STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22722, 7 May 1937, Page 9

STOCK SALES

WESTFIELD VALUES SMALL YARDINGS FORWARD ADVERSE WEATHER EFFECTS The adverse weather conditions were reflected io the yardings of cattle at the Westfield weekly stock sale yesterday, when comparatively few head were forward. In addition to the difficulties of moving stock, paddocks are generally reported to be water-logged and are suffering already from the early wintry conditions. The bench of buyers was also relatively small and business was dull. An occasional brightening in the demand was noticeable when stock of outstanding quality was offering, but bidding was never brisk. The demand for store cattle continues to be firm with boner stock selling at good prices under competition from the freezing industries. Potter bulls sold at prices ranging to £8 10s. The same figure was the best realisation for dairy cattle. Values generally were fairly well maintained in that section, but several lines failed to make reserve figures. The quotations were: Store Cattle.—Young cows, good condition, from £3 7s Gd to £4 15s; less condition, to £3; others, to £2; boner and aged cows, to £3 15s; potter bulls, to £S 10s; meaty, killable cows, to £5; breeding bulls, to £5 15s; yearling Jersey heifers, good quality, to £4 15s; others, to £2 15s. Dairy Cattle.—Jersey cows, good Quality, close to profit, to £S JOs; more backward, to £0 15s; others, to £4 15s; Jersey heifers, good quality, close to profit, to £c ss; more backward, to £5 10s; others, to £4 15s; Jersey-cross cows and heifers, good quality, close to profit, to £7 15s; more backward, to £5 15s; others, to £4 ss; Shorthorn cows and heifers, good quality, close to profit, to £7 10s; more backward, to £6; others, to £4 ss; other cows, to £4 ss. PUKEKOHE PRICES [from our own correspondent] PUKEKOHE, Thursday An easing in the demand for dairy cattle was 1 in evidence at the weekly stock sale at Pukekohe to-day, conducted by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited. Only good sorts, close to profit, met with competition. Values for beef cattle wire very firm on "Westfield rates of yesterday, while boners and store cattle also met with a good sale. Fat pigs were yarded in fair numbers and sold under strong competition at rates fully equal to those ruling at Westfield yesterday. Store pigs came forward in larger supply and sold under good bidding at rising values. Best dairy heifers made £7 to £8 17s Gd; medium, £5 10s to £6 10s; small and backward, £3 10s to £5 7s 6d; dairy cows, £4 to £7 17s 6d; weaner heifers, £2 5s to £3; heifers, running with bull, £3 to £4 7s Gd; prime steers, to £lO 2s Gd; heavy prime cows, £7 to £8 2s Gd; medium, £6 to £6 15s; light, £5 to £5 15s; other killable cows, £4 to £4 15s; meaty cows, £3 to £3 17s Gd; boner cows, £2 to £2 17s Gd; cows with calves, £5 to £7 a pair. Prime heavy baconers sold at £3 5s to £3 15s; medium, £2 16s to £3 3s; light, £2 8s to £2 14s; heavy porkers, £2 to £2 Gs; medium, £1 14<j to £1 ISs; light, £1 8s to £1 12s; choppers, £2 to £3; good stores, £1 to £1 8s; slips, 14s to 18s; good weaners, 12s to 16s; medium, 8s to lis; smaller, 2s to 7s; boars, to £2 2s; sows, to £2. RANGIRIRI QUOTATIONS The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports having held its monthly stock sale at Rangiriri, when approximately 800 head of cattle were penned. Beef cattle were penned in medium numbers and sold at recent quotations. Fat Jersey cows and boners were entered in large numbers and these sold under brisk competition at advanced rates. In the store cattle section buvers were not keen to purchase, and competition was only forthcoming for lots showing quality. An extra htavy entry of dairy cattle was penned, including the advertised herd on account of Mrs. R. Bloomfield, Pukekapia. Competition was not keen and prices not as high as anticipated. Light prime steers made £9 14s; three and a-half-vear Hereford steers, £8 15s; 18-months Polled Angus and Hereford steers, £6 Gs; Hereford