COUNTRY STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22687, 27 March 1937, Page 7

COUNTRY STOCK SALES

MOHKINSVILLE VALUES COWS IN GOOD DEMAND SHEEP SLIGHTLY DEARER The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports as follows on its weekly stock sale held at .Morrinsville: — The salo, though fairly small, was quite ;t trood one. A keen market existed for unfini.shcd quality Jersey cows and stores and boners, of which the entry'was mainly comprised. Also, for cows showing quality the demand was steady with prices being very satisfactory at lato rates. The entry of sheep comprised mostly breeding ewes, including several good drafts of sound-mouth sheep. The slight, recovery for this class of stork evident at recent sales was reflected in values and the prices obtained showed a slight increase, if anything. Quotations: —Good quality fat Jersey cows, 11 12s yd to A's ,"»s; medium, LI to LI 12s (id; unfinished i Jersey beef cows, L 3 2s (Id to 11; forward I store cows, ex dairy, A'2 12s Od to £3 2s Od; i boners, up to X'J Ins; pen of l'J'J failing- : mouth breeding-ewes, LI Is Kid; pen of Hi."> five-year breeding ewes, L'L 10s (id; other sound-mouth breeding ewes, LI to LI ■Js; failing-inouth, His to LI. STORE SHEEP AT FRANKTON Dalgclv and Company, Limited, report having held their weekly store sheep sale at Frankton. There was a medium yarding and a good attendance of buyers. Full late rates were obtained and a total clearance was made. The following were the principal sales:—37 Itomney ewe woolly lambs, 'JOs Od: 21 shorn Komney ewe lambs, 228 Gd; 07 well-grown shorn Itomney ewe lambs, 2<is; small ditto, 22s eld; -'V2 two and four-tooth wethers, 278; j 200 two-tooth wethers, 25 s 4d; 4So two-tooth j wethers, 25s 3d; -'OO ditto, "255; 91) small j ditto, 23s 3d; 31 store wethers, 26s lOd; ; 11' i mixed aged ewes, 255; lfe aged ewes, lbs ; (id; 73 full-mouth ewes, 20s; one-shear South- | down rams, 4gns; failing-mouth Romney ; rams, l/ 2 s;ns. YARDINGS AT MATAMATA Dalgetv and Company, Limited, report that at their fortnightly sale at Matamata i there was a fair yarding of sheep and cattle. Although bidding was slow quite a fair sale resulted. Quotations: —Cattle: Heavy j;it cows, L<i 10s to L 7; fat Jersey cows, L I 1 .js to £5 los; Shorthorn and Holstein heifers, 15 .">s to L's IDs; fat Jersey heifers, Jc3 -".s to LI 12s (id; light fat Jersey cows, L' 3 5s to £ I 2s (id; fleshy Jersey rows, L2 5s to L2 17s; cows and calves (all counted), Liss; empty two-year Jersey heifers, L2 10s to i'2 lbs; bulls (medium Jersey), £-1 to LI 15s; light bulls, L' 3 10s to L' 3 ISs; Jersey weaner beifers, A'J los to £2 l<s Od_; two and a-half-year Polled Angus steers, i; < 7s (id; 18-months Polled Angus steers. £'«; two and a-half-year Hereford-Polled Angus cross steers, L'G 5s to L 7; .small crossbred yearling steers, LI 10s. Sheep: Light fat lambs, 17s (id to 21 s; fresh conditioned lambs, 11is to 17r; fat ewes, 17s to 17s (id; fat two-tooth ewes, 30s; failing-mouth ewes, run- , ning with ram, lis to 12s (id; Southdown rams 2V 4 gns. Pigs: There was a full yarding of all classes of pigs, which sold at full , late market quotations. Prime heavy bac- j oners, L' 3 Hs to L 3 10s; heavy baconers, i .L' 3 5s to L 3 ss; prime medium, L' 3 to L' 3 ; ss; medium, L2 15s to L' 3; light. £2 10s ; to L2 15s; butter-milk pigs, £2 8s to £2 j l is; light ditto. L2 -Is to £2 8s; i heavy porkers, L'2 to L2 ss; medium, .Ids | to L'2; light, 32s to .3(is; small, 28s j to 325; small and unfinished, 21s to 28s; choppers, L'2 to L'J 7s; Tamworth boars, 2% guineas; best slips, 12s to l(is; weaners, Os to 113. OTOROHANGA VALUES The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Hamilton, report as follows on their Otorohanga stock sale:— Cattle: There was little alteration in this section. Inferior class cows made about equal to late quotations. Bulls were eagerly sought, schedule values being readily obtained. Quotations;— Medium fat Jersey cows, L 4 5s to X'l 17s (id; unfinished, L; 3 12s (Id to £4 2s (id; store forward conditioned cows, L'2 15s to L 3 10s; heavy boners, LI 18s to L2 10s; | others, to