STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23121, 20 August 1938, Page 9

STOCK SALES

MOKRINSVILLE VALUES KEEN DEMAND FOR BEEF HEAVY DAIRY CATTLE ENTRY The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports nn average yarding of fat sheep, which sold at fully equal to late rates, at Morrinsville. The advertised entry of store wethers and store hoggets from Gisborne was penned in good order and condition, and offered before n full bench of buyers. A good clojir:im'c was effected. The advertised store wefhers from Ciisborne realised 3d; wliitc-fiice hoggets, 17s; and blackface hoggets, I3s Hid. A 1 ;irtcc entry of ox beef eiime forward and sold at satisfactory figures, A draff of medium prime Polled Angus steers from Miss Chcpmell, Kjwitahi, sold at £ll Is; medium prime cattle from Messrs. Watson Brothers, Walton, to £l2 Is (id; light prime steers oil account of Messrs. Kereone, Limited, and Will, Smith, Motumaoho, averaged lrJl 2 s Oil and I'll respectively. The entry of cow and heifer beef consisted of several of well-finished quality cattle, which sold under keen competition. Prime Polled Angus and Hereford heifers offered on account of Miss Chepmejl, Kiwitahi, sold from 111 "is (id to £l2 His and averaged £l2 7s 'id; a draft of 10 prime Hereford heifers from Mr. W. McLean, of Walton, £|l Is; prime Hereford cows and heifers on behalf of Mr. A. F. Wills, Walton, 110 15s; choice runners from the same vendor, (.5 7s to £(i .'is; n pen of fat Jersey heifers from Mr. R. fi. Griffea, T;iuwhare, averaged £8 ••'ss. Heavy second quality cows also sold under brisk bidding at recent quotations. . Store and boner cows realised schedule rates. Yearling and empty ; two-year Jersey heifers met a keen demand. ; realising fully equal to late quotations, An j extra heavy yarding of dairy cattle came forward, comprising some choice quality | heifers which met a firm market, prices showing a slight advance on recent values. Hid- j ding was erratic on the more backward sorts, j although prices were fairly satisfactory. Jn the dairy cow section good quality lots also sold well at late rates. An average yarding of all classes of pigs, including ri large number of bacouers, for which prices were in advance of last week's quotations. 'There was also a good entry of butter-milk pigs and porkers, hut these showed a slightly easing tendency, with values still acceptable to vendors, a total clearance being effected. Large nto res were also keenly sought and remained on a par with last week's rates. Sheep Fat wethers, 2<>s tOj 20,5; killable ewes, '(Os (j'l to His Sd; cull ewes, 8s .Oil; black-face store wethers, :iSis to 20s Sd; whileface store wethers, 20s to 2 .'is 3d; store hoggets, 15s (Jd to 17s; medium hoggets, 12s (id to 13s lOd; cull hoggets, 8s (id to lis Oil; .sound-month breeding ewes, in lamb, 31s Id to 17s 3d. Cattle: Prime medium steers, Cl2 12s (id to £ll Is; light prime steers, £ll to £ll 10s: heavy prime Polled Angus and Hereford heifers, £ll 17s to £l2 1:5s; heavy nrime Polled Angus and Hereford cows, £lO 15s to £ll ss; prime Jersey heifers, £8 5s to £fJ Ids; prime Jersey cows, £8 10k to £10; medium, £7 to £8 ss; light, £5 10s to £0 Ks; medium Jersey heifers. £0 12s to £ / ss; killable cows, £1 10s to £5 ss; prime runners, £5 7s to £(i ss; boner cows, £2 to £1 8s; cull cows, 10s to 255; yearling Jersey heifers. -£1 to £4 15s; small Jersey heifers, £2 l,s (fd to £3 Os; Friesian yearling heifers, £3 5s to £3 10s; small and poorconditioned yearling heifers, 37s to £2 1 Os; empty two-year heifers, £1 2s to £1 (is; poorer conditioned. £3 5s to £3 12s. Dairy cattle: Choice Jersey heifers, close to profit, £ll to £l2 1 Os; other Jersey heifers, close to profit, £!> to £lO 10s; more backward heifers, £7 to £8 1 Os; calved heifers, £!> 15s to £10; other calved heifers, £0 to £S 10s; smaller and backward in-calf heifers, £-1 5s to £5 ss; springing Jersey cows, £8 15s to £10; more backward, £0 15s to £7 '10s; cows in milk, £7 5s to £S; inferior cows. £3 15b to £5. Pigs: Heavy choppers, £3 17s to £3 18s; others, 20s to 30s; heavy baconers, £1 2s to £-1 Os; medium, £3 1 (is to £1 Is; light, £3 10s to £3 l is; heavy porkers and butter-milk pigs, £2 lSs to £.3 8s; medium porkers, £2 12s to £2 10s; ligiit porkers, £2 Is io £2 10s; unfinished, 3ss to £2 2s; quality large stores, 38s to .fJ 3s; larpe stores. '_'(is to 3-ls; medium, 28s (id to 32s (id; best slips, 21s to 25s Gil; others, His to 20s Od; good weaners, 15s (id to 20s; others. 8s to 12s Oil; maiden Tainworth .sows, close to farrowing, £i to £5; breeding sows, £1 10s to £5 7s Od; backward sows, £3 7s (>d to £1; sows and young, UP to £(> 12s Od.

