STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22444, 13 June 1936, Page 11

STOCK SALES

MOIIKIN SVILLE VALUES FIRM DEMAND FOR MUTTON GOOD HEIFERS SOUGHT The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports that its Morrinsville stock sale yesterday in all respects was much the same as the usual. Store and light quality fat Jersey cows were entered in quite heavy numbers but there was only a sprinkling of heavy cows apart from a few pens at the commencement. The usual buyers were operating and a steady demand with late rates being fully maintained was experienced. A draft of four and five-year breeding ewes in lamb to Southdown rams sold comparatively well, while a small entry of forward quality lambs also met with a brisk market. Heavy quality fat cows mad" £1 2s (id to £4 10s: medium, £:} 12s Gd to £4; lighter-conditioned fat Jersey cows. £2 17b (id to £3 10s: good-conditioned store cows. £2 Gh to £2 15s; heavy boners, .t'l 16s to £2 2s; others, to £1 15s; four and five-year breeding ev/cs, £1 7s Gd; forward fat iambs, IGs to 19s Gd; others, to 15s Gd. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports a good yarding of all classes of sheep, with wether tnul ton in firm demand, while ewes showed no alteration. Lambs were penned in good numbers with exporters operating at Into rates. There was a better yarding of ox beef, mostly light-weights, with the market showing no change. Cow arid heifer beef again came forward in full numbers with good quality scarce, this class being in firm demand. Second ouality and boner cows showed no alteration. A heavy entry of dairy cattle came forward, including the advertised herd on account of Mr. 11. J Evetts, which met with a ready market, the whole herd averaging £4 15s. A good yarding of heifers also attracted attention with spirited bidding for good quality heifers, showing well forward in-calf. A small yarding of pigs comprised mostly unfinished porkers and stores. Fats sold at ruling rates, while stores and weaners showed a marked improvement. No heavy baconers were penned. Sheep: Fat wethers. 27s to 29s Gd; hit ewes, 18s to 19s 9d: forward-conditioned ewes, Kls 3d to Its (id; medium fat lambs, 22s Gd to 23s 3d; light, 20s to 21s Gd: billable, ISs to 19s 3d. Cattle: Light fat steers. £7 3s to £7 12s; medium fat cows and heifers. £5 15s to £G Gs; lighter. £1 8s to £5 ss: killahle cows. £3 8s to £-1 Is; heavy boners, £2 12s to £•! 3s; medium, 38s to £2 Gs; lighter. 20s to 30s; young cows and empty heifers. 35s to £2 8s; potter bulls, £2 to £3. Dairy cattle: Jersey dairy cows, close to profit. £5 153 to £G ss; later calvers, £4 10s to £5 ss; backward cows, £2 to £2 10s; best quality Jersey heifers, close to profit. £7 to £8 17s fid; medium quality Jersey heifers, £5 10s to £6 _lss; later calvers. £4 to £5 ss; Friesian heifers. £4 15s to £t! 12s fid; Jersey-crosg heifers. £7 to £7 15s: small and backward heifers. £3 10s to £4. Pigs: Light baconers, £2 Gs to £2 17s; heavy porkers, 38s to £2 ss: medium, 32s to 355; light. 26s to 30s; large stores, 20s to 28s: slips, 14s to 20s; wenners. Gs to 12s: sows | with litter. £2 12s Gd: sows in pig. £2 12s ' to £4 2s Gd; choppers. 30s to £2 53. Daluety and Company. Limited, reports : a medium yarding of all classes of cattle. , Medium fat cows made up £4 8s: light. £2 18s to £3 9s; killable. £2 Gs to £2 lGs; boner cows (best). £2 to £2 4s; others. £1 to £1 16s; dairv heifers in milk, to £7 10s: cows. £3 lis; yearling Jersey dairy'heifers. , £2 14s to £2 16s. Sheep: There was only a small entry Small cull lambs made 8s 9d to 10s: store wethers, 20s 9d: meaty ewes. 16s 6d. Pigs: A small yarding with no heavy pigs. Heavy porkers to light unfinished baconers, £2 2s to £2 Gs; prime medium porkers, £1 12s to £1 15s: wellfinished light porkers. £1 4s to £1 ss.

