STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23205, 26 November 1938, Page 9

STOCK SALES

MORBINSVILLE VALUES BONER COWS IN DEMAND POTTER BULLS SELL WELL [from our own correspondent ] MORRINSVILLE, Friday Only a small yarding of fat sheep was penned at the usual weekly Morrinsville stock salo, held to-day. A good entry of beef, comprising two pens of medium-weight prime steers, sold from £l2 13s to £l3 lis, while a pen of lighter Hereford steers averaged £l2. Boner cows sold at values in advance of schedulo rates, while good prices wero given for potter bulls. A medium entry of yearling Jersey lieifers sold at satisfactory prices. Another largo entry of all classes of fat pigs came forward, values being in most cases ahead of Frankton rates. A lull entry of store pigs met with brisk bidding, and a total clearance of this line was effected. The auctioneers report as follows: The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited. —Cattle: A pen of prirno beef, sold on account Waikeria Borstal, brought up to £l3 7s lid. Fat ox, £l3 to £l3 7s Od; lighter, £l2 5s to £l2 12s Gd; primo Polled Angus heifers, £0 15s to £lO 12s Od; medium, £8 5s to £8 17s Od; primo fat cows, £8 10s to £9 7s Od; fat cows, £"7 15s to £8 ss; medium fat tows and heifers, CO 12s Od to £7 2s (id; killable, £4 15s to £5 7s Od; heavy storo cows, £3 18s to £1 7s; heavy boners, £2 18s to £3 lis; lighter, £1 10s to £2 7s Gd; heavy potior bulls, £8 to £8 IGs; medium, £0 to £7 ss; light/ £4 l()s lo £5 15s; store Shorthorn steers, £0 15s to £7 2s <Jd, poor conditioned yearling slcers, £2 10s to £4; Shorthorn cows, £4 Os; good yearling Jersey heifers, £4 15s to £5 3s; medium, £4 5s to £4 12s Od; small, mixed coloured, £2 15s to £3 7s Od; good quality Jersey heifers, in profit. £7 15s to £8 ss; medium sorts. £0 12s Gd lo £7; inferior, £5 to £5 10s; medium quality dairy heifers, close to profit, to £7 12s Gd; medium quality dairy cows, in profit, to £7 10s. Sheep: Fat ewes, to 22s 3d; killable, 12s 3d to ICs Id; wethers, 15s to 17s sd; ewo hoggets, lGs Gd to 19s Id; wether hoggets, to lis; mixed sex hoggets, to 14s 10d; cull ewes, 4s to 7s Od. Pigs: Heavy baconers, £3 9s lo £3 Ms; medium, £3 5s to £3 8s; light and unfinished, £2 19s to £3 3s; heavy porkers and butter-milk pigs, £2 15s to £3; medium, £2 Gs to £2 12s; light and unfinished, £1 178 to £2 4s; large stores, 31s to 34s Gd; medium, 27s to 29s Gd; slips, 24s to 2Gs Gd; best weaners, 18s Od to 22s Gd; others, 9s Gd to 15s. Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited.