COUNTRY STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23275, 18 February 1939, Page 9

COUNTRY STOCK SALES

MORRINSVILLE VALUES EASING TENDENCY SHOWN BACONERS MAKE TO £3/12/]]from oxnt OWN correspondent"] MORRINSVILLE, Friday Owing to tho short supply of railway trucks the advertised southern sheep did not como forward at the Morrinsville stock sale. Tho quality of the yarding was not quite up to that of tho previous week, and prices were consequently a littlo lower. Entries in other sheep sections were smaller than those of a week ago and quotations were easier. , The auctioneers report:— i

The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited.—Fat sheep: There was a Rood yarding of all classes of fat sheep, Including several pens of prime lambs. Values remained on a par 'with last week's rates. There was a larger entry of store lambs, with competition not as keen as last week, but a total clearance was effected at prices on a par with outside centres. Breeding ewes: A slightly smaller entry of breeding ewes comprised chiefly lines from tho East Coast district. Owing to tho short supply of railway trucks the advertised southern sheep did not come forward. The quality of the yarding was not qnito up to the standard of the previous week, and prices consequently wero slightly lower, although the whole yarding changed hands at satisfactory values. Cattle: For a medium entry of beef and boner cows realisations were on a par with last week's rates. Potter bulls wero yarded in large numbers and sold at schedulo values. Pigs: A smaller entry of fat pigs, and a full yarding of stores and weaners came forward. Baconers sold on a par with last week's quotations, while porkers were slightly easier. In the store section the entry comprised mostly weaners, which wero dull of sale. A large ontry of choppers was also submitted, values being on a par with Frankton rates. Quotations: —Fat sheep: Fat wethers, 17s to 20s; fat two-tooth wethers, 15s 7d to IGs Gd; prime ewes, Os Od to 10s; killable ewes, 7s 5d to Os; heavy prime lambs, 22s to 21s 4d; lighter, 18s Gd to 19s (Jd; killable shorn lambs, 14s lOd to 16s Gd; store lambs, 10s Id to 12s Id; smaller, 7s to Os; culls, is lOd to Os; shorn ewe lambs, 3-ls to 14s Sd. Breeding ewes: Medium two-tooth ewes, 23s 9d to 245; smaller, 10s to 21s 3d; small, 18s 3d to 18s 6d; four-tooth ewes, 22s Od; four and six-year ewes, 20s to 21s; four and five-year ewes, ISs 4d to 10s 6d; five-year ewes, 15s 7d to 17s lid; sixyear owes, 13s to 16s Gd; sound mouth ewes, 9s 6d to 12s; cull ewes, 4s to Ss Gd; oneshear Southdown rams, 4gns to 6Vagns; mixed ago Southdown rams, 2gns to 3 3 /igns. Cattlo: Medium Shorthorn steers, £7 5s to £0 2s; medium Hereford cows, to £-7 3s;' heavy Shorthorn-cross cows, £G Os to £7; medium, £5 lis to £G ss; heavy Jersey cows, £5-15s to £6 Os; medium, £4 17s to £5 lis; light, £4 3s to £4 15s; heavy boners, £3 17s to £4 8s; medium, £3 5s to £3 14s; others, £2 lis to £3 2s; heavy potter bulls, £0 2s Gd to £lO 17s Gd: medium, £5 10s to £8 j 15s; light. £3 to £5; 18-moaths Shorthorn ! steers, to £4. Pigs: Heavy choppers, £2 IDs to £3 Ss; others, 30s to £2 15s; best baconers, £3 10s to £3 12s; medium, £3 6s to- £3 8s; light, £3 to £3 4s; buttermilk pigs and heavy porkers, £2 14s to £2 18s; medium porkers. £2 4s to £2 8s; -light. 38s to £2 2s; large stores and unfinished porkers, 32s to 36s (id; medium stores. 24s 6d to 30s; slips. 15s Gd to 21s; weaner, 5s to 12s 6d; Berkshire boars, to £2 12s; sows, close to farrowing, £2 5s to £3 2s.

