STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22195, 23 August 1935, Page 7

STOCK SALES

WESTFIELD QUOTATIONS DULL TONE PREVAILS ADVERSE WEATHER EFFECTS The adverse weather conditions for the pastoral industry were reflected in the dull tone prevailing at the Westfield weekly stock sale yesterday. In spite of the small yarding of dairy cattle the values did not appreciate on recent rates, and while there was practically no weakening in average prices a larger number of lines was passed over. The majority of the stock offering showed the efiect of unfavourable weather and the consequent dearth of feed and was in a backward condition. J lie small bench of buyers did not show any keenness of demand and forwardcondition springers of good quality were either passed in or sold at low values. Most graziers and dairymen are finding the problem of feeding present herds sufficiently trying without increasing their stock. I lie top pricewas £o 7s Gd for a Jersey heifer, close to profit. Other good quality cows and heifers sold well under that figure. Store cattle rates were on a par with recent- average with boner stock being firm in demand and value. The quotations were as follows: Store Cattle.—Young cows, good condition, from £2 to £3 15s; good quality, less condition, 30s to 37s Gd; others, to S!ss; boner und aged cows, to £2 ss; boner bulls, to £5 ss; breeding Jersey bulls, to £3 15s, yearling Jersey heifers;, good quality, to ±'2; ol ierH, Jo 255. Dairy Cittle.—Jersey cows, fair condition, close to profit, to £1 os; more backward, to £3 ss; others, to £2; Jersey-cross cows, fair condition, close to profit and recently calved, to £1 ss; moro backward, to £3 ss; Jersey heifers, good quality, close to profit, to £5 7s Gd; more backward, to £3 15s; others, to £2 10s; Shorthorn-cross cows and and heifers, fair quality, clone to profit,, to £4; more backward, to £i ; other cows, to BEEF FIRM AT PUKEKOHE [FROJI OL'R OWN correspondent] PUKEKOHE, Thursday An almost total clearance- wa« made of a largo yarding of dairy cows and heifer* offered at the stock sale .bold by Aifred Buckland and Sons, Limited, at Pukekohe to-day. Good prices were realised as the result of an improved demand. First quality dairy cows and hc-ifers made from £5 10a to £7; lesser quality, £-1 to £5 7s Od; email and backward, £2 10s to £3 i7s Gd. A less than average yarding of beef cattle was offered, although the quality was better than has been seen in the yards for soma time. Bidding was exccpticDally keen und the whole yarding'changed hands. Prices advanced in sympathy with the improvement at Westfield yesterday. A line of 12 extra heavy prime cows and heifers from Messrs. R. and A. Schlaepfer, Helvetia, Pukekohe, brought from £8 12s Gd to £ll, and made an average o£ £9 3s. The top price was paid by Messrs. A. Needham and Sons, Patumahoe. Extra prime cows and heifers brought up to £11; heavy prime cowe, and heifers, £7 to £7 10s; lighter, £5 7s Gd to £6 7s Gd; light cows and heifers, £3 to £5 2s 6d; other killable cows, £2 5s to £2 169; boner cows, 15s to £1 14s; good conditioned store cows, £2 to £2 IGs; other cows, £1 5s to £1 15s; 2V to three-yenr-old steers. £5 12s Gd to £5 15s; service bulls, £4 7s 6d to £4 17s 6d; potter bulls, £2 93 to £4 ss; yearling Jersey heifers, £1 Is to £L ss. There was on increased offering of fat pigs and a full yarding of stores. The demand for fat pigs was verj' firm and value# were fully equal to those ruling at Westfield yesterday. Except in occasional instances, for extra good quality, the demand for stores was less keen and toward the conclusion of the sale were hard to quit. Choppers sold from £2 10s to £3; heavy prime bacor crs, £3 4s to £3 9s; medium baconers, £'ll 14s to £2 19s; light, £2 9s to £2 13s; heavy porkern, £2 2s to £2 fa; medium, £1 Its to £1 IBs; light and unfinished, £1 3s to £1 lis; extra largeframed stores, up to £1 12s; good stores, £1 Is to £1 ss; slips, 14s to IPs; good weaners, lis to 13s; others, 5s to 10s.; bows due to farrow, £2 10s to £5; sows with litters, £4 10s to £G ss: service boars, 3}gns to sgns. The average price per