STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21845, 6 July 1934, Page 7

STOCK SALES

VALUES AT PUKEKOHE GOOD DEMAND FOR PIGS [from our own correspondent] PUKEKOHE. Thursday Prices for a large yarding of dairy cattle offered at the stock sale conducted at Pukekohe to-day by Alfred Buckland and Sons, Limited, were about tho same as those of last sale. Two extra choice cows in milk made £9 each. Best dairy cows and heifers, close to profit, brought from £5 17s Cd to £6 12s 6d; good dairy cows and heifers, £4 15s to £5 15s; others, £3 10s to £4 10s; aged and backward, £l-10s to £3 Cs. A good yarding of beef and store cattle sold at prices fully up to Westfield rates. Light prime steers sold from £4 12s 6d to £4 19s; heavy prime cows and heifers, £4 10s to £4 15s; medium fat cows and heifers, £3 15s to £4 ss; other fat cows, £2 15s to £3 10s; light, £1 15s to £2 10s; boners, £'l to £1 14s; 'aged cows, 12s to 18s; bulls, £2 to £2 37s 6d; good Shorthorn store cows, £2 Is to £2 10s. Competition for an average yarding of pigs was extra keen, and a particularly good sale resulted. Choppers realised from £2 6s to £3 3s; heavy baconers, £3 8s to £3 14s; medium, £3 2s to £3 7s; light, £2 15s to £3; heavy porkers, £2 to £2 10s; light and medium, £1 lis to £1 18s; gows, due to farrow, £4 2s Od to £4 10s; large stores, £1 7s to £1 10s; slips, £1 Is to £1 6s; best weaners, IRs to 18s; others, 10s to 15s; small and weedy. Gs upwards. The average price per lb. for baconers was from 5Jd to 62d and for porkers from 5d to 5JdOFFERING AT TE AWAMUTU [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON. Thursday The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports having held a successful clearing sale on account of Messrs. H. P. and T. C. Wing, Te Awamutu. Animated bidding character-ised-the sale tUvoughout, and most lines of stock offered were disposed of at very satisfactory prices. „The better quality cattle elicited keen competition, the cows averaging £G Is 6d, and in-calf heifers £5 13s. The top prices for both sorts were £7 and £6 respectively. Over all, tho herd was of good quality and in excellent condition. A number of pigs were disposed of satisfactorily. We quote;— Good cows (July calvers), £5 15s to £7; good cows (later calving), £4 10s to £5 10s; medium quality cows, £3 to ££j poorer cows, £2 to £2 las; good in-calf Jersey heifers, £5 to £6; medium, up to £4 10s: poorer, up to £3; breeding sows, due to farrow, up to £4 9s; sows and litters, up to £3 15s. MATAMATA QUOTATIONS [from our own correspondent] MATAMATA, Thursday Dalgety and Company, Limited, held the usual Matamata sale yesterday, when e small entry of store cattle and a large entry of dairy cows and heifers were offered to a good attendance of buyers. Good prices resulted, being well up to those realised at late sales. A small yarding of fat pigs and a medium yarding of stores came forward and met with a ready sale. Prices showed a decline on late sales, owing, in the case of fats, to the small entry not inducing buyers to operate. Values were;— Cattle; Good prime fat cattle, £4 17s Gd to £5 7s Gd; good prime cows, dairy sorts, £2 12s 6d to £3 2a Gd; other fat cows, £2 7s to £2 12s; boner cows, 22s to 395, according to quality; bulls, 35a to £2 10s; Polled Angus heifers, medium quality, in calf. £3 7s sd: light-conditioned Polled Angus heifers, £2 12s Gd; yearling Jersey heifers, good. 345; Jersey-cross heifer calves, 18s; good springing Jersey cowc, £5 to £5 15s; medium quality, £4 10s; medium quality Jerseycross cows, £3 10s to £3 15s; others, light condition, £2 5s to £3 ss; good quality springing Jersey heifers, £G 10s to £7 ss: later salvers, £4 15s to £5; Jersey-cross heifers, springing, £3 10s to £4 ss; other light-conditioned heifers, £2 to £2 15s. Pigs: Prime light-weight porkers, 22s Gd to 255; good quality* large 6tores, 20s to 22s Gd: medium quality, 17s to _ 19s 6d; -smaller stores. 16s; good quality sliys, 14s to 15s Gd; n.edium quality, 13s; small, lis to 12s Gd: good quality weaness, up to 14s; medium, lis to 12s 6d, OFFERING AT WAIMANA [by telegraph —OWN correspondent] WHAKATANE, Thursday Dalgety and Company, _ Limited, reports having held a special dairy heifer sale at Waimana yesterday, when the full adverti*ed yarding cam© forward, buyers Otamarakau, Whakatane, Rangitaiki, Taneatua and Opotiki being present. A good sale resulted for all ■well-grown forward heifers. Backward and small heifers were not sought after and were difficult to quit. The top price of the day was £B, which was paid for an extra choice Jersey heifer, on account of Mr. J. A. Mitchell._ Prices realised were as follows Extra choice Jerser heifers. £6 5s to £8; choice marked Jersey heifers, £6 to £6 ss; well-grown twoyear heifers, £i 10s to £5 15s; small twoyear Jersey heifers, £2 15s to' £3 15s, TAUMARUNUI VALUES [by telegraph —own correspondent] TAUMARUNUI. Thursday Thero was a good attendance at the Taumarunui stock sale this week and a keen demand for ewes in lamb and hoggets. The entry comprised 30 pigs, 700 sheep (mostly ewes in lamb), and 70 head of cattle. There was very little competition for pigs. Good porkers mad© up to 20s 6d; store pigs (small), from 12s 6d to 15s. Sheep, particularly ewes in lamb, attracted a lot of attention, and at times the bidding was very spirited. The -best ewes made 2Gs 9d; other ewes, in lamb to Romney and Southdown rams, from 20s to 265; Bmall ewes, in lamb to Romney rams, up to 17s Gd. There was good competition for hoggets, and best ewes made up to 22s 3d; other ewes and hoggets, 13s; a small pen of wethers, 14s 9d; store wethers, 17s Gd; wether hoggets, from 14s 9d to 15s 7d; fat cows, from £2 5s to £3; fat steers, £3 2s 6d; empty cows, 265; store cows, up to £2 4s; empty heifers, from 23s to 30s; few dairy cows, from £2 5s to £3. PRICES AT WELLSFORD [from our own correspondent] WELLSFORD. Thursday Alfred Buckland and Sons, Limited, reports holding the monthly stock sale at Wellsford on Tuesday. There was a good attendance of buyers, and practically everything changed hands. There was very keen competition for steers, heifers and_ cows ready for killing. Good quality springing heifers realised fair prices, but poorerconditioned were not sought. Following is the tango of prices:—Fat cows, £3 to £6 17s 6d; fat steers, £4 l-ss; fat heifers, £4; boner cows, 15s to £1 15s; store cows, to £2; store steers, to £2 10s; yearling hoifers, 15s; springing heifers, £1 3s to £3 10s; springing cows, £1 10s to £3. Weaner pigs were sought, but none came forward for sale, the demand privately absorbing all available.