LI 15s; medium weight bulls, to | £5 los; light, to LI; rough heifer calves, to; L2 17s. Sheep: For all classes the market j was quite good, and if anything a slight ; improvement in prices was recorded, especi- | ally as regards store lambs and aged ewes, i Quotations; —Light forward fat wethers, £1 j •js to £1 4s; aged fat ewes, 17s to 18s; inferior, to 16s; heavy prime .lambs, £1 7s j lid to £1 10s; medium. £1 <3s to £1 7s; I light, to £1 2s (id; good store wether lambs, 15s to Ids 4d; medium, 13s Od to l is S)d; | small, to 12s Od; failing-mouth breeding ewes, to 17s (id. Pigs: Prices throughout were on a shade higher level than formerly. Fat pigs sold readily without change from current price levels. Quotations: —Medium baconers, L'2 18s to £3 3s; light, £2 12s to £2 159: heavy porkers, £2 8s to £2 12s; medium, £2 ■ls to £2 7s (id; light, £1 17s Od to*£2 3s; ffood store pigs, £'l 3s to £1 15s; medium, LI Is to £1 3s; small. 18s to £1; slips, 15s to 17s Od; weaneis, <j« to 9s. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports that at its sale at Otorohanga the usual entry was penned. The sheep yarding consisted mainly of lambs and local ewes, these heing in good demand. Cattle comprised mostly boner cows, these showing a, rising tendency. Pigs showed little alteration on late rates. Quotations: —Sheep: Ewe lambs, 22s to 2oS; good woolly lambs, 15s to 17s; store lambs. 13s to 13s Od; cull lambs, Os to Bs. Cattle: Light fat steers. £9 15s to £lO 15s; killable cows, £3 17s to £4 15s; heavy boner cows, £3 to £3 15s; medium. £2 5s to £2 158; lighter, 30s to 395; potter bulls. £4 to £5 15s; lighter, £2to £3 Is. Pigs: Stores, 10s to 235; slips, los to 13s. TE AWAMUTU CLEARING SALE Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., Hamilton, reports fiaving held a successful clearing sale on account of Mr. W. B. Martyn, To Awamutu. There was a large attendance, and under spirited competition a complete clearance was effected at full market rates. The dairy herd consisted of good quality young Jersey cows, spring calvers, 42 sound cows making up to Ll2 10s, and an average of £9 3s a head. Faulty cows sold from £2 los to £9; springing heifers, £0 15s; Jersey heifer calves. £3 7s Od: Jersey bulls, to £9 10s; sows and litters, £4 15s to £7 ss; light store pigs. 15s to 20s; sows running with boar, £2 los to £3 10s; aged draught mare. £-10; filly foal, £l6. WAIHOU QUOTATIONS The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports that at its AVaihoti slock sale there was a small entry of fat and store lambs, for which late rates were maintained. Cattle: A medium entry of cattle was penned, and a total clearance was effected at satisfactory values. Pigs: Fat pigs sold well at late rates, but stores and weaners were again hard to quit. Quotations:—Sheep: Light fat lambs, 21s Oil to 225; store lambs, to 17s 3d; cull lambs, 7s (id. Cattle: Medium prime cows, £1 17s to £5 12s; medium fat heifers, £4 10s to (5 7s (id; light, £3 10s to L' 3 17s; heavy Jersey heifers, L' 3 12s to £4 2s; medium, £3 2s to £3 10s; heavy boner cows, £2 5s to £3; light, 17s to 30s; Jersey cows and calves, L 3 (>s to L' 3 10s; Jersey-cross heifers, running with bull, to L'U bs; Jersey heifer calves. £2 ss; potter bulls, £4 15s to £5 His. Pigs: Heavy baconers, £3 Is to £3 9s; medium, £2 ISs to £3 3s; light, £2 12s to £2 17s (id; heavy porkers, £2 2s to L2 8s; medium, 35s to 395: light, 31s to 31s; small and unfinished porkers, 27s to :ids; large stores. 10s to ISs; slips, 12s to 14s Gd; weaners, (Is od to Os. KAMO SALES [I'ROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT] W HANGAR EI. Friday The North Auckland Farmers' Co-operative, Limited, report, a good entry of pigs at Kamo. Competition was good from a large attendance of export buyers. Values: — Heavy baconers, £3 to £3 7s; medium, i"J 17s to L' 3; light, £2 I'OS to £2 Kis (id; heavy porkers, £2 to £2 8s; medium, £1 10s to £1 17s; light porkers and stores, £1 to £ 1 bs; weaners, 12s (id. A special entry of pedigree pigs also came forward. Berkshire sows due to farrow, £4 4s to £5 Os; Berkshire boars, fit for service, £4 Is to £5 