Tlie New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports a large yarding of fat cattle, 'including some light fat ox. Values in this section eased slightly. 'J'h.c advertised line of empty two-year-old Jersey heifers met with a good inquiry, making up to £■}. A large yarding of store cows was sold under good competition on a par with late rates. A small yarding of yearling heifers met with a satisfactory inquiry, with prices equalling recent quotations. Heavy fat. Jersey cows, £7 17s (id to £S ss; medium. ■€(> los to £i 12s Od; light. 10s to ,(.<> 2s (id; heavy stores, £-1 to £4 15 s; medium. £3 7s (id to £3 18s; heavy boners, .£"2 12s (id to £3; others. .CI 10s to £2 ss; medium quality yearling Jersey heifers, £3 15s to £-1 lis; small mixed colours, £'2 10s to £3: empty two-year-old Jersey heifers, well grown, £.'3 Vis -Gd to £-1;. smaller, from £3 Ss. Dairy caltle: Only a small yarding, comprising mostly heifers, including some of very good quality. These met with a good inquiry with values inclined to rise. Good quality dairy heifers, close to profit, £9 15s to £lO Os; good heifers, £8 15s to £!) 10s: average quality, £S to £S 10s; medium quality dairy cows, £7 to' £7 log; inferior, £0 to £fi 15s. Sheep: The advertised line of two. four and six-tooth wethers, were Well woolled sheep of 'average quality. They were offered before a fair bench of buyers and practically the entire yarding was disposed of at satisfactory prices ranging from 32s (id to 235. Pigs: A small entry of fat pitrs comprising medium to heavy porkers, these meeting: with very Rood competition from local buyers. Store pigs met with good competition, late rates being fully maintained. Heavy porkers, £'2 IGs to £'2 19s; medium. £•2 9s to £2 13s; light, £1 Ss to £2 3s; medium stores, 20s to 2Ss; weaners, 13s to los. HIGH DAIRY PRICES [from our. own correspondent] HAMILTON, Friday High prices were realised for a herd of good-conditioned dairy cows sold by Messrs. 0. W, Vercoo and Company, Limited, on behalf of Mr. T. Blaekett, of Rototuna. There was a large attendance of buyers, and bidding was brisk. The whole herd of 2(i cows averaged £l2 18s, while the best price was; £l7 15s for a young Jersey cow in milk. The j auctioneers quote:—Good quality young Jersey cows, in milk, £l-1 to £l7 15s; good quality older cows, £l2 to £l3 15s; others, i £lO to £ll 10s; unsound cows, in milk. £!)! 15s to £lO 10s; two-year in-calf Shorthorn I heifers, to £0; sows, with litters, £S 15s' to £!) 10s. DEMAND AT FEILDING [by telegraph—press association] FEILDING, Friday There was a strong demand for all classes of sheep at the Feilding sale, quality stores showing a decided advance. Fat sheep also were up. The cattle market generally was firm. Fat sheep: Prime lambs, 21s 3d to 275; others, 15s to 20s (id; primo wethers, 27s i (id to 30s fid; lighter, 23s to 20s (id; prime ewes, 21s Sd to 24s (id; others, 15s 3d to "Os (id. Storo sheep: Ewe hoggets. 27s KM to 33s !)d; wethers, 17s Id to 21s 3d; blackfaced, 15s (id to ISs 'ld; mixed aged ewes. 25s (Id to 30s -Id; two-tooth, 33s 3d to 30s lid- aged ewes, to 21s. Store cattle: Boner cows, to £1 12s (id; forward heifers, .| S to £3 17s (id; weaner heifers, £1 15s to £2; yearling steers, £2 10s to £3 His. Fat cattle: Polled Angus cows and heifers, light prime, £7 to £8; others, to £(> 10s; Shorthorn bullocks, £l2 2s (id to £l2 15s; dairv breeds, .05 to U7. Dairy cattle: Springing'heifers, £5 15s to £!) 15s; cows, £5 10s to £!); cows in milk, £-1 to £7 15s: heifers. £O. SMALL KAUROA YARDING * Tho Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports a small yarding of cattle at Kauroa. all classes meeting with a steady demand. Very few beef cows were yarded, and these were absorbed locally at 'prices equal to those ruling in other centres. Storo cattle also sold well, while a moderate entry of dairy cattle was keenly sought after Cattle: Fat. cows, .