Dalgety and Company, Limited. —A full yarding of sheep and lambs came forward and met with good competition from a full bench of buyers. Although the quality of sheep was not up to last week's entry, prices were pood. Good quality local two-tooth ewes made 25s (id to 275; small two-tooth ewes from Taihape, 25s to 25s Gd; fourtooth to five-year ewes, from Matawai. 17s Od to ISs Gd: low conditioned five-year ewes, from Taneatua, 12s to 12s Od; four and fiveyear, from North Auckland l-ls to 10s Gd; sound mouth local ewes, lis to 12s Gd; aged owes, from Coromandel, 4s Gd to ss; mediumweight fat lambs. '7s to 17s Gd; woolly ewe lambs, 17s to 18s; shorn Romney wether lambs, Os Gd to lis; small, 6s Gd to 7s Od; Southdown-cross lambs, 9s Gd to 10s 3d; smalt Gs Gd to Ss Od; cull lambs, 4s Gd to Bs 3d. A small yarding of cattle comprised a very few fat Jersey cows, the balance being boners. Medium fat Jersey cows, £4 15s to £5; heavy boners, £3 10s to £3 15s; medium boners, £2 10s to £3; light boners, 30s to £2 ss; heavy potter bulls, £8 to £8 10s; medium potter bulls, £4 15s to £0; weaner Jersey heifers, medium, £2 5s to £2 10s.

FEILDING EWE FAIR

ENTRY OF 43,000 CLEARED [BY TELKGIIAPn —PRESS ASSOCIATION] FEILDING, Friday An entry of 43,000 head of breeding ewes thronged - the Feilding yard for the annual ewe fair. The attendance was very lartre and business was brisk, although prices were a shade lower thap 'expected. A heavy entry of two-tooth ewes sold well with 45s the peak price. The average was round 30s. Four-year ewes made to 25s 6d; five-year, to 10s 7d. The quality of tho latter -was very uneven, a lengthy "tail" dragging down tho average to under 18s. The sale nevertheless was a very good one. MAUNGAKARAMEA FAIR

GOOD CLEARANCES MADE [from our own correspondent] WHANGAREI, Friday The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports that more than the advertised number of sheep came forward at the Maungakaramea sheep fair, and everything, with the exception of two small pens of lambs, was sold under the hammer. Competition was not brisk, but a steady market prevailed and prices realised were in advance of recent sales. The quality of the yarding was not up to the usual standard penned at this centre, this applying to grown sheep, the lauibs being of 8 better quality. A line of two-tooth ewes sold on account of Mr. James Nash, of Tangiteroria, brought forth keen competition and sold at the very satisfactory price of 27s 7d. This was the best line of twotooths that has been penned at Maungakaramea for a long period. Fat wethers made from 18s to 18s Gd; fat ewes, lis; two-tooth wethers, stores, 12s id to 14s Gd; sound-mouthed ewes, best. 14s 3d to 15s 3d; lower-conditioned, 12s to 13s Od; failing and broken-mouthed ewes, 7s to 8s Gd; culls, 4s to ss; Romney ewe lambs, shorn, good, 12s 3d to 12s lid; mixed-sex shorn lambs. 10s to 12s 6d for best; lighter conditioned, 6s Gd to os; culls, 3s to 4s 6d; Romney rams, two-tooth, lgn. to 2/igns; aged sneep, 5s to 10s. Alfred Buckland and Sons. Limited, reports a fair yarding at the Maungakaramea sheep fair, the entry boing chiefly aged sheep. Two-tooth wethers made from 10s to 14s 8d; small two-tooth ewes, 21s 3d; good full-mouthed ewes, 10s 3d to lis Gd; older ewes, 8s 3d to Os Sd; broken-mouthed ewes. 7s Id; small ewe lambs, Os to 10s 2d; small wether lambs, Gs Od to 7s lid; two-tooth Romney rams, r%gns. to 3gns; six-tooth Southdown rams, 2V,gns. The Norths Auckland Farmers' Co-opera-tive Limited, reports a small yarding at the sheep fair at Maungakaramea. A total clearance resulted under the hammer at prices satisfactory to vendors. I'at wethers made from 17s to 18s Gd; fat ewes, Os to 12s; two-tooth wethers, 13s Gd to 13s ltd; fat lambs. 12s Gd to 18s; mixed-age ewes, 10s Gd: good sound-mouthed ewes, 13s; aged ewes, 7s to 10s lid; good black-faced lambs, 10s 3d; shorn Romney wether lambs. 7s to Os (id; shorn ewe lambs, 12s; mixed-sex larribs, shorn, 8s; small black-faced lambs, Gs 7d; cull Romney lambs, Gs 6d; Southdown one-shear rams, 3M,gns to 4/jgns; ased 15s to 30s; one-shear Romney rams, lVagris to 3gns; aged, lgn to potters, 5s to 10s.

