COUNTRY STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23166, 12 October 1938, Page 11

COUNTRY STOCK SALES

FIIANKTON QUOTATIONS FAT PIG VALUES FIRM OX BEEF PRICES DECLINE [from our own corrksfoxbent] HAMILTON, Tuesday Fat pigs were penned in large numbers at the weekly stock sale at Prankton to-day, and values were firm to in ad\ ante of late rates. There was only a medium yarding of ox beef, and prices showed a decline. Fat sheep were present in fairly heavy supply, and prices generally remained steady. The auctioneers report:—

The Fariners Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited.— A heavy entry of fat sheep came forward, and met with rather erratic competition. Opening values were cn . a par with last week, but the demand weakened as the sate progressed. However, vendors were prepared to meet the market and most of the offering was sold. Hoggets were penned in full numbers, and last week's prices maintained. In the store ?heep section iitlla or no change can be quoted with ewes or hoggets, while an offering of aged ewes, with lambs at foot, sold at satisfactory prices. A smaller offering of ox beef was not so keenly sought, and values showed a further decline on last week. A full offering of cow and heifer beef, including a fair proportion of finished cattlo, came forward, but here again values wero easier for all classes. Competition for boner cows was steady, with prices fully up to schedule rates. There was an increased yarding of all classes of fat pigs, with bidding for baconcrs and porkers very keen, values being in. advance of those ruling last week. There was a good entry of stores and weaners. with good quality large stores selling readily at values in advance of last sale. Good weaners were also keenly sought, at prices well above last week's values. Sheep: Fat woolly wethers. 20s to 28s 9d; unfinished, 23s Od to 24s (Jd; fat shorn wcthors, 22s Od to 24s fid; unfinished shorn wethers. 10e 3d to 21s Gd; fat woolly ewes, 18s Gd to 22s t»d; killable, lis to Ids Od; fat shorn ewes, Us to 18s (id; fat woolly hoggets. 19s 6d to 22s 9d ; medium, 17s to 18s Od; light and for-ward-conditioned woolly wether hoggeta, 14s Gd to l(is; ewe hogtrets, to 2Gs; store hogBets, Ss Od to 1 2s; store ewes, 4s to Os Gd; agod ewes with lambs at foot, lis 9d to 12s Od, all counted. Cattle: Medium prime stoers, £l2 I~S to il'3; light, £ll 10s to £l2 4s; heavy prime heifers, CO 10s to £lO Os; medium, £7 15s to £S 2s Gd; liffht, £0 7s Gd to £7 9s; heavy prime cows, £8 18s to £» 6r; medium, £7 10s to £S 12s; heavy fat Jersey cons and heifers. £G 19s to £8; medium, £5 ISs to £G ir>s; light, £4 los to £5 12s Gd; heavy boner cows, £3 15s to £4 l-'s Gd; lighter, £2 los to £3 lis; best veal calves, £2 10s to £:i Us; others, 3Gs to £2 Is; two-year Jersey heifers, £3 10s to £4; yearling Jersey heifers, £3 lGs to £4 Is. In the cattle section, individual consignments included prime steers from Mr. John Scott, Newstead, £ll 10s to £l2 17s; prime steers ftoni Mr. T. M. Hall, £ll 10s to £l3; a pen of heavy fat Hereford cows also from Mr. John Scott, to £lO ss;,a pen of light prime Hereford heifers, offered on account of Mr. H. J. Finlayson, Tuhikaramea, averaged £7 Os; a further consignment of fat cows and heifers from Mr. J. C. Henderson, to £lO 4s. Pigs: Heavy choppers, £2 18s to £3 Os; others. 37s to £2 9s; best baconers, £3 14s to £3 17s; medium. £3 8s to £3 13*; light, £3 Is to £3 Gs: buttermilk pigs, and heavy porkers, £2 14s to £3; medium porker®, £2 8s to £2 12s; light, £2 to £2 Gs; unfinished porkers, 35s to 38s; large stores, 38s to £2 is; good slips, 29s to 355; best weaners, 25s to 28s; others, 10s to 21s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Limited. There was an average yarding of ojc beef. The demand was not quite so firm as last week and values showed a slight decline. There was only a small yarding of cow beef, which met with fair competition, although last week's rates were hardly equalled. A heavy yarding of store and boner cows likewise met a lower market. Heavy fat bullocks. £l3 17s Od to £l4 ss; i medium, £ll 10s to £l3 ss; light and unfinished. £lO 10s to £11; fat Shorthorn heifers, £S 15s to £9 ss; heavy fat cows, £8 10s to £9 Gs; medium, £7 5s to £8 28 Gd; lighter, £5 17s Gd to £G 12s Gd; killable cows, £4 17s Gd to £5 12s: heavy store cows, £3 17s Gd to £4 8s; medium. £2 18s to £3 12s; heavy boners, £2 to £2 15s; others, £1 5s to £1 17s fid; call cows. 13s to £1 2s Gd; vealers. £1 14s to £2; calves, lis to 15s. Sheep: An average yarding of fat wethers met with a firm demand, with values being well up to last week's quotations. Mr. M. O. Eyre's topped the market for shorn fat wethers with a pen at 2Gs 3d. Prime shorn fat wethers. 25« Gd to 2Gs 3d; medium. 24s to 255; light, 21s Gd to 22s Gd; woolly fat ewes, 21s to 22s Od; lighter, 19s to 21s; shorn fat hoggets, 18s 3d to 19s; lighter, 17s 3d to 17s 9d; store woolly white-faced wether hoggets, to 21s 9d. Pigs: Fat pigs came forward in limited numbers only, with well finished pigs meeting a good demand. Store pigs met with.a keen inquiry. Weaners did not meet with a very good inquiry, values being erratic. Heavy baconcrs, £3 12s to £3 15s; medium, £3 5s to £3 10s; unfinished. £3 to £3 4s; heavy porkers and buttermilk pigs. £2 108 to £2 18s; medium porkers, £2 Is to £2 8s; light, £1 18s to £2 2s; choppers, to £3 Ss; larpje stores, 37s to 41a; mtedium. 