ss; Tamworth sows due to farrow, £4 -Is, Tamworth boars, £3 3s. The North Auckland Farmers' Co-operative, Limited, reports an average yarding of cattle at Kamo, competition being fair at lato rates. Values: —Fat Jersey cows, £3 10s to £4 10s; boner cows, heavy, £2 10s to £3 8s; lighter sorts, £1 10s to £2 2s; aged and Inferior cows, 255; boner bulls, £3 15s to £5; good dairy cows, close up, £4 10s to id; backward sorts. £2 10s to £3 los; springing Jersey heifers, £1 to £5 Ids; backward and inferior sorts, £3 to £3 IDs; three and four-year-old Jersey steers, £5; two and a-half year old Hereford steers, £0 ss. An exceptionally good line of Polled Angus steer calves on account of Mr. J, McLean, of Waikaraka, realised £1 Is a head; Hereford steer calves, £3 12s; Shorthorn stoer calves, £2 5s to £2 3 3s. Dalgoty and Company, Limited, report a smaller yarding than usual at Kamo, competition being fairly keen with prices being realised at late rates. Quotations: —Fat Jersey cows, heavy, £3 to £4 ss; light, £3 to £3 108; heavy boner cows, £2 12s to £3; light, x I los to £2; springing Jersey heifers, to ■Co; sound springing Jersey cows. £3 to £3 10s; small Jersey heifer calves, lis. WAIPU CATTLE PRICES [from our own correspondent] WHANGAREI, Friday Dalgety and Compmy, Limited, report a good yarding of all classes of cattle at Waipu this week. Good quality cow beef sold well under spirited competition, and plain cows and boner cattle sold at full late rates, a good clearance being effected at satisfactory prices. Quotations: —Mediunvweight fat Short, born cows, £5 5s to £0; lighter, £4 7s t>'(l to £5: fat Jersey cows, heavy, £4 2s Od to £4 15s; lighter, £3 5s to £1; heavy boner cows, £2 12s to £2 ISs; lighter, £1 JOs to £L 16s; mixed coloured two-year-old steers, £4 to £4 2s; mixed coloured yearling

steers, £3 to £3 ss; good quality Jersey heifer calves, £'J 7s Gd; potter bulls, X'G to £<l 10s; lighter, £'l 15s to £5 7s Gd; light, £•_' to £3 7s Gd. Dairy cattle: Jersey heifers, running with bull, £4 to £4 .">s; sound Shorthorn cows, £'3 17s Gd (o £4 2s Gdj sound young Friesian cows, close up, to £3 15s. Sheep: St or i ewes, lGs Gd; wethers, 21s. The North Auckland Farmers' Co-operative, Limited, reports a good yarding for the time of the year at. Waipu. Competition was particularly keen for beef, boners and small steers. Values: —Heavy fat cows, £7 to £8 Os; medium,. £•"> ISs to £0 7s Gd; light, £1 to £•*> 7s (id; good heavy boner cows, £'J Ids to £3 Is; light, £1 i">s to £2 7s Gd; heavv boner bulls. £7 to £S 10s; medium, £•(> to £0 J ss; light, £3 to £4 ">s; two-year- , old Shorthorn steers, £."> 5s to £G 2s Gd; vearliug steers. £4 5 s to £4 17s Gd; weaner ( Shorthorn steers, £3 lis; weaner Shorthorn heifers, i'J r«s; weaner Jersey heifers, £-2 to • £•_' 7s (id; cows and calves, £3 15s to £1 Ids; best dairy cows, £5 10s to £G ."is; backward and inferior cows, £3 15s to £4 'is (id; i best dairy heifers, £4 10s to £'• ss. Weaner and store pigs were a little easier. Weaners made from (is Gd to lis; slips, 12s Gd to I 17s; small store pigs, 10s to 'J'.'s. CLEARANCE AT POROTI ! [BY I'ELKGRAPil —OWN CORRESPONDENT] WHANGAREI, Friday The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports a yarding equal'to the fully advertised numbers at Poroti. comprising chiefly boner and empty cows. A total clearance was effected at full market values. Quotations: —Light fat cows, £ 1 to £ t l".s; lighter, £3 Ids to £3 17s (id; good boner cows, £2 to £2 10s; lighter, £1 7s to £1 15s; boner bulls, £3 10s to £1; Jersey heifers, r.w.b., to £3 3s; yearling Jersey heifers, to £3; Shorthorn calves, to £"_' 10s; Jersey heifer calves, 255; fat ewes, 20s. MINING NEWS MARTHA OPERATIONS 50580 Z. FROM 18,745 TONS [by telegraph—own correspondent] VTAIHI, Friday The following information has been cabled to London by the Martha Gold Mining Company (Waihi), Limited: — For the period ended March 13, comprising 22 crushing days, 18,745 tons of ore were crushed for a result of 5058 fine ounces of gold and 40.614 fine ounces of silver. This includes 1951 tons mined from the Grand Junction area, which yielded 524 fine ounces of go! 11 and 1653 line ounces of silver. No. 2 Level.