MATAMATA QUOTATIONS Tho Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports a good yarding of nil classes of sheep came forward at Matamata and met a steady market. Pat sheep and store lambs sold at values on a par with lato sales, while interest in the offering of breeding ewes was lacking. Cattle: There was again a full offering of all classes, the entry of ox and - cow beef including a fair proportion of finished cattle, which met with brisk competition, values remaining fully on a par with Frankton quotations. A heavy yarding of boner cows and potter bulls sold under steady competition, and in this section u total clearance resulted, with values fully up to schedule rates. A number of Jersey hoifer calves also camo forward and elicited fair inquiry, with values on a par with recent rates. Pigs: A full yarding of all classes camo forward, tho entry comprising mostly porkers, with vory few baconers. Competition was keen, buconers soiling fully up to late rates, while values for porkers were slightly in udvanco of recent quotations. A light entry of stores and weaners was dull of sale. Quotations: —Sheep: Prime two-tooth wethers, 18s to 18s 9d; fat ewes, 6s Gd to Ss Od; mixed-sex woolly lambs, 10s od to lis 8d; black-faco woolly lambs, Os 2d to 10s; whiteface ewe lambs, 12s; small storo lambs, os to 7s rid; cull store lambs, 3s to -Is; good two-tooth ewes, 2"»s; small two-tooth ewes •-'•is (id; mixed-age ewes, to 225; one-shear Southdown rams, l 3 ,sgns to 3%gns. Cattle: Medium prime steers, to £ll lis; medium prime cows and heifers, £6 lf)s to £7 13slighter prime cows and heifers, £'s 12s Gd «c'; fat Jersey cowa and heifers, £5 12s 6d to £6 28; lighter, £4 10s to £5 8s; heavy boner cows, £3 15s to £4 Os; lighter. £2 OS to £3 9S; heavy potter bulls, £8 to

£9 7s; medium, £6 to £7 15s; lighter, £3 10s to £5 10s; well-grown Jersey heifer calves, to £2 18s; others, £2 6s to £2 9s; small, to 30s, Pigs: Choppers, 38s to £3; overweight baconers, £3 6s to £3 8s; medium baconers, £3 8s to ££t lis; light, £3 2s to £3 Gs; butter-milk pigs and heavy porkers, £2 14s to £3; medium porkers. £2 8s to £2 10s; light, £2 to £2 Gs; large stores and unfinished porkers, 32s to 37s 6d; medium stores, 24s to 28s Gd; slips, 16s to 20s; weaners, 6s Od to 10s Gd. ENTRY AT TE AWAMUTU The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports having held the Te Awamutu stock sale and sheep fair, when a full yarding of fat and store sheep was offered, all classos selling freely with the exception of local store ewes. Store lambs were in keen demand and a general clearance was effected. Cattle: There was a medium yarding comprising principally light-weight steers aud Jersey cows, for which values remained unchanged. Pigs: A full yarding of fats and a medium entry of stores and weaners came forward. Bidding for baconers and porkers was very spirited, values realised being on a par with Frankton rates. Stores and weaners, however, were dull of sale, but in most cases vendors met the market, satisfactory sales resulting. Quotations: —Sheep: Prime heavy weathers, 18s Gd to 19s sd; light-weight wethers, 16s 6d to 18s 2d; lightweight black-face wethers and mixed-sex twotooths, 14s 3d to 15s Gd; fat ewes, 8s to 9g Od; killable ewes, Gs 6d to 7s; fat woolly lambs, 20s to 22s Gd; light fat woolly lambs, 15s 3d to 18s Od; unfinished lambs, 12s to 14s Od; small shorn ewe lambs, 10s to 13s Gd; shorn wether lambs, 10s to 13s Gd; medium shorn vrether lambs, 8s 3d to 9s Gd; others, 5s 9d to 7s; woolly mixed-sex white-face lambs, 8s Gd to 10s 7d; two-tooth ewes, 23s 5d to 25s Gd; mixed-age ewes, 19s; soundinouth ewes, 14s 9d to 17s 9d; cull ewes, 4s to 7s 3d; aged Southdown rams, lVzgns to 2gns. Cattlo: Light Jersey cows and heifers, £5 Gs to £0; light Jersey-cross. fat steers, £G 9s to £7 10i; heavy fat Jersey

