COUNTRY STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23094, 20 July 1938, Page 9

COUNTRY STOCK SALES

FRANKTON QUOTATIONS HEAVY YARDING OF SHEEP FAT PIGS IN KEEN DEMAND [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Tuesday An exceptionally heavy yarding of all classes of fat sheep came forward at the Frankton stock sales to-day, the entry comprising a large proportion of unfinished mutton. Heavy prime fat wethers remained firm, and in some cases prime quality sheep showed improvement. Unfinished wethers continued to be neglected. Fat ewes remained on a par with last sale, while fat hoggets, which were yarded in larger numbers, showed an improvement. Store sheep were again dull of sale. The top price pen of wethers 31s I'd, being sold on account of ilr. A. Porter, Ic Kowliai. Ox beef was penned in average numbers. Competition was steady, with values remaining on a par with last week's rates. A full entry of cow and heifer beef came forward, with only a small proportion of finished cattle. Competition was firm, values showing slight improvement. A full offering of vealers met with a ready sale, while a smaller yardiug of boner cows realised full market rates. There was a light yarding of all classes of fat pigs. Competition was keen for baconers and porkers, with values fully up to last week's quotations, while light and unfinished porkers showed a slight rise on recent values. A large yarding of store and weaner pigs met with a keen demand from a good bench of buyers. An extra* good yarding-of breeding sows was not keenly sought, and values for this class were easier. The auctioneers quote:— Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited.—Sheep: Heavy prime wethers, 30s to 31s !)d; fat wethers. '27s 3d to 2!>s 3d; light, 25s Od to 2(Js Od; unfinished wethers, '2ls 0d to 2ls; young fat ewes, 20s (id to 22s Od; fat ewes, 17s Od to 20s; killablc ewes, lis to -Jos Od; prime heavy woolly hoggets, 22s (id to 28s; fat woolly hoggets, 18s (id to 225; heavy shorn hoggets, JUs to 22s Od; fat shorn hoggets, 16s-Od to lSs 3d; store hoggets, os to 13s (id. Cattle: Heavy prime steers, to £l4 ss; lighter, .Ci> 10s to £lO 1.0s; heavy and second quality cows, £0 10s to £7 10s; fat Jersey cows, £4 15s to to 10s; lighter, £3 15s to £4 10s; heavy vealers, £4 Is to £4 15s; lighter, £2 15s to £3 ss; medium boner cows, £3 8s to £4 Is; ! lighter, £2 10s to £3 ss; two-year empty Jersey heifers, £3 10s to £3 17s; two-year i Shorthorn and Shorthorn-cross heifers. £3 7s to £3 10s; two-year Friesian heifers, to £4; yearling Jersey and Jersey-cross heifers, £3 8s to £3 13s; smaller, 37s to £2 Os; yearling Friesian heifers, to £3 us; yearling Shorthorn-cross heifers. £3 to £3 os. Pi£s: Heavy choppers, £2 19s to £3 10s; light, 30s to £2; light baconers, £3 7s to £3 Us; heavy porkers, £2 17s to £2 l!»s; medium, £2 10s to £2 15s; light, £2 3s to £2 8s; unfinished, 3(is to £2; good large stores, 35s to £2; smaller, 30s to 34s Od; best slips. 25s to 28s Od; smaller, 18s Oil to 23s Od; best weaners, lis to 17s Od; others, Us Od to 12s; Tarn worth sows, to farrow, £4 10s to £5; backward and lower-conditioned, £3 to £4; Berkshire-Devon cross sows, to farrow, £3 10s to £4 15s.

