and almost a total clearance was made; 2137 sheep wire varded. for which there was ready sale. The main '■sale* were:—24 three-year steers. £4 15s; 17 three-year steers, £3 16s: 25 threo-year steers, £4 10s: 10 three-year steers. £5 Is: 12 three-year steers. £4 63; 7 threeyear steers, £4 13s Sd: 5 fat steers. £6: 24 three-year steers. £5 ss; 20 three-year steers. £4 2* 6d: 1.l three-year steers. £4 6s: 11 three-year steers. £4 12s €d; 8 three-year steers, £4 12s; Light fat bullocks. £5 _l7s; thres-year Polled Angus steers, £4 2s: fouryear steers, £5 ss; fat cows, £2 12s to £4 lis; two-year steers, £2 10s to £3 19s; IS-month steers, £2 to £3 ISs; fresh-condi.-tioned cows. £2 Is to £2 lis; boner cows. £1 to £2 Is; fat lambs, 17s to 225: one Email line of 10 fat lambs made 25s 4d; two-tooth ews, 20s to 22a 6d; two-tooth wethers. 21s and 19s: fat wethers. 23s 2d; mixed-sex lambs, lis Cd to 15s 6d; wether lambs, 12s 6d to 14s 4d. Dalgety Rnd Company, Limited, report that over the advertised number of cattle were yarded and included many lines, of good forward-conditioned, well-bred station bullocks. The demand was not as keen as at previous sales owing to the dry spell and shortage of feed. Young cattle were yarded in cood numbers and sold readily at prices well up to recent sales. The bulk of the yarding was purchased locally. Medium-weight fat bullocks, £6 10s to £7; good forward four-year Polled Angus and Hereford bullocks, £4 17s 6d to £5 ss: store-conditioned. £4 5s to £4 12s fd; good three-year Polled Angus steers. £4 7s Gd to £4 12s 6d; threeywsr Shorthorn steers. £i to £4 ss; two and 2|-year Polled Angus steers, £3 15s to £4 Ss; IS-month Polled Angus steers, £3 7s to £3 17s; good Polled Angus steer calves, £2 6s to £2 lis: Polled Angus breeding cows. £2 to £3 8s: fat cows, medium, £3 5« to £4 3s; light cows, £2 15s to £3 4s; fresh-condi-tioned cows. £1 ISs to £2 12s; boner cows, £1 to £1 15s; good two-tooth wethers, 21s; forward black-faced lambs. ISs: small twotooth »wes, £1: medium, mixed-sex, whitefaced lambs. 13s 3d: small lambs, Ss 7d; fat lambs. ISs 9d to 21s.

SHEEP FAIR AT KAMO [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT] WHANGAREI. Saturday Dalgety and Company. Limited, report having held a successful sheep fair at Kamo yesterday. This was tha last sheen fair of the season and there was a fairly heavy yardinsr. consisting mainly of lambs, which met with n keen demand. Prices for all classes of sheen were slightly in advance of latq rates. Several outsido buyers were present from ng far south as Helensville, competition beinsj keen throughout. Prices were: Medium two-tooth wethers. 18s Cd: smaller. Us 9d: full-mouth wethers, 15s;. medium two-tooth ewes, 17s 7d: six and eight-tooth ewes, 19 s 3d: aged ewes. 9s 4d to medium woolly lambs. 14s Cd: shorn ewe lambs. 15s 9d; mized-sex lambs, woolly, 15s: black-faced lambs. 14s sd: weth»r lambs, white-faced, 14s lOd: smaller woolly whitefaced lambs. Ss to 12s: cull lambs, 4s 3d to 6s 3d; Rornney rams, 3gns to 4Jgns; Southdown rams, to 3sns. The North Auckland Farmers' Co-opera-tive. Limited, reports a larce yarding. with prices ur> to the level of those of previous sales. Ihiyer3 wore present, from all over the North and competition was keen throughout. Prices were:—Fat wethers, up to 235; fat ewes, tin to 20s: two-tooth ewes, up to 18s Gd: two-tooth wethers, to 17 g 9d: fresh full-mouth ewes, up to 15s <>d; older ewes, to 12s 6d; failing-month ewes, ur> to Ps Pd; mixed-sex lambs, shorn, up to lis 9d: woolly lambs, rip to 14s 7d.

GOOD DEMAND AT FEILDING [BV TELEGRAFH—rRESS ASSOCIATION] *. FEILDING, Saturday A strong tono marked the stock sale at Feilding yesterday, with a good demand for store sheep, run cattle and fat cattle. The demand for breeding ewes is still strong, the market not yet being satisfied. The range of prices was as follows:—Fnt sheep: Prime lambs, to 23s lOd; good, 20s to 2'2s sd; light, 16s to 18s 3d: prime heavy ewes, to 20s; very good, 17s 9d; unfinished, from 13s 7d: very prime heavy wethers, to 25s 3d: prime, 23s 8d to 21s 7d; good, 22s Id; prime two-tooths, 23s Id; good, from 19s 9d; black faces. 18a 4d to 19s 9d. Store sheep: Black-ff.ced lambs, 16s Id to 17s Id: wether lambs, 14s to 17s 8d; woolly, 17s sd: owe lambs. 15s Id to 16s 6d; twotooth wether 3, 18s Gd to 20s; breeding ewes, two-tooth, run with Southdown rams, 23s Gd; other two-tooths, 18s 5d to 23s sd; four-tooth, 265; four and six-tooth, 19s Gd; six-tooth, 23s Id to 24s lOd; four-year-old. good, to 22s 3d: others, from 18s 7d; fiveyear, good, to 203 fid; inferior, 15s to 16s; mixed age ewes, 15s to 16s 6d. Fat Cattle.—Prime Shorthorn heifers, £3 Ha; very prime heifors, to £1 2s; light prime Jersey heifers, £2 fis to S.l las; Polled Angus cows, £3 8s Gd: very prime cows, to £4 lis; other lines of light fat cows, to £3 12s; light Shorthorn cows, £2 15s; prime bullocks. £5 3s; bulls, £2 12s to £5 3s: dairy springing cows, to £4 lis; springing heifers, to £4 10s. Store cattle: Weaner heifers, to 295; heifers, run with bull, to £3 Is; good store cows, £2 8s Gd to £3 ss; forward cows, £'i to £3 lis; heifers, to £3 3s; Polled Angus steers, to £4 7s Cd.

FARM HORSES IN DEMAND Messrs. G. "W. Vercoe and Company, Limited, report having held a horse sale at Claudelands, when the .advertised entry came forward. Good useful farm horses were in demand and sold at late rates, while hacks also met with a fair sale. The top price of the sale, £46, was realised for a chestnut gelding sold on account of Mr. W. F. Saunders, of Brunlwood. We Quote; Good useful farm horses, £3O to £46; lighter horses, from £2O to £23 10s; aged farm horses, £8 to £ls; good hacks, £7 to £3 10s; others, £2 to £5.