SMALL FRANKTON YARDING [FROM OUR t)WN correspondent] HAMILTON, Thursday The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports that at its first weekly dairy sale at Frankton yesterday only a small yarding came forward. There was a fair attendance of buyers who were interested in good quality cattle. Prices were about level with late rates. We quote:— Medium Jersey cows and heifers, early calvers. £3 15s to £4 15s; later, £3 to £3 15s; inferior, to £2 liz. HIKUTAIA YARDING [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Thursday The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, reports holding a sale at Hikutaia yesterday. A small yarding of pigs sold at firm late rate 3. A medium yarding of dairy heifers was penned, but the demand was not keen and passings were frequent. An average yarding of fat and store cows met with a good sale. Quotations: — Pigs: Good stores, 19s to 27s Gd; slips, 12s to 17s Gd: maiden Tamworth-cross sows, due to Tamworth boar, £2 to £2 18s. Cattle: Sound Jersey cows, close to profit. £5: Jer-sey-cross heifers, close to profit, £4 to £4 15s; fat cows, heavy, £4 ss; fat cows, lighter. £3 Is to £3 ,18si fat heifers, £3 8s to £3 19s; young store cows, £1 8s to £1 14s; boners, 12s to 255; Jersey-croes heifers, in calf, £1 14s to £2. COLVILLE AND COROMANDEL [by telegraph—own correspondent] THAMES, Thursday Dalgety and Company, Limited, reports having held their advertised sales at Colville and Coromandel. Between 400 and 500 head of dairy cattle were offered at the two fixtures and were keenly competed for. Buyers attended from as far afield as Cambridge. Te Kauwhata, Papatoetoe, Mangere, Paeroa and Hauraki Plains. Fat cattle realised satisfactory! prices and store cows and steer's were firm at current rates. Quotationsßest dairy cows, coming to profit, made to £5 ss; best springing heifers, to £4 10s; calved cows, to £3 15s; heifers, in milk, up to £4; yearling heifers, 15s to £1 15s; fat Bteers, to £6; best fat cows, £3 15s to £5; others, £2 7s Gd to £3 12s Gd: store-conditioned Jersey steers, £1 2s 6d to £2 16s; yearling Shorthorn steers, £1 15s; store cows, from 15s to £1 15s; cows with calves at foot, 15s to £4. The advertised breeding sows made from £2 12s 6d to £3 ss; slips, IGa.