STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22540, 3 October 1936, Page 9

STOCK SALES

MOKRINSVILLE YAK DINGS PRICES SLIGHTLY EASIER YEARLING BULLS SOUGHT The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports that at the weekly stock sale at Morrinsville yesterday there was a small yarding of fat sheep, comprising a few pens of ewes and hoggets. Quotations were slightly easier. An extra heavy yarding of :i 11 classes of fat and store cattle, with a small proportion of good quality heifer beef, for which quotations remained at late rates. Fat Jersey anil Jersey-cross cows and ! heifers showed a slightly easing ten- ] dency on last sale. A pen of fat Polled Angus heifers on account of Messrs. Watson Bros., Walton, realised L 7 2s. Killable cows evoked keen competition, while boners sold at unchanged values. An entry of yearling Jersey heifers were not so keenly sought and in most cases failed to reach vendors' reserves. Good quality two-year-old service bulls met a better demand, selling .'it values equal to Morrinsville Jersey sale rates. Yearling bulls we re also sought. A heavy yarding of dairy cows and heifers with an absence of good quality sorts. Competition in the heifer section was not as keeu as at recent sales, all classes of heifers being hard to quit, 1 while dairy cows showed no alteration 1 in value. An average yarding of fat pigs sold under keen competition to a full bench of buyers. A short yarding of stores and weancrs showed a further rise on recent improved rates. The quotations were: — Sheep: Shorn wethers, 275; fat woolly ewes. 27s to 28s 3d; lighter fat ewes, 20s 3d 1 to 21s 2d; ewe hoggets, 275; woolly wether j hoggets, 21s 2(1 to 255; lighter, 22s Id to 22s (id. Catlle: Fat steers, £!); prime fat cows and heifers, L\S 12s to £9 2s (id; medium, £0 15s to £7 10s; light, £0 to £(i 10s; killable, £5 to L 5 IDs; heavy t boners, £3 las to £1 ss; medium, £2 10s to £3; light, 30s to £2. Dairies: Jersey I heifers, close to profit, £9 to £10; Jersey | and Jersey-cross heifers, close to profit, £7 ! 15s to £8 15s; smaller. £0 15s to £7 los; ! backward, £1 10s to £0 His; Jersey arid 1 Jersey-cross cows, close to profit, £8 15s to I £9 ss; later culvers, £K to £8 10s; back- | ward and poorer conditioned, £5 15s to £0 15s; inferior sorts,• £3 10s to £5 10s. I'igs: i Choppers, 37s to £2 I Is; best baconers, £3 j lis to £3 15s; medium, £3 4s to £3 l()s; light, £2 His to £3 2s; butter-milk pigs. £2 7s to £2 17s; heavy porkers, £2 (is] to £2 10s; medium, £2 to £2 ss; light, 3(is j to £2; stores, 3 1s to £2; slips, 25s to 31s: weancrs, 19s Od to 2Ns (id; breeding sows, to farrow, £3 2s (id to £1 7s. Od; backward, 37s Od to £2 17s 0(1. POLLED HEREFORD BULLS [from OUR OWN correspondent] PUKEKOHE, Friday Sixteen young Tolled Hereford bulls brought £IBO at Tuakau to-day, when the record annual sale of two-year-old polled bulls from the Mangatea Hereford Stud were sold on account of Mr. Olaf McCutchan, of (.'lenmurray, by Dalgety and Company, Limited. There was a representative attendance of buyers and the average price was approximately 30% guineas. The top prices realised were: —Mangatea Docile, to Mr. J. A. Court, Cambridge, 44gns; Mangatea Donald, to Mr. S. B. Allen, Coromandel, 42gns; Mangatea Donor, to Mr. W. McCutchan, Rangiriri, 42gns; Mangatea Delicious, to Mr. T. Muirhcad, Cambridge, 39gns; Mangatea Dunce, to Okura Station. Waikaretu, 37gns; Mangatea Doncaster, to Mr. W. McCutchan, 3(>gns: Mangatea Derby, to Mr. G. E. McGregor, Ohincwai, 35gns. FULL DAIRY ENTRY G. W. Vercoe