FRANKTON VALUES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23320, 13 April 1939, Page 7

FRANKTON VALUES

KEEN COMPETITION BACONERS MAKE JO £3/15/FAT % BULLOCKS TO £ll/5/[from OCR OWN- COB respondent] HAMILTON, "Wednesday A medium entry of good quality mutton was yarded at the Frankton stock sale to-day. Competition was keen and values showed an improvement on recent sales. A small yarding of fat lambs sold at schedule rates. No store sheep were offered. There was a umall yarding of ox and cow beef. The offering was of medium quality, and v.aluea remained stationary.

A smaller yarding of boner and secondclass beef also maintained late rates. Vealers and runners were in short supply, and here again prices were on a par with recent quotations. The stock firms yarded a medium tntry of fat pigs. Competition for baconers and porkers was steady, values for all classes being up to late sale returns, the top price for a pen of prime baconers was £3 10s. A full yarding of store and weaner pigs sold under slightly better competition than for some time, and prices showed an increase on last week's rates. r ihe auctioneers quote:-

Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited. —Cattle: There was a good yarding of both ox and cow beef and a full clearance was effected. An average yarding was penned in the boner section, and here prices showed an improvement. Fat cattle were sold at advanced rates. Small fat bullocks made £9 to £9 10s; best young fat Polled Angus cows. £7 10s to £7 14s; unfinished sorts, £5 to £6 10s; medium boner cows, £3 4s to £3 13s; lighter, £2 10s to £3 2s. Sheep: A good yarding of fat sheep was offered to a small bench of buyers. Prices throughout were not buoyant, but a total clearance was effected. Medium fat wethers sold from 16s 6d to ISs; big-framed fat wethers, 17s 3d; medium fat wethers, 16s 6d to 18s; lighter, to 15s; fat ewes, to 13s 9d; fat lambs, ltis to 17s 3d: lighter, 13s to 14s 3d. Pigs: Fat pigs were yarded in small numbers, and met with keen competition, prices being on a par with those of recent sales. Bacon pigs met with keen competition, prices ranging up to £3 14s. An average yarding of store pigs changed hands at prices slightly in advance of last week's. Heavy bacon, £3 10s to £3 14s; medium, £3 4s to £3 9s; lighter, £2 l(ss to £3; heavy pork, £2 5s to £2 lis; medium, £1 17s to £2 2s; lighter, £1 9s to £l. 15s; good store pigs.

