COUNTRY STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22345, 17 February 1936, Page 5

COUNTRY STOCK SALES

BIG WELLSFORD ENTRY. 1200 HEAD OF CATTLE GOOD DEMAND FOR STEERS [fkom our owx correspondent] WELLSFORD, Saturday There was an extra large yarding of cattle at the special store sale held by Alfred Buekland and Sons, Limited, at Wellsford on Friday. About 1200 head were offered, including some very fine lines of Shorthorn and Hereford steers. There was a large attendance of buyers from the Lower North and Waikato. steers suitable for the chilled beef trade were in good demand, a nice line of 2§ to three-year Shorthorn dehorned steers from Mr. T. Coates, Kaiwaka, realising £7 Bs. About half the store cattle were bought by buyers south of Papakura, while the balance were bought by buyers in the Lower North. Boner bulls and cows were bought at schedule rates, heavy Shorthorn bulls bringing up to £6 7s 6d. Fat and billable cows were in good demand, realising from £3 3s to JCo 2s Gd. Values were:—Best two and a-half to three year dehorned Shorthorn steers, £7 8s; good forward two and a-half-year to three-year Shorthorn steers, £6 10s to £6 19s; good two and a-half-year to three-year Shorthorn steers. £5 15s to £6 10s; lighter two and a-half-year, £5 to £5 43; best two-year, £5 to £5 3a; good. £4 15s to £5; best ISmonth Shorthorn steers. £4 6s to £4 10s ; good. £3 14s to £4; best Shorthorn steer calves, £3 3s to £3 8s; good, £'2 10s to £3; small Shorthorn steer calves, £1 18s to £2 3s; best forward Shorthorn-Hereford-cross steers, £6 3s; good Shorthcm-Hereford-cross steers. £5 19s; best IS-month to two-year Hereford steers. £6; pood steers, £5 ITs; best forward three-year Black Poll steers, £7 3s; lighter,. £6 2s; good heavy Friesian steers, £3 12s 6d; good mixed cross steers, £4 to £4 17s 6d; yearling mixed steers, £3 12s; good crossbred steer calves. £2 10s to £3 Is; best Shorthorn heifer calves, £1 10s to £2 ss; small, 17s; good Red Poll steer calvc-s, £3 3s; mixed Black Poll and Shorthorn steer calves, £1 15s; mired steer and heifer Shorthorn calves. £1 19s; big run calves, £3 7s; good yearling Shorthorn heifers, £2 lis; good-run cows with big calves £4 10s the pair; poor run cows with good calves, £3 to £3 17s; run cows with small calves, £2 15s to £3; two and a-half-year Shorthorn heifers in calf to Shorthorn bull, £3 lis; good run Shorthorn cows in calf to Shorthorn bull, £3 ss; good Black Poll cows, £4 ss; best Shorthorn cows in calf to Shorthorn bull, £5; mixed run cows ill calf to Shorthorn bull. £3; store Shorthorn cows, £2 5s to £3 4s; heavy store Shorthorn cows, £3 9s to £3 10s; mixed store cowg, £2 10s to £3; small, £1 ISs; odd dairy cows, £2 17s 6d; springing Jersey heifers, £3 10s; fat Shorthorn cows, £5 to £5 2s 6d: smaller fat cows, £3 10s to £4 10s; fat- Shorthorn heifers, £5 ss; killable cows. £3 to £3 ICs; fat Jersey cows, £3 53 to £3 10s; killable, £2 15s to £3 2s 6d; fat Jersey heifers. £3 to £3 15s; killable heifefs, £2 9s; heavy boner cows, £2 10s to £3; lighter boner cows, £1 7s to £2 ss; cull cows, 12s 6d to £1; breeding Shorthorn bulls. £2 to £3 15s; boner bulls, heavy Shorthorn, £5 15s to £6 ss: medium. £3 15s to £4 10s; small, £2 10s; I Jersey bulls, heavy. £5 5s to £5 10s; medium, £3 to £4 ss; small. £2 to £2 10s. NGARUAWAHIA QUOTATIONS [by telegraph—own* correspondent] NGARUAWAEIA, Sunday The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report that at their Ngaruawahia stock sale the advertised entry came forward. The demand for lambs wai brisk and good values resulted, while although the demand for breeding ewes was not as keen as anticipated, considering the quality they sold fully up to late rate. Quo-tations:—South-mouth ewes. 17s 3d to 20s; cull ewes, 7s 6d to lis sd; woolly ewe lambs, 22s 6d; smaller, 16s; shorn, 20s Sd: woolly wether lambs, 18s 5d to 19s 9d; woolly store ! lambs, 15s Id to 16s; smaller, 13s 6d to 14s 3d; shorn store lambs, lis 6d to 12s 9d; Southdown rams, 2gns to 23gn»; other*, ligns to l§gns. VALUES AT MORRINSVILLE [by telegraph OWN correspondent] MORRIiCSVILLF., Sunday Dalgety and Company, Limited, report that at their stock sale at Morrinsville there was a good yarding of sheep and a good attendance of buyers. Prices obtained were full market rates and a total clearance was effected. The following were the principal sales:—2o6 well-grown early-shorn two-tooth Romney-cross ewes, 34s 9d; 103 ditto, 348 8d; 333 four, six and eight-tooth ewes, majority four and six-looth, 30s; 24$ five-year ewes, 255; 84 ditto, 24s 2d; 102 four and five-year-old ewes, 25s sd; 16 four-tooth ewe», •78s 6d; 20 Southdown-cross two-tooth ewes, 22s 9d; 51 woolly lambs, 15s 3d; 41 fat ewes. 14s 7d; 30 cull ewes, lis; 15 fat lambs, 25s 9d. There was a small yarding of cattle. Rough fat cows, up to £5 7s; light fat cows and heifers, £3 Ss to £4 4s; good boner*. £2 14s to £3 Is; light boners, 34s to 425; potter bulls, £4 16s to £7 lis; dairy springing heifers, £4 to £4 12s 6d. Fat pigs were yarded in average numbers, and sold well at prices fully up to late rates. Heavy baconers were in demand. Heavy baconers. to £3 Is; medium, £2 12s to £2 16s; light, £2 6s to £2 10s; heavy porkers, £1 17s tc £2 3s; medium, £1 12s to-£l 15s; light and unfinished. £1 6s to £l 10s. Store pigs came forward in small numbers and sold at late rates. Sows (wjth litter), to £2 10s; weaners, Ss to 9s. PIOPIO EWE FAIR [by telegraph—own correspondent] TE KT7ITI, Saturday Abraham and "Williams, Limited, report# having held its annual ewe fair at Piopio on Thursday, when sheep were yarded in excess of the advertised numbers. There was a good attendance of Auckland, Waikato and local buyers, and » good clearance was made, although prices showed a decline of 2s to 3s a head in the case of all fullmouthed sheep, the lower grades being difficult of disposal. Two-tooth ewes were in good demand and fully maintained recent rates. Good four-year ewes made 25s to 27s 6d; four and five-year ewes. 23s to 255; five-year ewes, 21s to 24s 9d; good two-tooth ewes. 33s 6d to oss: medium sorts, 30s to 32s 6d; small. 25s to 27s 3d; aged and ißferior, 10s 6d to 14s.