COUNTRY STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22256, 2 November 1935, Page 9

COUNTRY STOCK SALES

VALUES AT MORRINSVILLE LARGE ENTRY OF CATTLE COMPETITION FOR STORES [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] MORRINSVILLE, Friday The Ifarmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports that at its Morrinsville stock sale held today a medium yarding of fat sheep was penned, the entry comprising mostly prime hoggets. Competition was on a par with recent quotations. The entry of store wethers attracted a good deal of attention and spirited bidding resulted. Four and six-tooth store wethers met a ready sale.

' There was an exceptionally large entry of cattle of all classes. Ox beef was penned in average numbers, the demand remaining firm with values on a par with the previous sale. 'There was a. medium yarding o{ cow and hei(er beef, with a pmall number of prime quality animals, values remaining on a par with last week's quotations. Boner cows and bulls sold according to condition at "slightly better than schedule rates. A smaller yarding of yearling Jersey heifers sold under keen competition, values in this section showing a marked improvement since our previous report. The advertised entry of store cattle came forward and created keen competition. Buyers were present from all over the Waikato and for grown steers in forward condition, of which at least 300 were yarded, bidding was spirited, while Polled Angus and Hereford heifers were also keenlysought; the whole large yardi;ig changed hands at very satisfactory prices. The top price of the sale was £9 65,. which was given for a pen of forward conditioned Hereford steers. Only a small yarding of dairy cattle came forward", including a number of. backward and calved heifers. Prices showed little variation on last week's values. There was a good entry of fat pigs ari'l a medium yarding of stores and weaners. Competition on medium and light baeoners was firm and late rates were maintained. Overweight and rougher baeoners were not so keenly sought and last week's rates on this class were not maintained. Largo stores again commanded good competition, but as at other centres slips and weaners were not in such keen demand. Quotations: — Sheep.—Prime heavy maiden ewes, 25s 4d; fat ewes, 20s Gd to 225; woolly hoggets. 2Gs 7d; forward conditioned shorn ewes, 15s lid; store wethers, four and six-toovh, 22s 3d; two-tooth wethers, 21s to 21s 6d; ewe hoggets, 245; cnll ewes, 14s. Cattle.—Prime medium fat steers. £ll 13s to £ll 17s; fat cows and heifers, £6 15s to £7 4s; lighter, £4 2s to £5 15s; forward and killable cows, £2 17s to £3 18s; sound empty Jersey cows, 31b to £2 12s 6d; fresh conditioned Shorthorn cows, £3 10s to £3 lis; fresh conditioned cows, £2 14s to £2 15s; heavy boners, 32s to 395; lighter, 10s to 30s; heavy potter bulls, £5 9s to £5 12s; lighter, £3 lis to £4 13s; sound yearling bulls, £3 5s to £4; best Jersey yearling heifers, £2 17s to £3 6s; others, £2 6s to £2 15s. „ Store Cattle. —Forward conditioned Hereford steers. £9 Gs; other steers in forward condition. £8 17s 6d to £9 2s; several pens of Shorthorn steers in forward condition from Nortn Auckland sold from £9 Is to £9 4s; three-year-old Polled Angus steers made £8 7s to £8 9s; three-year Hereford steers, £8 to £8 12s; three-year Shorthorn steers, £8 Gs to £8 16s; two-year Polled Angus steers, £6 9s to £6 14s; two-year Hereford steers, £5 17s to £6 ss; yearling Polled Angus steers, £4 6s to £5 Is; yearling Hereford steers, £3 16s to £4 15s; good quality three-year-old Polled Angus heifers, up to £6 lis; three-year-old Hereford heifers. £5 15s to £6 8b; two-year Polled Angus heifers, £5 to £5 lis; two-year Hereford heifers, £4 16s to £5 16s; yearling Hereford heifers, £3 15s to £4 17s. Dairy Cattle.—Jersey heifers, cftlved. £4 10s to £5 12s 6d; Ayrshire heifers, £4: Jersey springing heifers, £4 7s 6d to £6. 7s Gd; backward Jersey and Jersey-cross springing heifers, £3 10s. to £4 ss; dairy cows, £3 5s to £4; backward sortß, £2 12a 6d ,to £3 2s Gd. Pigs.—Best quality baeoners, £2 18s to £3 2s; overweight bacorers, £2 15s to £2 18s; medium. £2 14s to £2 17s; light. £2 10s to £2 13s; butter-milk pigs, £2 2s to £2 12s; heavy porkers, £2 2s to £2 6s/ medium, 36s to £2 Is; light,' 30s to 355; large stores, 23s 6d to 28s; medium, 19s to 22s Gd; slips, 15s 'to 18s; best weaners, 14s to 17s; others. 6s to 12s 6d.'

Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held their ealo at Morrinaville today, when there was an average yarding. Under a good bench of buyers full market rates were obtained. On account of Mr. E. W. R. Leslie, a consignment of light Polled Angus heifere sold at up to £7 10s and averaged £7 6« a head. Light fat cows and heifers, on account of various clientß, mado £3 16b to £5 4s; inferior fat cows, £2 17b 6d to £3 12s; boners, 38s to 635; potter bulla, £3 to £5 8s; small bulls, 30s, to £2 ss; shorn ewe hoggets made 255; store woolly hoggets, 21s 6d; light baconers, £k 5s to £2 13s; good stores, 20s to 30s; choppers, 245; sundries at full market rates. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Limited. Hamilton, reports on its weekly Morrinsville Sale held to-day as follows:—The yarding of fat and store cows was a good-sized one, but lacked quality animals. All drew strong competition and a complete clearance was readily effected, at prices fully equal to late quotations. The advertised store cattle came forward and created brisk competition. Prices were v.ery .satisfactory in comparison with late rates, and all changed hands freely. A few pens of pigs and sheep did not vary under a steady demand. Quotations:—Light quality fat cows and heifers, £3 10s to £4 6s; killable fat cows. £3 to £8 7a 6d; fresh-conditioned Jersey cows, £2 5s to £2 17s 6d; medium conditioned store cows, £1 14s to £1 19s \ others. £1 fie to £1 12s; medium conditioned threeyear Polled Angus store steers, £5 10s to £6 8s; medium conditioned 21-year Hereford store Rteers. £5 2s fid to £5 15s; yearling Polled Angus heifers, £3 15s to £4 2s 6d; plain yearling Polled Angus and Hereford steers, £2 5s to £2 12a; good dairy heifers, £6 10s to £6 ss; others, £4 5s to £5 10s; medium porkers, £1 lGs to £2 9s; good store pigs, £1 Cs to £1 10e; others, £1 to £1 ss; light fat ewes, 16s. I ~~ FULL YARDINGS AT OHINEWAI [fbom our own correspondent] HAMILTON. Friday G. W. Yercoe and Company, Limited, report having held their stock sale at Ohinewai yesterday, when a heavy yarding of fat cattle came forward. Competition throughout was not as keen ae anticipated and prices were easier. Light fat bullocks sold from £8 15s to £9 10s; heavy fat cows, £5 10s to £6 17s fid; medium, £4 to £5 7s fid; light, £3 to £3 15s; good quality medium-weight fat heifers, £5 5s to £6 7e fid; lighter, £3 10s to £4 15s; three-year-old Shorthorn steers, forward conditioned, £6 12s to £7 sa; others, to £6 4a; small two-year-old steers, £4 to £4 15s; yearling Shorthorn steers, £3 13s to £4; one pen of seven extra good yearling Shorthorn steers, on account of Nikau Putere, averaged £6; forwaTd-condition Shorthorn and Friesian cows. £2 10s to £3 ss; others, £2 to £2 8s; heavy boners, 30s to 38s; others, 21s to 28s; potter bulls, to £5 7s 6d; service bulls (Jersey), to £4 10s; two-year-old' Shorthorn bulla, to £7 10s. An average entry of dairy cattle, the quality of which was very poor,, met with a dull market. Jersey and Shorthorn cows, in milk and close to profit, sold from £2 12s fid to £4. Jersey and Jersey-cross heifers (early calvers), £2 15s to £3 15s. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report that at the Ohinewai stock sale a full entry of all classes of cattle came forward, and met with keen competition at rates equal to those ruling elsewhere. The only_ exception was for yearling Jersey heifers, a heavy yarding of these being dull of Bale. Quotations:—Heavy fat cows, £6 10s to £7 2s fid; medium prime fat cows, £5 12s to £0 2b; light, £4 12b fid to £5 ss; light fat cows, £3 10s to £4 4a; killable, £2 15a to £3 8s; fresh-conditioned cows, 38b tQ £2 12s; heavy boners, 32s to 37s fid; light, 18s to 265; cows and calveß. £2 10s to £4 7s Gd; good store cows, £3 10s to £4 158: others, £2 5s to £3 3s; fresh-conditioned three-year Hereford steers, £6 17s fid to £7 lfis; two-year Hereford Rteers, £5 10s. A good line of two-year empty Hereford heifers sold at £4. IBs, while £8 10b was realised for smaller cattle of the same class. Two-year empty Friesian heifers. £2 16a; empty Polled Angus cows, £4 Cs to £4 -10 a; empty Hereford store cows, £3 10s; good yearling Shorthorn steers, £4 10s: small yearling Shorthorn steers, £3 ss; small yearling mixed-colour steers, £2 8b to, £2 16b; small yearling Hereford heifers, £2 2s; yearling Jersey-cross heifers, 39s to £2 12a; Polled Angus service bulls, £6 10s to £8 15s; Jersey service bulls, £2 10s to, £5; potter bulla, £3 7a > fid to £4 lfis; Jes'sey-crose heifer?, springing, £5 to £5 7s 6d; later calvers, £» to £4 7s 6d.

