STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22984, 11 March 1938, Page 5

STOCK SALES

WESTFIELD QUOTATIONS

HEIFERS UP TO £l2 DEMAND VERY FIRM Values for good quality dairy cattle appreciated under a keen demand at the Westfield weekly stock sale yesterday. The yardings in both dairy and store sections were slightly above, average and buyers showed interest in practically all lines. Set-eral fine quality cows and heifers were sold at good prices the best realisation being £l2 for a fine type of Jersey heifer. Other breeds sold readily, the' drying-off which is prevalent in most herds impelling dairymen to seek stock coining into • profit. In the store section boner and potter animals' wore in demand and the best finished potter bulls sold lip to £9 17s Gd. The quotations were: — Store Cattle. —Young cows, good condition, to £7 10s; less condition, to £5; others, to £2 17s fid; boner and aired cows, to £4 15s; potter bulls, heavy-weights, to £U 17s (id; medium weights, to £7 ss; , lighter weights, to £5 ss; meaty killable cows, to £7; yearling Jersey heifers, good quality, to £4 455; others, to £2 15s; breeding bulls, to £0 10s. Dairy Cattle. —Jersey cows, good quality springers, to £9 17s Od; more backward, to £7 ss; others, to £5 7s Od; Jersey heifers, choice quality springers, to_ £l2; more backward, to £8; others, to £(> 10s; Jersey-cross cows and heifers, good springers, to £9; more backward, to £7; others, to £5; Shorthorn cows and heifers, good quality springers, to £9 10s; more backward, to £7 ss; others, to £5 ss; llolstein cows and heifers, good springers, to £!); more hackward, to £7; .others, to £5; other cows, to riJO SS. PUKEKOHE MARKET [i'HOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT J j PUKEKOHE, Thursday j A large yarding of cattle sold freely ai, j late ratej at the weekly stock sale at Pukekohc to-day, conducted by the New Zealand | Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Limited. A lull yarding of pigs was received, | every pen being filled. Baconers were very keenly sought, and realised excellent prices. I'orkers soid at late rates, but values for store pigs showed an easing tendency. Best dairy heifers brought £9 to £ll 10s; medium, £7 10s to £8 15s; smaller, £6 to £7 6s; ) backward, £5 to £5 15s; dairy cows, £7 to j £11; service bulls, £3 to £5 7s Od; heavy 1 prime fat cows, £8 to £9 7s Od; medium, £0 I 10s to £7 10s; light, £5 10s to £0 ss; other j Killablo cows, £4 ILOs to £!i ss; heavy boner | cows, £3 15s to £4 7s 6d; lighter, £2 to | £3 12s; good Shorthorn store cows, £4 10s to £5 10s; other Shorthorn store cows, £3 15s I to £4 7s Od; fresh-conditioned young Jersey cows, £3 to £1 ss; Jersey wearier heifers, £1 15s to £2 7s Od; potter .brills, £4 10s to £l2 | 2s Od. I'igs: Choppers made £2 10s to £3 | 15s; heavy baconers, £4 to £1 6s; medium, j £3 12s to £3 17s; light, £3 2s to £3 9s; i heavy porkers, £2 lis to £2 lSs; medium, i £2 8s to £2 12s; light, £2 to £2 Gs; slips, j i 15s to £1 3s; good weaners, 12s to 14s; others, 5s to lis; sows with litters, £2 los I to £5; sows due to farrow, £2 to £3 ISS. | MATAMATA YARDING A good yarding of cattle came forward at i the Matamata sale held by the Farmers' Cooperative Auctioneering Company, Limited, j Beef: A small offering comprised mostly j medium fat cows, for which competition was i firm, and late rates were fully maintained. A i good yarding of boner cows met with a .ready sale, values being in advance of schedule rates, while competition for potter bulls wasparticularly keen, with values in excess * of recent realisations. Sheep: A smaller offering J of sheep. Competition was firm for all, classes. | and practically a total clearance resulted- at I satisfactory rates. Piers: There was a full i yarding of fat pigs and a mednun entry of ; store and weaners' came . forward. Competi-; i tion for baconers was very spirited throughout, and prices' realised were fully.up to late; ■ Frankton rates. Porkers also- .'were keenly ' sought after and store and weaner pigs were slightly dull of sale. Marked calves: The advertised entry of 70 marked calves caine for- i ward. Competition for quality calves showing condition enlisted good inquiry from both , local and outside buyers, while poorer-condi- | tioned calves, although not so keenly sought j after, sold fully up to value. Ton price of £5: was obtained by Mr. M. A. Ellis, of Hiku-1 taia for a pen of five well-grown Jersey i calves. Quotations were:—Beef: Medium fat; cows, £7 to £8 2s; lighter. £6 to £6 16s: ! fat Jersey cows and heifers, £6 to £7 Is; lighter, £1 10s to £5 15s; heavy boners. I £4 to £4 18s; lighter, £2'lss to £3l7s (id: . heavy potter bulls, £8 to £10; medium £6; to £7 15s; lighter. £4 to £8 12s (id; good coloured store cows, £4 10s to £5 15s. Sheep: Medium fat lambs, 22s Od to 23s 3d; heavv prime woolly ewes, to 275; fat ewes, 15s 3d to 16s 3d; good storo lambs, 17s Id to 17s "lOd; others, 13s 3d to 14s lOd; sound niouth ewes, to 14s 9d; Southdown rams, 2%gns to 4gns. Pigs: Choppers, £3 to £3 18s; prime top-weight baconers. £4 to £4 ss; heavy*: baconers £3 15s to £3 18s; medium, £3 10s ! to £3 l is; light. £3 4s to £3 8s; buttermilk nies and heavy porkers, £2 15s to £3 : 3s; medium porkers, £2 6s to £2 10s; light. 1 £1 18s t;o £2 2s; unfinished, 32s to 30s; large stores, 24s to 27s 6d; medium, 20s to f 235; slips. 15s to 18s; weaners, os to lis 6d: i boars. Berkshire, £3 tts to £4. Marked ! calves: Best Jersey calves, £4 2s 6d to £5; | others £3 to £4; Ayrshire* to £4: Short' horn-cross, to £3 lOs.

