COUNTRY STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22400, 22 April 1936, Page 9

COUNTRY STOCK SALES

FRANKTON QUOTATIONS BRISK DEMAND FOR LAMBS PIG VALUES VERY FIRM * [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Tuesday Both fat wethers and' ewes were in good supply at the Frankton saleyards to-day. The quality of the wethers was not up to the standard of previous sales, and prices were barely equal to those of last week. Ewes sold on a par with recent quotations. There was a good yarding of lambs and the demand was brisk at improved schedule rates. An average entry of ox beef showed 110 alteration in values. Competition was good for an average yarding of cow and heifer beef, well-finished lines being firm at late rates. Boners were yarded in full numbers, the market showing a slight improvement on last week's sales. Runners and vealers were again in good supply and the market remained very firm. Buyers were offered a full yarding of fat pigs, all classes remaining very firm at late rates, with the exception of heavy baconers, which declined about Is a head on last week's values. The auctioneers report as follows: G. W. Vercoe and Company, Limited.— Weavy pnmo wethers sold at £1 9s to £1 10s 6d; lighter prime. £1 8s to £1 8s 9d: medium-weights, £1 6s 6d to £1 7s 3d: unfinished. £IS S to £1 5s 9d; fat ewes, 16s to 19s 9d ; light fat ewes. 16s to 17s 6d: heavy fat lambs, £1 3s to £1 4s 9d: medium-weights, £1 2s to £1 2s 9d; light 18s to £1 is. Cattle: Vealers, £2 to £3 Is-medium-v.eight fat. bullocks, £9 15s to £lO 2s 6d; light fat bullocks. £8 10s to £9 12a Gd; forward-conditioned bullocks, £6 14s to £8; heavy, prime cows. £6 10s to £7; prime lighter weights. £5 15s to £6 7s 6d: heavy fan cows, £4 15s to £5 10s; light, £3 to £4 os; prime fat heifers. £6 10s to £6 14s: light prime heifers. £5 15s to. £6 6s-medium-weight fat heifers, £4 to £5 5s i light, £2 15s to £;) 10s; forward-conditioned 18-months Red Polled steers, £0 10s to £0 12s Gd; forward-conditioned Shorthorn and tnesian cows, £3 10s to £4 ss; others. £3 to £3 7s Gd; heavy boners, £2 8s to £2 19s: others, £1 10s to £2 ss; potter'bulls, to £4 18s; Jersey and Jersey-cross cows, early calvers, £C to £7 7s Gd; .others, £4 15s to £5 10s. Pigs: Prime baconers, £3 2s tft £3 ss; medium, £2 18s to £3 Is: light, £2 10s to £2 16s; heavy porkers, £2 to £2 7s; medium, £1 15s to £1 19s; light, £1 8s to £1 12s; choppers, to £2 ss; stores. 18s to £1 Is; slips, 10s to 14s; weaners. 4s to 7s 6d; sows in pig, £2 lis to £3: advertised boars. £3 10s to £4. Dalgety _ and Company, Limited.—Fat sheep: Prime fat wethers sold at 27s Gd to 30s Gd; light, 24s 6d to 26s 9d; unfinished, 2.5s to 245; extra heavy ewes, 19s 6d to 21s; medium-weight, 17s 6d to 18s 6d; unfinished, 16s to 17s 6d. Fat lambs. Heavy, butchers' lambs. 26s to 27s Gd: freezing lambs, 21s to 255: unfinished and light lambs, 18s to 20s 6d. Fat cattle: Light Polled Angus cows and heifers. £4 133 to £5 7s; fat Jersey cows, £3 2s 6d to £5 2s 6d; inferior cows, £3 to £3 7s 6d: light runners. £2 6s to £2 9s; vealers. to 325. Store cattle: Pen of rough-grown steers. £4 18s; pen of dehorned two-year steers. £4 lis; pens 18-months Polled Angus steers, £6 4s-. and £5 7s; pen 18-months Hereford horned steers, £5 9s; other steers, £4 4s to £4 9s. Pigs: Prime heavy baconers, £3 to #3 4s; prime, £2 18s to £3 Is: medium. £2 12s •to £2 'l7s < light baconers and butter-milk pigs, £2 5s to £2 lis: heavy porkers to light baconers, 38s to £2 4s: prime porkers. 