TE AWAMUTU VALUES [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

TE Friday *Dalgety .and Company, Limited, report having neld their stock 'sale at Te Awamutu on Thursday, wherf* an average yarding of both fat and store cattle came forward. Bidding being keen, a good sale resulted, with the exception of two pens of cattle, and a total clearance was effected. Following are the prices realised:— Sheep.—Medium fat ewes. IBs; good fat hoggets,' 23s to 24b 6d; medium fat hoggets, 20s to 225; ewes with 100 per cent lambs at foot, 15s Gd, all counted. Cattle.—Heavy-weight fat steers. £l3 10s to £l3 17b 6d: heavy-weight fat Shorthorn heifers, £lO ss; medium-weight fat Holstein heifers, £8 10s to £8 15s; mediumweight fat cows, £6 15s to £7 sa; lightweight, £8 10s to £5 7b 6dj light-weight

fat Jersey heifers, £3 to £5 Bf; good #tor» cows, £8 6s to £L 7s 6d; heavy potter cows. 28s to £2 7s 6d; Jersdy store o.owi, i'2 10s to £2 16s; light conditioa, 85s £'2 ss; old Jersey cows,, 20s to 27e 6d; three'-year Jersey heifers, £2 7s 6d to £2' 15s: good two-year, £3 7s 6d to £3 10s; medium, £2 10s to £3 3s; small, 35s to £2 2s fid; others, 25s to 30s; sound twoyear Jersey bulls, £7 10s, £6 10s; yearling, £3 10s to £4 10b; potter bulls, 30a to £4 12s 6d. ■' Dairy Cattle.—There was a fair yarding and a good demand at full lata rates for all good sorts, springing and in milk. A email herd of cows in milk sold at _up to £6 10s, averaging about £5. Best springing cows sold at up to £8 ss; fair quality springing heifers, at up to £6 £s; backward e'iringing heifere, £3 17s 6d to £5. Pigs.—An extra large yarding of both fat and store pigs came forward and met with a good sale. Prime medium-weight baeoners, £2 15s, £2 17s, £2 18s; light, £2 12s. ' £2 13s and £2 15s: heavy porkers, £2 6s. £2 10s and £2 12s; medium porkers. 355, £2 2s and £2 3s; prime light porkers. 345, 30s and 38s; others, unfinished, 29» • to 325; choppers, 21s to 325; large stor# r f pigs, 126s to 335; medium, 21s to 25s I small, 193 to 21s: large slips, 17s to 218*" medium. 10s to 18s; smaller. 14s. to 16«j^ Kood weaners, 14s to 15s Gd; medium, 12» to 13b Gd: small, 9» to lis; bows and litters, i'2 ,10s to £3: maiden sow. running with boar, £2 2s fid; others, 30s to 371 Gd; Tamworth boare, £2 2s, 2Jgns to 3igns. PRICES AT FEILDING [BY TEI/EGKAFH —PRESS association] FEILDING. Friday Pricrs for fat ewes dropped at the Feilding stock sale to-day. Other fat and stpre sheep sold at late rates. Fat and dairy' cattle are still in good demand. Quotations : Fat Sheep.—Prime shorn ewes, 13S id to 18s id; woolled, 17s 3d to 20s 8d -, maiden ewes, woolly, 21s; prime wethers, shorn, to 21s Od; woolly, 265; black faces, 20s to 235; prime hoggets, shorn, 18b Id to 20s 4d; woolly, to 265; special line in heavy wool, 30s 3d. Store Sheep.—Wether hoggets, 19s to 23s 9d; good ewe hoggets, 27s 9d Co 36s 4d; others, from 22s lOd; ewes with lambs, 25s to 34s Gd; all counted, lGs 8d; ewes, 275. Dairy Cattle.—Springing heifers, forward, £5 to £G ss; late calvers, from £2 16s; heifers in milk, £2 6s to £5 6s; forward springing cows, £5 to ±'7 17s Gd; late calvers, from £2 12s Gd; cows in, milk, £2 12s 6d to £4. Fat- Cattle.—Polled Angus cows, £6 10s to £7 17h Cd; Polled Angus heifers, £6 to £7 17b Gd; Polled Angus bullocks, £9 to £IQ 15s; Holstein cows, £6 12s to £7 12s 6d.' Hereford cows. £7 ss; Shorthorn cows. £9\ 10s to £8 2s fid; Jersey cows, £3 17s 6d to * £6 10s; Jersey heifers, £4 10b to £4 17s 6d*. Hereford vealers, to £3 10s. Store Cattle.—Forward-conditioned Jersey cows, £2 10s to £3 15s; boner cows, from 2Gs to 395; yearling Jersey heifers, £2 10s, to £3 15s; empty heiferß. £2 2s to £3; Polled Angus three-year etcers, £5 10s to £6; Polled Angus three-year cows, £4 13s Gd; Shorthorn steers, £3 10s; Shorthorn heifers, £2 ss: Jersey bulls, £2 2s 6d to £6; pedigree bulls, 3} guineas to 6 gtiineaß.