LARGE ENTRY AT TE KAUWHATA An exceptionally large yarding of cattle came forward at the fortnightly sale held at Te Kauwhata b,y G. W. Vercoe and Company. The demand for all classes waa keen throughout, and , prices remained very firm at late rates. Heavy fat cows sold from £S to £t> 15s; medium weights. £(> 15s to £7 12s (id; light, to £0 10s; heavy fat Jersey cows. £0 to £0 15s; lighter, to £5 Ids; forward conditioned Polled Angus cows, £7 to £7 His; others, to £6 10s; forward-con-ditioned Hereford cows, £0 17s to £7 I lis; others, •to £0 ss; forward-conditioned Shorthorn and Friesian cows, £5 5s to £0 os; others, £1 15s; aged Polled Angus cows and calves, £0 us; Jersey-cross cows with calves, to £4 15s; well-grown 18-months-old Shorthorn steers, £0 to £0 10s; others. £5 10s to £5 159-, 2%-year-old mixed coloured steers, £7 lOs to £8; others, to £7 ss; storeconditioned 2 1 ,4-year-old Polled Angus steers, to £S 10s; small mixed-coloured 18-months-old steers, £4 to £4 17s (id; small 18-months-old Hereford heifers, £3 10s; Jersey-cross heifer calves, £2 10s to £8 ss; heavy bftners, £3 10s to £4 10s; others. £2 to £3- ss; potter bulls, heavy, £7 to £o' 10s: others, to £(i 10s; is-months in-calf Jersey heifers, £5 15s to £0 108; Jersey and Jerseycross cows, early calvers, to £7 10s. Pigs; A large yarding of fat and store pigs met with a ready sale at latest ruling quotations. Heavy prime baconcrs sold from £4 to £4 ss; heavy, £3 15s to £3 10s; medium weights, £3 !)s to £3 14s; light,- £3 2s to £3 Ss; heavy porkers, £2 ,15s to £3; 'medium weights, £2 8s to £2 14s; light," £2 2s to £2 7s; unfinished, 35s to 395; choppers, to £4 10s; large • stores, 28s to 31s; others, 25s to 275; best slips, 20s to 245; others, 15s to 10s; best weaners, 10s to 14s; others, (is to Os; sows in pig. to £3 10s. KAMO CATTLE FAIRS ["from our own correspondent] WHANGAREI, Thursday The North Auckland Farmers' Co-operative Company, Limited, report holding their autumn cattle fair at. Kanio, when more than the advertised number of cattle came forward, and although competition was not over brisk in some lines, practically everything changed hands. There was a sprinkling of southern buyers and a number of the cattle were sold to go south. Fat bullocks, lightweight, made from £9 15s to £0 19s; prime fat cows. £7 to £7 16s; medium, £6 10s to £0 15s; light, £5 5s to £0 2s (3d; four-year-okl bullocks, £9 to £9 Ss; three and a-half-year-old, £7 19s to £8 8s; two and a:half-ycar-old, £6 to £0 12s (id; 18-month Shorthorn steers, £4 10s to £5 (is; weancr Black Poll steers, £4 lis; Hereford, £3 18s to £4 (is; Shorthorn, £2 15s to £3 4s; cows and calves, £4 10s to £0 2s; boner cows, heavy, £3 10s to £4 4s; medium, £3 to £3 i)s; light, £1 His to £2 17s (id; boner bulls, heavy, 8 to £lO 12s; medium, £0 to £7 17s (id; light, £3 10s to £5 15s; best dairy ; cows, £0 15s to £7 10s; medium, £5 lOS to £0 ss; backward and inferior sorts, £4 5s to £5 2s (id.

