COUNTRY STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23284, 1 March 1939, Page 7

COUNTRY STOCK SALES

FRANKTON QUOTATIONS DEMAND FOR FAT LAMBS BONER COWS SLOW OF SALE [from our own cohrespondent] HAMILTON, Tuesday There was a full yarding of fat sheep at the weekly stock sale at Frankton to-day. A keen demand prevailed for fat lambs and these sold fully up to recent quotations. A full offering of boner cows was slightly easier of sale, but vendors in most cases met the market and a good clearance was eii'eetcsd. The auctioneers' report: —

The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Limited: —Cattle: Ihere was a good yarding of boner cattle and pottet, hulls, also a good entry of beef and veal. Light boner cattle were selling at prices some*, what easier 011 last week. A rather keen demand -prevailed for young, fresh-conditioned cows for (he paddock. Light fat cows in the boner pens sold at rates in advance of last week. Competition on the potter bulls was finite keen. Beef was in better demand, than last week. Small Polled Angus bullocks made I'lO lUs Od; Polled Angus and Hereford heifers, c 8 to £8 J Us; lighter sorts, £7 to £7 2s (id; Polled Angus cows, £0 17s <id to £8; unfinished cows, io ios to £0 12s 6d; vealers, ti. lis to £2 8s; Shorthorn runners, £0 7s to ,C 7 iss; boner cows, £2 10S to £3 Cs; young fresh-conditioned paddock cows, £3 13s to £1; light fat Jersey cows, £•! to £.j IOS; fat Holstein cows, to £6 108; heavy potter bulls, £8 2s (id to £10; mediumW'eights. £0 5s to £7 15s; light bulls, £4 2s to £5 i.-is. Sheep: We had a good yarding of fat sheep and lambs. Good heavy wethers were down slightly on last week's sale, but this is to be expected owing to tLe drop in schedule. A rather keen demand prevailed for food fat lnnibs and these sold fully up to late flotations. Heavy wethers, 18s Od to 20s; lighter, 15S Od to 17s 3d; first Quality lambs, to 235; smaller, 18s Od to 20s Od. Pigs: Fat pigs were yarded in average numbers, prices showing a decline on those of recent sales. Store and weaner pigs changed hands at prices slightly in reduction of last week's rates. A total clearance, however, was effected. Heavy baconers, £3 8s to £3 12s; medium, ii.j ]'g to £3 OS; light, £2 17s to £3; heavy porkers. £2 12s to £2 10s; medium, £2 5s to £2 11S; light, £1 10s to £2 3s; choppers, £2 to £2 8S; slips, £1 3s to £i lis; weaners, 9s to 19s; others, -Is to Ks.

The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited.—Cattle: Medium-weight Jcrsey-cro& steers, to £0 ins; heavy fat cows. £7 J (Is to £7 10s; lighter fat cows, €ll 5s to £7; heavy second duality cows. £5 5s to £0: heavy fat Jersey cows, £0 8s to £7 <Jk; lighter fat Jersey cows and heifers. £4 JOs to 7s (jd; heavy boner cows, £3 f>s to £l Os; lighter boner cows. £2 7s Gd to £3 Is; heavy potter bulls, £7 12s to £0; medium potter bulls, £5 15s to £7 2s Od; lighter, £1 5s to £5 8s; yearling bulls, £3 ■"is to £3 10s; best vealers, £3 to £3 8s; other vealers, £2 2s to £2 10s. Sheep: Prime fat wethers, 1 ,Ss (id to £1; prime mediumweight wethers. 17s to 18s; prime black-faced two-tooth wethers, His Od to 18s; prime twolooth black-faced ewes, ids 6(1 to 10s; heavy fat ewes, !)s to 10s «d; medium fat ewes, 7s to 8s; light fat ewes, 5s to 6s Gd; heavy fat lambs, £1 to 225; medium fat lambs, 18s (id to 10s Od; light fat lambs, 15s to 17» Od. Pigs: Heavy baconers, £3 lis to £3 lis; medium baconers, £3 6s to £3 10s; light baconers, £3 Is to £3 ss; heavy porkers and buttermilk pigs, £2 12s to £3: medium porkers, £2 5s to £2 10s; light porkers, 38s to £2 3s; unfinished porkers, 22s t0,255; best weaners, lis Gd to IGs 6d; other Weaners, Os to 9s.

