COUNTRY STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22538, 1 October 1936, Page 9

COUNTRY STOCK SALES

VALUES IN WAIKATO RATES GENERALLY STEADY WEATHER RETAiRDS ACTIVITY Although pastures in the Waikato look green and ready to burst away, the existing wintry conditions prevent any advance. This delay has been disappointing to many, for cattle held through winter are now being marketed, yet, it must be admitted, under less favourable conditions than a month ago. ' The beef supply isi well maintained, with values reasonably steady. Although these may be expected gradually to ease, no pronounced drop is anticipated. The late season precludes the possibility' of early fattening and it is fortunate for the trade that winter stocks are holding out. Very much higher rates would otherwise be faced. Export interests seem to be giving the '' boner " section more attention, and i'ii is to be hoped tha,t this 'branch will prove as helpful in removal of the plainer grades as in the previous season; Interest has again been revived id Jersey yearlings, and at most sales greatly improved competition has been available. Lack of feed, no doubt, deters iaany from considering; purchase, but with the higher standards established for dairy stock this season and the unquestioned better prospect ahead, increasing popularity seems a certainty. Conditions in the separate sections are;— V ~ , .. . BEEP ' Steady suppliee are ' everywhere maintained, with generally a steady demand. A fairly heavy pntry at Frankton Tuesday was not, however, as well received as that of the previous week. Buyers from outside were less numerous and while ox beef did not greatly suffer, cow and heifer beef throughout was easier, in many cases from 15s to 20s a head. Prime medium ox beef sold from 33s to 355; heavy, 29s to 31s; prime, heifer, 28s to 31s; yourg cow, 23s to 275; Jersey cow; 17a to 19s; plain, 13s to 15s* MUTTON , In this section also, although the supply was not heavy, values receded, not so much in the ewe sections, prime lots of these being firm, but wethers were distinctly lower. The quality of these was much inferior to that of recent yardings, a,nd naturally did not attract butchers. A few pens of really prime shorn sheep were well competed for and values for these did not greatly alter. Hoggets also suffered somewhat. Best shorn wethers made to 34s with lighter sheep from 30s; wooily wethers (faiir), 35s to 37s 6d; medium, 30s to 335; plain, from 265; prime heavy ewes, 2»s t<* 32u 6d; medium, 25s to 27s 6d; shorn ewes, 20s to-23s 6d; hoggets, 21s to 24s 6d. STORE CATTLE The return to winter has undoubtedly checked competition and the eagerness of a month ago is rarely witnessed. Steer cattle have been the chief sufferers, and the recent high rates are seldom now attainable. It is safe to say that values throughout are lower by £1 a head, though posisibly a real evidence of spring would quickly restore them to the old level.. Good grazing ccws are still in fair demand, and boners are inclined to improve. Jersey yearlings, which for a space slackened off, have regained popularity and some very brisk competition has bee:! witnessed. Inferior classts of cattle are not sought and transfer of these, except at low figures, is invariably difficult. STORE SHEEP In this section also a little of the earlier keenness is absent, though it is unlikely to be other than temporary. The quality offering is net of a grade to excite buyers, although ewe hoggets need merely to have their sex announced to be clamoured for. Ewes- with lambs sell freely. Yard values of these run from 15s to 18s, all counted. Wether hoggetd (good lines) are worth from 24s to 275; ewes. 35s to 40s. DAIRY CATTLE The demand is steady and in expected to improve as soon as grass appearß. Well-grown heifers are eagerly sought and range between £8 and £lO. Good young cows also maintain their popularity and sell at about similar rates, with higher values for outstanding • animals. The backward sorts, both cows and heifers, at some sales have beefl easier. PIGS Competition at Frankton this week on a smaller yarding was hardly so koen, although the too rat? for baconers (£3 7s) was only Is down. Store pigs, however, lacked the buoyancy the previous week. Large stores dropped from 4s to 5s n head, with smaller classes lower by 2s to 3s. CLEARANCE OF JERSEYS [from our own correspondent] WHANGAREI, Wednesday The North Auckland Farmors' Co-opera-tive, Limited, reports holding a clearance sale yesterday of Mr. H. W. Taylor'B pedigree Jersev herd at Ngararatunua. The attendance was "not very large, but competition was fairly brisk. The top price was 12y 3 gns, and st>\eral other cows made 10 and liens, while ono or two were as low a3 7gns. The average for the cows was O'A to lOgns; 2-year-old bulls. S to 10 l / 2 gns; yearling bulls, 7 to llgns.

SPRING CATTLE FAIR [raou OUR OWN correspondent] TUAKAU, Wednesday More than the advertised number of cattle was yarded at the annual spring cattlo fair conducted by Dalgety and Company, Limited, at Tuakau. Tho offering was submitted to a good representative bench of buyers and the total yarding sold uni/ior keen competition ait very satisfactory price*?. ■ Three-year-old Polled Angus steers brought £8 to £8 17s; grown Hereford and Polled Angus steers, £7 15s tc> £9; a choice pen of two-year-old Polled Angus steers from Mr. B. M. Walter. Onowhero. £8 12s; other two-year-old Polled Angus steers, £0 10s to £7 8s; yearling Polled Angus steers,. £-1 to £0 ss, the latter price being paid for a lino of 41 sold on account of Messrs. H. S. and A. E. Holmes, Onewhero; two-year-old Bed Poll steers, £G 10s to £7 128; yearling Rod Poll Steers, £3 4s to £5; yearling Polled Angus and Hereford steers, to £6; two-year-old Shorthorn-llereford-cross • steers, £R 19s; two-year-old Hereford steers, £0 8)1; .two-year-old Shorthorn steers, £4 15s to £5 3s; 18month Shorthorn steers, £0 lJis; yearling Shorthorn 6teers, £4 17s; . good fat cows, £5 to £S 7s Gd; lighter, £4 to £4 17s Gd; light fat heifers, £5 to £5 7s Gd; frcshconditione4 store cows, £2 10s to £4; boner cows, £1 5s to £2; springing heifers, £5 2s Gd to £6 17s Gd; two-yoar Polled Angus bulls, 12y s gns. to 20gns.; aged Polled Angus bulls, £5; one four-year-old Red Poll bull, 7gns.; pottor bulls, £2 to £4 2s Gd.. An aged medium draught gelding brought £32. VALUES AT OHINEWAI The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Hamilton, reports having; held its Ohinewai stock sale on Monday. There was a good entry, with representative numbers of heavy quality fat cows and heifers, a majority of medium class fat Jersey cows, a number of pens of utoro quality and boner cows and several pens of yearling store steers, as well as a good number of medium-class dairy cows t.hd heifers. Tho beef market was bright, with stronp conipotition. Storo and boner cows sold freely at stablo prices. Yearling steers wore briskly sought, while, considering the quality, jairy cattle made satisfactory prices. Heavy prime heifers brought £8 to £9 8s; medium to prime fat Hereford heifers, £G 10s to £7 10s; heavy quality fat Jersey cows, £5 10.5 to £7; medium, £4 7s Gd to £5 7s Gd; lighter conditioned, £3 10s to £4 ss; young paddock cows, £2 15s to £3 7s Gd; medium stores, to £2 lQs Gd; boners, to -Cii 4s; yearling store, steers, £4 Ms; inferior, £2 15s to £3 153; medium sorts dairy cows, £5 108 to £0 10s; plainor, backward, up to C# o 5s * * * Messrs." Dalgety and Company, Limited, report a large yarding of 241 head c f all classes of cattle at (he monthly stock sale held at Ohinewai on Monday. There was a good attendance of buyers and prices weire on a par with lata sales. The following are tho principal sales: — On account of Mr. J. Macky, Taniwha, primo Hereford bullocks at Al2 10s; on account of Mr. E. L. Tucker, Ohinewai, for-ward-conditioned three-year-old Shorthorn steers, £9 It's to £lO £is; fat cows, up to £S Gs; light fat cows, £4 15s to £0 ss; pen of yearling Polled Angus Bteers on account of Messrs, Tapp Brothers, jftenown, £G ss; on account of Mangapiko -Estate, pen of Hereford and Polled Angus steel's, £7 19s; on account of client, Hereford steers, rising three years, light condition, £7 7s; pen of ,two-year-old ditto, £6 14s; pon of yearling Hereford steers, light condition, £5 7s Gd; pen of ditto, £5; pen of empty Hereford cows on account of Mr. McGovern, £5; on account of Mr. G. E. McGregor, pen of call breeding cows, £4 lGs; on account of client, dairy <fcows close to profit, £7 fis to £8 10s; backward, £5 to £G; calved heifers, £5 10s to £7 ss; backward heifers, £4 10s to £5; Polled Angus bull, £lO ss; Red Polled bull,. £7; Shorthorn bulls, 14M>gns. 12'Xgns, 10%gns, The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports that at its usual stock salo at Ohinewai on Monday, a 'uu yarding of cattle came forward. Dairy cattts of quality