—Sheep: Light fat woolly wethers, 225; fat woolly hoggets, 20s to 21s Otl; forward conditioned hoggets, 17s Od to 19s; storo hoggets, lis 3d, to 15s od; shorn hoggets, 14s 3d; cull ewes, Os. Cattle: Prime medium-weight steers, £l2 10s to £l3 11s; lighter, £l2 to £l2 13s; prime fat cows, l'B is to £8,10s; medium, £7 Is to £7 15s; prime light Polled Angus heifers, to £7 15sj prime fat Jersey rows and heifers, £0 12s to £7 7s (id; medium, £5 10s to £0 4s; light and killable, £4 15s to £5 8s; heavy boners, £5 15s to £4 lis; medium, £2 15s to £3 IMS; light, 35s to £2 10s; heavy potter bulls, £8 io £9 15s; medium, £5 10s to £7; light, £3 15s to £4 10s; yearling Jersey heifers, .£4 4s to £4 lis; smaller, £2 5s to £3; weaner heifer calves, 27s (id. Dairy cattle: Heifers, close to profit, £8 5s to £10; lato calvcrs, £5 to £6 10s; best heifers, in milk, £1 5s to £0; cows, close to profit, £7 to £8 10s; poorer conditioned and late calvcrs. £1 10s to £6; cows, in milk, £4 to £5 10s. Pigs: Heavy choppers, £3 13s to £4 Is; others, £2 4s to £3 8s; heavy baconers, £3 lis to £3 14s; medium, £3 7s to £3 10s; light, £3 2s to £3 ss; butter-milk pigs and heavy porkers, £2 14s to £3 Is; medium porkers, £2 8s to L'2 12s. light, £2 2s lo C2 Os; unfinished, 303 to £2; sows, with litters, £4 5s to £4 7s Od; sows to farrow, £2 17s Od to £4 2s Od; best stores, 30s to £2; others, 30s to 355; slips, 24s to 29s Od; best weaners, 30s Od; smaller, 22s to 2Gs Od; weedy sorts, 10s to 18s.

Dalgety and Company, Limited.—A pen of prime fat bullocks realised from £l3 .58 to £l4, the average being £l3 15s. A pen of medium quality Holstein bullocks, on account of Mr. Gordon Jack, of Tanhei, realised £ll. Other quotations:—Fat Holstein cows, £7 10jj to £8 2s (id; light to medium fat Polled Angus cows, £7 to £7 Os; hc'ivy Jersey cows, £<S to £7; lighter fat Jersey cows and heifers, t's 7s Od to £6; forward conditioned cows, £4 15s lo £5 ss; heavy boners, £3 18s to £4 10s; others, £2 to £3 15s, according lo weight and condition; good Shcrthorn and ITo'stein cross store cows, £4 15s; old Hereford cows, running with bull, £4 lis, small yearling Jersey heifers, £2 7s Gd to £3 10s; service bulls, £4 to CO: potter bulls. £-1 10s to £fc 10s, according to weight and condition. Pigs: Heavyweight baconers, £3 10s lo £3 13s; medium, £3 2s to £3 ss. neavy porkers and light baconers, £2 ljs to £3; heavy porkers, £2 8s to £2 12sf medium, £2 3s to £2 7s; light and unfinished, 35s to £2; good storo pigs, 30s to 335. Sheep: Good woolly hoggets, lis to 15s.

OTOROHANGA YARDING Abraham and Williams, Limited, reports on a small yarding of sheep and an averago penning of cattlo and pigs at tho Otorohanga sale. Values were on a par with late ruling rates. Quotations: —Good woolly two-tooth wethers. 225; cull shorn two-tooths, 10s Gd; fresh-conditioned Jersey cows, £3 13s to £4 18s; boner cows, £2 15s to £3 10s; fair quality two-year steers, £0 4s; rough sorts, £3 17s Gd to £1 4s; small yearling steers, £2 7s Od to £2 9s; dairy heifers, to £9; cows, to £7; potter bulls, £5 5s to £7; fair quality porkers, £2 Gs to £2 8s; good stores, £1 10s to £2; brood sows, to £3 lis; weaners, 14s to 10s. Tho Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports.—Cattle: Mediumweight fat steers, £l2 15s; medium-weight Jersey cows, £4 10s to £5 19s; heavy boner cows, £3 5s to £4 12s; lighter, £2 to £3 2s Gd; poor conditioned cows, 25s to 37s Gd; potter bulls, £4 5s to £7; yearling Jersey heifers, £2 10s to £3 Gs. Pigs: Light and medium baconers, £2 IGs to £3 Is; porkers, 38s to £2 lis; bost stores, 3Gs to £2 2s; slips, 21s to 345; weaners, IGs to 19s; others, lis to 15s. TIRAU OFFERING The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited reports a good yarding of cattlo at tho Tirau salo. All classes changed hands at satisfactory prices. A 6uiall offering of beef sold well, while storo and boner cows showed no alteration on recent values. Potter bulls sold at lato rates. A small yarding of store pigs sold well at advanced rates. Quotations: —Medium-weight fat Polled Angus cows, £8 9s; fat Shorthorn cows and heifers, £5 15s to £0 15s; fat Jersey cows and heifers, £4 15s to £5 10s; killablo cows, £4 5s to £4 10s; heavy boner cows, £3 to £3 15s; medium, £2 to £2 10s; light boner cows, 30s to £2; heavy pottor bulls. £7 10s to £8 17s; medium, £5 to £6; light. £2 to £3 10s; good storo pigs, 30s Gd to 325. I YEARLING CATTLE DEARER Tho Farmers' Co-opcrativo Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports medium entry of all classes of cattlo at Kauroa. Prices for all lots were on a par with lato rates, with the exception of yearlings, which sold at advanced rates. Quotations: —Fat cows and heifers, £6 to £7 2s Gd; killable Jersey cows, £4 5s to £4 17s; boner cows, £2 17s to £4 Gs; cows and calves. £4 5s to £5: three-year Jersey-cross steers, £5 7s; small yearling Jersey heifers, £4 3s; small Jerseycross yearling heifers, £2 10s to £2 18s; yearling Shorthorn heifers, £4 Is; yearling Shorthorn steers, £4 59; three and fouryear Polled Angus bulls, £7 10s to £lO 2s Gd; yearling Polled Angus bulls, £3 7s Gd to £3 15s: potter bulls, £4 15a to £0 7s; small, £3 5s to £3 17s Gd. DULL DEMAND AT FEILDING [by telegraph—press association! FEILDING. Friday A very dull stock sale again took placo at Feilding to-day, when a small yarding of not particularly high quality offered. Prices for fat ewes recovered a little, but rates for nil other stock were unchanged. Quotations: — Fat sheep: Ewes, prime, 17s to 18s Id; others, 10s to 15s (id; wethers, 18s to 21s 3d; hoggets, 19s 7d to 21s (id; lambs, 20s to 225. Storo sheep: Two-tooth wethers, best, 18s Od to 10s 3d; small, lis 3d to 15s; good two-tooth ewes, 31s to 355; others, 22s Id to 235, 7d; ewes and lambs, 10s. Store cattle: Two-year steers, £7 12s to £7 15s; yearlings, to £4 18s; Polled Angus cows, to £5 ss; forward cows,' £3 15s to £4 12s Gd. Dairy cattle: Springing heifers. £0 15s to £7 15s; cows, J.'(i l.'is to £8 15s; heifers, in milk, £0 10s to £7. Fat cattle: Bullocks, to £lO 12s Gd; light cows, £4 15s to £6 15s; heifers, £5 10s to £7.