KAUROA YARDING The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports having held its Kauvoa stock saie 011 Wednesday, when a small yarding of store cattle and a medium penning of dairy cattle came forward. Medium fat Shorthorn cows mado £4 Is to £4 Us; medium fat Jersey cows. £3 ss; boner cows. 28s to 355; Jersey heifer calves, '2ss; potter bulls, £2 17s Gd to £3 2s (id. Dairy cattle: Jersey and Jersey-cross dairy cows, lute £4 2s Gd to £4 las; Jersey and Jersey-cross heifers, backward, £3 7s" Gd to £3 15s; aged dairy cows. £2 10s to £2 17s Gd. Sheep: Killable wethers. 23?. Dalgety and Company, Limited, reports n small yarding of fat and boner cows, also a. fair yarding of dairy cattle. Although bidding was dull on dairy cattle, the store and boner section was on a par with late Waikato sales. There were 11 few entries of sheep, which met with ready demand. Sheep: Six-year breeding ewes, running with Southdown rams, £1 5s Gd; good wethers, £1 to £1 ss; boner cows. £1 to £2 9s. according to condition. Dairy cattle: Good quality cows, £G to £6 ss; medium, £4 15s to £5 10s; others, ±'2 to £3 15s; good quality Jersey heifers, close to calving, £5 10s.

OFFERING AT KARAMU G. IV. Yercoe and Company, Limited, and Palgety and Company, Limited, report having held a clearing sale on account of Messrs. Clothier Brothers, of Karamu, on Wednesday. The herd, which was submitted in first-class condition.- met with a keen demand from a representative bench of buyers, and a very satisfactory clearance resulted. Good quality Jersey cows, early calvcrs, sold from £S to £lO as; good quality. Inter calvers. £6 to £7 13s; others. £5 to £5 15s; backward cows, £4 to £1 10s; good i quality Jersey heifers, in milk, £6 15s to £7 ."is; Jersey and Jersey-cross heifers, early calvers, £5 to £6 ss. MATAWHERO STORE SHEEP [BY TELKGRAril —OWN COR RESPONDENT ] GISBORXE, Friday In spite of the cold and inclement weather there was a fairly good attendance at the Matawhero saleyards to-day. A brisker tone was noticed in the market for store sheep and an all-round improvement in values took place. Breeding ewes made 19s 8d for good mouths and 22s lOd for a pen. mostly four, six and right-tooth. Wethers ranged from 20s, for small, to 22s 6d with, size and condition. Good woolly hoggets made 17s 4d to 18s; good shorn. 17s 2d to 17s 6d". fairly good ewe hoggets, 19s. HORSES AT CLAUDELANDS G. W. Vercoe nnd Company, Limited, reports its monthly horse sale, held at Claudelands on Wednesday, as follows:—The advertised entry came forward and prices remained on a par with those which have been ruling at other sales. Good quality medium farm horses sold from £3O to £35; good quality light horses. £IS to £2S: aged heavy horses, £S to £ls; rough h,icks. £3 to £5. ENTRY AT NGONGOTAHA The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Ccmpany, Limited, reports having held its usual stock sale at Ngongotnhn on Thursday, when a medium yarding of cattle came forward, including a fair proportion of fat cows, which sold under good competition. Second quality and boner cows showed no alteration. Dairy cattle were also penned in good numbers and found a good sale. Medium fat eows made £4 IPs to £5 fis: lighter, £4 to £4 15s; killable cows, £3 2s (id to £3 las; heavy boners, £2 5s to £2 12s; lighter, 20s to 3ts; Jersev heifers, close to £5 to £7 10s; later calvers, £4 to £1 10s; young sound dairy cows, £3 to £5.

OFFERINGS AT PAEROA IBY TELEGRAPH OWN CORRESPONDENT] PAEKOA, Friday There was a large ynrding of cattle al the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's fortnightly Pneroa sale, every available yard being occupied. Dairy cattle sold on a par with last sale values ]t was a very good sale of beef Hnd boners, the former showing a considerable improvement. Good dairy cows and heifers, close to profit, made £5 to i'G 10s: medium dairy cows and heifers, i' 4to £1 15s: backward and inferior. .C2 to £3 15s; medium prime cows and heifers, £5 to £6; lighter, £4 to £4 Ios; medium cows and heifers, £'2 15s (o £3 10a: I eavy boners £2 to £2 7s; medium, 33s to 3Ss; lighter, 23s to 30s; potter bulls, i.Os ,to £2 los; weaner calves. ,tSs to £2 10s. i A very successful clearing sale was held by the Loan and Mercantile Agency Company at Nethcrton yesterday on account of Mr. A. A. Jordan. The attendance was good and buying was brisk. Good quality dairy cows, July calvers, £0 H's to £lO 10s; medium. A 7 to i'S 15s, more backward. £4 to £t> 10s. The average for the whole herd reached id 15s

