STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23060, 10 June 1938, Page 7

STOCK SALES

WESTFIELD QUOTATIONS VALUES SLIGHTLY FIRMER DEMAND WELL MAINTAINED Values for dairy and store cattle showed a firming tendency at the Westfield weekly stock sale yesterday. The yardings in both sections were not as large as usual, but there was some fine quality stock offering. Good springing cows and heifers sold up to £l3 and other good sorts not so close to profit realised over £lO. The demand f<?r the better-class lines waa keen and bidding brisk. In the store section prices also firmed over last week's rates and young cows realised up to £6 10s. A line ot 80 store cows from Taneatua found a ready market and values ranged from £2 10s to £6 10s. Heavy potter bulls were somewhat scarce and mediumweights made up to £7 ss. The quotations were:—

Store Cattle.—Young. cows, good condition, to £0 10s; less condition, to £4 ss; others, to £2 17s Od; boner and aged cows, to £4 7s (id; potter bulls, medium-weights, to £7 ss; lighter-weights, to £5 30s; yearling Jersey hoifers, good quality, to £4 15s; others, to £3; meaty tollable cows, to £G 30s; breeding bulls, to £0 15s Dairy Cattle.—Jersey cows, good quality springers, to £l2 15s; more backward, to £8 15s; others, to £5 15s; Jersey heifers, good springers, to £l3; more backward, to £'■); others, to £5 15s; Jersey-cross cows and heifers, £l3; moro backward, to £0 ss; others, to £5 15s; Shorthorn cows and heifers, good springers, to £l3; more backward, to £9; others, to £5 10s; Friesian cows and heifers, good forward springers, to £l2 15s; j more backward, to £8 17s 6d; others, to £5 128 6d; other cows, to £5 15s.

PUKEKOHE VALUES FIRM [fhom our own correspondent] PUKEKOHE. Thursday An extra large yarding of dairy caitle was received at the weekly stock sale at Pukekohe conducted by Alfred Buckland and Sons. Limited. All quality sorts, close to profit, sold to an exceptionally good demand, prices rising to £l7. The entry of beef, boner, and store cattle was also heavy, and sold to a good demand at ruling rates, while a large yarding of all classes of pigs found a ready market at good prices. Best dairy cows, close to profit, realised £l3 to £l7; good, £ll to £l4; medium, £9 to £lO 10s; good but backward, £7 to £9 10s; Inferior, £2 to £3 10s; choice dairy heifers, close to profit, £l2 to £l4; good, £lO to £ll 10s; quality dairy heifers, slightly backward, £7 10s to £8 10s; small and backward dairy heifers, £4 to £5 10s; good cows, in milk. £9 10s to £l3; heavy prime fat cows, £8 10s to £9 12s 6d; medium. £7 5s to £8 ss; lighter, £5 10s to £7; other killable cows, £4 to £5: heavy prime fat heifers, £7 to £8 10s; lighter, £5 to £6 15s; fat Jersey heifers. £5 t# £0 ss; heavy boner cows, £3 178 6d to £4 10s; lighter. £2 7s Gd to £3 10s; inferior, 15s to £1 10s; cows and calves, £4 15s to £8 10s; good young store cows, £3 12s 6d to £4 10s; light fat steers £9 10s; the advertised 2 to 2%-year Shorthorn-cross steers from Mr. TV. Schlaepfer, £6 12s to £7 lGs; forward 2Y 2 -year Red Poll steers, £8 4s; yearling Shorthorn steers, £3 10s to £4 ss; Jersey yearling heifers, £3 10s to £4 3s; light potter bulls, £4' 5s to £5 28 6d. In the pig section, choppers made £1 10s to £4 6s; heavy prime baconers, £4 to £4 ss; medium, £3 15s to £3 19s; light, £3 5s to £3 14s; heavy porkers, £2 19s to £3 4s; medium, £2 8s to £2 l(Js; light, £1 19s to £2 7s; small and unfinished, £1 8s to £.l 15s; stores. £1 Is to £1 7s; slips, los to £1; weaners. 103 to 18s; sows due to farrow, £1 15s to £2 10s; sow with litter of eight, £6 10s. The average price for baconers, dressed weight, was 6%d per lb., and for porkers 6V<d to 6%d.

DAIRY HEIFER VALUES The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports having held a sale of dairy heifers at Putaruru saleyards on account of Mr. E. R. Worth, when approximately 500 head of dairy cattle were submitted to a good bench of buyers. Competition for early calvers showing quality and condition was firm and values compared favourably with recent clearing sale realisations. Bidding for backward and later calvers, however, was not so keen. Best two-year Jersey heifers, £9 10s to £lO ss; other early calvers, £7 15s to £9; small and backward, £6 to £7 7s 6d; inferior. £4 15s to £5 10s; two-year Shorthorn-cross heifers. £9 to £9 10s; smaller and backward Shorthorn-cross heifers, £5 15s ! to £6 12s Od; two-year Friesian heifers. £8 10s to £8 15s; smaller Friesian heifers. £6 to £7 ss; Jersey heifers, in milk, £6 to £7; Jersey cows, in milk. £7 to £7 15s; springing Jersey cowb, £5 10s to £7 ss. PAPAKURA REALISATIONS The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports an exceptionally large yarding of all classes, particularly dairy stock, at Papakura. The whole yarding changed hands under the hammer. There was a large bench 'of buyers. Competition was keen in all departments, values being on a par with recent sales. Heavy fat cows and heifers, to £9 ss; good sorts, £6 10s to £8 ss; lighter, £5 to £6 ss; meaty cows, £3 to £4 355; boners, £1 to £3; dairy cows, right at profit, to £l4; good sorts, £lO to £l2 10s; others, £5 to £9; dairy heifers, £5 to £l3; weaner heifers, to £2 14s; forward steers, to £8 ss; young Shorthorn steers, £1 15s to £5 17s 6d; potter bulls, £3 12s Gd to £9.

