COUNTRY STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23178, 26 October 1938, Page 9

COUNTRY STOCK SALES

FKANKTON QUOTATIONS ADVANCE IN FAT EWES BULLOCKS MAKE TO £ls/5/[fbom OUR own* correspondent] HAMILTON, Tuesday An average yarding of fat sheep came forward at the weekly stock sale at Frankton to-day, but the market was quiet, and prices for wethers were (Tasief than last Meek. There was a bettor demand for fat eues, and in most cases recent values were maintained. A small entry of woolly hoggets sold at recent rates, the demand coming from graziers. Store sheep were slow of sale. Conijictition for all classes ol cattle was firm, and last week's quotations were maintained. The offering: was smaller, with ox beef in short supply* most of the entry comprising light prime steers. Cow beef met a sternly demand, only second quality coming forward. Boner cows and potter bulls sold fully tip to scheduled rates, a total clearance resulting. Satisfactory prices were received for a full entry of vealers. There was a heavy yarding of all classes of fat pigs, with prices for baconers steady at late rales. Porkers showed a firming tendency, unfinished lines being in keen demand. Competition for store and weaner pigs, of which there was a full yarding, was not as keen as at recent sales owing to the dry spell. Prices were slightly easier. The auctioneers report: —• Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited—Sheep; Fat shorn wethers, 23s to '-Ms od; light and unfinished wethers, 19s lid to 22i; fat shorn ewes, 17s Od to ins Gd; unfinished, Us to 16s 6d; killable ewes, 8s to 12s 3d; fat woolly hoggets, 18s GA to 20s; medium, 17s to 18s Od; smaller. 14s 6d to 15s 0d; ewe hoggets, 20s. Cattle: Light prime steers. £l2 J4s to £l2 18s: heavy second quality cows, £7 17s Od to £8 12s (id; medium fat Jersey cows and heifers. £0 17s Gd to £7 9s; lighter, £5 10s to £<3 lis; killable cows, £4 15b to £5 ss; heavy boner cows, £4 2s to £4 12s; medium, £3 8s to £3 18s; light. £2 12s to £3 ss; medium vralers, £2 5s to £2 17s; smaller. £1 2s to £1 loss; rough calves, 8s to lis; heavy pctter bulls, to £7 19s; light, to £3 IGs; two-year Jersey heifers, £2 2s to £2 18s. Pips: Heavy baconers, £3 lis to £3 10s; medium, £3 OS to £3 128; light, £3 3s to £3 8s; buttermilk pigs and heavy porkers, £- lis to £3 Is; medium iwrkers, £2 9fi to £- 13s; light, £2 2s to £2 7s; unfinished. 3t>s to £2; choppers, £2 12s to £3 IGs; la*se stores, 31s (id to 375; medium, 20s t<) 325; light stores and slips, 23s to 20s Gd; best weaners, 17s to 20s; others, 10s to 15s •id. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Limited, re|>orts the entry of cattle was rather smaller than usual. Competition was quite keen, and values generally showed a slight increase. Less ox beef than usual came forward, meeting with good competition. Prices remained firm at last week s figures. Cow and heifer beef was yarded in less than average numbers, and in this section also a rise in values was noticeable in the runner and veal section, on account ol Mr. C. C. Parry, two exceptionally choice sorts realised £G and £7 Bs. An average varding of store and boner cows sold lain* well, late rates being fully maintained. Prime fat ox, £l2 7s Gd to £l3; fat ox. .4 10 15s to £ll 17s Gd; medium. £0 los to £lO 10s; fat cows and