SALES OF STOCK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21859, 23 July 1934, Page 5

SALES OF STOCK

PRICES IN COUNTRY WAIHOU QUOTATIONS SHEEP VALUES FIRM A medium yarding of sheep was penned at tlio Wnihou stock sale on Friday conducted by the Farmers' Cooperative Auctioneering Company. Limited, prices being firm. One pen of extra heavy wethers realised 345. An average yarding of fat cattlo and a smaller yarding of stores remained firm without alterations. Quotations are as follows: —- Extra heavy prime fat wethers, 345; prime fat wethers, 25s to 2Cs Id; prime fat cw.es. '2ls Cd to 21a Cd; fat lambs, 21s Cd; light fat Limbs, 15s to 15s Cd; fat heifers, £3 10s tn £4 lCs; fat cows, heavy, £-1 7a Cd to £5 10s; fat cows, medium, £3 12s to £4 4s; light, £2 Us to £3 7s Gd; billable, lGs to 21s; best stores. 2-ls to 31s; boner.?, 10s to I'Js; yearling Jersey heifers, 30s to 375. Tho yarding of dairy cattle included several lines of choice Jersey heifers, these meeting with a good demand, prices being slightly better than recent sa'.eyard quotations. Choice Jersey heifers at profit. £5 2s Gd to £G; choice Jersey heifers, August calvcrs, £1 7b Cd to £5; later calvers, £2 10s to £3 15s; Jersey heifers, caivcd, £-1 2s Gd to £5; other Jersey heifers, calved, .£2 12s Gd to £3 10s; sound young Jersey cows, £5 2s Cd to £o 10s; older dairy cows. 25s to £3 2s Gd; Jersey cows, calved, £3 10? to £5 12s Gd. Pigs.—A small yarding of fat pigs came forward and competition was very keen, prices consequently being in advance of recult sales. Store pigs were penned in large numbers. Competition was keener than previously, resulting in tha whole entry being sold at most satisfactory prices. Medium to heavy baconers, .£3 4s to £3 10s; light baconers, £2 13s to £3; heavy porkers. 333 to £2; medium porkers, 30s to 31s; light porkers, 2Gs to 295. VALUES AT MORRINSVILLE Dalgety nnd Company, Limited, reports having held the fortnightly stock salo at Morrinsville on Friday. A good yarding of cattlo and a fair yarding of store pig 3 came forward. Prices were as follows; Light f<it cows, £2 to £3 2s Gd; boner cows, 14s to 19a; two-year empty heifers, £1 Gs to £2 Is; good well-grown yearling heifers, £2 Is. There was a largo yarding of dniry cattle, good Jersey heifers close to calving selling under keen competition. Springing Jersey heifers, £4 10s, £4 15s, £5 15s and £5 17s Gd; Jersey heifers, in milk, £3 10s to £4 ss; good Jersey cows, close to profit, £4 103 to £G; backward Jersey heifers, £3 to £4 ss. Porkers made 21s to 37s Gd; good Btoro pigs, 17s Cd to 235; good weancrs, 12s Cd to 19s Cd.

GLORIT AND WARKWORTH The North Auckland Farmers' Co-opera-tive. Limited, held a successful .dairy sale on behalf of Mr. C. Bayly, at Glorit, on Thursday. The cows came forward in nice condition. Quotations July and August calvcrs, £4 to £8 15s; September calvers, £'2 to £4 10s; Shorthorn heifers, due September, average, £3; one-year Shorthorn bull, £5 ss; sows ill young, £3 12s Gd to £6 las; slips, £1 Is; wc-aner pigs, 14s to 10s; a line of mised aged cwe3, to £1 8s Cd. The same firm held its fortnightly sale at Wnrkworth on Friday, when a large yarding of springers sold exceptionally well. Jersey cows, close to profit, £3 10s to £5; backward sorts, £] 5s to £3 ,10s; good quality Shorthorn cows, £3 10s to £5 ss; backward sorts, £2 to £3 10s. The sale of ox and cow beef was the best since 1928. Ox beef. £5 7s Od to £8 sa; n steer from McElroy Brothers and a well-finished cow from the same vendor made £7; other cows, £3 7s to £6; Tamworth sows, in young, £6 Gs: slips, to £1 10s; weaner pigs, lis 3d to 10s 3d; aged ewes, to 12s.

