COUNTRY STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22259, 6 November 1935, Page 9

COUNTRY STOCK SALES

FEANKTON QUOTATIONS i BEEF PRICES DECLINE GOOD DEMAND FOR PIGS [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Tuesday Fat sheep were penned, in smaller numbers at the Frankton saleyards today. There was only a small supply of fat ewes and these sold at firmer rates. Quotations for wethers were unaltered. Ox beef was offered in medium numbers, and, competition not being so keen, prices were jiOs a head lower than last week. Cow and heifer beef was penned in the usual numbers, the quality in most cases not being up to standard. Prices also declined in this section. There was a small entry of vealers, with quotations on a lower level. A heavy yarding of fat pigs was again penned. Values remained very firm, particularly ' for good quality medium-weights, which advanced in price. Heavy baconcrs" and light porkers also sold readily at late values. A medium yarding of stores and weaners met with a brisk sale and an all-round aidvance on last sale was recorded. The auctioneers quote as follows:

Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited.—Sheep: Heavy shorn wethers sold at 23s 6d to 24s 3d; medium, 22»t0 22s 6c!; heavy shorn ewes, to 20a 8d; medium, 17k to ISs 3d; shorn hoggets, 20s 9d to 21s 9e; woolly fat hoggets, 275; store woolly hoggots, 22s 6d to 23s 3d. Cattle; Heavy fat steers, £9 4s to £9 Ss; medium, £a is to £S 15s; light, £7 4s; prime heifers, £6 10s to £7 ISs; medium, £5 12s to £5 15s; heavy fat cows. £5 5s to £6 10s; medium £4 7s to £5 2s 6d; light, £5 5a to £4; fresh-conditioned store cows, £3 3s to £3,15b; store cows. £2 Ss to £3; freshconditioned Jersey cows,. £2 2s to £n os; heavy boners. 32a to 38s; light. 18s to 265; Fnesian store cows and heifers, £3 4s to £3 19s; quauty yearling Jersey heifers. £2 16s to £3; small Jersey-cross .yearling heifers, 35s to £2 Is; heavy potter bulls. £4 8s to £5; yearling Jersey culls, £2 2s fid to £2 15s; small yearling Ayrshire bulls. £2 ss; medium vealers, 27s to 31s; small calvep, 7s to 14s. Pigs; He&vy baconers, £2 19s to £3 3s; medium, £2 14s to £2 18s; light, £2 9s to £2 13s; heavy porkers, -£2 2s to £2 Cs; medium, 37s to £2 Is; light, 32s to 365; large stores. 29s to 365; smaller, 24s to 28s; slips, 18s- to 23s 6d; weaners, 12s 6d to. 17s 6d.