Dalgetv and Company, Limited. —Sheep Prime heavy wethers, 30s t»d to 335; medium '27s (id to 30s; lighter sorts, 22s to 20s; prime hetvvy ewes, 20s to 225; medium, 17s (id to 19s t»dr unfinished, 13s to 10s; prime fat hoggets, 22s to 24s 6d; medium. 18s Cd to 21s 3d; good store hoggets, 14s (id to 17s i>d; others, 10s to 14s. Cattle: Prime heavy Shorthorn bullocks. £ll to £J2 12s; good quality Shorthorn bullocks, £lO to £11: lighter, £8 to £9 10s; good quality Hereford heifers, £8 10s to £9 15s; lighter, £7 10s to £8 15s; ordinary fat Jersey cows, £4 los to £5 10s; lighter, £3 158 to £4; heavy boners, £4 to £5 10s; lighter, £2 15s to £3 10s; potters, 30s to £'2 ss. Pigs: Medium baconers, £3 Os to £3 Us; light, £3 to £3 (is; heavy porkers, £2 15s to £3; medium, £2 8s to £2 15s: light, £2 to £2 8s; large store pigs, 32s to 38s; medium, 20s to 325; small, 20s to 20s; best slips, 22s to 265; medium, 18s to. 225; best weaners, 20s to 235; medium, 10s to 20s; small, 12s to 10s. G. W. Verroe and Company, Limited - Sheep: Draft of 80 fat wethers, ex Ngahiwi Estate. 30s to 325; heavy prime wethers, to 325; prime lighter weights, 28s .to OOs; medium-weights, 20s to 27s Gd: light, 24s to 25s fid; unfinished, 20s to 23s 6(1; heavy prime ewes, 18s to 21s Gd; well-finished medium-weights, 10s to 17s 9d; others, to I 15s; killable ewes, to 12s Gd; prime fat I hoggets, 25s to 275; well-finished# lignterI weights, 22s to 24s Gd; light-weights, io I 21s; good store hoggets, 15s to 17s Sd; smaller, to 12s 6d; .well-grown ewe hoggets. 24s to 20s Gd; smaller, 20s to 235; inferior. 14s to 17s. Cattle: Heavy prime runners, to £0 17s Od; lighter, to £4 10s; heavy vealers. £3 to £3 15s; medium-weights, £2 10s to £-2 18s; small calves, 15s to 355; two heavy prime bullocks, ex Mr. T. M. Hall, of Hamilton. averaged £ls ss; light-weight cattle ex Mr. J. Srott, of Xewstead, to £11; heavy prime cows, ex Mr. E. G. Jones, of Melville, to £ll 7s Gd; draft of prime Polled Angus rows, ex Messrs. Van Houtte and Noliettv of Te Uku, to £lO 19s; prime liffht-weight Polled Angus heifers, ex the same vendors, sold at an average of £9 lis 4d; draft of prime cows and heifers, ex Mr. T. M. Han, of Hamilton. £9 3s Id; heavy prune cows. £lO to £ll 7s (id: prime medium-weights, £)» to £!> 15s; well-finished lighter-weights, £8 to £8 17s fid; others, to £7 10s; prime fat Polled Angus heifers, £9 to £9 17s (id; lighter prime, £8 to £8 15s; light-weiKhts. to £7 10s; heavy fat Jersey cows, £(• 1-js to £7 12s Od; medium-weights. £5 10s to £(> 10s; lightr to £5 ss; good quality empty two-vear Jersey heifers. £3 10s to £4 Is: others, to £3 ss; small yearling J"sey heifers, to £3 3s; forward conditioned Shorthorn and Friesian cows, to £5; others, to £1 ss; heavy boners, £3 15s to £4l 128 Od; medium-weights, £3 to £3 10s; light, up to 15s. Pies: Medium-weight baconers. Ss to £3 12s: light, £3 4s to £3 7»; heavy porkers, £2 ISs to £3 3s; niedium-weisrhts, i<> io g to £2 10s; light, £2 5s to £2 10s; small, £2 to £2 3s; good stores, 35s to 38s; smaller, 30s to 345; good slips. 2->s to 295; others 20s to 245; best weaners, 18s to 20s: others, 14s to 17s; maiden Tamworth siws. £5 to £5 12s Od; others, £4 10s to £4 19s. "Wright Stephenson and Company, Limited. —Sheep: Prime heavy wethers, to 3a hd; prime wethers. 27s to 30s; medium quality; °ss to °6s; lighter, 225; unfinished, down to'2os; heavv fat ewes. 18s to 20s; unfinished, 12s to 14s Gd. Cattle: Prime fat cows, up to £9; medium-weights, £5 15s to £7 10s. according to condition.