PIG EXPORT TRADE L SECOND INTERIM PAYMENT' OVERSEAS VALUES FIRM Y [ FROM OUR OWN HAMILTON. Friday An interim second payment will be mado to suppliers of pigs on consignment to the New Zealand Co-operative. Pig-Marketing Association, Limited, for the period ended October 31. The payment will be made at the end of November at the following rates a pound:—Exportable porkers, up to 801b , Id; from 811b, to 1201b., Id; exportable and unexportable baconers, id; exportable choppers, £d. The chairman of directors, Mr. W. A. Phillips, said to-day that, owing to the late spring, the total number ofr pigs slaughtered in Now Zealand up to the middle of October was 13,000 fewer than for the corresponding period last year. His company had received a satisfactory share of the supply, and a. pleasing feature was the substantial increase in the baconer percentage. The; greatly increased competition for pigs and other classes of meat this season was attributable to the firm tone of the export market, which, with recent restrictive export measures imposed by the Argentine Government, had attracted two large American .packing houses with connections in Britain to . enter the New Zealand and Australian fields of supply. The export trade in chilled and frozen pork from the United States and the Argentine to Great Britain had dropped to one-third this season. The British Government's proposals to increase substantially the foreign quota of bacon conditional on the countries concerned agreeing to an import levy of Id'a pound had been abandoned for the present. These factors, said Mr. Phillips, had resulted in export values for New Zealand frozen bacon firming and in favourable prospects for _the New Zealand trade. v. S

BACON INDUSTRY < 1 DISPARITY IN VALUES [fsom OUR OWN correspondent] HAMILTON. Friday The disparity in prices' between exportable and unexportable baconers was discussed at a -meeting of the Waikato executive of the Farmers' Union to-day. It was decided to sup- ' porb the Auckland executive in ita >" efi'orts to secure p, conference to discuss the matter with the view to bringing the prices and values into closer re- ■/{ lationship. It was considered that \ ' there should be compulsory Government grading of pigs, and that the 1 marketing conditions should be , stabilised.

WOOL FREIGHT RATES REDUCTION IN AUSTRALIA SYDNEY, Not. 1 The Australian Producers' ShippingAgency announces that it intends to undercut the conference .rates for the shipment of wool overseas. The Nor-" wegian motor-ship Brattdal will load wool for the United Kingdom and Continental ports at a ra'te 25 per cent lower than the prevailing freight charge. If the venture is sucoessful other vessels will enter the wool trade at the lower rate.

BRADFORD TOPS

FIRMNESS OF MARKET

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MELBOURNE PRODUCE

MELBOURNE, Nov. 1

Following are to-day's quotations on the Melbourne produce market: —■ Wheat, 3b BJd. Flour, £l2 2s 6d; bran, £ls. Pollard, £5 IQs. Oats, 2s Id. Barley, English, 2s lOd to 3s. Maize, 4s 6d to 4s 7d. Potatoes, £9 to £9 15s. Onions, £7 15s to £B.

The Bradford tops market is firm. Following are to-day' s prices and those of recent weeks:— Oct. 10 Oct. 17 Oct. 24 Oct. 81 Per lb. Per lb. Per li>. Per lb. d d d r d Seventies . 82V, S3 83 33 Sixty-fours . 30% 31 81 ' 80% 29% 29% 20% 20% Sixties . 29 29% Fifty-sixes . 20 20% Fifties . 14 s ,S 16 15 15 Forty-sixes . 12% 12% 12% 12% Forties . 10 s /, 11 11 11