COUNTRY STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23426, 16 August 1939, Page 7

COUNTRY STOCK SALES

TRANKTON QUOTATIONS | FAT BULLOCKS TO £l4/15/BACONERS MAKE TO £3/17/[froji our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Tuesday A smaller entry of fat sheep met a brisk demand at the Frankion stock salo to-day, values showing a general improvement for prime quality mutton. Unfinished sheep also sold more readily, while a short penning of fat ewes was in keen demand. The usual entry of fat and killable hoggets was cleared at prices equal to schedule rates, tho offering varying in quality and price accordingly. A few pen§ of store sheep were not in demand.

A full offering jf ox beef came forward for which competition was steady, values remaining firm at last week's quotations. There was a good yarding of cow and heifer heef, including a fair proportion of finished, cattle. Bidding in this section was much keener, and values accordingly showed a marked improvement on recent realisations. A smaller yarding of runners and vcalers, mostly of second Quality, was. penned. Bidding was steady, values remaining very firm. A good yarding of boner cows was keenly competed for at prices in advance of schedule rates. <» There was a medium yarding of fat pigs, comprising mostly buttermilk lots.' These sold freely at late rates. A medium entry of stores and wcaners came forward with values for stores slightly easier, but good weaners remained firm at late rates. Auctioneers Quote:—

Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited.—Sheep: Prime fat wethers, 26s Gd to 28s 3d: fat wethers, 23s to 2ts 6d : light and unfinished wethers, 16s 9d to 20s Od; fat ewes, ISs 9d to 235! killable ewes, 12s (id to 14s 6d; heavy prime fat woolly hoggets, to 27s 3d; .medium ligntfat woolly hoggets, 12s Gd 'to los 6d; store black-face hoggets, 8s 3d, to 0s; store ewes, fls l)d lo Bs. Cattle: Prime ox, £l3 to £l3 10s; medium ox beef, £ll 17s 6d to £l2 14s; light 20-months steers, to £7 3s; heavy prime cows, £1)103 to £lO 7s; medium, £8 to £0 ss; lighter, £0 10s to £7,' 15s; medium prime heifers, £0 to £0 15s; lighter. £7 "1 fls to £8 10s; heavy fat Jersey cows, £7 10s to £8 12s; medium, £o'Os to £, ■is; lighter, £5 10s to £7 4s; medium runners, to £4 lis; rough calves, ilSs to 245; heavy boner cows, £4 Is to £4 3 Ss; medium, £3 to £3 ISs; light, £2 to £2 ]7s. Pigs: Baconers, £3 Is to - £3. 15s; porkers and buttermilk pigs, £2 2s to £2 JBs; unfinished and small porkers, 31s to £2; choppers, 30s to £3 2s fid: large stores. 33s Od to £2; others, 28s to 32s Ctd; good weaners, 28s Gd to Qls; others, 21s Od to 2-ls.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited.—Cattle: There was a Rood yarding of beef of .-ill classes. Prices for ox beef were in advance of last week, and cow and heifer beef sold at fates decidedly firmer. A good entry of store cattle was penned but there was a smaller yarding of boner cattle. Competition was very keen on both boner and store cattle, and a complete clearance was effected. Light ox beef made CIO 12s fid; unfinished. £0 to £0 10s; plain, £8 15s; light Polled Angus heifers, £7 Jos to £8 13s; light Polled Angus cows, £7 to £7 3s; unfinished, £0 os to £G 1 Os; prime Jersey heifers. £7 15s; fat young Jersey cows, £G 15s; heavy boner cows. £3 15s to £3 17s Gd; medium boners. £3 to £3 •ss; light boners, £2 lis to £2 3os; young Polled Angus in-calf cows, £4; yearling mixed coloured Jersey heifers, £3 Os; empty two-year Jersey heifers, £3 2s Gd. Sheep: A much smaller yarding of came forward, prices remaining firm, the entry selling to a good bench of buyers. Good quality wethers from the Waifcato Racing Club realised 2,1s to 2Gs 3d; fat ewes from C. C. Parry, to 24s 9d. Prime fat wethers made 25s Od to 27s 3d; medium fat wethers, 23s Gd to 24s fid; lighter, to 21s; heavy fat ewes, 23s to 24s Od; lighter, to 18s; others, to 7s Gd; medium fat lambs. lGs to 17s Gd; others, to 15s. Pigs: A fair yarding of fat pigs came foward. A few pens of heavy baconers did not made to last week's rates, the top price being £3 17s. Pork again met with keen competition, values remaining fairly stea'dy on last week's rates. A lighter offering of store pigs met with a steady demand, with values , remaining firm on late rates. Heavy baconers made £3 12s to £3 los; medium. £3 7s to £3 l(ls; heavy porkers, £2 17s to £3 3s; medium, £2 7s to £2 14s; light. £1 15s to £2 Os; medium stores. 32s to 30s Gd; hest weaners, 27s to 20s Gd; medium sorts, 24s to 2Gs: others, IGs to 20s: slips. 2Ss to 31s. G. W. Vercoe and Company, Limited.— Cattle: Heavy fat bullocks. £l4 to £l4 15s; prime medium weights. £l2 10s to £l3 7s (id; prime light weights, £ll 10s to £l2 ss; lighter, to £11; heavy prime cows, £lO to £ll 10s; prime medium weights, £0 to £0 los; medium weights, £S 5s to £8 15s; light. £7 10s to £S 2s Gd; prime mediumweight heifers, £0 5s to £0 15s; well-finished light weights, £8 to £0; light, to £7 15s; heavy fat Jersey cows, £7 los to £8 10s; medium weights, £(i 10s to £7 10s; light, to £G; medium-weight vealers, £2 15s to £3 8s; well-finished lighter weights, £2 to £2 JOs; others, 30s to 38s; rough calves, 10s to 255; forward condition S.horthorn and Friesian cows £4 10s to £3 lj; others, to £4 ss; empty two-year Jersey heifers, to £3 10s; fair quality Jersey yearling heifers, to £3 8s; heavy boners, £3 15s to £4 12s Gd; medium weights, £3 to £3 10s; light, to £3. Sheep: Heavy prime wethers, 31s to 345; prime medium weights, 2Ss to 30s Gd; prime light weights, 24s to 2Gs Gd; lighter, 22s Od to 23s Gd; unfinished, to 225; heavy prime ewes. 25s to 275; heavy, 23s to 24s (id; medium weights, 10s to 225; lighter, to 17s Gd; killable, to 15s; prime medium-weight hoggets, 24s to 25s Gd; medium weights, 22s to 23s Gd; well-finished light weights. 10s to 21s; others, to 18s; killable, to IGs Gd; good store hoggets, to Us. Pigs: Heavy baconers, £3 12s to £3 17s; medium weights, £3 Gs to £3 lis; light. £3 Is to £3 ss; heavy porkers, £2 15s to £3; medium weights, £2 10s to £2 l-ls; light. £2 to £2 9s: choppers,' to £3 10s; large stores, £2 2s to £2 7s; smaller, 3Ss to £2 Is; good slips, 31s to 375; others/ 2Ss /to 335; best weaners, 25s to 30s; medium, 22s to 24s Gd; others, ISs to 21s; sows in pig, to £G. Dalgety and Company, Limited.—Sheep: Heavy prime fat wethers, to 27s Gd; mediumweight fat wethers, 21s to 25s Od; lighterweight. fat wethers, 21s to 22s Gd; prime Southdown wethers, 20s Gd; prime Southdown maiden ewes, to 20s; medium Southdown maiden ewes, IGs Od; heavy fat ewes, to 21s Od; medium fat ewes, IGs to 17s (id; light fat ewes, 12s 6d; heavy fat lambs, prime, to 21s; medium, 17s to 18s Gd; storo lambs, 8s to 10s. Cattle:' Heavy prime bullocks, £l3 to £l4 1 Os; prime bullncks, £lO to £l2; light, £S 5s to, £0 7s Gd; heavy prime Polled Angus heifers, £0 15s to £lO lis; lightor, £7 7s Gd to £8 12s Gd; heavy fat cows, £8 to £8 17s Gd;' medium, £fi 10ff to £7 15s; heavy boners, £2 :18s to £3 12s; medium, £1 18s to £2 1.1s; light, 12s Gd to £1 15s; prime vealers, £3 to £4 10s; smaller, £1 10s to £2 7s Gd. Pjgs: Medium baconers, £3 Gs to £3 lis; light, £3 to £3 (is; heavy porkers to buttermilk nigs, £2 12s to £3 2s; medium porkers, £2 3s to £2 8s; light. 38s to £2 3s; best store pigs, £2 to £2 4s; medium, 32s to £2; small, 2(is to 325; best slips. 22s to 28s; medium, 18s to 225; best weaners. 25s to 28s Gd; medium, 20s to 2os; small, 15s to 20s.