33s to 365; light, 24s to 325; choppers. 35s to £2 2s; best store pigs, 20s to 245: small store pigs, 16s to 20s; slips, 123 to 16s; best weaners, to 10s; others. 4s to Bs. Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited.—Sheep: Prime medium wethers sold at 26s 3d to 27s 9d; prime light wethers, 24s 9d to 25s 6d: heavy prime ewes, 20s 6d to 225: medium ewes. 18s 9d to 19s 6d; light, 17s to 18s: extra prime lambs, 26s to 27s 3d; heavy. 24s 3d to 25s 6d; medium. 22s 6d to 23s 6d; light. 20s to 21s 6d; killable, 18s to> 19s 6d. Cattle: Light fat steers. £6 16s to £7 7s 6d; prime fat heifers. £6 19s to £7 6s; medium fat cows and heifers, £5 17s 6d to £6 10s: light. £4 10s to £5 10s: killable cows. £3 10s to £4 ss; heavy boner cows. £2 15s to £3 ss; medium. 35s to £2 10s; light. 25s to 325; potter bulls. £4 to £5 9s: prime runners, £6 to £7 16s: medium. £4 to £5 5b ; good vealers. £2 5s to £2 16s; small. 23s to 265. Pigs: Heavy baconers. £3 Is to £3 4s; medium. £2 17s to £3; light. £2 lis to £2 16s; buttermilk pigs, £2 23 to £2 10s: heavy porkers.- 37s to £2 2s: medium. 333 to 365: light, 29s to 325: stores, 15s Gd to 225: slips, 8s to 123 6d; weaners, 3s 6d to 7s. Xew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited.—Cattle: Medium fat bullocks, £8 to £9 ss; light-quality, £6 103 to £7 15s: heavy fat cows. £5 10s to £6 6s: good-quality fat cows. £4 15s to £s_ 7s 6d; medium-quality, £3 15s to £4 10s: light fat cows, £2 15s to £3 10s; fresh-conditioned, £2 5s to £2 12s 6d; stores. £1 18s to £2 ss: boners. £1 5s to £1 17s 6d; heavy runners, to £2 10s; prime vealers. £1 5s to £1 10s: others, to £1 3s; rough-quality, but well grown, yearling Jersey heifers, to £2 ss. Sheep: Heavy fat wethers, £1 6s° to £1 7s 6d; good-quality fat wethers, £1 4s Gd to £1 5s 6d: light. £1 2s to £1 4s; heavy ewes. 16s 6d to 19s Gd; medium, 15s to 17s; light ewes, 13s to 14s 6d; heavy fat lambs. £1 4s to £1 ss: medium. £1 i2s 9d to £1 3s Gd; light, £1 to £1 3s. Pigs: Heavy baconers £2 19s to £3 ss; medium. £2 14s to £2 18s: light. £2 2s to £2 10s; heavy porkers. £1 14s to £2; light. £1 7s to £1 13s; large store Pigs, 18s to £1 Is: medium. 13s to 16s; slips, 9s to lis; weaners, 5s to Bs. . PUTARURU REALISATIONS [from our owx correspondent} PUTARURU, Tuesday Late rates were well maintained in all sections at the stock sale conducted by Dalgety and Company, Limited, at Putaruru yesterday, when there was a good bench of buyers. There was a moderate entry of both fat and store pigs, which sold well under keen competition. A good yarding of all classes of sheep came forward and also met keen competition, practically the whole entry changing hands at prices well up to those obtained lately at other centres. A ready sale was found for a medium entry of breeding and s'tore sheep. Prices were:—Pigs: Prime baconers sold (it £3 2s to £3 43; good quality baconers, £2 15s to £3; medium baconers, £2 10s to £2 14s; light baconers and buttermilk pigs. £2 5s to £2 9s; heavy porkers to light baconers, £1 18s to £2 4s; best quality porkers, £1 12s to £1 16s; light porkers, £1 6s to £1 10s; others, £1 2s to £1 ss; best stores, £1 4s to £1 6s; smaller stores, £1 to £1 3s 6d: best slips. 