and Company, Limited, reports having held its weekly dairy sale at Frankton yesterday, when a full entry came forward. The advertised herd on account of I Mr. T. Kay met with a good demand and ! stock showing quality sold well. Backward ; and unsound cows were easier, (iood quality j Jersey and Jersey-cross cows, in milk, made j CS 10s to £l2; others, £7 to £8 ss; 1111- ! sound cows, in milk, £1 10s to £0 10s; Jersey and Jersey-cross heifers, close to profit, £7 15s to £s ss; small and backward. £5 10s to £0 15s. CATTLE FAIR AT FEILDING [BY TIXKORAI'II PRESS ASSOCIATION"] FEILDING, Friday ! A great demand for top quality rattle was : shown at the annual cattle fair at Feilding to-day. Station lines were well represented and the prices for choice yearlings were very high. Adult sorts were inclined to be sticky. I The demand for all sheep was also satisfac tory. The range of prices is as follows: Station cattle: Four-year mixed colour bullocks, £7 13s to £10; three and four-year ditto, £!) Is to £!) 15s; three-year Polled Angus ditto. £8 5s to £9 (is; three-year Hereford ditto, £8; two-year Polled Angus ditto, £7 9s to CS 10s; two-year Polled Angus heifers, £0 19s to £9 12s (id; yearling Polled Angus steers, to £7 14s. Store sheep: Ewe hoggets, 35s 8d to 39s 3d; wether, ditto, 23s 4d to 25s Od; black-face ditto, to 24s sd. Fat sheep: Ewes, 2Ss Od to 31s; wethers, 35s Od to 37s 9d; hoggets, to 24s 4(1. Fat cattle: Polled Angus cows, £8 to £S 17s: Shorthorn ditto, £7 10s Od to £7 18s; dairybreeds, to £0 15s; light heifers, to £5 15s. Dairy cattle: Springing heifers, to £0 15s; ditto cows, £0 17s (id. PAPAKURA YARDING [from our own correspondent] PAPAKURA, Friday There was a fair attendance of buyers at the stock sale conducted at Papakura to-day by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited. A small entry of dairy cattle met with steady competition, and almost a total clearance was effected. Values were slightly easier than at last week's sale. Best dairy cows and heifers made from .£0 10s to £8; backward sorts, £4 10s to £0 ss; aged cows and inferior heifers, £2 10s to £4 7s (id. A number of yearling and two-year-old service hulls met with a ready demand and, although values were easier than at recent bull sales, practically ajl sold at satisfactory prices. Best sorts made from 9gns to ll'/affns; others, Ogns to B%gns. SPRING CATTLE FAIR [rtY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] TE PUKE, Friday The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, held its spring cattle fair, together with the ordinary fortnightly stock sale, at To Puke on Tuesday. Considerably over the number of cattle advertised were penned, competition in the store cattle seclion being particularly keen. All lines changed hands at satisfactory prices. Fat Polled Angus bullocks made £ll Ids to £ll 19s; Mereford bullocks £lO 15s to £l2; fat Polled Angus cows and heifers, £0 to £8 Us; lighter fat cows, £4 5s to £5 15s; Ihree-year-old dehorned Hereford steers, average £8 15s: smaller three-year Hereford steers. £7 7s Od; empty Hereford and Polled Angus cows, backward, £4 17s to £5 Os; store anil boner cows, fully up to late rates; two-year Polled Angus heifers, to £5 lis; yearling Tolled Angus heifers, to £1 lis; two-year empty Jersey heifers, £4 to £1 (is; yearling Jersey heifers, £3 10s to £5, The dairy slock offered was in poor condition generally. Jersey and Jersey-cross heifers, £4 5s to £0; Shorthorn heifers, £4 10s to £0 12s Od. Pigs: Large stores, 20s to 325; smaller, 21s to 255; weancrs, 14s to 