cows, £5 8s to £5 395; boner cows, £3 15s to £4 9s; lighter, £2 16s to £3 10s; store cows, 25s to £2 (ig; heavy potter bulls, £G 15s to £7 10s; lighter, £4 17s Gd to £5 15s. Pigs: Choppers, £2 3s to £3 lis; best baconers, £3 10s to £3 12s; medium, £3 5s to £3 8s: light, £3 to £3 3s; butter-milk pigs and heavy porkers, £2 12s to £2 18s; medium porkers, £2 5s to £2 10s; light, 3Ss to £2 3s; large stores and unfinished porkers, 30s to 3Gs; medium stores, 24s to 27s Gd; slips, 16s to 21s 6d; best weaners, lis 6d to 14s Gd; others, 5s to 851 Gd: Berkshire boars, to £4. FULL WAIHOU YARDING The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports on the usual fortnightly Waiho:i stock sale, when a full yarding of cattle, comprising chiefly light, unfinished and boner cattle came forward. No good beef cattle were in evidence, but competition was steady throughout, a total clearance at lato rates being effected. Sheep: There was an average yarding, comprising mostly store lambs, with fat sheep in shorter supply. Pigs: Another full yarding of fats with bidding steady throughout, values remaining firm on recent quotations. In the store and weaner section a medium entry came forward, with large and medium stores selling readily at lato rates, but slips and weaners hard to quit. Quotations: —Cattle: Fat Friesian cows, £6 15s to £7 is; fat Jersey cows, £5 12s to £6 10s; lighter cows and heifers, £4 10s to £5 Ss; heavy boner cows, £3 15s to £4 12s; lighter, £2 5s to £3 10s; heavy potter bulls, £8 2s 6d to £9 12s 6d; medium, £G to £7 17s Gd; lighter, £4 10s to £5 15s; medium Jersey heifer calves, 3Ss to £2 9s. Sheep: Fat two-tooth sheep, 14s 9d; medium fat lambs, 17s Gd to ISs; light, 15s Gd to IGs 3d; forward conditioned lambs, 13s 3d; store lambs, 9s to 10s; cull lambs, 6s; fat ewes, 6s Gd to 7s 3d. Pigs: Medium to heavy choppers, £2 lis to £3 2s; light, 30s to £2 6s; medium baconers, £3 8s to £3 lis; light, £3 to £3 ss; heavy porkers, £2 14s to £2 18s; medium, £2 5s to £2 10s; light and unfinished, 37s to £2 3s; large stores, 33s Gd to 355; medium, 2Gs to 30s; small stores and slips, 20s to 24s Gd; best weaners, 10s to 16s; others, 3s 6d to 7s 6d; sows, close to farrowing, £2 4s to £2 10s; more backward, 26s to 395; sows and litters, £5 9s j TIRAU PRICES HIGHER

The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports that there was a medium yarding or cattle at their Tirau stock sale. Bidding for all classes was keen, at prices slightly in advance of Frankton Quotations, a total clearance being effected. Light fat Jersey-cross cows made £5 103 to £6 Gs; heavy boner cows, £4 8s to £5 2s; medium, £3 7s to £3 ISs; light, £2 30s to £2 19s; medium Jersey potter bulls, £6 lis to £7;j others, £5 -Is to £5 10s. COMPETITION AT OHINEWAI The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports a full entry of all classes of cattle at Ohinewai. Competition for beef and boner cattle was steady, prices remaining unchanged. A good yarding of store cattle failed to command attention, and passings were not infrequent. Prime cows, £6 His to £7 7s 6d; fat Jersey cows, £4 14s to £5 10s; killable, £t to £4 lis; boner cows, £3 to £3 18s; medium, £2 to_ £2 14s; potter bulls, heavy, £S to £lO ss; light, £4 10s to £5 15s; Polled Angus cows and calves, to £5 IDs; Jersey cows and calves. £4 Is to £5 Is. STORE SHEEP AT FRANKTON The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited reports having held the store sheep sale at Frankton, when fully the advertised entry came forward. Bidding was steady, although values for lambs eased slightly on comparison with last week's rates, but ewes sold readily at lato quotations. Realisations were:—Small to medium twotooth ewes, 20s 9d to 27s 3d; small to mixed age ewes, 15s 3d to 19s 6d; aged ewes, 7s 9d to 10s 3d; two-tooth wethers, to 15s 9d; good shorn wether lambs, 9s 2d to lis 3d; smaller, Gs 5d to 8s 9d; woolly wether lambs, 8s lOd to 12s; cull lambs, 4s 6d to Gs. Wright, Stephenson and Company, Limited, reports having held the weekly sale of store sheep at Frankton, when the full advertised entry, including the Gisborne consignment of two-tooths, came forward. Competition was very steady from a good bench of buyers, and a most satisfactory sale resulted. A full clearance under the hammer was effected. The line of 683 two-tooth ewes from the Paparatu Station averaged £1 8s 3d; two-tooth Bordercross ewes, £1 2s; smaller two-tooth ewes, £1 to £1 Is 7d; mixed sex black-face twotooths, 13s Gd to 14s; five-year ewes, 15s 6d to 18s Gd; sound-mouth ewes, 10s to 12s; small wether lambs, 6s 3d to 8s; small ewe lambs, 9s 7d.