and Shorthorn cows, with calves, £7; other cows and calves, £4 to £4 10s; medium fat cows, £5 Gs to £5 12s; lighter, £4 4s to £5; fat Jersey cows, £4 5s to £4 17s; medium, £3 8s to £4; boner cows, £2 5s to £3 6s; Hereford steer calves, £4; Hereford heifer calves, £3; empty two-year Jersev seifers, £2 lis to £2 15s; potter bulls, £4 12s to £7 Is. Dairy Cattle: Jersey cows, springing, £5 15s to £6 10s; backward, £3 10s to £4 15s; unsound cows, £2 17s Gd to £3 ss; Jersey heifers, springing, £7 to £7 ss; Jersey-cross heifers, £5 5s to £6; smaller, £4 5s to £4 15s; small Jersey-cross heifers, running with bull, £2 17s to £3 17s 6d. KAUROA CATTLE PRICES The Farmers' Co-operative AuctioneeringCompany, Limited, reports that at its Kauroa stock sale a good yarding of all classes of cattle came forward and met with spirited bidding from a good bench of buyers. A few young cattle were penned and sold at late rates, while boner cattle and potter bulls showed no variation in Frankton rates. Service bulls were- alSo keenly sought .after. Medium fat cows made £4 10s to £5; light, £3 15s to £4 SS; heavy boner cows, £3 5s to £3 15s; lighter, £2 to £2 15s-, 3%-year Shorthorn steers, £7 10s; two-year mixed colour steers. £3 10s to £4 3s; store conditioned Shorthorn cows, running with bull, £4 to £4 12s; Polled Angus weaner steer calves, £4 7s; Polled Angus weaner heifer calves, £2 Gs; mixed sex Shorthorn weaner calves, small, 35s to 38s; potter bulls, £4 10s to £5 ss; yearling Polled Angus bull, £5 10s: yearling Jersey bulls, £3 7s Gd to £4 2s 6d. OTOROHANGA REPORTS The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Hamilton, reports as follows on the Otorohanga stock sale: l — The -sale was fairly spirited. Good numbers of unfinished and cull cows were entered arid sold briskly under good competition. Former prices were secured throughout. The demand also for a small proportion of fat cows was keen and values were stable. A few pens of yearling and in-calf heifers mot with a satisfactory sale. Good quality fat cows, £4 Is to £5 2s; medium to light quality fat Jersey cows. £3 12s fid to £4; ex dairy store cows, £2 15s to £3 10s: boners, £2 10s; in-calf heifers, up to £5 2s Gd; yearling heifers, plain. £2 15s. Sheep: A mixed yarding of mostly store lambs and fat wethers came forward. Everything sold, with prices fully equal to other sales. Good fat wethers made £1 5s to £1 7s Gd; light and forward, 22s to 21s 2d; medium fat ewes, 15s to- 10s; good store lambs, 13s to 17s Od; inferior, 12s Gd. Pigs: A small entry of stores and weaners elicited the usual competition and made satisfactory rates on the basis of late quotations. Light porkers. 33s to 85s; good store pigs, 16s to 21s; medium, 13s to 16s; slips, lis to 13s; weaners, up to 10s. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports:—Cattle: Fat heifers, £5 15s to £6 lis; heavy fat Jersey cows, £4 10s to £5 ss; heavy works cows, £3 10s to £4 58; medium, £2 15s to £3 ss; light, 35s to £2 10s; four-year Polled Angus and Hereford steers, to £7 10s; twoyear Polled Angus and Hereford steers, £5 5s to £5 355; potter bulls, £3 17s Gd to £6. Sheep: Black-face lambs. 16s to 17s Gd. Pigs: Light porkers, 28s to 345; large stores, 18s to 20s; weaners, 7s Gd to 9s Gd. OHAUPO HORSE SALE Dalirety and Company, Limited, reports having held its Oliaupo horse sale this week. The entry was not so large as usual, no doubt owing to the inclement weather, which also affected the attendance. The following were the principal sales:—Account-Mr. A. Bond, aged draught mare, £3O; account Mr. \V. Saunders, light draught gelding, £32; account Mr. Caley, aged gelding, £2l 1.0s; account Tokoroa Farm, light work gelding, aged, £l9, light mare, £l2; account Mr, Alex Foray the, light work mare, £l6; account Mr. A. W. Retter, aged light gelding, £2l; account Mr. Cale.v. aged light gelding, £2l; trotting mar; f.nd foal, £10; trotting mare and foal, £l6; trotting gelding Rockella, 178ns; account Mr. H. Dingle, aged maro, £23; other light horses, £5 to £lO.