TFie New Zealand 'Loan and Mercantile Acrcnrv Company. Limited. —Cattle: t at bul-locks.-£lO 15s to £ll ICs; medium, £0 IDs to £lO 10s; unfinished, £S I,os to £i> "2s; heavy fat Shorthorn cows and heifers, £S ISs to £9 l'2s; fat Shorthorn cows and heifers, £7 10s to £S l'2s Gd; medium, £0 15s to £7 ss; unfinished cows, £5 10s to £0 r>s: heavy store cows, £4 15s to £5 ss; stores. £3 to £-1 Vis Gd; boners, £1 10s to £'2 10s; best runners, £G Gs to £7 10s; vealers, £t 10s to £- ss. Sheep: Prime fat wethers, ,V2s (id to 3-1 s; fat tfethers, 30s Gd to 31s Od; light and unfinished, '2Bs to '29s (id; heavy fat ewes. 10s (id to 21s; medium. 17s (id to Ills; light and unfinished, 14s to 15s (>u; prime fat lambs, -25s to '2os; heavy fat lambs. "Is to '-Ms Oil; medium, '2ls to '23s; best store lambs IGs fid to ISS; others, 14s to 15s. rips: Lifrht baconers, £3 3s to £3 7s; heavy porkers. £-2 10s to £'2 Ids; medium £'2 to £'2 Os; light and unfinished. 35s to 38s; mrdium-wcight choppers, £'2 to £-2 15s. Best stores -27s to 33s (id: medium. o'2s Gd to f 2Gs; small. 10s «d to -21s; best weaners, V2s to 14s- others. Os to 10s (id; Tamworth sows to farrow, £3 to £4 10s; Tamworth sows with litters, up to £3 10s; Large White sows to farrow, £0 to £3 ss. PAKOTAI QUOTATIONS The North Auckland Farmers' Co-operative. Limited, repots a fair yarding at Pakotai. The offering consisted mainly of dairy stock, for which competition was fairly brisk. dairy heifers made from £G 10s to £7 ss; medium, £5 15s to £0 7s Gd; small and backward, £4 10s to £5 128 Gd; good dairy cows, close tn profit £» 15s to ,f:7 I'2s Od; medium dairy cows. £5 10s to £0 10s; backward and inferior cows, £4 10s to £5 7s Gd; boner cows, £3 10s to £4; yearling steers. £3 10s: honor bulls, inferior, £4 ss. No heavy out's were yarded.

DAIRY HEIFER VALUES The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports a sale of dairy heifers on behalf of Mr. R. Troughton. of Turanga-o-Moana, before a large attendance of buyers. The majority of tho heifers came forward in good condition and competition throughout was brisk values generally showing an improvement on recent quotations. Jersey springing heifers, £0 10s to £lO 15s: Jersey heifers, August calvers, £S 5s to £!> ss; Jersey heifers, later calvers, £7 10s to .£8; Jersey heifers, in milk, best, £9 to £lO ss; others. £8 to £8 15s; grey mare, eight years, stinted, £'2s; black mare, four years £43 10s; brown colt foal, £lB 10s. KARAKA DISPERSAL The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports a successful clearing sale on account of Mr. A. C. Lupton, of Kuraka, when his breeding sow*s, purebred Shorthorn yearlings and draught horses sold before a large attendance. Bidding was keen for the large draught horses. Berkshire and Tamworth pedigree boars-made lgn to 4V a gns; cows with litters, !2gns to 4/4gns; sows to farrow, l l / a gns to 4Vigns; 10 purebred yearling Shorthorn heifers, to ("igns; -JO purebred yearlinK Shorthorn bulls. ov 3 gns to sgns; two-year-old purebred Shorthorn bulls, sgns to lOgns; draught mare. £45; four foals, £l4 to £'27; rising two and three-year-old farm geldings, £'2l to £34; aged farm gelding and mare, £l2O and £3l; mare in goal, £24.