RATES RULING AT WAIHOU Tho Farmers' Co-oporativo Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports a largo entry of cattlo at tho Waihou sale. Tho beef entry consisted of medium fat second quality cows and fat Jersey cows and heifers. Prices obtained wero at ruling rates. Boner cows were in keen demand and prices in advance of recent rates. A fair entry of yearling heifers was in keener demand, and prices showed an increase. Potter bulls sold at schedule rates, 'l'liorc was n full yarding of fat pigs and a medium entry of stores and weaners. Competition for baconers and porkers was keen, values being fully up to late rates. Stores and weaners also sold well. Quotations: —Cattle: Medium second quality cows, £6 18s to £7 12s fid; primo young Jorsoy cows and hoifors, £6 to £7; fai Jersey cows, £5 ltts to £7 Oa; killable. £4 168

to £5 8s; heavy boner cows, £3 18s to £4 10s j medium, £2 14s to £3 12s; light, 35s to £2 10s; Jersey cows and calves, £4 15s to £5 15s; fresh young Jersoy cows and heifers, £3 10s to £4 4s; yearling Jersey heifers, £4 12s (id to £5 ss; small yearling Jerseycross heifers, £3 to £3 12s; potter bulls, £5 10s to £7; light, £2 15s to £4 12s Gd; springing dairy heifers. £7 5s to £B. PigsHeavy choppors. £3 to £3 7s; others, 259 to £2 10s; medium baconers. £3 7s to £3 Os; light, £3 Is to £3 ss; buttermilk pigs and heavy porkers, £2 12s to £3; medium porkers, £2 7s to £2 10s; light, £2 to £2 ss; large stores, 32s Od to 37s 6d; medium, 28s fid to 30s; slips, 21s to 25s fid; best weanc/s, los to IDs; others, 8s 6d to 12s. DAIRY COWS TO £lO/10/The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited, held a clearing salo on account of Messrs. L. J. Lacassie and F. C. Laing on the property of Mr. L. J. Lacassie, Beach Road, Papakura. The salo drew a larg attendance of the public, everything being disposed of at satisfactory rates. The dairy herd of 21 cows came forward in good condition, and best cows in milk made £8 to £lO 10s; others, £5 to £7 1 Os; calved heifers, to £7 10s; yearling heifers, running with bull, £5 10s for Shorthorns, and £5 for Jerseys; farm horses. £lB 10s to £24, and £37 10s for a weighty animal. FULL OHINEWAI YARDING Dalgety and Company, Limited, reports a full yarding of cattle at Ohinewai. Tho advertised bullocks on account of Mr. J. Hill wero yarded in forward condition, the majority of pens boing • killable cattle. Although competition was not particularly keen a good sale resulted, prices ranging from £lO 7s to £ll ss. Medium prime bullocks, £lO 5s to £ll. 7s; heavy fat Jersey cows, £6 13s to £7 Os; medium, £5 10s to £0 7s fid; heavy boners, £3 17s to £5: medium, £2 5s to £3 15s; others, 27s Oa to £2; yearling Hereford heifers, £3 Os; young Hereford cows, good storo condition, £5 Is. CATTLE CHEAPER AT TE PUKE [by telegraph OWN correspondent] TE PUKE, Friday Tho Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports an average yarding of cattlo, mostly store cows, at Te Puke. Prices were slightly easier than at recent sales. A few pens only of light beef were offered. A good yarding of approximately 500 pigs came forward, and, with the exception of weancrs, met with keen competition. Prices for baconers and buttermilk pigs were well up to recent rates. Quotations: —Light fat cows, £4 5s to £4 12s; good-conditioned cows, witli calves, £2 15s to £3 6s; boners, 14s to £2; mixed-coloured two-year empty heifers. £2 5s to £2 10s; small springing Jersey heifers, £4 5s to £5; cows, in milk, £3 to £5. Pigs: Choppers. 3(is to £2 Os; heavy baconers, £3 Os to £3 10s; medium-weight, £3 3s to £3 Gs; light, £2 19s to £3 2s; large buttermilk pigs, £2 10s to £2 17s; smaller, £2 2s to £2 7s; largo stores, 29s to 355; smaller, 275; slips, 20s to 21s. TANGOWAHINE PIG SALE [by TELEGRAPH —OWN correspondent] DARGAVILLE, Friday Walter Wakelin reports having held his fortnightly pig sale at Tangowahine, when heavy entries of fat and store pigs were submitted to a good attendance of buyers. Baconers made from £3 to £3 14s; heavy porkers, £2 10s to £3 2s; medium porkers. £2 3s to £2 lis; large stores, £1 IGs to £2 Gs; medium stores. £1 2s to £1 18s; slips, 25s to 355; weaners, 5s to 18s 6d: sows with litters. £2 10s to £3 10s; breed ing sows. £2 10s; choppers, £2 to £3 ss.