KAMO PIG PRICES [IROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

WHANGAEEI, Thursday

The North Auckland Farmers' Co-opera-tive, Limited, reports a good yarding of pigs at Kamo. Competition was keen, prices maintaining an improving tendency. Values:—Medium baconers, £3 3s to £3 Ts; light baconers, £2 lis lid to £3 2s; heavy porkers, jL"J to £2 lis (id; medium porkers, X'l 10s to £2; light porkers, £1 to £ l 10s; slips and stores, 15s to 27s (3d; weaner pigs. 10s to 13s; smaller sorts, 2s to 7s. Dalgety and Company, Limited.—Heavy baconers, £3 to £3 ss; light baconers, £2 5s to £2 ,10s; heavy porkers, £2 Is to £2 -Is. MATAMATA YARDING Dalgety and Company, Limited, reports as follows on its Matamata sale;-—Sheep: No grown sheep were yarded, the few pens offered comprising lambs only, for which competition was slack. Good fat lambs, to 255; medium, 20s. Fat and boner cows: A fair (.umber of fat and boner tows were yarded, and competition was keen at prices on a par with those ruling at other centres. All lots ottered were sold under the hammer at satis-

factory prices. Forward 2-year Jersey steers, .€4 15s; medium fat Jersey heifers, £4 16a; heavy fat cows, £5 15i to £6; medium, Jersey <&• scrts, £3 12s Gd, £4 7s to £5 7s 6d; lighter, £3 Ss, to £3 10s; honer cows, 35s to £3 3s, according to weight; 18-months Jersey steers, £2 15s; potter bulls, £3 Is, £4 14s to £5; springing Jersey heifers, nice quality, but small and backward, £6. The advertised station cattle were offered in good order and condition and, although bidding Vas slow, practically all were sold at satisfactory prices, and realised the following:—Good framed "Hereford cows, running with Hereford and Polled Angus bulls, £G 12s Gd; Polled Angus and Shorthorn cows, running with bulls, £6 4s; Polled Angus heifers, running with bulls, £5 17s (3d; small, £5; empty Polled Angus 18-months heifers (passed), £4 6s; mixed coloured 18-months heifers, £2 lis. Pigs: A full yarding of fat pigs came forward. No prime heavy baconers were yarded. The yarding comprised chiefly porkers, Stores and weaners were penned in average numbers and competition was only moderate for these. Medium heavy baconers, £3 4s to £3 9s; medium, £2 18s to £3 4s; light, £2 10s to £2 ISs; heavy porkers, £2 6s to £2 10s; medium, £2 to £2 ss; prime. 36s to £2; medium, 32s to 365; light, 2&s to 325; small, 24s to 28s; choppers, heavy, £2 10s to £2 16s; others, 30s to £2 ss; best store pigs, 18s t-D 21s; best slips, 12s to 14s; best weaners, 8s to 12s; others. 5s to Bs. KEEN DEMAND AT RUAWAI [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] DARGAVILLE; Thursday With prices in advance of late rates, an extra large yarding of cattle at the Ruawai sale yesterday sold under, very keen competition to a large bench of buyers. Boner and beef cattle were in chief demand. Prices realised are reported by the North Auckland Farmers' Co-operative, Limited, as follows: Dairy heifers, close to profit, £4 10s to £5; heavy fat cows, £5 18s to £H Is; good fat cows, £5 lus to £5 15s; lighter sorts, £4 10s to £5; heavy fat Jersey cows, £3 lis to £4; heavy boner cows, £3 to £3 12s; : lighter boner cows, £2 to £2 lis; light boner cows, 30s to 355; cows and calves, £5 10s to £0 3s; a pair plainer cows and calves, £2 10s to £3 2s; .two-year empty Shorthorn heifers/ to £3 13s; small Jersey heifer calves, 25s to 325; IS-months' steers, small, £1 3s to £4 12s; small steers, £2 to £2 7s <>d; sinail two-year Jersey heifers, empty, £2 to £2 12s (id;-heavy potter bulls, £4 15s to £5 6s; lighter sorts, £4 to £4 los; small bulls, £2 15s to £3 2s Gd. Keen competition for the large yarding of pigs is reported. Heavy baconers made £3 3s • to £3 (Is Od; medium baconers, £2 Ids to £3; light baconers and heavy porkers, £2 2s to £2 Os; light porkers, 30s to 38s; small porkers, 27s to .30s; good stores, ISs • to 21s; sows to farrow, £2 10s to £2 17s 