heifers, t'7 to £7 15s; medium cows and heifers, £5 15s to £« J <s «id; killable cows and heifers, £4 10s to £•> 10s; stores, £2 10s to £4; boners, £1 to £2 r»s: runners, £0 to £7 £s; vealers, £1 to £1 17s. A good yarding of fat pigs came forward, values opened firm on last week, but declined later in the sale. A large entry of store pigs met with a weaker demand._passinjfs toward the end of the sale be ins? \. e quent. Heavy baconers, £3 lis to £3 lj>s; medium, £3 4s to £3 9s; light and unfinished, £2 18s to £3 3s; heavy porkers and buttermilk pigs, £2 10s to £2 15s; medium. €2 Is to I*2 Ss; others, £1 14b to best store pigs, 31s to 365; medium, 27s to 30s; others, 22s 6d to 2Gs; best weaners, 17s Gd to 21s Gd; others, <s Gd to 14s Gd. The entry of sheep was a larger one than usual, and prices were well ™ al " ,a " especially in the hogget section. The demand for fat wethers was not quite as keen a. it has been lately, and value* showed* slitrht decline. A good entry of fat ewesi met with fair competition and values impr<oved somewhat. Shorn fat wethers 19s f s '™' shorn fat ewes, 17s 3d to 20s; woolly hogget* 10s to 225; shorn, lfls to 18s; poorer sorts. 12s to 1 Is. A few lambs were entered, realising 10s to lis Gd. Dalgety and Company, Limited.— Sheep. Heavy fat wethers in wool, 2os to -.sW. medium, 22s Gd to 245; heavy shorn wethers 23s 3d to 245; medium, 21s to lieht 10s (id to 20s; shorn fat hoggets' 18s 3d to 10s Gd; heavy fat woolly ewes "2s to 23s 3d; medium, 10s to -0s 6d, heavv shorn ewes, 17s Gd to 18s 3d; medium, iGs to lGs 9d; light mediiim.' 'lis 't(f 2Gs!" 1 i'g h*•. r }jj s :>j^ e . RomnScrots® we°&er Vggets,' 2ls; ewes. 25s to 25s Gd; small Romnej wether hoggets. 17s to lßs Gd. CatUe. Medium heavy bullocks, £ll 10s to £l-* * j fat cows, £8 10s to £0 2b 6d; medium fat cows. £G 10s to £7 las; others, £o 10s to £5 15s; heavy potter cows. /i >a 1 % ; to u J l t 15s- medium. £3 10s to £4 2s Od; light and' cull cows, £2 to £2 15s; good store rows £5 5s to £5 15s; yearling heifers, small, £3 to £3 12s Gd. Ve .® le ™= runners, £4 to £4 10s; small vealers. 30s to 3Gs. Pigs: Prime top-weight baconers, £3 IGs to £3 17s; prime heavy baconers £3 lis to £3 168; wavy. £i3 12s ito £!» 14s; prime, medium. £3 10s to £3 l-s, medium, £3 8s to £3 Kte; prime, light. £3 Gs to £3 bs; light, £3 -Is to £3 bs, heavy butter-milk pigs to light baconers. £- ISs to £3 is; butter-milk pigs, £2 12s to £ r> 18s; prime heavy porkers, £2 12s to £2 16s; heavy, £2 8s to £2 12s; prime medium, £2 4s to £2 8s; medium, 12 to £2 4s; light. 36s to £2; choppers, medium, £2 to £3; best stores, 36s to £2; medium, 3ds to 365; small, 25s to 30s; best slips. 21s to 28s; medium, 20s to 245; best weaners, 18s to 225; medium, 16s to "12s to IGs; sows .with litters, £o 10s to £ (i - t - J G. W. Vercoe and Company, Limited.— Heavy prime shorn wethers, 23s Gd to _4s Gd; medium-weights. 22s to -3s; to 21s Od; forward conditioned "wethers, to 20s; heavy fat shorn ewes. 18s to 19s 60; medium-weignts, 15s to 17s; light, up to 14s; heavy fat hoggets. 22s to 23s 6d; mediumweiirhts. 20s to 218 Gd; forward conditioned, up to 19s; shorn hoggets, 14s to 17s Gd; heavv lambs. 28s to 325; medium-weights. 2:,s to 275; light. 