17s; sows to farrow, £2 10s to £3. MARKET AT MATAWHERO [by telegraph OWN correspondent] GISBORNK, Friday There w'as a good attendance at the weekly stock sale at Matawhero to-day. Fat cattle and fat sheep met with a good demand. The yarding of store sheep was the smallest so far for the season, but, consideiing the quality, values were about the same as j those of last week. For a small entry of fat j cattle the market was keen, finished heavy j Jersey cows made £0 15s; other Jersey cows, ; to £4 Os; good finished medium-weight Jer- | sey heifers, £3 to £3 lis. Values were firm in tho fat sheep section, in which there was an entry of 1-15. Kwes ranged from 23s 3d to 29s 3d; shorn ewes, first of season, 19s; heavy wethers, 31s to 32s sd: secondgrade ewes, good quality, 245. The yarding in the store sheep section was small. These appeared to be odds and ends and the market was hardly as brisk as previously, although, considering the quality, values were about the same. Ewes with lambs made to 28s fid; dry ewes, good, fat and forward I* Id: wood condition. 10s; hognets, to 28s Id; wether hoggets, 23s Sd. VALUES AT PUKEKOHE [FROM OCR OWN correspondent] PUKEKOHE, Friday There was a large yarding of dairy cattle at the stock sale conducted at Pukekoho today by Alfred Buckland and Sons, Limited Choice' quality cattle close to profit met with keen demand from a large bench of buyers The demand for more backward sorts was slightly easier. Choice heifers, calved and close to profit, made from £!) to £ll 10s. good, £0 log to £8 10s; others. £4 to £0 ss; best cows. £7 10s to £lO 15s; good. £5 l(is to £7: backward and inferior, £2 10s to £4 15s. Beef and store rattle were yarded in large numbers. Prices for beef were slightly easier ia sympathy with yesterday's Westfield mar-

kct. Primp heavy cows and heifers made from £8 2s Od to t'i); lighter, £0 10s to C 7 17s (id; light, £4 2s (id to £0 SS;5 S; other killable cows, t:5 5s to .C I; heavy honor cows, £2 5s to C 3 2s; others, .11 4s to £2 2s; fresh conditioned stores, £4 5s to £5 1 ss; other store cows and heifers. £2 lis to jl'-I ; yearling Jersey heifers, £3 Os ,'o £ 1 r,s; cows and calves, £1 7s t!d to £ I lis per pair. There was an average yarding of hulls, which met with fair domarid. Service hulls made from 4gns to 15gns. One pen of fat hoggets averaged £ 1 I 2s. There was an increased offering of all classes of pigs, arid buyers were in good attendance. All fats sold at satisfactory prices. Stores and weaners were also in good demand, and values improved considerably on those ruling at the last sain. Choppers made from t I 10s to -Is; heavy baconers, £3 15s to £3 ISs; medium. C 3 Os to C 3 I2s: light, £2 lss to C 3 ts; heavy porkers. £2 His to C2 His; medium. £2 2s to £'2 Ts; light, CI Ms to £ 1 18s; small and unfinished, C 1 ss to £1 His; light stores, 11 7s to CI His; slips, tl to £1 ss; best weaners, lis to 17s; small, !>.s to 12s, sows, due to farrow, £2 17# 'id to £5 2s (id. The average price per lb. for baconers was (id and for porkers (i'/,d. KAIPARA FLATS YARDING The North Auckland Farmers' Co-operative, Limited, reports having held its usual monthly sale at Kaipara Flats on Tuesday, when upward of 000 head were yarded, and sold ai satisfactory prices. A number went to Waikato buyers. Extra heavy prime cow beef made £lO 5s to .til 17s (id; light prime cow beef. £7 His to .to ss; Jersey and light cow beef, tl 10s to £0; four-year Shorthorn steers, ts 7s (id to £0 Is; good quality three-year Shorthorn steers, £8 Is to £0; two to three-year Shorthorn