G. W. Vercoe and Company, Limited.— Heavy fat shorn wethers sold at up to £1 6s 9d; medium, £1 3b 6d to £1 4b 6d; light, £1 2s to £1 3s 3d; heavy fat ewes. 18s to £1; lighter, 16s to 17s 6d; spring lambs, £1 2s to £1 4s; ewe hosgets. £1 Ss to £1 8s; heavy fat hoggets. £1 3s 6d to £1 5»: l'? h , ter^, £ k 2s , to J 1 3s 8d; light, £1 Is to £1 Is 9d. Cattle: Runners, to £5 ss; vealers, £1 to £2 10s; heavy fat bullocks, £lM7b 6d: to £l2 10s- medium, £lO to £ll 7s 6d; light, £8 17s 6d to £9 2s 6d; small, £7 6s to £8 10s; heavy prime cows, £6 15s to £7 ss; heavy, £5 ]os to £6 12s fid; mediumweights, £4 to £5 ss; light, £3 5s to £3 15s; unfinished, £2 10s to £3 2s 6d; heavy prime heifers, to £8 os; medium-weights. £5 10* to £6 10s; light, £3 10s to £4 10s; forwardconditioned Shorthorn and Polled Angus cows. £4 to £5 2s 6d; others. £3 to £3 156; heavy boners, £1 18s to £2 10s; others £1 7s to £1 15s; potter bulls, to £6 12a; service bulls to £5 12s 6d. Pigs: Heavy baconers, £2'lßs to £3 3s; medium, £2 15s to £2 17s; light. £2 10s to' £2 14s: heavy porkers, £2 5s to £2 9s; medium. £1 18s to £2 4s; light, £1 13s to £1 16s; choppers, to £2 10s; sows in pig. to £4 I2s fld; good stores. £1 10s to £1 15s; others, £1 6s to £1 9s; slips, 18s to £1 4s; good weaners, 17s to £1 Is; others, 13s to 168. Dalgety. _ and Company, . Limited.—Fat sheep: Prime 6horn wethers sold at 24s 6d to 25s 6d; medium Quality, 23s 6d; unfinished, 225; heavy shorn ewes, 18s 6d to 20s 3d; light fat ewes, 15s 6d to l?s 3d; woolly fat ewes. 20s 3d to 23s 6d: fat hoggets, 23s to 255. Spring lambs: Heavy. 24s 6d; light, 225. Fat cattle: Light bullocks. £9 7s 6d to £lO 17s 6d; mediumweieht Polled Angus cows. £7 4s; young Shorthorn cows, £5 12a 6d; light Jerseycross, £3 6s to £4; inferior, £2 7s to £3 2s ' 6d; runners, £2 2s to £2 Be. Store cattle: Pen rough steers. £3 14s; good Quality yearling Jersey heifers, £2 19s to £3 7» 6d; two-year-old Jersey heifers, £2 6s to £2 16s; Friesian and Polled Angns-croSs heifers, £2 17s; empty Jersey young cow's and heifers, £2 2s; potter' bnlls, 30s to £6; sound service bulls, £3 10.v to «|5 10s. Pigs: Prittie heavy baconers. &Z 18s to £3 3s; medium, £2 14s to £2 17s; buttermilk Pigß, £2 9s to £2 lis; heavy porkera, £2 8s to £2 Ss; medium norkers, £1 18s to 42 2s; light, 82s to 375; choppers. £2 to £3 12e; sow and litter, £4 17s; best stores. 375; good stores. £1 9s 6d td £1 lis 6d; slips, £l to £1 6s 6d; weaners, 16s. PRICES AT TE KAUWHATA G. W.. Vercoe and Company, Limited, held its fortnightly stock sale at T« Kauwhata on Monday, when fin exceptionally heavy yarding of tat pigs came forward. Heavy baconers eased slightly in value, while light and medium-weights remained firm at late rates. Porkers advanced in value And a heavy yarding of stores met with a ready sale at rates considerably in advance of those of the previous sale. Good quality baconers. £2 18s to £3 Is; heavy baconers, £2 16s'to £2 19s; medium. £2 13s to £2 15s; light. £9 10s to £2 12s; heavy Dorkerß, £2 6s t» £2 9d: medium. £2 2s to £2 sa; light. £1 15s to £2 Is; heavy choppers, to £3 4s; others,: £1 Ss to £2 10s; good stores, £1 12s to £1 17s 6d; others, £1 8s to £1 lie;, slips. £1 2s to £1 7s; best weaners, £1 to £1 4s: good. ISs to 19s 6d: others, 14s to 17s; sow* in pig, to £3 10s. An average yarding ot cattle sold at late rates. Heavy fat Jersey cows, £4 10fi to £5 ss; lighter, £3 15s to £i 7s 6d: lighV and unfinished, £2 15s to £3 10s; empty two-year-old Jersey hpifers. £1 10s to £1 159; heavy boners, £1 10s to £1 15s; others. £1 8s to £1 8s; Shorthorn bulls, to £4; Jereey-cross heifers and cows, close to profit. £4 to £5 12s 6d; backward. £3 5s to £3 15s.

