STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21961, 19 November 1934, Page 5

STOCK SALES

' VALUES AT MORRINSVILIE v - • - '>. - STORE CATTLE FULLY CLEARED ' [from our oira correspondent] MORRINSVJLLE. Saturday The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports that at its Morrinsville stock sale on Friday an average yarding of fat pigs sold readily under keen competition at unaltered rates. A "shorn entry of stores and weaners also met a good market, prices in this section firming on last Quotations. Baconers realised about from old to s;d per lb., and porkers about ■Gd to Gio. Choppers, 32s to £2 2s; heavy baconers, £3 5s to £3 9a; medium, £2 18» to £3 4s; light. £2 12s to £'2 17s; unfinished, £2 8s to £2 13s; heavy porkers, £2 ns to £2 9s; medium, 39s to £2 8s; light, 33s to to £2; stores, 25s to 31s; slips, 19s to 245: weaners, lCs to 21s; smaller weaners, lis to 15s; maiden sows, due to farrow, £2 Is to £3; older sows, due to farrow, 20s to £2 15s. Fat sheep were penned in full numbers with the entry mostly of ewes. The, market all round was much quieter than late sales. Hoggets and a few pens of ewes and lambs showed no alteration. Fat cows were penned in heavy numbers with a good proportion o£ finished cattle, these remaining very firm at late rates. A heavy yarding of second quality fat cows sold at unchanged rates. Boner cows and bulls sold also at late rates. Sheep; Prime maiden woolly ewes, 22s Gd to 24s 9d; medium fat wethers, 22s to 23s Gd; lighter, 19s lOd to 21a; good fat ewes, 15s 6d to 16s; lighter, i3a 6d to 14s 6d; hoggets, 18s 3d to 21s ii: fat lambs, 18s 8d tp 21s 3d; ewes and lkmbs, all counted, lGs lid. Cattle: Prime medium fat cows and heifers, £5 10s to £6; heavy lat cows, £1 19s to £5 8s; medium fat cows and heifers, £4 10s to £5 3s; lighter, £3 10s to £4 2s Gd; killable, £2 6a to £3 2b Gd; fresh conditioned Jersey cowa, 2Ss to 38s; boners, lis tp 21s; potter bulla, heavy, £2 to £2 16s; lighter. 159 to 255. Stor* Cattle: The advertised ci »tlo from the East •Coast attracted buyers in large number* from all districts. Competition throughout was keen, resulting in a total clearance. Forward condition Shorthorn steers, £6 2a to £6 10s; forward condition Friesian steers, £6 to £6 Gs; 3i-year-old Shorthorn steers, £5 5s to £5 lis; grown mixed colour steers, £4 8s to £5; 3-year mixed colouj; steers, £3 10s to £4; well bred Polled Angus 18-months and 2-year heifers, £3 8s to £3 17s; one lino of 48 averaging £3 14s and another of 30 averaging £3 12s. Hereford cows with calves, £3 lis to £3 15a; Hereford cows in calf, £3 5s to £3 9s; young Shorthorn cowa and heifers, £2 7s to £3 2s; fresh, conditioned cows, £2 10s to £3 3s; 1-year Polled Angus and Hereford steers, £2 10s to £2 15s; mixed colour yearling steers, 3Ss to £2 10s. There was a good entry of yearling Jersey heifers, which did not attract much competition, and a dull sale resulted. Good quality Jersey yearling heifers, £2 Is to £2 10s; smaller, 25s to 355; service yearling bulls, £2 10s to £4 10s; smaller, 15s to £1 10s.