lb. for baconers was from 5d to sid and for porkers from 5Jd to s;d. YARDING AT KOPU [by telegraph —OWN correspondent] THAMES, Thursday Dalgety and Company held its usual fortnightly stock cale at Kopu on Tuesday. Values for beef cattle, which were yarded in average numbers, acain advanced, and nil good cattle met with a rends' sale. _ Stores maintained late rates. There was another very heavy yarding of dairy cattle. Competition was slack and prices realised showed ft decline on those at the previous sale. An nverage number of pigs was penned and no alteralien from current values occurred. Beef rattle: Best fat cows and heifers, £4 15s to £5 2s Gd: other good cows and heifers. £4 to £4 12s Gd: medium, £3 5s to £3 17s Gd; light, £2 10s to £3 2s Gd: killable. £1 153 to £2 10s. Store cattle: Fresh-conditioned steers, jE4 10s; etore cows, £1 5s to £1 12s Gd: boner cows. 15s to £1 4s; potter bulls, £1 15s. Dniry ! cattle: Best springing dniry heifers, £4 10s to £5 12s Gd: good heifers, £3 10s to £4 ss; small and iater calvers. £2 10si to £3 ss; best springing cows. £4 to £4 15a: other good cows, £3 10s to £1: backward cows, £2 10s to £3 ss; aged and inferior. £1 £is to £3 ss. Pigs: Heavy porkers, £1 IGs to £2 2s; medium, £1 10s to £1 15s; light, £1 5s to £1 10s: small and unfinished, £1 to £1 4s: stores, 18s to 21s; slips. IGs to 19s: best weaners, 12s to ISs: small, 7s to lis: sows in pig, £2 10s. PIGS SELL WELL AT TE PUKE ; [by telegraph—own correspondent] TE PUKE. Thursday j The Farmers' Auctioneering Company, Limited, held a store pig sale at Te Puke yesterday There was a large attendance of buyers from the Waikato district. Approximately 1000 pigs were yarded and practically the whole offering sold under the hammer. | AVnikato buyers were active and were ro--1 sponsible for purchasing over half of the I pigs. The advertised line of five-month pedi- | gree Tnmworth boars, ex Mr. W. Wardrop«, j of Omokoroa, realised S| to Gjprns. Large butter-milk pigs made £2 2s to £2 7s; largo stores, 33s to 41s: smaller stores, 23s to 325; slips. IGs to 21s; best weaners. 13s to ISs; smaller weaners, Ss to 12s; Tnmworth breeding sows. £3 5s Ho £3 17s Gd: others, £2 to £2 2s Gd. ! VALUES AT PIOPIO [by telegraph—own correspondent] TE KTJITI, Thursday Pnlgety and Company, Limited, reports j having held its three-weekly sale at Piopio to-day, when a small yarding of sheep and cattle came forward. Sheep sold to Into rates, while store cattle attracted keen competition. Dairy v ere again hard to quit. Good wether l.ocgets, 17s id: medium two-year Shorthorn steers, 225; rough twoyear heifers, •''7s; store cows, 279 Gd to 318; dairy heifers, close to profit, £2 to £3; other, 20s to 30a; dairy cows, 20s to £2. NORTH AUCKLAND SALES [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] KAITAIA, Thursday The North Auckland Farmers' Co-opera-tive Association report holding their monthly stock sales at Victoria Valley on Monday, Kaitnia on Tuesday, nnd Broadwood on Wednesday of this week, when there were fair yardings at each centre, again comprising chiefly cows and heifers. Prime fat cows made £4 to £4 10s: fat cows, £3 5s to £4: light killable sorts. £2 10s to £3 ss; unfinished, 30s to £2; young store cows, £1 to £1 7s Gd; culls. 3s to 15s. There were no extra good quality dairy cows or heifers yarded, and prices ranged from £2 to £4, which was on a par with last month's rates for the same Quality cattle. A line of empty Shorthorn jicifers from Mr. 'l'. Kiciiards, AVaipapakauri, made £2 7s. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE (Received August 22, G. 45 p.m.) SYDNEY, Aug. 20 Following are to-day's quotations on the Sydney produce market: —Wheat: At country sidings, bagged, 2s 6d; bulk, 2s s]d; equal to about 3s Id and 3s lid ex trucks Sydney. Flour: £lO 17s 6d. Bran and pollard: £o 10s. Potatoes: Tastnaninn. £l7 to £l4; Victorian, £l3 10s; Western Australian, £ls. Onions, Victorian, brown, £ll 10s to £l2. .Maize: Yellow and white, 4s 7d. Adelaide prices are:—Wheat: Growers' lots, 3s. Flour: Bakers' lots, £ll, Bran: £5. Pollard, £5 2s 6d. Oats, Algerian, Is 9d to lii lOd.