—Bell reef: Sinking the Gardiner winze, the next 50ft. assays 16s 3d a ton. The lode is about 2Jft. wide. No. 4 Level. —Bell reef: Gardiner rise, the first 44ft. assays 10s 6d a ton. and the next 42ft. shows the vein to be small and of little or no value. The rise has holed through to the winze sunk from No. 2 level. No. 7 Level. —North branch of the Martha lode: In the rise on this vein the next 16ft. is ore of good grade about 2ft. wide. No. 9 Level. —North branch of the Martha lode: Driving west the next 23ft. assays 30s a ton. The width of the lode is about 2ft. YIELDS OF COMPANIES Golden Dawn (Owharoa). —For 20 working days ended March 16 a total of 575 tons of ore was treated for a return of £1589, realisation at £7 2s a gold ounce. Neinonu (West Coast"!. —llloz. for 152 hours and 16,700 yards. Worksop (AVest Coast). —320z. I Goldficlds (Otago).—l7oz. 12dwt. i • | BULOLO PRODUCTION The total gross production of Bulolo j Gold Dredging, Limited (New I I Guinea), for February, was 18.3580z. j | of bullion containing 12,7260z. of fine ! i gold from 885,000 cubic yards; esti- J | mated working profit 8887oz. fine gold, j | The production is equivalent to 1 £111.352 10s and working profit to : j £77,761 os on the basis of £8 15s (Australian') a fine ounce of gold. BRADFORD MARKET \ TONE QUIET BUT FIRM * (Received March 2G, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 25* | i The Bradford market is quiet but I firm, and tending against buyers. Fair business is passing. Sugar. 6s 6|d. Following are to-day's quotations and those of recent weeks: — Mar. 4 Mar. 11 Mar. 18 Mar. 25 d d d d Seventies 38 38% 38 30 Sixty-fours 3G 37 37 37% Sixties 35 30 3G 3G / a Fifty-eight 31% 32 32 33 Fifty-sixes 28 28% 28% 20/ i Fifties 24 25 25 26 Forty-sixes . 22% 22% 22% 23% Forties . . 22 22 _ 22 23 The last two are nominal. STEEL SUPPLIES BRITISH MOTOR INDUSTRY Reports that a shortage of steel in Great Britain is constituting a handicap to the motor manufacturing industry do not apply to all sections of the trade. It has been stated in messages from England that the extended use of steel for armament requirements has affected the supplies available for the manufacture of cars, both for the British market and for export. However, according to more detailed in- ! formation, at least one large organisa- | tion, Morris Industries F.xports, LimiI ted, has sufficient supplies of steel on j hand to 'meet all orders, even in the | exceptionally busy period which the | motor industry is experiencing at present. EXPORT LAMB PRICES i NO CHANGE IN SCHEDULE Although rumours of a further drop in exporters' scheduled buying rates for lambs have been current, no change has taken place. At present there is a lull in offerings, but the recent spell of line weather has been beneficial, and a much larger supply of lambs is expected in a few weeks. Other export schedules also remain unaltered, with the exception of a small adjustment in pigs, 1011b.-1201b. weights being increased again to od per lb. FIXED PRICE FOR EGGS POOL ESTABLISHED IN WAIKATO 1 [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Thursday |! A minimum price of Is net a dozen j for eggs has been guaranteed Waikato | poultry producers as the result of a stable egg market being created. The ' schemo is the result of lengthy negoi tuitions conducted by the Hamilton East and Hamilton West branches of the New Zealand Poultry Producers' Federation, with the object of stabilising prices and securing a moro reasonable margin of profit. With Messrs. Turners and Fow as the oilicial pooling agents, a pool has been established, and producers who sign the agreement will receive the guaranteed minimum price of Is. SYDNEY PRODUCE MARKET (Received March 26, 6.15 .p.m.) SYDNEY, March 20 The Sydney wheat market was very firm yesterday. Bagged grain was quoted nominally at about 5s Sd and silo lots in country average ss, equal to 5s 7d ex trucks Sydney. Flour, £l3 ss. Bran, £5 10s. Pollard, £6 10s. Potatoes, Tasmanian, £5 10s; others, £4. Onions, brown, £8; white, £6. Maize, yellow, os 8d; white, 5s 6d.