TE AWAMUTU COMPETITION [from our own correspondent] TE AWAMUTU, Saturday Dalgely and Company, Limited, reports having held its usual stock stale at Te Awamutu on Thursday. A good yarding of both fat and store sheep came forward and sold under good competition, bidding being particularly good for woolly ewes with lambs at foot. Medium weignt fat wethers, shorn, £1 Is to £1 Is 3d; light and unfinished ewes, 12s 6d; woolly ewes with ]O3 per cent lambs at foot, all counted, to 15* 3d. A heavy yarding composed mostly of fat cows, which, considering the number yarded, sold very well to a full bench of buyers. Medium weight fat bullocks, £8 14s to £9 2s; light weight fat steers, £6 Is to £7 13s; heavy fat cows, £5 8s to £5 15s: medium weight fat cows, £4 lis to £5; light fat cows, £2 10s to £3 15s; good fat heifers, £3 10s to £4 17s 6d; light ditto, £2 5s to £2 17s Cd; light and unfinished, 30s to £2. Fair quality store cows made 85s to £2 ss: others, 25s to 30s; boner cows, good. 25$ to 30s; others, 15s to 20s; cows, with calves at foot, 258 to 30s; fair quality, 3-year Shorthorn steers, light in condition, £4 6s; rougher sorts, £3 3s to £3 9s; yearling Jersey heifers: A very full yarding, competition being dull, although a fair sale resulted with practically a total clearance. Good heifers made £2 to £2 7s; smaller sorts, 30s to 37s fid; small heifeTS, 17s 6d to 255. Jersey bulls, service, £2 15s to £3: potter bulls, 20s to 30s. There was a full yarding of both fat and store pigs, prices on the fats being on a par with late rates, on stores a little easier. Heavy baconers. £3 to £3 ss; medium weights, £2 16s to £2 19s; lighter, £2 12s to £2 15s; heavy porkers, £2 4s to £2 7s; medium weights, £2 to £2 2s; lighter. £1 16s to £1 10»: good stores, £1 7s 6d to £1 9s; slips, 16s to 19s 6d; good weaners, 13s to 15s 6d. AVERAGE WARKWORTH ENTRY [from our own correspondent] WARKWORTH, Saturday At Warkworth yesterday the North Auckland Farmers' Co-operative, Limited, penned an average yarding of cattle and 250 . sheep. Prices were:—Beef cows, heavy prime, £5 7s 6d to £5 10s; lighter, £4; forward-conditioned cows, £1 15s to £2 10s; store cows, 25s to 90s; boner cows, 15s to £1; heifers with calves at foot. £2 13s per pair; springing heifers. £2 7s 6d to £3 17» 6d; cows, backward and inferior, £1 to 27» Gd; service bulls, two-year Jerseys, 4}gns; two-year steers, £2 lis; yearling Jersey heifers, 25s to 325; smaller, 17s to 235, Sheep: Fat wethers, 21s 6d: forward conditioned wethers, 20s 6d. Pigs: Slips, £1 7s to £1 13s 6d; smaller, 22s to 265: weaners, 18s to 21s. KIRIPAKA CLEARING SALE [from our own correspondent] WHANGAREI. Saturday The North Auckland Farmers' Co-oper»-tive, Limited, report holding yesterday m clearance sale of Mr. Miles Young'B grad* Jersey herd at Kiripaka. There I was a fairly large attendance and bidding was very brisk for all classes of c&ttle.j Values were:—Dairy cows, £3 to £5 10s; dairy heifers, £2 10s to £4; heifer calves. 14s; pedigree Jersey bulls, £2 2s to £5 ss. Sundries sold well. ' * "' •DEMAND AT TE KUITI [by. telegraph—own correspondent TE KOTO, Saturday Dalgety and Company, Limited, reports having held its usual fortnightly sale at Te Kuiti saleyards yesterday, when a full number of sheep and cattle came before a bench of local buyers. Competition for sheep was keen and late rates were maintained. Grown cattle were not quit® up to par, but the bidding on younger cattle was spirited, Shorn light fat ewes made % 14s;! shorn wether hoggets, 20s lOd; ewes* and "blackfaced lambs, 33s Id to 33s sd; culls, 25s 6d; 3 and 4-year Polled Angus bullocks. £5 sb; lower condition, £4 10s; 3 and 4-year Hereford bullocks, £4 17s 6d; 2-year Hereford steers, £4; yearling Polled Angus steers. £3 lis; light fat cows, £3; empty Jersey- cows and . heifers, 19s to 275; forward condition, 32s to £2 4s; yearling Jersey heifers, 325; good dairy cows, £2 15s to £3; pedigree yearling Jersey bulls, £2 2s to £2 4s; 4-year Polled Angus bulls, £lO 15s to £l3. Abraham and Williams. Limited, held its usual fortnightly sale at Te Kuiti on Friday. There was a fair yarding of sheep, consisting principally of woolly ewes with : lambs at foot. The cattle pens were well filled and a good clearance was effected both of sheep and cattle, at prices well .up to lata rates. There were a number of lines of small yearling Jersey heifers passed, vendors' reserves for these being above buyers' ideas of value. Quotations: Fat 2-tooth wethers, 22s 6d; plain fat ewes. 16s; stor® ewes, shorn, 16s sd; medium woolly 2-tooths, 23s lid; woolly full-mouth ewes, with lambs at foot, 31s 3d, 31s Cd. 33s 6d, 33« lOd to 345. Plain fat cows, £2 10s, £3. to £4 Is; forward conditioned cows, £2, £2 2s, to £2 fis; store cows, Jersey sorts, 265( '2Bs to 30s; rough quality store cows. 20s, 22s to 235: rough cows, with calves, '2os to 30s. Yearling Polled Angus steers to £3 12s; small yearling steers, £1 10s, £1 14s to £2; hold-ovet yearling Jersey heifers. £l, £1 4s, £1 to £1 9s; small, 15s to £1; 2-year Shorthorn heifers, to £2; rough quality bulls, £2 to £2 2s 6d.