KARAKA PEDIGREE RATES [from our own correspondent] PUKEKOHE, Thursday Alfred Buckland and Sons, Limited, reports having held a clearing sale in conjunction with the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Limited, at Karaka, of Mr. W. R. Hill's pedigree and grade milking Shorthorn herd. Ihere was a good attendance of buyers from the Waikato, Bay of Plenty, North Auckland, and surrounding districts. The cows came forward in good condition, and showed plenty of quality. Bidding was keen and the satisfactory average of 18 guineas was obtained for the pedigree cows, while the graders averaged £l2 7s. The pedigree cows ranged in price from 12% guineas to 34 guineas for the eight-vear-old cow White Socks 11., the purchaser being Mr. D. Stewart, of Mount Albert. The in-calf heifers made 5 guineas to 9 guineas, and the heifer calves 2 guineas to 5 guineas. The four herd bulls made from 11 guineas to 19/4 guineas for "Kohekohe .Karaka,' purchased by Mr. J. E. Gaskill, of Opotiki. Prices for the grade milking Shorthorn cows ranged from £9 10s to £lB 10s. TAMAHERE DISPOSAL G. W. Vercoe and Company, Limited, reports having held a clearing sale on account of Mr. E. J. Porter, Tamahere. The herd, which was a mixed one. came forward in fairly good condition and a very satisfactory sale resulted. Good quality Jersey cows, early • calvers, £lO 10s to £l2 ss; good qua lty later calvers, £0 10s to £lO ss; good quality crossbred cows, early calvers, £$ to £9 108. later calvers. £7 to £7 15s; backward and unsound cows, to £6 10s; sows with litters, to £7 lis; sows in pig, £3 los REPOROA OFFERING The Farmers" Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports having held a special sale of Polled Angus a '"j. rl t h calves at Reporoa on account of the strathmore Estate A small bench of interested buyers secured a large, proportion °* a i v »rv satisfactory prices. Polled Angus steer calves, £4 i y 2s P ; Polled Angus %re ordrrn« steer calves, £4 158; Hereiora sieer caWes. to £4 16s; Bed Polled steer calves, to £4; Polled Angus, heifer calves, £3 l-s «d to £4; smaller, £3 to £3 10s.

OPOTIKI WETHER FAIR [bt telegraph—own correspondent] OPOTIKI, Thursday Dalgety and Company, Limited, havinff held ft successful autumn * ether fair Oootiki A total of 2SOO sheep came forward, wethers predominating, and ioOO were sold at satisfactory prices. Good forward four and six-tooth wethors. to 26s 9d; h f } ». to °ss 2d; two-tooth wethers. 22s 6d> wnite faced mixed sex hoggets, lSs 7d; whlW-hewl wether hozsots, 16s t>d; other#, los 10 ios, black-faced hoggets,. mi * e f (h se «?' and six-year ewes, running with Southdown auu Eomney rams. £l.

TAUMARUNUI QUOTATIONS r BY telegraph —own correspondent] TAUMARUNUI. Thursday

There was a large attendance of buyers at the Taumarunui dairy stock sale. An entry of fully -100 dairy cows and heifers came forward, very satisfactory prices being obtained. Dairy cows, £4 to £lO 10s; Jersey heifers, £5 to £7 ss; Shorthorn heifers, £7 15s. Dalgety and Company, Limited, reports the full advertised yarding of dairy stock came forward and sold under keen competition. Buyers were present from Morrinsville, Matamata, Cambridge and Stratford. There was keen demand for good conditioned sound dairy cows close to profit, which Bold readily at good prices. Herd cows on account of Couttes Brothers. Te Koura, sold remarkably well, making to £lO and averaging £7 335. Two-year-old heifers ealving in July and August met with keen competition and made to £7 15s. Cows and heifers, backward and in low condition, were hard to quit, only a few pens being sold. Best Friesian cows, £9 10s to £10; July calvers, £S 10s to £9 15s; more backward, £7 to £8 ss; late and unsound, £4. <js to £0 10s; Jersey-cross cows, July and August calvers, £0 10s to £7 ss; late and ditioned, £4 10s to £« ss; goo<i J three-year-old Jersey heifers, £ 7 , i 0 others; £5 to £6 lOst year-old Jersey heifers, £5 isa small and inferior, £4r j \ f''-' v ' - vX'v