G. W. Vercoc and Company, Limited. — Sheep: Twenty prime wethers from Mr. R. Hinton. of Eureka, sold at 21s 3d; 50 prime two-fooih wethers from Mr. T. Piatt, of Matangi, sold at *JOs (id; prime fat wethers. 20s to 21s yd; light prime. 18s Gd to IDS (id; medium-weight wethers, 17s to 18s; 15s to 10s tid; unfinished, to l'ls; prime maiden ewes, to 15s: heavy fat ewes, 9s Od (o 10s; medium-weights, 7s to 9s; light and unfinished, to (is; heavy prime lambs, 23s to 24 5; prime medium-weights, 21s to 22s Gd; light prime. IDs to 'JOs Oil; medium-weights, 17s to 18s; light, to 10s. Calves: Two prime runners on account of Mr. T. M. Hall, of Hamilton, soldi at £8 12s (id and £8 , r >s respectively; heavy runners, it; log to £8 12s Od; lighter, to £."> r»s; heavy vealers, £3 to jL liis; -medium-weights, A'2 lo £2 18s; smali calves, np to 355; a draft of prime bullocks from Mr. J. Mackay* of Ncwstcad; sold up to £l2 15s: Hereford bullocks from Mr. P. Dingle, of Tauwhare, sold to ill ss; light-weight Polled Angus bullocks from Waikato Racing Club sokl to £10; prime medium-weight bullocks. £l2 to £l2 15s; prime light-weights, £ll to £ll 10s; light-weights, to £10; Jer-sey-cross bullocks, to £8 lis; prime mediumweight heifers, to £8 10s: well finished lightweights, to £7 2s Od; others to £(! 12s tid; heavv fat cows, ii~ 10s to £8 2s tid; lighter, to £7 ss; light, to £5 15s; heavy fat Jersey cows. £5 10s to £0; medium-weights, £4 15s. to £5 ss; light, to £4 12s Gd; fair quality Jersey heifer calves, £2 5s to £2 lis; small, to £2; 18-rnonths' Jersey-cross steers, to £3 12s Gd; IS-months' crossbred heifers, to £3 15s; heavy boners, £3 10s to .11; medium-weights, £2 15s to £3 7s Gd; light, to £2 10s; extra heavy bulls, to £l2 10s; heavy bulls, £l> 10s to £lO 10s; mediumweights, £7 to £8 10s;-light, to £0 10s; good Quality Jersey heifers (early calvcrs), 07 10s to £8; more backward, to" £7 os; inferior, up to £5; fair quality Jersey cows (in milk and close to profit), £0 15s to £7 10s; others, to £G. Pigs: Heavy baconers from £3 10s to £3 12s; medium-weights, £3 58 to £3 Os; light. £3 to £3 4s; heavy porkers, £2 l is to £2 19s; medium-weights, £2 5s to- £2 12s; light. 38s to £2 4s; unfinished. to 375; heavy choppers, to £3 15s; lighter, to £2 10s; large stores from 28s to 31s; smaller, 25s to 275; good slips, 22s to 20s; smaller, 17s to 21s; best weaners, 10s to lis; others, up tk 9s; sows, in pig, to £4 2s Gd.

Drtiget.v and* Company, L.lilted.—Sheep: Heavy fat wethers, 18s Od to 20i>3d; medium, 17s to 17s nd; light and unfinished, 15s to lGs 3d; good Southdown-cross-wethers. IGs to 17s 3d; light, lis Gd to 15s ftd; good fat heavy ewes 10s to lis Gd; medium, 8s Od to !>s; light, Os to 7s fid; heavy fat lambs, 22s 3d to 22s Od; medium. 18s'to. 10s 3d: light, 10s to IGs !Hl. Cattle: Medium fat steers, £lO 10s to £ll ss; good heavy fat cows. £7 to £7 17s Gd; medium, £5 10s to £0 15s; heavy boner cows, £3 10s to £3 17s Od; medium, £2 5s to £3 2s Od; others, 38s to £2; heavy potter bulls, £8 10s to £los 3d; medium, £0 fo £7 10s; medium vealers, £2 to £2 17s (id; liffht, 25s to 325; medium Jersey heifers, yearlings, £2 to £2 10s. Pigs: Prime heavy baconers, £3 12s; heavy, £3 lOs to £3 12s; prime medium, £3 8s to £3 10s; medium baconers, £3 Os to £3 8s; prime light. £3 3s to £3 Os; light; £3 to £3 3s; heavy buttermilk pigs, £2 15s to £3; medium, £2 10s to £2 15s; light, t'2 5s to £2 10s; prime heavy porkers. £2 2s to £2 ss; heavy porkers, £2 to £2 28; prim" medium, 30s to £2; light porkers, 30s to 30s; best slips, 30s to 345; medium. 25s to 30s; small, 20s to 255; best slips, 10s to 20s; medium, 12s to 10s;*best weaners, Gs to 12s. , „ ■ Wright. Stephenson and Company, Limited. —Sheep: Prime fat wethers, from 19s to 20s; fat wethers. 17s Od to lSs Gd; fat ewes, 8s to 9s; killable ewes, Os to 7s Od; fat lambs, 21s Od to 23s 3d; medium lambs, 19s (id fo £l. Cattle: Boner cows, £3 4s to £3 15s; lighter, £2 IGs to £3; culls, 25s to £2; Jersev calves, £2 10s to £2 15s; Red Poll heifers, to £3 10s. Pigs: Baconers. £2 18s to £3 3s; weaners, 10s to 12s fid;; smaller, 8s Od to 9s Od.

RETURNS FROM WOOL SECOND OTAGO SALE CHEQUE TOTALS £355,040 ' [from OUII OWN COItRKSPONDKXT] DUXEDJN, Tuesday The return to growers from the second Otngo wool sale on February 8 was £355,040, which, with £306.534 from the opening sale in December, brings the provincial wool cheque to date up to £661,574. This is slightly less than half the total receipts from the four sales last year. Total sales at the December and February auctions this year wore slightly in excess of the quantities disposed of at the corresponding sales in the previous season, a fact which em-;' phasises the le§s favourable [market conditions ruling for the current selling period. -|' Figures for the February sale were as follows: —Bales sold, 27.081; passings. 274; average price. 9.7 d per lb. or £l3 2s 2d .a bale. Figures tor the whole of the 1037-38 season were:—• Males sold, 02,501; average price. 10.75(1 per lb., or £l4 15s Id ajpale; total proceeds. £1,364.659. g Notwithstanding the fact tftat a slightly greater quantity of wool was sold this year, receipts to date are approximately £IOB.OOO lowejf than those recorded for the first tffo sales of the 1937-38 selling period, f "f . , SALES IN SYDNEY VERY FIRM MARKET (Received February 28, 8.35 p.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 28 At the wool salefi to-day 9750 bales were offered and 8670 were sold, as well as 544 privately. The market was very firm. Greasy Merino made to 25d per lb.