VALUES IN WAIKATO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23101, 28 July 1938, Page 9

VALUES IN WAIKATO

SEVERE CONDITIONS SHORTAGE OF FEED DEMAND FOR DAIRY CATTLE Severe climatic conditions are still being experienced in the Waikato and feed is short. With the clearing sale season practically finished, business at most Waikato saleyards is quiet. Yardings of beef at most centres are small and while fairly large entries of fat sheep ;ire coming forward, the quality generally is below the usual standard for this time of the year md only prime sheep are in demand. Small offerings of store sheep are traded only afc low prices. Dairy cattle are still being penned in. fair numbers and the demand at most yards has shown an improvement during the past week. For the previous two or three weeks the market for this class was distinctly easier, but since the completion of tho majority of the clearing sales, farmers have turned their attention to heifers. Where good quality, well-grown beasts elose to profit are yarded, the inquiry is strong. Small, poor conditioned and backward cattle have shown little improvement. As farmers are now receiving more milk, the inquiry for store pigs has sharpened and values for all classes have improved considerably. Conditions in the various sections are:— BEEF Yardines of ox and pood quality row and heifer beef are at present only just sufficient for local demands. At both the Te Awamutu and Morrinsville sales, several consignments of well-finished cattle were penned and prices realised were slightly in advance of Central Yard rales. At most yards the quality coming forward is better, with fewer unfinished cattle offering, and it is feit that, with a. percentage of the surplus cleared, a rise in prices may be expected within the next few weeks. At (he Franklon sale on Tuesday a short supply of ox beef was in keen request and sold at values fully on a par and in some cases at improved rates. Some outstanding entries of cows and heifers were penned and here again prices tended to firm. Extra choice ox was quoted up to 30s per 1001b; prime ox, :50s to 3ls; secondary and plain, 2os to 275; extra choice young cow and heifer beef, 30s to 335; prime cows, 26s to 295.. MUTTON The fat sheep market does not yet show any signs of improvement. At the Central Yards on Tuesday there was again a fairly heavy entry which included a large proportion of light and unfinished sheep. While the top priced pen this week did not reach the previous Tuesday's level, the quality did not warrant the price. Prime sheep sold practic-.. ally on a par, while unfinished sorts were again a drug on the market. At the corresponding sale last year extra prime wethers made £2 Is (id, and at the same sale fat ewes reached 3:ts a head: It must be remembered, however, that this winter skins are worth about 7s (id less than last year and this factor no doubt accounts partly for the lower prices. Prime f;<t wether? are worth 2*s fid to 31s fid: medium, 25s fid to 27s 9d: light. 22s 6d to 21d: unfinished, 18s <id to 21s; prime heavy fat owe?, 19s to *J-s; fat ewes, 16s to 18s /id; unfinished, Ss 6d to 12s. PIGS Supplies of fat pizs are still strictly limited. Competition from both butchers and buttermilk feeders is keen and the buoyancy which has characterised the market during i Ihe last month shows no sisrn of abatinsr. All prime pies arc eagerly sought by butchers while large-framed unfinished pigs are just as readilv disposed of to fattcners. A good number of dairy farmers are also tn the market for smaller stores and heryr- again prices have advanced. PUTARURU YARDING