33s to 3Gs; light, 30s to 32s Gd; large slips. 20s tc 20s; smaller, 20s io 21s Gd; best, weaners, 15s lo tt»s Od; others, up to Ms Gd. Dalgety and Company, Limited.— Sheep: Heavy fat woolly wethers, 28s to 30s Gd; medium fnt woolly wethers, 2Gs to 2.s .W; light and unfinished, 23s to 2..5; heavy fat shorn wethers, 21s to 25s 9d; medium fat shorn wethers, 23s to 23s 3d; heavy fat woolly ewes, 22s to 22s Od: medium fat woolly ewes, 18s to 20s; heavy fat shorn ewes 17s to 17s 9d; medium fat shorn ewes, 158 'to 15sV Gd; fat hoggets, 22s to 235; good store hoggets, 18s to 21s Gd; spring In nibs, 27s Gd; shorn two-tooth wethers, small, 17s Cattle: Medium-weight fat bullocks, £l3 I 2s Gd to £l3 ss; light medium. £l2 10s ' to £l2 12s (id; medium-weight fat heifers, £9 10s to £lO 4s: medium-weight fat cows, £S 5s to £9; light-weight fat cows, £d 15s lo £7 2s Od; fat Jersey cows, t'G 5s to £7 7s Od; others, £5 5s to £5 15s; heavy boner cows, C 4 to £4 15s; others. £2 5s to £3; vearling Jersey heifers, small, £2 15s to £3 ss: medium-weight vealers, £2 15s to £3; small vealers. 30s lo £2 Os; calved Jersey cows. £9 to £9 15s; others, £7 to £8 ss; calved Jersey heifers, £7 10s to £7 15s; springing Jersey heifers, £7 5s to £8 10s. Purs: A good yarding came forward and values throughout were very firm to slightly in advance of last week's values. Baconers, to £3 17s; prime medium heavy baconers. 13 12s lo £3 lis; prime medium baconers, £3 8s to £3 12s; medium baconers. £3 Is to £3 8s; prime light baconers, £3 2s to £3 Is; light baconers to heavy buttermilk pigs, £2 18s to £3 2s; butter-milk pigs, £2 15s to £2 ISs; heavy porkers, £2 10s to £2 15s; prime medium porkers, £2 5s to €2 10s; medium porkers, £2 to £2 ss; prime iight porkers. 35s to £2; light porkers, 32s to 355; choppers. £2 10s to 13 14s; large store pigs, i!2 £2 4s; medium store pigs, 30s to £2; small Store pigs. 30s to 30s; best slips. 25s to 30s; medium slips, 22s to 255; beat weaners, 22s to 20s; medium weaners. ISs to 225. G. W. Vercoe and Company, Limited. — Sheep- The demand throughout was steady and prices differed little from the previous week. Heavy prime woolly wethers, 29s to 3is; prime medium-weights, 20s to 27s Od; light prime, 24s to 25s Gd; unfinished, to 23s Od; heavy prime shorn wethers, 25s to 20s; prime medium-weights, 24s to 24s yd; light, to 22s Gd; heavy prime woolly ewes, 20s to 22a; medium-weights, 17s to 19s; light, to tfls; medium-weight shorn ewes, 158 to 10s Od; light, to 128 Gd. A full entry of fat hoggets met with a dull market and prices eased considerably. Heavy prime hoggets, 23s to 24s Gd; lighter prime, 21s to 22s Od; medium-weights. 18s to 20s; light, 10s to 17s Od; forward condition, to 15s. A small entry of spring lambs sold from 27s 9d to 28s Gd Caltle; A large entry of calves met with a spirited demand and prices remained very firm. Prime runners, to £8 7s Gd; light-weights, to £5 ss; Heavy vealers, .t'3 15* to £• 10s; medium-weights,' £2 15s io £3 12s Gd; small, 25n to £2 10s. Competition for a full entry of ox beef wm not as keen as anticipated and prices showed on easing tendency, Prime bullocks from Mr. T. M. Hall, of Hamilton, £l4 17s Gd to £ls 15s; a draft good quality cattlo from Messrs. Taylor Bros., of Taupiri, to £l4 10s. Light-weight cattle from Mr. W. [. Taylor, of Ohanpo, to £ll 18s. and lightweight Jersey bullocks from Mr. A. Kamsay, .if Tauwharo, avcraflred £lO ss. Heavy nrimo bullocks, to £ls 15s; prime medium-weights, £l3 15s to £ll 10s; prime light-weights, ei2 to £l3 ss; others, to £ll 10s. Tho yarding of cow and heifer beef was an average one nnd prices in this section were also easier. Prime heifers, £lO to Cli; prime light-weights, £0 to £0 15s; others, to £8 IOs: heavy fat cows, £9 to £9 lis; well-finished medium-weights, £8 5s to £8 15s; others, i' 7 :15s to £8 2s Gil; light, lo ,f7 108; heavy nrime Jersey cows, £8 5s to £9; medium-weights, £7 to £8; light, to £0 15s. A full entry of store cattle, tho majority consisting of boner cows, sold at Into rates. Forward-conditioned Shorlhorn and Friesian rows, £4 los to £5 r.s; others, to £4 ss; yearling Jersey heifers, to £4 10s; small, to £3 l.'s; empty two-year Jersey heifers, to £4 ss; Jieavy boners, £3 15s to £4 10s; medium-weights, £3 lo £3 12s Od; light, to C2 15s; potter bulls, to £7. A small entry of dairy cattle met with a fair demand and prices remained firm. Fair quality Jersey cows, early calvers, £8 10s to £0 1.55; more backward. £7 to £8 59; backward and inferior, to £0 10s. Pigs: A fairly large entry of fat pigs met with a good demand and prices throughout remained firm. Heavy baconers, £3 12s to £3 17s; medium-weights. £3 5s to £.3 10s; light, £3 lo £3 4s; heavy porkers. £2 lls lo t'° ISs; medium-w-lgnts, £'2 8s to £2 12s; light, £2 to £2 Os; choppers, to £3 7s. Tho yarding »f store pigs was a large one and prices showed little variation fr.m> <h"«e of Inst week. Good stores. 37s to £2 Is; others, 33s to 30s; good slips. 2t>s lo smaller, 24s to 275; best weaners, 20s to 245; good, IGs to 19s: inferijr, to 12s 6d; sows with litters, £8 6s.