were in good demand. A heavy entry of bulls was penned, a keen inquiry existing;. Store cattle as advertised attracted a good attendance, but the demand was not as jrocd aa at previous sales and values were a little easier. Medium quality springing heifers made £6 10s to £7 12s <id; more backward, £4 10s to £5 15s; grade two-year Jersey bulls, £8 IDs to £ll 10s; medium, £0 10s to £7 10s; yearling Jersey bulls, £4 10s to £7 10s; good two-year grade Shorthorn bulls, CIO 10s to £l3; medium quality two-year Shorthorn bulls, £7 10s to £8 15s; light fat cows, .€5 5s to £5 3'tsj killable cows, £3 3-S3 to £4 10s; forward conditioned Shorthorn cows, £4 to £4 13ii; store Shorthorn cows, £2 15s to £3 15s; fresh conditioned Jersey cows, £2 15s to £3 lis; two-year Jersey heifers, £2 10s to £3 10s; sound young Jersey cows, 38s to £2 12s Oil; medium quality yearling Jersey heifers, £3 5s to £4 Os; smaller, £2 to £2 "!6s; two-year steers. £0 18s to £7 8s; yearling Hereford steers, £5 5s to £5 17s 6d; mixed colours, yearling, steers, £3 35s to £4 10s. G. W. Vercoe and Company, Limited, Hamilton, reports having hold its monthly stock sale at Ohinewai on Monday when a full yarding of all classes of cattle came forward, Competition throughout was keen and practically a total clearance was effected. Prime light weight bullocks sold to £l2 10s; others to £lO 4s; heavy fat cows. fiO to £9 12s;; well finished medium weights, £8 to £8 15s; others, £6 to £7 10s; light, £4 to £5 15s; well-grown yearling Polled Angus and Hereford steers, to £7 Ss; yearling Shorthorn steers, to £6 12s; forward-conditioned Shorthorn cows, £4 to £5 10s; young Jersey cows, €2 10s to £3 ss; yearling Jersey-cross heifers, £3 to £3 15s; heavy boners, £2 to £2 12s; others, 30a to' 38s: good quality Jersey lieifers, close to profit, to £9 10s; later calvers, £7 to £8 ss; backward heifers, £4 to £5 15s; pedigree two-year-old Jersey bulls, tc 17/ a gns; grade two-year-old Jersey bul s, to £l2 10s; yearling pedigree Jersey bulls? to. Ogns; grade yearling Jersey bulls. £4 to £7 10s.

STORTFORD LODGE YARDING - [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATIONS'] HASTINGS, Wednesday Smaller yardings in all sections came forward to-day at the Stortford Lodge sale, when a good market prevailed throughout, l'at cattle included a larger percentage of good prime quality medium bullocks from well-known stations. The top price was £l3. Several good entries ranged from £ll 15s to £l2 10a. Prime heifers were in short supply, the best making to £9 ss. Other good lines ranged from £8 to £8 17s 6d. Cows consisted o_' a better percentage of good sorts, unfinished and inferior types not predominating. The best prime entries made to £9 7s 'id. Well-grown good store cattle were easily quitted, young bullocks making to £9 ss; extra good yearling steers, to £G 13s; good two-year-old breeding heifers, to £6. The store sheep consisted chiefly of woolly wether hogge'a, values be : ;ng slightly easier at the commencement of the sale, but they improved as the sale progressed. The best woolly wether hoggets made 275; ewe- hoggets, to 365; fat and forward wethers, to 28s 4d; others, to 27s Bd. Fat sheep recovered practically to peak levels, some sorts advancing to 4s a head on last week's prices. Raukawa shorn prime four and six-tooth ewes made to 295; best heavy woolly ewes, to 34s 6d; best wethers, to 365. Medium-grown, (roodconditioned spring lambs made 32s for the top. PiG SALE AT TAUPIRI The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Hamilton, reports having held its Taupiri pig sale on Monday. The yarding was heavier than usual and the greater part was comprised of fat pigs. Porkers were in the majority, but baconers were well represented. A full bench of buyers competed and there was generally an improving tendency in prices, a complete clearance being readily effected. Stores and weaners were penned in about average numbers and sold well up to values very firm on ruling Frankton quotations. A few plain sow pigs elicited strong bidding and made comparatively good prices. Heavy baconers made £3 8s to £3 18s; medium-weight baconers, £2 15s to £3 7s 6d; light baconers and heavy porkers, £2 7s 6d to £2 14s; medium-weight porkers, £1 19s to £2 6s; light, £1 14s to £1 18s; good quality store pigs, 26s to 30s; medium, 22s 6d to 255; slips, 17s 6d *o 218; best weaners, 14s to 16s 6d; others, 13s; good sow pigs, £3 to £4; inferior quality, to £2 15s.