12s bd to 16s; lighter. 7s 6d to 10s: weaners, 4s to Os Gd. , , The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited. —Sheep: Heavy prime wethers, 20s 3d" to 23s Cd; lighter weight wethers, ISs Od to 10s 6d; mixed sex twotooth mutton. 17s to 18s 3d; fat woolly lambs, to 10s; fat shorn lambs, to 16s. Cattle: Light-weight ox beef, to £9 10s; second quality cow beef, £4 13 to £4 15s: medium-weight runners, £3 to £3 6s; heavy bonur coas, £3 7s to £3 19s; lighter. £2 12s to £3 '4s. Pigs: Choppers, £2 10s to £3 6s; prime top-weight baconers, £3 13s to £3 15s; heavy baconers, £3 10s to £S 12s; medium, £3 Is to £3 8s; light, £3 to £3 3s; buttermilk pigs and heavy porkers, £2 10s to £2 ISs; medium porkers. £2 2s to £2 6s; light, 30s to £2; unfinished, 27s to 325; largo stores, 241 to 27s 6d; medium, ISs to 22s Od; smaU stores and slips', 14s to lGs 6d; best weaners, Ss to 12s; others. 3s 6d to (is (id. G. W. Vercois and Company, Limited.— Heavy prime wethers sold from 22s to 22s Od; prime medium-weights, 20s to -,ls 9d;prime light-wegihts, 18s to 19s bd; others, up to 17s; prime Southdown-cross wethers. 18s to 19s 3d; well-finished light-weights, 10s to 17s Od; heavy fat ewes, 12s to 13s 3d; medium-weights. 9s to, lis 6d; light, up to 8s; prime medium-weight lambs sold trom •JOS to 22s 3d; prime light-weights, 1,9 i to 19s; others, to 16s; killable lamb 3, to 14s. Cattle: Medium weight vealers, £2 10s to £3 ss; prime £2 to> Ss, primo light-weights, 30s to 38s; small up to 255. A draft of prime two and a-half-vear-old Polled Angus and Hereford bullocks from Mr. J. Mackay. of Newstead. averaged £ll 5s 7d. Prime medium-weight bullocks. £ll 5s to £ll 10s; prime hght-weights, £lO 10s to £11; light-weight bullocks, to-£9 2s, rough and inferior, to £7 12s 6d; prime medium-weight cows, £7 10s to £7 18s; P.nme light-weights, £0 los to £, .8 Od; to £6 10s; prime light-weight heifers, to 10s to £7 15s; lighter, up to £6; heavy fat Jersev cows. £5 10s to £6; medium-weights. £5 to £5 7s Gd; light, up to £4 15s; for-ward-conditioned Friesian and Shorthorn cows. £4 OS to £4 ISs; others up to £4; small empty 18-months Jersey heifers, to £3 14s, Jersey heifer calves, to £2 10s; heavy boners. £3 10s to £4 ss; medium-weights, £2 los to £3 8s; light, up to £2 12s 6d. Pigs: Heavy baconers sold from £3 103 to £3 1-S. medium-weights, £3 3s to ~3 9s; k&kk ~~ 16s to £3 2s; heavy porkers, <£2 10s to £2 14s; medium-weights, £2 2s to £3 9s; light. '3ss to £2; small and unfinished, 28s i to 345; choppers, to £3 ss; good store pigs. 1 25s to 27s Od; smaller, 20s to 245; good ; slips. 15s to 18s; smaller. 12s to 14s; best ' weaners, Ss to 10s; others, 3s to 7s. 1 Dalgety and Company, Limited.—Heavy i prime fat wethers. 23s to 23s 6d; medium. , 23s 6d to 22s 3d; fat withers, 1-s 9d to . ISs Od; heavy prime fat Southdown-cross wethers. ISs to 19s 9d; medium._ 16s 6d to 17s 3d; heavy fat ewes. 13is to 15s; medium. 10s Gd to 12s 3d; light and unßnished, 83 to Os Od; heavy fat lambs, 20s to 21s 3d; medium, 16s to 17s 3d; light, 13s to 14s bd. Cattle: Light fat steers, £9 10s to £9 12s Gd; fat IS-months steers, £o 16sto £6 19s; fat Polled Angus cows and heifers, £- to £7 f»s; fat cows, £5 8s to £5 18i; fat Jersey cows. £4 to £4 12s 6d; vealers, £2 to ±|2 ss; small, £1 to £1 ss. Pigs: Prime heavy baconers, £3 lis to £3 "12s; heavy baconers, £3 8s to £3 lis: prime medium. £3 4s to £3 Ss; medium, £3 2s to £3 4s; prime light. £•3 to £3 2s; light. £2 16s to £3; heavy porkers to light baconers, £2 12s to £2 16s; prime heavy porkers, £2 7s to £2 12s; heavy. £•> °s to £2 7s; prime medium. 38s to £2 2s; medium, 32s to 38s; prime light, 28s to 3°s- light 24s to 2Ss; choppers, medium. £2 to £2 10s; best stores. 22s to 275; medium stores ISs tu 225; small, 15s to ISs; best slips." 12s to 15s;; medium slips, Ss to 12s; 1 weaners. 4s to Ss. Wright, Stephenson and Company, Limi--1 ted —A line of good-quality ewes sold on 1 account of Messrs. Morrison Brothers, Tauwhare. realised ut> to los, while wethers from Mr T. Davies, Taneatua. sold from 20s to 1 '">°s Fat sheep: Prime heavy wethers. 21s 1 to 225; medium quality. 17S to 18s 9d; light and unfinished, down to 15s; heavy prime ewes 14s to los; medium-w-eigbts, 10s 6d to 12s 3d; plain, 7s to Ss Od; unfinished, down to 4s; prime Limbs, ISs 3d to 19s 6d; medium quality, 15s 3d to 16s 9d; light. 13s Od to 14s Od; Romney rams, 12s to £1 Is. Fat cattle: Prime quality bullocks, £lO 5s to £ll 7s 6d; medium-weights, £8 to £9 15s; unfinished, down to £7 2s 6d; prime Polled Angus heifers, £6 19s to £7 17s Gd; light. £5 5? to £6 2s 6d; heavv fat cows. £5 15s to £7; medium-weights, £4 10s to £5 ss; light, £2 15s to £3 12s: culls, down to 30s; Jersey weaner heifers, £2 16s; bulls. £6 10s to £B.

STORTFORD LODGE VALUES [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] HASTINGS, Wednesday At the Stortford Lodee sale to-day ISO head of cattle which came forward provided little competition and the sale developed into one of the dullest of the season. The probable reason for the slow demand is the fact that the freezing works are still overloaded and many of the employees are away from work suffering from influenza. Once again vealers swamped the market and prices showed a tall. Bullocks of mixed duality were yarded in fair numbers. The store cattle were of good quality but the prices rulinjr did not suit the vendors and nearly all lines wero passed in. Store sheep with 7000 lambs predominating met a brighter response and cwtis and wethers were on a par with last week. Prime ewes were, firm and sold readily. Lambs remained firm but wethers were inclined to ease ill the poorer Quality sorts. The range of prices was as follows:—Prime fat cows. £7 to £S ss: medium, £5 to £8 7s fid:, plain, £3 15s to £-1 I Us; heifers, £5 12s 6d to £6 Is: bullocks, tops. £8 15s to £10; others, £6 to £7 Ss; store bullocks, to - £4 10s; 30-months-old steers, .£3 12s 6d to £4 10s; wether lambs, tops, lis to lis 7d; others. 7s 7d; ewes running with ram, 10s fid to 10s lid; ewe lambs, 11a 9d to 14s 3d; small, Os fid; mixed sex lambs, splendid order. ISs 3d: wethers, lis Od to 15s 6d; heavy prime ewes, 10s 3d to 14s Od; medium. 10s fid (o lis fid; poor, Ss fid; wethers, tops. 10s 3d to 20s fid; medium. 15s to 17s; heaviest lambs, 22si lOd to 255; medium, 17s lOd to 10s 3d; light, 13s; two-tooths, 17s yd to 10s; Southdowns. 12s to 15s 6d.