6d. TE PUKE YARDING [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] TE PUKE, Thursday The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports as follows on its Te Puke stock sale:—An average yarding of fat and store cattle bat fewer pigs were yarded. The market for cattle was exceptionally buoyant and prices for pigs were firm at late rates. Dairy cows sold on account of Mr. A. F. Mundt met with a ready sale at an average price of £G a head. Prices were: Heavy fat cows, £5 5s to £6 15s; medium fat cows, £3 10s to £4 12s; store cows, £2 16s to £3 7s 6d; boner cows, 19s to £2 17s; best quality young Jersey cows, £7 17s 6d to £8 ss; other dairy cows, £5 12s Gd to £7; aged and unsound, £2 5s to £3 19s; medium heavy baconers, £2 lis to £2 17s; heavy porkers, £1 19s to £2 6s; light porkers, 20s to 365; store pigs, 16s 6d to 21s 6d; slips, 10s to 15s; good weaners, 8s 6d to 10s; breeding sows to farrow, 3%gns. STORTFORD LODGE RATES [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] HASTINGS, Thursday At Stortford Lodge yesterday fafc. cattle were in over-supply and selling was lifeless. Values for bullocks dropped from 20s to 30s head and heifers and cows were fully 20s lower. The sale opened at easier price levels, which fell further as selling progressed. Good bullocks averaged £10; best prime heavy heifers, £7 17s 6d to £S 15s; medium, £7; light, £5 to £5 15s; heavy prime cows, to £7 15s; medium, £G 10s; light, £4 10s to £5 ss. Store cattle were equally difficult to trade, the dry weather keeping possible buyers out of the market. Fat bullocks made £9 7s 6d; well-grown steers, £4 13s; heifers, £3. Store sheep sold well. Exceptional, forward, largeframed wethers set a record price level of 29s Id; best five-year breeding ewes, in lamb to Southdown rams, 27s Gd; poorly mouthed sorts, 163 to 20s. The market for lambs was rather erratic. Forward wool Eomney wethers made 19s; medium quality, 16s; backward, lis. Fat sheep sold well, prime heavy ewes making to 27s 9d, an increase of 2s a head. OWHATA DISPERSAL SALE [from our own correspondent] WHANGAREI, Thursday The New Zealand Loan - and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, held a clearing sale on the property of the late Mr. R. P. McKenzie, of Owhata, Herekino, in conjunction with the North Auckland Farmers' Cooperative, Limited. The attendance was good - and bidding spirited from the commencement. Sheep: Full-mouth ewes, running with Romney rams, to 2Gs; two-tooth ditto, to 30s 2d; four-tooth ditto, 31s Sd; six-tooth difto, 321 4d; store wethers, six-tooth, 22s 3d; wether lambs, 13s Sd; ewe lambs, 20s 2d; Romney rams, mixed ages, one to four guineas. Cattle: Hereford breeding cows running with Hereford bulls, £5 15s to £7 10s; two and a-half-year Hereford heifers running with Hereford bulls, £7; empty 18-months Hereford heifers, £1 us; 18-months Hereford steers, £5 lis; Hereford steer calves, £3; Polled Angus steer calves, £3 lGs; Hereford heifer calves, £2 to £2 4s; Hereford bulls, rising three-year-old, 11 to 12 guineas; aged bulls, 6Va to 9 guineas. Horses j Hacks, £2 2s- 6d i to £7 10s. MANGAWHARE PRICES RISE [BY TELEGRAPH —OWN DARGAVILLE, Thursday A small yarding of stock "at .the Mangawhare cattle sale brought prices in advance of recent quotations. There was a good bench of buyers and the chief demand was for boner and beef cattle. The North Auckland Farmers' Co-operative, Limited, reports the following prices.—Dairy cows, close to profit, £5 10s to £6 12s 6d; late calvers, £4 2s 6d to £4 15s; dairy heifers. £4 5s to £5 7s Gd; late calvers, £3 15s to £4 ss; prime heavy cows, £5 17s to £6 2s; heavy cows, £5 5s to £5 10s; lighter sorts, £3 15s to £4 3s; heavy boners, £S to £3 12s fid; lighter boners, £2 10s to £2 16s; other boners, 30s to £2; good Jersey heifer calves, 35s to £2 3s; smaller sorts, 15s to 255; two year Shorthorn heifers, empty, £3 10s 6d to £3 ISs.