Wright, Stephenson and Company, Limited. ■ —Sheep: Good woolly wethers, '2Bs 6d to 31 s : medium Quality. 25* to 20s Od; inferior sorts, 22s to 245; heavy shorn fat wethers, 24s (id to 265; medium, 21s to 22s J»d; lighter, down to 17s; heavy woolly fat ewes, 24s to 25s 3d; fair quality, 20s to 22s 3d: light and unfinished, down to 35s 3d. The entry of shorn fat ewes was very small Light prime shorn ew'cs, 17s to 18s Gd; unfinished, do#n to 10s. A fair entry of fat hoggets sold at prices ranging from 18s to 218 Od, according to condition. Cattle: There were only a few good vealers included in the yarding. Good quality sold from £4 10s to £6; younger sorts, £2 10s to ■t'3 15s; calves, 8s to 30*; prime quality bullocks, £l2 to £l3 17s Od; medium, £lO to £IL 15s; unfinished, down to £O. JERSEY HEIFERS CHEAPER The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile i Agency Company, Limited, reports a large offering of store cattle at Cambridge. This met with a slack demand and most of the offering was passed in. An average yarding of fat cattle met with good competition, values being well up to recent quotations. Yearling Jersey heifers showed a marked decline in values, vendors in most cases not selling at the lower rates. An average yarding of dairy cattle was offered, consisting for the most part of medium quality hetfere. These elicited only a fair inquiry, prices generally being lower than recent quotations. Fat Shorthorn heifers, £8 08 to £8 16s; heigry fat cowi, £7 to £7 15s; lighter, £5 15s to £0 12s Od; killable, £4 15s to £5 10s; heavy' store cows, £3 19s to £4 12s; medium, £3 8a to £3 10s; heavy boners, £2 15s to £3 2s; medium, £2 to £2 12s; cull cows, £1 to fix 10s; choice quality yearling Jersey heifers, £4 18s to £5 2s; medium quality, £4 5s to £4 15s; others, £2 5s to £3 10s; grade Jersey bulls, £7 to £10; good quality Jersey dairy heifers, close to profit, £9 to £ JO; smaller and poorer conditioned, £7 to £8 8s; other dairy heifers, £4 10s to £5 15s; medium quality dairy cows, £6 to £7 10s. Sheep: Several pens of wether and ewe, hoggets were offered, these selling at satisfactory prices. Fat woolly hoggets made to 22s Od; woolly ewe hoggets, to 245. Pigs: An average yarding of fat and store pigs came forward. Fat pigs sold readily at scheduled rates. Good quality store pigs also met with* a keen inquiry, prices being well up to the recently advanced rates. Medium baconers, £3 6s to £8 12s: medium porkers, £2 8s to £2 13s; large stores, 33s to 30s; medium, 27s to 30s 6d; slips, 19s to 255; best weaners, 15s to 18s; others, 7s 6d to 12s 6d.