steers, £0 (is to £7 7s; yearling Shorthorn steers, tl to C.j His; well-grown empty Hereford heifers, to £'•"> ss; IS-month Shorthorn heifers, to £4 8s; Shorthorn cows and calves, £5 to CO; boner cows, at schedule rates. The advertised Hereford bulls on account of .Mr. R. It. ISlade sold well under kern competition, the top price being 2!»gns, paid by Messrs. G. and T. Linnell, of Kaiwaka, who also bought another at loVngtis. One went to Miss A. Davie and Mr. S. A. Martin, of Woodcocks, two at 2(igns and two at JOgns to the C. J. Parkers Estate, Okahukura. The advertised Friesian bulls, on account of Mr. A. Migounoff, sold at lO'/igns to Ogns; Shorthorn service bulls, o'/ 2 gns to 12%gns; Jersey service bulls, ■; 1 to sgns. Weaner pigs made. 12s to His; slips, 18s to 23s (id. NGONGOTAHA REALISATIONS The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report having held a stork sale at Ngongotaha on Thursday, when a full yarding of cattle came forward, comprising' mostly stores. No good beef was varded. Dairy cattle were in full supply with quality cattle in demand, backward and poorer sorts were not wanted. A good yarding of pigs were in firm demand. Store cattle comprised mostly two to 2'/2-year steers. Prices were on a par with late sales, tattle: billable cows made t■» His to tl 10s; bonei cows, 30s to t'2 2s; young Jersey cows. 35s to £" His; two-year Jersey heifers, £3 5s to C 3 13s; smaller. t2 His to t2 lis; 2'i-year Hereford and Shorthorn steers, £0 18s to £8; two-year Hereford steers, £0 10s to £0 15s; poorer conditioned. £5 7s (id to t'i; mixed colours, two to 2V.-ycar steers. £5 10s to CO Hls; 12 to 18-months Shorthorncross steers, £5 4s to £5 lis; mixed colours, one-year steers, £3 5s to £4 2s 0(1; freshconditioned Shorthorn cows, £3 5s to £4 11s; pedigree Jersev bulls, £0 Os to £lO 10s; grade Jersev hulls, £3 15s to £B. Dairy cattle: Jersey and Jersey-cross springing heifers made £0 10s to £7 15s; Jersey heifers, more backward, £3 15s to £5 10s; sound young dairy cows, £0 to £7 10s; backward, £3 to £5 2s 'id. Pigs: Good store pigs, 30s to £2 Is; smaller, 30s to 345; slips', 23s to 20s; -good weaners, 20s to 20s Od; smaller, lis to 10s. ■ TE AWAMUTU VALUES The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports having held its Te Awnmutu sto.k sale yesterday, when a good entry of fat sheep and hoggets came forward, selling at recent quotations. A good yarding of ox and cow heef was penned, and sold to fair competition. Store cows were keenly competed for at higher levels. No alteration occurred for boners. A few pens of yearling Jersey heifers created a keen inquiry at satisfactory rates. There was a good yarding of dairy cattle, comprising mostl.v h'-ifrrs. A full brnch of buyers was in attendance and bidding was brisk throughout prices remaining firm on late, rates. Choic( Jersey and .1 erse>-cross heifers were keenlj sought. There was a smaller yarding of pigs with brisk competition. Hood quality slip: in particular were keenly sought. Sheep Prime woolly wethers made to 30s; forward condition woolly wethers, 27s (Id to 30s shorn fat wethers. 20s: medium woolly ewes 22s (id to 21s (id: killable, 10s Od to 21s white-faced ewe hoggets, to 31s Od: whits faced wether hoggets, 21s to 27s Od; hlacV faced wether hogcrets. 20s lOd to 22s Or Cattle: Medium prime steers realised £ll to £l3; light, £0 to CO lis; killable. £ 10s to £8 15s; medium prime cows. £8 r to £8 lis; medium prime heifers. £7 4s 1 £7 18s; light, CI 12s to £5 10s; heav second-quality cows. £0 10s to £7 5; medium, {'s 3s to £0 Os; light, £■! 