The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports a good yarding of rattle, including a large entry of dairy, cattle, at Putaruru. For a short yarding or beef competition was keen and prices in advance of recent rates. The advertised cntrv of Polled Angus steers also came forward in pood order and elicited good competition. Good quality dairy heifers also sold v.ell at late rates, while a large entry of dairv rows maintained recent Pigs: A full yarding of all classes, consisting mostly of porkers, stores and weaners. Competition" was keen, values heing on a par with recent quotations. Cattle: Fat Jersey cotvs, £7; fat Jersev heifers. £<> 10s to £7 ss; fat cows, £.-> to £5 15s; killable heifers, £4 10s to ft 17s <Sd: heavy boner rows. £3 10s to £4 I Us; light, 30s to £2 10s; Polled Angus cows, running with Polled Angus hull. £4 17s; rising three-year Polled 'Angus steers, £3 1 '-!s; two-year Polled Anjjas steers, £5 3s; mixed colour steers, £4 .t« to £4 15s; small mixed-sex Polled Angus calves, £2 6s. Dairv rattle: Choice dairy heifers, close to profit, a-10 to £ll 10s; Jersey and Jersey- • cross heifers, close to profit. £6 t>s to £6 ids; smaller good quality heifers, £6 -Is to £7 lOs; late and backward. £-"> to £6; sound Jersev rows, rlose to profit, £(> to £P: other rows,' £-1 to> C t 10?. Pigs: Butter-milk pigs and heavy porkers..'£2 10s to £\l; medium porkers. £2 10s <0 £2 14s: light. £2 3s to A - 2 7s; unfinished, "•'is to £2 is; large « stores. 33s to 3Gs; medium. to 31s; • slips. 20s to 25s (id; good weaners, los to 17s; others, 10s to 13s. TE KAUWHATA ENTRY At the Te Kauwhata sale held by G-. W. Vercoe and Company, Limited, an average varding of all classes of cattle came forward. The' quality of the dairy rattle yarded was poor and prices for these wewv not high, while fat and boner rows sold unper spirited compctition at advanced rates. Fair quality Shorthorn cows <early ralvers) made £7 to £7 1 ."is: more backward, to £t> 10s; fair quality Jersev rows <early calvers). to £S; backward arid inferior, to £(J 10s; small in-calf Jersey heiters, £5 10s to £6 l'Js fid: medium-weight fat Jersev cows. £6 10s to £7 10s; light, £5 to £H ."is; heavy boners, £4 to £4 15s; medium weights, C 3 5s to £3 IPs; light, up to £3; potter hulls, to £6 10s. Pigs: A small mtrv of fat •pi?? met with a ready sale at full'late rates. Medium-weight baconers sold from £3 10s to £3 1.55; light, £3 5s to £3 Os; heavy porkers, £2 >lßs to £3. 4s; medium weights, £2 10s to £2 17s; light, t-2 2s to £2 Os. The demand for a larga entry of store pigs was keen, and prices showed an improvement. Good stores sold from to 3Ss; smaller, 2Ss to 31s; good slips, 25s to '27s; smaller, ISs to 245; good weaners. to 'JOs; others, up to 18s; sows, in pig, to £5. OFFERING AT KOPU [BY TKLF.GRATH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] THAMES, Wednesday

J)alijet,v and Company, Limited., reports having held its usual fortnightly r lie at Kopu. A niediuiu yarding of beef a/id store cattle came forward. Pigs were yarded in small numbers, but met with a ready sale. Fat cows made £(3 10s to tvi 17s tiri; other fat cons. .L.'i to £<J -Ji Gd; killable cows. lus to £-1 l.jS; store cows, £•_' to £3; cull and boner cows. £1 5s to £1 15s; empty Jersey heifers. £2 15s to £3; potter bulls. £3 16s to £4 10s; springing heifers, £7 to £8; springing cows. £6 12s <>d to £7 12s 6d; caheil heifers. £2 15s; backward springers, £5 2s 6d tc; £6 ss; three-quarter cowji. £3 2s 6d to £i 10s. Store pins bipught £1 4s to £1 7s; slips. 15s 6d to £l. HAMILTON EAST ENTRY The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports a medium yarding of dairy cows and heifers at Hamilton East. The entry included several pens of extra choice quality heifers, close to profit, and these met with steady competition, selling up to £ll los, which nrice was paid for a pen of choice animals from Mr. C. Smith, of Tc Kowhai. Backward heifers were not so keenly sought after, but cows close to profit were in good demand. Jersey heifers, close to profit, £ll to ill 15s; others, £t) to £lO ss; later, calvers, £7 5s to £S; Jersey cows, £8 10s to £lO 15s.

WAIHOU HORSE FAIR The Farmers" Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports having held a horse sale at "Waihou, when a fair entry came forward. Competition was only fair, and in some cases failed to reach vendors' reserves. A inare and foal brousht £43; unbroken two-year-old filly, £lO 10s; five-year-old bay mare, all work, il'J; aged farm horses, £22 to £*■_>(!. FAIR YARDING AT FRANKTON There was a fair yarding at the Frankton sale held by Wright, Stephenson and Company, Limited. I'rinifl wethers sold to 31s tid. Medium sorts, Is to '-'(is Od. A good entry of store sheep was forward. A total of ;>'JO four and five-year-old ewes brought 'J4s 'id; small two-tooth ewes, l.'is ,'!d; wether hoggets, 10s Sid to 1 os; culls, down to ss. ENTRY AT OPOTJKI Dalgety and Company, Limited, reports a successful dairy sale at Opotiki. An entry of 111 dairy cows and heifers comprising four separate herds. A high aver "'" price was maintained throughout the sale and likely-looking forward cows sold at rates comparable th "o'ther Rood' forward KiS 2SVS ffi'lffte. «'«jJ f 7 10s to £0 • r 's; October XOs;-cows with calves at t g the[ g ,£s/t» r i HP to Six weeks agq, £* 16s; others. . £4 12s (3d. -