DEMAND AT RANGIRIRI The New Zealand Loan and 'Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports an average yarding of cattle at Rangiriri. Store and boner cows met with a steady demand. Yearlings, and store steers, however, met a quiet market, most of these being passed in. Fat Jersey cows, £5 6s to £5 12s; killable cows. £4 10s to £4 18s; heavy store cows, £3 IBs to £4 6S; heavy boners, £3 to £3 li.*s Gd; medium, £2 5s to £2 18s; light, £1 10s to £2; call cows, up to 235; three-year-old Shorthorn bulls made to £lO ss; two-year-old, £1 to £.13; yearlings, to £8 afls; yearling Jersey heifers, to £4; yearling Shorthorn-cross heifers, to £4 lis. Only a small offering of dairy stock came forward, meeting with but little inquiry, values generally snowing a decline. Shorthorn dairy heifers, £7 to £7 ss; small and poor condition, £3 lot, to £4 10s.

RATES FOR BULL BEEF Dalgety and Company, Limited, reports having held the annual beef bull sale at Frankton. There was a good yarding of all brtcds, but, with the exception of the better classes, prices were below vendors' expectations. A medium yarding of store cattle was also offered. Good condition three and four-year-old steers were keenly competed for, but other ages, which mostly lacked size and condition, were dull of sale. Aberdeen Angus bulls, good quality, 25 guineas to 30 guineas; medium, 12 guineas to Is guineas; polled Hertfords, 10 guineas to 18 guineas; horned Herefords, 10 guineas to 17 guineas; Red Polled. 8 guineas to 11 guineas. Store cattle: Three and four-year-old bullocks, good, £0 to £lO ss; two-year steers, £6 to £6 18s; yearling steers, £4 to £5 2s; small, £2 to £2 10s. TAPU REALISATIONS The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports having held a special sale at Tapu. when a full yarding of cattle . came forward. The quality of the advertised steers was not up to expectations, and bidding was therefore restricted and passings were frequent. Two-year Shorthorn-cross steers, £7 to £8 15s; two-year Hereford-cross steers. £7 7s (id to £7 12s 6d; two-year Shorthorn-cross steers, £4 6s to £4 15s; twoyear Hereford-cross steers, £4 7s to £4 lis; yearling Jersey heifers, to £4 10s; threeyear Hereford bulls. £6 17s 6d to £7 10s; yearling Shorthorn and Shorthorn-cross bulls. £2 15s to £3 ss; Jersey springing cows, to £9.