DEMAND AT CAMBRIDGE Tlie New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report; on its Cambridge sale on Monday as follows Altogether the yarding of cattle was- a very heavy one. It was comprised of large numbers of 6tore and forward cows, with a email proportion only of fat cows and heifers, as well as-a good large yarding of dairies—mostly of plain quality only—and a number of pens of yearlinc Jersey heifers* Rates for fat cows did not vary, while there was a definite advance in store and fresh conditioned cow. values. The yearling heifers met with a good sale. but. the- quality only being mediocre, values were within the limits of late quotations. The dairy stock* were well sought after and very satisfactory values ensued. In tho pig section there was also exceptionally large numbers handled, but fat pigs were scarce. The demand was quite strong and very little change in prices from late rates was recorded, with practic-' ally a total clearance being effected. Medium to good fat cows and heifers; £6 to £6 10slight fat cattle. £3 15s to £4 10s; killable quality cows, £2 7s 6d to £3 ss; fresh conditioned Jersey cows. £1 15s to £2 7s- 6dmedium store cows, £1 195r40 £1 14s; bonere! to £1 Ss; pen rough cows with calves at foot, £2 lis; good yearling Shorthorn heifers. £4; good yearling Jersey. heifers, £2 5s to £2 18s;. others. £1 ISs to £2 4s; bulls. £3 5s to £5 10s; good conditioned Jersey cows and heifers, £4 10s to £5 10s; medium. £3 5s to £4 ss; inferior, to £3; heavy bacoriers. £2 14s to £2 18s; medium. £2 7s to £2 13s; heavy porkers. £1 15s to £2 ss; light. £1 12s to £1 14s; best store pics, £l.7e to £1 13s; good, £1 3s to £1 6s; smaller, £1 to £1 3s; slips. 16s to 19s; weaners, large, 13s to 15s: small, to lis. TAUMARUNUI VALUES [by telegraph—own correspondent] TAUMARUNUI, Tuesday In spite of bad weather, there was a large attendance at the Taumarunui stock sale to-day. There were good entries of cattle and pigs, but a small entry of sheep. Ewe hoggets made 29s 7d; wether hoggets, 18s 3d to 225; ewes with lambs, 18s to 3S« 8d; fat cows, to £4 7s 6d; store bullocks. £4 19s to £6; steers. £3 2s 6d to £4 2e 6d* 18-months Black Polled steers. £i lOsShorthorn £2 12s to £4 13s: S year Black Polled heifers, £3 17s 6d; store cows, 35s to £2 7s; light unfinished cows, £4 12s • rough Jersey steers, £1 6s to £2 9s; yearling Shorthorn bulL £7 10s; 2-year Black Polled bullt, 16gns to 20gna; yearling Jereey bulls, £3 5s to £5; dairy cows; £4 2s 6d to £4 10s. Pigs: "Weaners, 6s 6d to 15s 6d; small stores, 12s to 22s 6d; large, to 23s 6d; porkers, 35s 6d; sows in- pig, £1 to £3 ss; Tamworth boars, 80s.

SPECIAL KIRIKOPUNI ENTRY [from oub own correspondent] WHANGAREI, Tuesday There was a large yarding at the special sale of store cattle held yesterday by the North Auckland Farmers' Co-operative, Limited, at Kirikopunui, when all lots changed hands. A good quantity of the cattle went as far Bouth as Morrinaville. Prices were slightly in advance .of late rates. Quotations:—Steers: Four-year-old. » fresh conditioned, £8 15s to £7 2s; three-year-old, £5 10s to £6 15s; two-year-old Hereford. £5 5s to £6; two-year-old Shorthorn. £4 15s to £5 7s 6d; three-year-old Black Polled, £6 10s to £6 13s; three-year-old Hereford, £6 8s to £6 13s; yearling; £3 Is to < ,r : 3 £4 2s. Boner cows, 18s to 31s j fresh-condi? tioned cows, £2 15s to £8 2b 6dj bone: bulls. j|j||