Dalgcty and Company, Limited, report holding an autumn cattle fair at Kanio, when there was an extra large yarding and practically everything changed hands at late rates. Fat bullocks, medium, made from £}> os to .(.'D 17s Od; forward condition 3Vi-year steers, .(.'!( to ,CJ) 3s j '-'Vi-year steers, forward, .(.'(> 18s to £7 2s (id; two-year Shorthorn steers, including a line of 50, £0 2s (id to £0 10s; two-year Hereford steers, £(l l()s to £0 17s fid; better conditioned, £7 (is to ,C 7 15s; 18 month Jersey, steers, £4 17s; yearling Jersey steers, £-1; yearling Shorthorn steers, £4 7s to £-1 13k; boner cows, heavy, £4 5s to £1 los; medium, £3 to £3 'l.ss; light. £2 to £2 lis; boner bulls, heavy, £<} K)s to £7 ss; medium, £1 10s to £5 Ms; light. £3 to £l.

CLEVEDON SHEEP FAIR* [FROM OUR OWN COKKKSI'ONI>KNT] CLEVEDON, Thursday Alfred Buckland and Sons, Limited, reports holding its second sheep fair at Clevedon. Sheep were penned in more than tho advertised numbers and sold at slightly lower values than at recent sales. Prices realised were:—Forward store wethers, fourtooth to 275; two-tooth wethers, 22s (id to 2ls (Id; five-year ewes 21s (id to 27s (Id; others, 20s .to 22s Od; full-mouth ewes. Ids to ISs fid: aged, 10s to 13s; old and inferior. Os to Ss (id; good store lambs 15s to 17s (id: medium, 12s fid to 1-ls; small, 8s to lis; fat lambs, to 22s Od; two-tooth Southdown ranr-t, 2gns to 4gns; two-tooth Romnoy rams, 2iagns to 3VsKns; others, 1 Vagus to 2gns: