COUNTRY STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22579, 18 November 1936, Page 9

COUNTRY STOCK SALES

FRANKTON QUOTATIONS COW BEEF IN KEEN DEMAND COMPETITION FOR FAT PIGS [from our own correspondent 1 HAMILTON*, Tuesday There was an average yarding of fat sheep at the Frank ton salevards to-day, the entry comprising ehief'y ewes. Coinpetition was firm throughout and values for ewes showed a slight improvement on last week's quotations, while wethers showed a slight easing tendency. A full yarding of all classes of cattle came forward, with ox beef in average numbers. The demand was particularly keen for a good offering of cow and heifer beef, values in this section advancing considerably. A good entry of veal sold at recent quotations. Dairy cows were penned in small numbers, competition being steady at late rates. Buyers were offered a good entry of fat pigs, and a medium yarding of stores and weaners. Both baeoners and porkers sold nrider keen competition and last week's values were fully maintained. At the commencement of the sale stores and weaners sold under steady bidding at recent rates, but declined toward the finish. The auctioneers report as follows:

Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Compeny, Limited.—Sheep: Heavy prime shorn wethers sold at up to 30s 6d; medium, 24s fid to 2f!s; shorn two-tooth wethers. 22s to 23s ftd; heavy prime shorn ewes, 23s 6d to 24s Od; medium, 22s to 235; light, 20s 9d to 21s; mixed sex woolly houitefs, to 2Rs; ewes with lambs at foot, 23s Od. Cattle; Medium prims Shorthorn and Hereford-cross steers, £l2 5s t.i /. 12 1 ."is; licht Shorthorn steers, to £'ll. 15s; heav,\ prime fat heifers, £0 2s to £10; heavy prime fat cows. £f) 17s fid to £lO 15«; medium. £7 10s to £0 Is: licrht, £0 ISs to £7 7s Od; lighter, £5 10s to £0 lis: killable Jersey cows, £1 to £5 2s; runners. £3 12s to C t 10s; good vcalers, £2 2s to £2 10s; roueb calves, 12s to 2os; fresh-conditioned younor Jersey cows, £1 to £1 13s; good coloured store cows. £3 Us to £1 1 Os; aged Jersey cows, £2 'o £3 1 ."is: fresh-conditioncd 2-year Hereford steers, to £S 9s; Jersev heifers, running with bull, £-t 10s to £4 10s; yearling Jersey-cross heifers, £3 15s to £3 18s; Jersey and Jersey-cross heifers, in milk. £0 to jS; springing Jersey-cross heifers, £'•"> to C~ 17s (id: springing Jersey cows, £•" 10s to £O. I'ips: Best bacouers. £3 Os to €3 lis; medium, £3 to £3 »*>S; light. £2 14s to £2 1!»s: big buttermilk pigs, £2 10s to £2 10s; heavy I'urkers. £2 ">s to £2 IDs: medium. £2 to £2 •Is; light. 30s to :«»s; large stores. 30s to .",0s: medium 2"i.s to 2!)s: slips. ISs to 21s; v.eaners, 10s Od to 17s (id.

Dalgety and Company, Limited— Sheep: Heavy whom fat ewes sold at '_Ms Od to 235: light, _'Os 'iiJ to '-'ls Id; woolly heavy fat ewes, 3ls (id; light woolly ewes, 255: heavy shorn wethers. '.2os to 28s; light wethers. V' R (id to 25s 'id; heavy spring lambs. -Ms to •2Ss■ light, IPs fid to 21s «d; woolly hoggets. "■;s to 31s; Down-cross shorn two-tooth ewes. £1 Us; small, £1 ss; mixed aged young shorn ewes with lambs at foot. 10s t)d; aged wholly ewes with lambs at foot, 18s; black-faced cwch with lambs at foot. 10s; two and fourtooth wethers, £1 5s Od; small shorn wethers £ 1 3s sd; cubed. 17s 3d; woolly ewes with lambs, 10s 8d; mixed aced woolly ewes with lambs, 1 Sis. Cattle: Good quality fat bullock*, in 10s to £l3 2s Od: light fat Hereford heifers £H 5s to £0 Os; fair quality fat cows. £0 5s to £7 10s; medium, £3 lor to jj5 S . light vealers. 3'Js to 3iKs; runners. £3 5s to £ t *Js 6d; Jersey-cross heifers running vith bull, £3 17s (id; Ked Polled £4: Shorthorn yearlings, £3 ss. Pigs: Heavy bncouers, £3 5s to £3 10s; medium. ~3 to £3 ss; prime, £2 10s to £3; buttermilk piss. £2 l»s to £2 10s; heavy porkers £2 .»s to £2 10s; medium, £2 to £2 os; lightto £2; small. 30s to 358; choppers, £2 to £3 Os; large store pigs. 30s to 3(is; medium. _(>s to 30s; small, 2la to 255; best slips. 3Ss to 21s; others, lis to 18s; best rvcaners. 14s to 18s; others. 10s to lis.

G. W. Vercoe and Company, Limited.— Sheep: Medium-weight fat shorn wethers, £1 !"!S to £1 »S 6d; light, £1 78 6d to £1 8r 8d; fat shorn ewes. £1 3s to £1 Is od; lighter, jto £1 is; fat woolly ewes, to £1 Usewe hoggets, to £1 15s (id; heavy fat woolb hoggets, £1 8s to t- lis; lighter, £1 6s to £1 7s (id; shorn hoggets, to £1 5s Gd; heavy spring lambs. £1 7s to £1108; medium weights, £1 Is to £1 Os; light. £1 Is to £1 3s. Cattle: Heavy vealers, £2 108 to £3; medium, £1 15s to £2 8s; lifSht, £1 5s to £1 10s; medium-weight fat bullocks. £l3 to £l3 158; prime light-weights, £ll 15s to £l- - lighter, to £ll 7s «d; heavy prime cows. ,CS los to £l> 10s; heavy fat cows, £7 to £8 ss; medium, £5 15s to £0 10s; light. £4 10s to £5 Ills; prime fat' heifrrs, £7 15s to' .€!> 7s (id; lighter, to £7 10s; forward-conditioned Shorthorn and Friesian cows, £4 15s to £5 10s; others, to £ t 10s; young Jersey cows, to £J 15s; heavy boners, to £3 ss; others, to £2 «r; potter bulls, to £6 15s. Pigs: Heavy haconers, £3 5s to £3 10s; medium. £3 to £3 3s; light. £2 15s to £2 10s; heavy porkers, £2 5s to £2 12s; medium, £1 ISs to £2 2s; light, £1 8s to £1 15s; store pigs. £1 r_'s to £1 lis; others. £1 Os to £1 H>s; slips, 18s to £1 2s; best weaiiers, 10s to £1; others, 8s to 12s.

Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited.—Cattle: Medium quality fat cows. £5 10s to £G 10s; lighter, Li Us to £5; forward-conditioned store cows. i.l to £5; paddock cows. £L 10s to £2 10s; light yearling heifers. £1 15s; potter bulls, good, to It .Os. others, £2 15s to 13 10s. Sheep: Good heavy quality wethers. £1 10s to £1 lis; medium. £l 8s to £1 10s; lighter, to £1 Ss; good heavy Quality ewes, to £1 7s; wether hoggets, to £1 5s Od; ewe hoggets, to 11 15s Gd; fat hmbs, £1 3s to £1 5s 6d. Pigs: lSaconers, heavy, £3 to £3 10s; others, £2 Is to £3; porkers, £2 to £'J 10s; light. £1 to £1 12s; good forward stores. £1 los to £1 Ms Od; medium, £1 2s lid to £1 7s 6d; wcaners, 12s to los CAMBRIDGE PRICES The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports that at its usual Cambridge stock sale on Monday a medium yarding of sheep, consisting mostly of ewes and lambs, came forward and sold at rates on a par with recent sales. There was an extra heavy entry of cattle with a keen demand for good fat cows, Messrs. Kirkby Bros., of Maungatautari, sold cows up to £lO 2s (id. A good yarding of dairy cattle sold at late firm rates. The advertised herd of 28 Jersey cows in milk on account of Mr. T. H. Tapp averaged £7 10s. 'There was a good yarding of all classes of pigs, but owing to the drop in the schedule porkers were much easier in price, with stores and weaners realising late sales rates. Quotations: —Sheep: Fat woolly wether hoggets, 325; mixed age. fat ewes. 21s; ewes and lambs, 14s 3d to 20s. Cattle: Heavy prime fat cows, £lO to £lO 2s Od; heavy second quality cows, £7 5s to £7 18s; medium prime heifers. £7 Is to £7 15s; medium prime Jersey cows, £5 17s to £7 2s (id; good store cows, £5 to £0 ss; light fat Jersey cows, £4 Os to £5 (ss; forward condition Jersey cows, £4 2s to £1 12s; boner cows. £2 to £3 10s; yearling Jersey heifers, £4 10s to £5; yearling Jersey bulls, £■'> 10s to £0 2s Od; three-year Jersey bulls. i'O 10s; potter bulls, £2 7s Od to £5 ss. Pigs: Light baconers, £2 13s; medium por!iC's. 30s to £2 2s; light, 33s to 375; good stores, 20s to 275; smaller, 23s to 24s od; slips, Ixs (id to 225; weaners, 10s to Iss Od. Dairy cattle: Good qua'ity Jersey cows, calved, £8 His to £0 17s Gd: smaller, £7 to £s; poorer conditioned, £1 10s to £0; inferior, £3 to £3 13s.

LONDON MARKETS HEMP, FRUIT, EGGS The Department of Agriculture has received the following cablegram, dated November I t, from the High Commissioner for New Zealand, London:— Tallow. —Tlie spot market is quiet; quotations generally are 6d dearer. Hemp.—Manila: The market is firm and prices have advanced. K grade for December-February shipment sold nt £2B 15s. Stocks in London on November 1, 7910 bales, against 5847 at the same, time last venr. Sisal-. The market is quiet and easier. Novem-ber-January shipments sold down to I'L'li ss. * January-March shipments quoted sellers, £26 15s. New Zealand: There is no change to report, owing to lack of offers. Stocks in London at November .1, SI tons, against 28 tons at the same time last year. Apples. —There is a little more demand. Californian Newtown, 8s (3d to 10s 6d; Oregon Newtown, 1-s to 12s (id; Washington Jonathans, 9s 6d to 10s 6d; British Columbian Jonathans, 9s to 10s 9d. Penrs.—The market is steady; prices generally are maintained, notwithstanding heavier arrivals. Californian Wintor Nelis, lis to 12s; Beurre Hose, H)s (id to 12s 9d; Cornice, lis to Ls. lyres.—The market is quiet ami The demand is slow. Knglisli, national pack, 17s tid to 22s Gd; ordinary pack, 13s to 19s 9d; Danishlllb. to 171b.. per long hundred, Us od to 17s; Australian, lis 9d to 13s 9d.