Wright, Stephenson anil Company, Limited. —Sheep: Prime (at wethers, 25s to '27s fid; medium, 23s (id to 24s Od; prime fat ewes, 15s to 17s fid; medium, 12s to lis 3d; lighter, to 10s; prime shorn wethers, 24 s to 2.'»s 0d; medium, 22s fid to 23s fid. Cattle: Prime fat cows, £7 10s to £S 15s; medium, £0 5s to £7: heavy boner cows, £3 15s to £4 ss; medium, £3 to £3 12s fid; lighter and culls, down to 30s. Pigs: Heavy baconers, £3 Os to £3 13s; medium, £3 3s to £3/ 7s; heavy porkers, £2 7s to £2 12s; medium, £2 Is to £2 ss; light, 33s to £2; largo storo pigs, 27s to 335; medium, 22s fid to 2fis; small store pigs and weaners, ISs fid to 255; choppers, £2 5s to £2 10s.

Newton King, Limited.—CattSo: Primo fat Polled Angus bullocks, £ll 15s to £l2 ss; others, £ll to £ll 10s; lighter, £lO 10s to £lO 17s fid; best fat cows. £S to £9 ss; others, £7 10s to £7 Ifis; lighter, £5 10s to £0 15s. Sheep: Primo fat, wethers, 27s fid to 28s 3d;, others, 2fis fid to 27s 3d; lighter, 25s to 25s Od: best fat owes, 25s (id to 25s 9d, others, 23s fid to 245; lighter, 21s to 21s Od; fat. hoggets. 20s to 21s fid; lighter, 10s Od to 17s Od. Pigs: Heavy prime baconers, £3 5s to £3 8s; medium. £3 2s to £3 4s; light, £2 18s to £3 Is; heavy porkers and butter-milk pigs, £2 10s to £2 10s; medium porkers, £2 2s to £2 8s; light, £2 to £2 2s; largo stores, 35s to 38s Od; slips, 80s to. 32s Od; weaners, 17s Od to 20s Od.

WAIHI REALISATIONS Tho Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company. Limited, reports having held a successful clearing salo at Waihi on behalf of Mrs. A. Costello. The herd came forward in not tho best of condition, but in spite of this fact, competition from a medium bench of buyers was spirited, and a very satisfactory average resulted. Realisations were:— Jersey dairy cows, in milk, £0 5s to £10; Shortii'orn cows in milk, £5 to £7 10s: Jersey cows, close to profit, AMI 10s to .£l3 15s: Shorthorn cows, close to profit., ili) to £l2 ss; Jersey cows, later culvers, £7 to £10; Shorthorn cows, later culvers, £5 10s to £7 15s; more backward, £3 10s to £5. CLEARANCE AT TE POI Tho Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports having held a clearing sale in conjunction with tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, on behalf of Mr. \V. Findlay, To Pol. when the cattle were offered to a bench of buyers representative of the Waikato and Bay of Plenty districts. Competition for tho herd of cows, half of which had calved, was keen and a satisfactory sale resulted. Young Jersey cows, in milk, made t'H io £ll ss; lower-conditioned Jersey cows in milk. £0 to £8; good young springing Jersey cows, £lO 10s to £l3 10s; later calvers, £7 10s to £0 ss; two-year Jersey heifers, in milk, £8 to £MO; springing. £8 to £lO ss; smaller. £0 to £7 ss; breeding sows, £4 15s to £5 15s.