10s t £5: killable, £3 15s to CI Os; forward-coi dition Jersey cows, £2 10s to £3 12s, bone cows, 20s to £2 Os; three-year fresh blac and white steers, £7 Ms; good store cow; £4 14s to £5 7s; empty heifers, two-yea £3 to £3 13s; quality Jersev yearlin heifers, £5 5s to £5 12s Od; others, £3 4 to tl 10s. Dairy cattle: Choice Jersey an Jersey-cross heifers, close to profit, made £ 2s Od to £lO 10s: Jersey and Jersey-cro? heifers, close to profit, £7 17s Od to £8 17 fid; others, £0 15s to £7 15s; more bad ward, £5 to £0; heifers in milk, £0 5s t £7 10s; good dairy cows, £lO to £lO 15s others. £0 to £7. Pigs: Pest baronet brought £3 Os to C 3 10s; medium, £3 2 to £3 Os: light, £2 13s to £2 18s; heav porkers, £2 Os to £2 10s; medium, £2 t £2 Is; light, 35s to 30s; large stores. 37s t £2 Is; smaller, 27s to 30s; best slips, 00 Od to 33s Od; others, 22s (id to 255; weaner: 13s Od to 20s; choppers, £2 4s to £2 lis sows to farrow, £3 12s Od. GUARANTEED PRICES INQUIRY INTO COSTS "While it was the general opinio] that the guaranteed price would liav boon higher, if the present Govern incut can initiate a sound lnarketini scheme- and eliminate speculation which will he all t-o the good, it wil be entitled to the thanks of the farm ing community," said Mr. J. Parkin son, chairman of directors of the Con tral Co-operative Dairy Company Limited, at the annual meeting ii Christchureh this week. "it has to bo borne in mind," Mr Parkinson added, "that the guarantee! price is for one year, and that tin Government has given its assuranei that, before fixing next year's price, al increased costs of production will b( taken .into consideration. A committci i has been sot up for the purpose. W< [ ask suppliers to advise us of all in | creased costs incurred on the farm ovei I the guaranteed year. This informatiot i will be invaluable to the committer | when adjustments of the guarantiee price are made for the following year All information received in this connection will bo sent to Wellington." DAIRY COMPANY TRADING INTERFERENCE OPPOSED A protest against any attempt to curtail the trad jug operations of cooperative dairy companies with their suppliers was made by shareholders at the annual meeting of the Central Cooperative Dairy Company, Limited, in Christchureh this week. The subject was introduced by Mr. C. Morgan Williams, M.P., who said there was a 1 definite endeavour in Wellington to persuade the Government to prevent ; co-operative trading on the part of j dairy companies, particularly in regard | to the sale of petrol to suppliers. I The following two resolutions were i carried unanimously:—"That the board ' of directors bo recommended to extend ! its trading operations in connection with its suppliers," and "that the Government be asked not to interfere in the private trading of co-opcrativo dairy companies." THE HIDE POSITION The market in colonial and miscellaneous hides is still very quiet and trading with Kuropo has boon slow, states a report from \Y. Weddel and Company, Limited, London, dated August 20. New Zealand freezer cow hides, :501b. to 501b. are quoted at 5Jd to ssd, and abattoirs are available at about od. Business in country cow hides was done at 4:Jd. Shippers of D/S Australian hides are very firm in their ideas of price. A small businos in D'S Queensland meats, 301b. to 401b. was done at (ijd. To-day there are no offers in the market below (ijd. The leather market continues to be good in spite of the holiday season. The outlook for a i time seems to be especially satisfactory. J