TE AWAMUTU ENTRY Dalgety and Company, Limited, reports having held its tn-weekly stock sale at Te Awamutu on Thursday. Cattle: An average yarding, which sold nt full late rates. Light bullocks. £7 14s; light fat cows and heifers, £3 5s to £4 10s; fleshy cows, £2 Ps to £2 17s; light boilers. 27s to 355: bulls, £3 to £3 17s (VI; yearling Jersey heifers, 27s (id to £2 13s. Sheep: A moderate yarding. which sold at full late rates. Light unfinished wethers, 24s '.id; store wet mis, 21s (id; fat ewes. 15s; fat lambs /light). Ins (id to 20s 7d; mixed age ewes, in lamb to Southdown rams, 21a 3d; failing mouth ewes in lambs to Southdown rams. ISs 9d; ewes' in lamb to Uoniney rains. 21s !)d. Dairy cattle: A large yarding. Good sorts of dairy cows, due July and August. £5 to £ti 10s; later calvers, £3 10s to £4 15 s; choice Jersey heifers. £5 10s to £7 sa; back-

ward heifers, £3 10s to £1 15a; inferior cows, £9 10s to £3 ss. Pigs: There was only a medium yarding of both fat and store pigs. All classes of piss sold under keen competition, and a total clearance waa effected at most satisfactory prices. Storo and weaner pigs met with a very keen sale, particularly well-grown, good-conditioned pigs. Light baconers, £2 10s to £2 16s: butter-milk pigs. £2 5s to £2 9s; heavy prime porkers, 38s 1o £2 2s: medium porkers, 34s to 375: light prime, 28s to 325; light porkers, 2-ts to 275; choppers, £1 to 30s: large stores. 18s to 225; medium stores. 14s to 18s; slips, 10s to 13s; best weaners, 8s to 12s; others, 6s to 9s.

WHAKATANE YARDING [bv telegraph—OWN correspondent] WHAKATANE. Friday Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held a stock sale at the Whakatane yards yesterday, when an average yarding came forward and met with a ready sale. Good quality Holstein heifers made £5 Gs to £6: fat Holstein cows, £5 7s 6d to £5 9s; prime quality young Jersey cows. £2 !7s to £t Is; Polled Angus and Hereford cows, £5 is; good store cows, 25s to 365; light Jersey cows, 15b to £1; fat wethers. 245: slore wethers. 21s Id: Tamworth sows, with litfers, 2Jgns to 4gns; Tamworth sows due to farrow, 2*gns to 3!gns; medium store pigs, lis. PRICES AT KAMO [I'ItO.M OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT] WHANGAREI, Friday The North Auckland Farmers' Co-opera-tive, JJinitid, reports a moderate yarding of cattle ut Kamo yesterday. Competition was very keen for springers, while beef cattle sold exceptionally well. Boners also met with keen demand. Very few steers were yarded. Best dairy cows, close to profit, £1 10s to £6 ss: medium dairy cows. £) to £5 2s Gd: inferior, £1 15s to £3; best heifers, £1 10s to £5 53';' medium. £3 to £4 7s Gd; small and backward. £2 to £2 17k Gd; prime bullocks, £8 10s to £'.): light, £5 15s to £7; prime fat cows, extra good quality, £G 10s to £7 2s Gd: medium fat cows. £4 to £t 10s; light fat cows. £3 as to £3 17s (id; fresh-conditioned cows. £2 to £2 15s; boner cows, 22s to £2; potter cows. 12s to His; boner bulls, £3 10s to £4 os; light boner bulls, £1 10s to £2: prime fat wethers. 275; light, 25s 6d. Dalgety and Company. Limited, report* the fully advertised yarding of cattle. There was keen competition for close to profit. Good quality Jersey springing cows, close to profit, £4 \2s Gd to £6 2s Gd: medium quality. £3 10s to £4 ss: backward springers, £2 2s Gd to £2 17a Gd: fat cows, £2 15s to £3 10s; forward-con-ditioned store cows. £1 17s Gd to £2 ss; boner cows, 15s to 255; potter bulls. £2 10 s to £3 10s; prime fat wethers, 25s to 275. DEMAND AT FEILDING [BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION] FOLDING, Friday There was a quiet market at the weekly Feilding sale to-day except for breeding ewes and lambs, which met with good inquiry. Store cattle showd no variation in price and fat cattle were steady. Sheep: Prime lambs made to 265; ewes, best, lo 21s 2d: heavy wethers, to 26s lOd. Store breeding ewes, five-year. r.w. Southdown rams, to 24s 4d; five-year, 25s Sd to 29s fid; four-year, 25s Sd to 29s Gd: good mixed nee. to 24s 7d; two-tooth. • 25s 3d to 37s Id: black-face lambs. 12s 4d to 17s Gd; wethe-s. lis 3d to 19s Id; ewes, to 21s 9d. Fat cattle: Cows, prime, to £6 10s: light heifers, to £4 ss; runners, to £5 2s fid; medium heavy bullneks. £8 17s fid. Store cattle: Yearling Polled Angus steers. £4 3s; heifers. £3: emnty Polled Angus cows, to £4 16s; forward cows, to £3 15s. Dairy stock: Springing heifers, to £6; cows, to £7 10s; cows, in milk, to £4 15s.