PUTARURU OFFERING The, Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company. Limited, reports having liqlcl the usual Putaruru sale, when only a small yarding o'. store cattle came forward, while a heavy entry of dairy rattle was penned. Pigs were yarded in full numbers, and found a ready sale at late firm rales. Quotations: Light fp.t cows and heifers, £2 los to tillable cows, £2 4s to £2 10s; fresh-conditioned cows, 32s Gd to 37s Gel; store cows. 223 6d to 27s Od: boner cows, lis to las; Jersey heifer calves, 27s to 31s; smaller heifer calves, J2s Gd to 20s; best dairy cows, close to profit, £4 IGs to £5 7s Gd; Jersey arid Jersey-cross-cows, August calvers, £1 to £4 10s; Jersey and Jerseycross cows, later ca,lverq, £2-to £3 ss; aged a'nd inferior sorts, 20s to 32s 6d; Jersey and Jersey-cross heifers, close to profit, £4 15s to £5 lls_; Jersey and Jersey-cross heifers, August calvers, £3 10s to £4* ss; Jersey and Jersey-cross , heifers,_ later c'.tlvers, £2 5s to £3; smaller and inferior heifers, '2ss to 333; bulls, 20s to £4 2s Gd: five good maiden Tamworth sows realised £5 7s Gd; light porkers, 2Gs Cd to' 28s: good stores. 23s to 255; other stores, 19s to 225; slips, 15s to 18s; good Tamworthcross weaners, 12a Cd to 14s; Tnmwor'thcross weaners, 8s to 12s; choppers, 20s.

PRICES AT NCARUAWAHIA The New Zealand Loan and ' Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports on the Ngarunwahia stock sa'lo held on Friday as follows:—Only a small yarding of fat and store cattle came forward and prices realised were on a par with recent quotations. There was a large entry of cows and heifers, the majority of which were low in condition, but owing to the small attendance a dull sale resulted. Light and unfinished fat cows, £2 5s to £3 ss; freshconditioned, £1 7s to £2 Is; cull cows. 7s r.d to 17s fid: best quality dairy cows, close to profit, £4 15s to £5 10s; more backward, £3 5s to £1 10s; lato calvers, £2 to £3. CLEARANCE ■ AT TE AWAMUTU The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report as follows on a clearing sale held on Friday on account of Mr. A. AV. Prince, of Te Awamutu:—Cows, which were duo to calve early, elicited good competition from a large attendance of buyers, but more backward sorts were not as keenly sought after. There was ?keen competition for heifers, though many offered were too backward to arouse much interest. All cattle offered were in pood condition, and were good typc3. A number of breeding sows, which were of very good quality, realised good prices, and a clearance was effected well up to ruling market rates. Several horses were disposed of satisfactorily, a six-year gelding realising £39, and a mare £24 10s. Good quality cows, early calvers, £5 10s to £0 53; medium, £4 10s to £5 53; poorer, £3 10s to £4 ss; backward calving cows, £3 to £4 10s; good in-calf heifers, £3 15s to £4 ss; poorer, £3 to £3 10s; heifers, due to calve, up to £4; breeding bows, up to £5 ,ss. TAPU REALISATIONS The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports having held a stock salo at Tapu on Thursday. A good yarding came forward, consisting mainly of dairy cattle, which met with good competition, values remaining firm at late quotations. Prime medium fat steers. £7 3s; boner cows, 19s to 30s, maiden bulls, 31s to £2; sound bulls, i-2 2s to £5 ss; good Jersey cows, close to profit. £4 to £4 7s Gd; Jersey and Jersey-cross cows, close to profit, £3 5s to £.4; backward, £2 15s to £3; backward and inferior sorts, 25s to £2 10s; Jersey heifers, small, £2 10s to £3 2s fid; Jersey and Jersey-cross heifers, small and backward, 37s Gd to £2 ss; poorerconditioned and backward sorts, 30s to 355; medium wethers, 27s 6d. RED POLLS AT FEILDING An increased interest in the dual-purpose ■Red Poll breed of cattle was indicated hv the pricea realised at a sale held by Messrs. Murray. Huberts and Company, Limited, at Feilding last week. A total of 75 lota was offered and prices ranged up to 21 guineas for a bull and ISi guineas for a cow. Buyers wero present from all over the North Island, including tho Auckland district, and there were also South Island farmers activo.

A rising yearling bull. Crimson Mac. was purchased for 18J guineas by Mr.. F. Goodwin, of Pokcno, who also acquired a nine-year-old cow. Dominion Silver Eye, for guineas Other young bulls to eell well were a yearling, Mt. Vernon Election, which realised 161 guineas, and an eight-months-old calf from the Fcilding Agricultural College, which was disposed of for 15 guineas. In the mature bull class, the lop price. 24 guineas, went to a four-year-old, kotare,. Toxeuma, from Mr. F. E. Ward, of Pahiatua. The sire of Crimson Mac. a seven-year-old bull, Opatu'No. If!, . made 20 guineas, going to the well-known breeder. Mr. 1. C. Anderson, of Wanganui. Several other bulls made l"i guineas and over. Cows also commanded good prices, many of those offered being outstanding types of the breed. A four-year-old cow. from Mr. N. Inder, of Dannevirke. secured tho top price of ISI guineas, with a number of selling for little less. For an 11-year-old cow, Kotare Tern, lu guineas was paid.