€■! IGs to £0 JOs; young store cows and heifers. £2 15s to £3 His; boner and cull cows. 10s to £2 ss; service bulls, 35s to £5 15s: small yenrling steers, 35s to £2 18s; best'dairy cows, to £7 15s; other springing cows, £4 15s to £6 10s; Jersey springing heifers, to- £0 15s: backward heifers, £5 10s to £7 ss; small. £3 10s to £-1 ss. Horses: Six-year draught gelding, £32 10s; three-year draught gelding, £3O; three-year draught filly, £32. TE PUKE PIG ENTRY [by telegraph—owx correspondent] TE PUKE, Friday Buyers from Xgarinwahia, Te Aroha, Matamata and Morrinsville were present at the annual sale of buttermilk pigs at To Puke, which was held in conjunction with the Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company's usual fortnightly sale. Almost a, total clearance was effected, bidding' being keen throughout. ~\ large number of P'gs was penned, including several lines of excellent quality, which sold at over £3 a head. In the cattle section prices showed a "* able -advance on late quotations. Steert, sold well and several pens were trucked to out

side districts. There was also a gocffi--in tho advertised line At two-year steers/frorav * !Poverty Bay. Baconers made : £'3 : 17sr i ipers, £ti Os to £3 Ob; good quality putter«>j milk pigs, £2 10s to £3 7s; smaller, ■ £'>■B3* to f?2 17s; large stores, .£2:2s to £2 7»m« medium stores, ;Ms to slips and small'.; stores, 20s to 335; weaners, ISs to 255; small, 13s to Ids; maiden sows, to farrow, Ct. Cattle: Heavy fat cows, £0 15s; light rpws and heifers, £0 to £0 3 ss; twoyear empty Friesun lieifers, £-1 to £4, 9s* /» heavy boner tows, £3 IKs to £11<)s; lighter, si'2 10s to £3 ws; small two-year Hereford steers, £5 to £0 Is; Polled Angus, £1 10s to £5 18s; poorer conditioned and mixed • coloured, £1 Os to £1 13s; .yearling steers, to £3 15s; springers, liest Frie.'ian heifers, to £& 10s; two-year Jersey heifers, £7 5# to £O. TAUMARUNUI YARDING [by tki.kohaph—<nvx correspondent] TAUMARUNUI, Friday JJalgely and Company, Limited, reports a fair yarding of sheep, cattle, dairy cow>; and . pigs at Matiere. There was a largo'attendance of buyers and a quite satisfactory sale resulted, practically a total clearance being effected. Jledium two-tooth wethers, to 23Hi medium wether hoggets, to ISs -3d; small, lIS '2d; two-year foiled Annus empty heifers,., to £■'> 7s 0(1; two-year Polled Angus in-calf heifers, to £5 -Jg Od; two-year Hereford inf. , calf heifers, to £5 "_'s Oil; fat cows, to. £%" 10s; boners, £1 10s to £3; yearling steers; " to £ 1 os; yearling heifers, to'£3 'ls; dairy cows, close to profit, £0 15s to £7 7s Od; .September calvers, £0 to £0 1 " s > porkers, 37s to is; good weaners, 5s to 20s; medium, 21s to 22s (id; smaller, 15s. :L.; WAiHOU REALISATIONS ; f J| The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering" Company, Limited, reports a fall yarding ot{ beef and boner cattle at Waihou. The beet entry comprised heavy Shorlhorn and cross cows, for which there wis keen competition, willi late values ruling. Boner cows sold readily at fully late rates. A medium entry or dairy cows and heifers came for--r ward, with bidding keen, . prices being wetlv.up lo recent Quotations. A light yarding of.!-, fat pigs, and a medium entry of stores weaners were penned." Values for all classes were fully up to recent quotations. Cattle: Heavy Shorthorn cow beef, £ll, to £ll 3 ss; heavy Jersey eows, £!