, BACONERS SELL TO £3/15/The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports a full yarding of store cattle at Taupiri, these meeting with a ready sale at late rates. Fully the advertised number of yearling Jersey heifers-were offered, but, these did not meet with a good inquiry, ana in most cases bidding did not reach vendors' reserves. Light fat cows made £5 7s to £5 14s; heavy store cows, £4 5s to £4 17s; medium, £3 7s Gd to £3 15s; heavy boners, £2 10s to £3 ss; medium, £1 IBs to £2 6«; coll cows, 15s to £1 fis; yearling Jersey heifers, to £4 10s. Pigs: There was a considerable increase in the yarding of fat pigs, these meeting with good competition, with late rates being easily maintained. . A good yarding of store nigs, together with a number of sows to-farrow and with litter, met with strong competition, values showing an advance on the previous sale. Heavy baconers, £3 12s to £3 15s; medium, £3 5s to £3 lis; heavy porkers, £2 lis to £3 3s; medium, £2 (Is to £2 12s; light and unfinished, £1 18s to £2 ss; large store pigs, 33s 6d to 375; medium, 28s 6d to 325; lighter, 25s to 27s 6d; slips. 10s to 245; best weaners, 15s to 19s Gd; others, from 7s Gd to 12s 6d.

STEERS MAKE' TO £ll/7/6 [fkom our own correspondent] TUAKAU, Tuesday About 1250 head were yarded at the spring cattle fair held at Tuakau by Alfred Buckland and Rons, Limited. The quality and condition of the grown cattle was good; but a slight fallhig off was noticeable in regard to the yearlings and two-year-olds, when compared with those offered in previous years; The demand for forward-condition steers was firm, and practically all these sold. Lighterconditioned and young steers were hard quit, the dry weather having a definite effect on the market. Fat and forward steers from Ohuku Station made £ll 7s 6d; forward three-vear Polled Angus steers from Limestone Downs.'/£9 10s to £lO 108; forward three-year Polled Angus' steers from Te Karaka, £0 4s to £lO ss; other good quality three-year steers, £8 fis to £9 7s; .lighter. £0 15s to £7 12s 6d; four-year steers, £0 5s to £10; two-year ateers, £5 10s to t'tf 1!)s. according to condition; yearling Polled Angus steers, £3 7* Gd to £5; yearling Jersey heifers, to £4 lis; two-year Polled Angus hJfifers, £4 15s to £5 14s; yearling Polled Angus and Hereford heifers, £2 19s to £4.

MATAWHERO CATTLE FAIR [by telegraph—owx correspondent] GISBORNE, Tuesday \ttendance whs smaller than usual at the Matawhero rattle fair. The store market was definitely easier. Yearling steers brought from £3 to £4 19s; three-year steers, £* to £« tss; bullocks, to £S 14s; with few above Cg; yearling heifers, £2 2s fid to £2 15s; two-year heifers. £3 ISs to £4 15s; empty rows, £'-: better, up to £3 lis and £3 16s. JERSEY BULLS TO 20 GUINEAS [by telegraph—owx correspondent] TE PUKE. Tuesday The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports yarding well over the advertised number of 100 bulls at Te Puko. In spite of the fact that a number were not in good condition, prices realised were very satisfactory. Bulls in Rood condition were keenly sought and a good clearance was effected. The Ayrshire bulls from Mr. 8. Wright, of Katikati. came forward in excellent condition and met with a ready sale.-Two nnd three-year pedigree Jersey hulls made 14 guineas to 20 guineas; yearling ncdigrce Jersey bulls, 5 guineas to 12 guineas-, yearling pedigree Ayrshire bulls, 9 guineas to I3 V 2 guineas; best two and three-year eraile Jersey bulls, ft) 10s to £l3 10s; others. CO to £8 15a; thrre and four-year Jersey bulls, C 5 log to £S 10s; two-year Friesian bulls, £7 to £lO 10s; three year Shorthorn bulls, poor condition, £4 to £0 15s; yearling Shorthorn bulls, £1 15s to

MARKETS IN LONDON TALLOW AND HEMP The Department of Agriculture has received the following cablegram from the High Commissioner for New Zealand, London, dated October 7: — Tallow. —Business has been done on the spot. Prices are unchanged except mutton, fine, beef, sweet and/or mixed, which are Is dearer.

Hemp.—The Manila market is quiet. Trade demand is poor, with prices easier. "K-" grade quoted sellers October/December shipment, £l9 15s. The sisal market is dull and easier. October /December shipment quoted sellers, £l6 12s 6d. Now Zealand: There is nothing to report. Eggs.—The market is quiet, with values about unchanged. English national mark, mediums, standards and specials, 15s to 21s; English, ordinary pack, 15 to 15}1b., 17s 6d to 18s; Danish, 14 to 181b., 12s 6d to 14s; Australian, 13i to irib., 11a 9d to 13c.