HORSES AT CLAUDELANDS Wright Stephenson and Company, Limited, reports baring held a special sale of South Island horses at Claudelands. The offering comprised a special entry of 36 draughts on account of Mr. C. McDonald, Canterbury. The attendance was only fair, but at the same time there was steady bidding throughI out, and quite a fair fixture resulted. Top price in the sale was £39 10:3 for a sevenyear bay mare, the purchaser being Mr. H L. Miles, Waihi. Other quotations:—Six-year gelding, £32 10s; eight-year mare, £34 10s; three-year filly, £29; five-year mare, £3O; I eight-year mare, £3O; four-year mare, £3O; nine-year mare, £26 10s; six-year gelding, £24; aged gelding, £2l 10s; seven-year gelding, £.18; aged gelding, £l7; aged mare, £l4; aged gelding, £l6; hack, £6 10s. ANNUAL MASTERTON SALE [by telegraph—PßESS association] MASTERTON. Friday Prices were well below vendors' expectations on the first day of the Masterton Agricultural and Pastoral Association's annual ram fair. Vendors in most cases were prepared to meet the market, but buyers operated within very defined limits. Mr. Q. Donald topped the market for stud Romneys, Mr. William Rayner paying 90gns for a splendid ram, while 7'/ a gns was the top price for flock Lincolns. In flock Romneys, Mr. Q. Donald sold a show pen for 15gns. It was a disappointing sale. A considerably better tone prevailed at the second day of tho Masterton ram fair and values well on a par with vendors' expectations realised for flock Southdowns. The entry was well in excess of last year but the bulk of the offering was disposed of either under the hammer or by private treaty. Prices for flock Southdowns ranged from 2gns to 28gns, with tho average about 4gns. Stud Southdowns sold consistently well, the top price being 82gns, realised by Mr. W. J. Gimblett, for a splendid ram sold to Mr. W. Howard Booth, of Carterton. Flock Ryelands and English Leicesters were not keenly sought. It was a very good sale for good sheep.

STORTFORD LODGE ENTRY [flV TETjEGRAPEb—PRESS ASSOCIATION] HASTINGS, Friday Although the general run of prices was lower at the second Stortford Lodge ewe fair the top price was better by Is 9d, being 3ls. A drop of from Is 6d to 2s recorded over the whole sale was caused by the absence of outside competition and tho inferior quality of the ewes compared with the first sale held a fortnight ago. The yarding consisted of 42,350, aged sheep making the bulk of the offering. Bidding was slow, buyers not being keen to net a standard. In spite of this a good clearance was effected. The second best price was 30s 2d, and the third 30s. Several lines reached 29s to 29s 6d. Next best in two tooths ranged from 26s to 27s 8d; medium, 19s 3d to 255; small and poor, IGs to ISs 6dl; best four tooths.' 30s 4d; others, 22s 4d to 28s 6d; poor, 15s to 18s 9d; six-tooths, 18s 6d to 25s 4d; four-year-olds, 18s 4d to 19s Gd; five year, tops, 15s to 19s 4d; medium, 12s 6d to 14s 3d; low and poor, 9s Gd to 12s: six-year-olds. best, 13s to 14s 9d; others, 8s to lis.

SALES OF PROPERTY T. Mandcno Jackson reports having sold at auction a fivc-roomed house in. Hamilton •Road, Heme Bay, for £1000; a five-roomed house in Grotto Street, Onehunga, for £48o; and a house in Haneno Street. St. Heuers Bay, for £l5O.