> 15s to .I*lo -10s; » medium Jersey and Jersej-cross cows, ££ Ids lo £'.) ss; litfht cow beef, i'O ss. to £7 His; heavy tillable cows, fir, ids to £0; medium, CI 15s to C 5 ss; heavy boner cows, t l to £l 10s; medium, C2 15s to £3 10s;,. lisht, £2 lo (:2 I Ob; cows and calves. £1 10s to £5; yearling heifers. £'2 Os to X'i Ids. Diiry cattle: Jersey # and heifers, close to profit, £lO 5s to £'l"2 7 ssi t> Sepleinber calvers, £7 15s to JCo'.lss; mora * backwaril, fir, |rws to £7 ss; calved heifers,?; u» to tin ss; Jersey and Jersey-cross cows, close to profit, £0 to £lO 15s. Pigs; Lighi buconers, to £3 10s; medium porkers, £2 8s lo fi'2 13s; light, £2 2s to £2 Cg; unfih- ~ ished, 30s to £2; 31 is; medium, '_!.Ss Od to 3'->s; slips, 121 s to •.Ms Od; best weaners, JOs to 23s ud; others, 8s to lis (id, BRUNTWOOD DISPERSAL , The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering . Compahy, Limited, reports a clearing sale oa account of Miss McCorniick, of Bruntwood, Tlie cattle came forward in ci'cellent condition, hut calving dates varied to soma extent, the herd containing a number of lato calvers. Bidding, however, was in accordance with the lots submitted, and a satisfactory® sale resulted. Quality Jersey cows, close to\ profit, made £0 15s to' £11; older Jersey *. cows, close to profit. £7 10s to £0 ss; late? calvers, £5 to i' 7 ss; backward and unsound! .. cows, fi'2 15s to £1 Ids;. Jersey heifers, £0 . 15s to £!) Ids; yearling Jersey heifers, to t-J '2s; Shorthorn-cross yearling heifers, £3 - 10s; sows, close to farrowing, £3 os to £7 r _ ss; Berkshire boar. £3 10s. i MATAWHERO BEEF VALUES^ • [»Y .TKMJGBAPH- —OWN CORRESPONDENT] GISBORNE, Friday ;. - A special feature of the. stock sale at ilatawhero was the improvement of beef values, there being a brisk demand and only _ a moderate entry. Fat sheep were yarded in greater numbers than for some time. Values were maintained at about recent levels.'Store. sheop opened without any but the sale improved later and developed. brisk*,, aspects eventually. kHoggets advanced;;.about'.' Is (id per head. Another feature VTas tta ' hrst appearance for the season of ewes witlr lambs, one small lot making- 21s -per headf In a small offering of. beef the quality was ordinary, the : demand brisk and' values improved considerably. The best? price for a Jersey was £5, with- unfinished lip to".£4 • 10s. A Hereford heifer .§old'atr.£s Gs, ana brindle heifers to £5 Is. and £5 112s (>d. There was a full yarding-.of- fat shefp, thar largpst fcr some, time, pf, competition was received from'outside districts,; and values generally were, .maintained. One "", extra pen of ewes made 20s 3d, but values T generally were from 1-Js 5d to 10s 3d. ■ A few good Southdown lambs made 19s Id, with second grade ewes at lis od. The storo sheep market was easy at the opening of the sale but soon improved. Buyers were present from Wairoa and the sale generally wa-s----brisk. The entry consisted largely of hoggets, which jumped out of winter vainer and advanced about Is Od a head. Extra-good-hoj&u t;ets made from 17s 5d t0.1.s Sd;. f ewe aogtp gets, 23s 4d and 23s lOd for good line;? good quality empty' ewes, lis 2d; ewes wjtb lambs at foot, 2-ls. ' - TE" KUITI DISPOSAL [by telegraph—own correspondent}- 1 * TE KUITI, Friday/ jv Dalgety and Company, Limited, reports a small yarding: of sheep, and cattlel at Kuiti The sheep, mainly hoggets, attracted considerable interest and sold undef keen bidding at advanced prices. Only dairy c'&ttiA were varded in the cattle section, these maintainin'g late rates. Medium poor-conditioned white-faced wether hoggets made 14s. lid; fairly well-grown black-faced hosrgets, storecondition, lis Id; small te medium blac-V-j faced hoggets, poor condition, 12s to 12s fadj ; best dairy cows, September calvers, £0 2s Ojij t to i' 7 ~s Od; medium dairy cows,. September calvers, £5; indifferent qlality and backward, £3 54 to £3 10s. •.