20s to 245. Cattle: Prime light vealers sold from £3 to £3 15s: medium-weights. £2 to £2 15s; small calves up to 355. A draft of fat bullocks from Mr. T M. Hall, of Hamilton, sold up to £ls ss. while a similar price was obtained by Jlr. J. Hannon, of Cambridge, for a hne of 13 Polled Angus and Hereford bullocks Lightweight cattle from Mr. It. Cr. GnfTen. of Tauwhare, sold at up to £lO. Prime mediumweight bullocks sold from Hnf ° ? if prime light-weights, £l2 to £l3 10s; ™all and unfinished, £9 7s Gd to £lO. Heavy fat cows sold from £0 5s to £10; * ell-fin-ished medium-weights. £8 10s to £O, others. £7 ills to £8 ss; light-weights, up to ±. ss ; lisrht-weight heifers, to £8 J>to{ fat Jersey heifers, to £7 ss; forward conditioned Shorthorn and triesian cows, £4 ios to £5 ss; others, to £4 ss; empty two-year Jersev heifers, £3 14s to £4; yearling Jersey heifers, to £4 7s (id; heavy boners. £4 to' £4 10s; medium-weights, £3 to £3 los; light-weights. up to £2 15s. I igs; H ea, ;'y baconers. £3 l">s to £3 l«s; medium, £3 Ss to £3 12s; light, £3 3s to £3 bs; heavy porkers. £2 15s to £3; medium, £2 Ss lo £2 12s; light, £'2 to £2 Gs; lighter. to 395; choppers. to £3 14s; best stores. 37s to £2 2s tid; others, 32s to 3(js; best slips. 28s to 31s; others, 23s to 2.5; best weaners, 18s to 21s; others. 14s to 17s; smaller and inferior sorts were not sought and made up to 10s. Sows in pig sold at £3 ss. Wright, Stephenson and Company, Limitpd.—Sheep: Extra prime heavy wethers, up to 21s Gd; prime, 22s 6d to 23s Gd; lighter sorts 19s to 20s Gd; prime heavy ewes. 19s; lighter, 17s Gd to 18s (id; prime fat hoggets, up to 19s Gd; fat hoggets. 17s to 18s Gd; spring lambs, up to 265; lighter lambs, 20s to ""s Gd. Cattle: Boner cows, good sorts. £3 108 to £4; lighter, £2 to £2 10s; empty heifers, up to £4 8s; fat bullocks, up lo £l4; light bullocks, £l2 to £l3 ss,

CLAUDELANDS HORSE FAIR Wright, Htephenson and Company, Limited, mid G. w Vercoo and Company, Limited, nuctionecrs in conjunction, report t avinii held n horse fait at Claudclands, win n the advertised entry came forward. Good useful farm horses met with a fair demand and a very satisfactory clearance resulted in this section. A Red and inferior horses wero not wanted, while the hacks, which were a very ordinary lot. sold at satisfactory prices. The principal sales were as follows: —On account of Mr. T. Mootc, of Canterbury: Six-year-old bay folding, £4O 10s; six-year-old bay mare, I'M 10s; six-year-old bay {jeldinp, £42; eitrht-yeur-olil tjrey mare. £3B 10s; seven-year-old bay hiure, £3O; four-yeur-old hay (jrldini;. £3t; three-year-old hay filly, £3O; nine-year-old liny mare, £3O; six-year-old bay coldintr. .t'34; seven-year-old black mare. £23: seven-year-old bay mare. £3O, seven-year-old bay Relding, £24; three-year-old bay mare, £2O ids: a (red (reldiwf, £2O. On account of Mr \. 11. Saundern. of Auckland- Three-year-old bay ffeldinif, asted brown geld'iiiß £-1 los, atrod bayprcldintr, £2O; asred black (folding, £lO. On account of Mr. H. M. McOibhon. of Rotokauri: Four-year-old bay gelding. £3O tus; four-year-old bay mare. £23. Useful light horses sole! from £ls to £2O; inferior, up to tl'2 10s; lair hacks, to £0 JOs; inferior, to £3 J Us.

BRADFORD MARKET TONE QUIET BUT FIRM LONDON, Oct. 24 The Bradford market is quiet, but firm, owing to topmakers' attitude, which is due to the relative dearness of wools on the primary markets.