16s to 19s; best weaners, 103 to 143; Tamworth boars, £1 2s Gd. Cattle: Heavy fat Shorthorn cows made from £5 lis to £6 2s 6d: light fat Shorthorn cows and heifers, £4 2s to £4 10s; mediumfat Jersey cows a\ul heifers, £3 7s 6d to £3 15s; lighter fat Jersey and Shorthorn cows, £2 18s to £3; forward-conditioned and killable store cows, £2 7s Gd to £2 15s; lighter, £2 to £2 7s; store cows. £1 12s to £1 18s; boner cows. 14s to £1 4s; yearling Shorthorn heifers, to £2 ss; yearling Jersey heifers, £2 5s to £3; others, to £2: mediumweight bulls, £3 15s to £4 IBs; lighter, £2 7s 6d to £2 10s: dairy heifers, in calf, £4 to £6; dairy cows, in calf, to £5. Sheep: A line of 99 mixed age ewes, running with ram, made £1 Is 3d; forwaxd-conditioned ewes, 12s 6d to 15s 3d,; others, 5s 3d to 10s. CAMBRIDGE YARDING The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports that it held a stock sale at Cambridge on Monday, when a good yarding of cattle came forward. Cow and heifer beef comprised mostly mediumqualitv cattle, for which values were slightly easier. Boner cows and' potter bulls sold at late rates, there being no appreciable variation in values. The entry of forward-conditioned Shorthorn steers caused keen competition and sold well. A small entry of medium-quality dairy heifers was not keenly sought after, but late quotations were maintained. In the sheep section there was a small entry, comprising three pens of fat lambs. Competition was firm, and values were fully on a par with late rates. There was a full yarding of fat and store pigs. Competition was good for all fats, and values were firm at late rates. Stores and weaners were dull of sale, but vendors met the market, and most pens changed hands at ruling prices. Quotations:—Cattle: Fat cows and heifers sold at £3 16s to £4 14s; forward and killable cows, £2 16s to £3 12s; heavy boners, £2 to £2 18s; lighter, 29s to 38s; \ otter bulls, £2 10s to £3 10s; forward-conditioned Shorthorn steers, £6 17s to £7 9s; Jersey and Jersey-cross heifers, r.w.b., £3 10s to £3 15s Sheep: Fat woolly lambs made from 20s to 22s 6d. Pigs: Medium baconers. sold at £2 18s to £2 19s; light, £2 10s to £2 las; medium porkers, 33s to 345; light, 26s to '3ls; stores, 15s to 20s 6d; slips, 8s to 12s 6d; weaners, 4s to 7s. CATTLE AT PAKOTAI [from our own correspondent] "WHANGAREI, Tuesday The North Auckland Farmers' Co-opera-tive, Limited, reports havine a moderate yarding of cattle at Pakotai yesterday. Light fat cows made £2 10s to £3 7s;.boner cows, to 325; store cows, to 255; 35-year-old Jersey steers, £5 7s; 18-months-old Shorthorn steers £3 153. . , Dalgety and Company, Limited, reports having a fair yarding of cattle at Pakotai yesterday. Medium quality springing dairy cows made up to £1 13s; run steers. £2 Is to £3 4s; fat cows, £3 10s: fat heifers, to £3 15s: good fat bullocks. £4 5s to £5 12s; run cows. £2 ISs; boner cows, to £1 lis boner bull*, £3 8b to £3 13s.