STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23429, 19 August 1939, Page 9

STOCK SALES

MOBRINSVILLE VALUES DAIRY CATTLE EASIER BACONERS MAKE TO £3/18/Tlie Farmers' Co-onerative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports that at the Morrinsville isale there was a medium yarding of fat sheep, comprising mostly fat hoggets, for which late rates wore maintained, while a few pens of fat w'ethers sold readily. Cattle.—Thero was a full yarding of all classes. The offering of beef, which comprised fat cows and heifers, showed a sharp rise in value, with boner cows remaining firm at late rates. Satisfactory prices were realised for store cattle, including several pens of 6toro bullocks. Dairy cattle: There was again a large yarding, including many pens of heifers. Owing to adverse weather most of tho entry comprised imiall and backward sorts. Although a fair bench of buyers was present and any well-grown heifers were sought, generally speaking the tone of tho market was easier, and prices lower than last week's quotations. 'Die advertised herd of dairy cows, although not in tho best of condition, was more keenly sought, and realised satisfactory priceij. Pigs: A medium yarding of fat pigs, and a full entry of stores and weaners, came forward. Competition for baconers, porkers and buttermilk pigs was very keen, with values fully up to recent quotations. In the store section bidding was also brisk for good store pigs, but weaners were slightly wisier of sale. A good entry of breeding sows sold at satisfactory prices. Quotations:—Sheep: Heavy prime wethers, to 28s Od; light fat wethers, 22s to 2ls Od; prime black-face mutton,, to 21s Od; fat ewes, 20s; prime woolly hoggets, 21s to 235; medium fat hoggets, 30s to 19s (Id; light, 15s (id to 17s (id. Cattle: Heavy Friesian cows, to £3.0 7s; heavy Jersey and Jersey-cross heifers, .C 79s to £8 2s; medium Jersey heifers, £5 15s to £G 12s Gd; light Jersey heifers, £3 10s to £4 15s; heavy Jersey cows, £7 5s to jCS; medium, £5 10s to £G 15s; light, £4 Os to £4 18s; heavy boner cows, £3 10s to £4 4s; medium, £2 15s to £3 ss; light, 35s to £2 8s; cull cows, 15s to 27s Gd; empty two-year Jersey heifers, ,C2 Gs to £3 2s Gd; empty two-year Friesiaii heifers, £3 -Is to £3 8s; three and four-year Polled Angus and Hertford steers, £8 lis to £8 18s; threeyear Hereford steers, £$ Is; two and a-half to three-year Polled Angus steers, to £7 2s Go. Dairy cattle: Choice heifers, £l2 to £l2 15s; good Jersey heifers,-£lO to £ll 10s; others, £8 5s to £0 10s; more backward, £C to £7 10s; small and weedy, £-1 to £5 10s: Shorthorn heifers, £8 to £0 10s; Jersey cows, up to £ll 10s; good Jersey cows, £8 10s to £lO. Pigs: Choppers, £2 to £3 Os; best baconers, £3 15s to £3 18s; medium, £3 10s to £3 14s; light, £3 4s to £3 8s; buttermilk pigs and heavy porkers, £2 16s to £3 3s; medium porkers, £2 10s to £2 14s; light, £2 4s to £2 8s; good quality largo stores, 37s Gd to £2 is Gd; largo stores, 33s Gd to 35s Gd; medium, 28s Gd to 31s Gd; slips, 25s Gd to 30s Gd; best weaners, 23s Gd to 2Gs Gd; others, 17s Gd to 21s Gd; smaller 12s to 15s: breeding sows, £3 10s to £5; sows with litters, £7 to £7 ss. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports a lighter yarding of fat and sitoro cattle, but . this shortage was compensated for by the higher prces realised, particularly fat Jersey cows, which reached £7 ss. The market for yearlings was duller than at other centres, although this section comprised a good share of the yarding. Dairy stock were yarded, in smaller numbers, prices being in keeping with other sales. The advertised line of heifers from "Waipukurau was yarded in poor condition direct from tho railway. Good .fat Jersey, cows made £G Gs to £7 ss; medium fat Jersey cows, £4 ]ss to £5 12s Gd; fat Jerseys. £3 18s to £4 12s: heavy boners, £3 to £L> 15s; light, £2 2s to £2 lfis; good quality dairy cows, £3 ISs to £4 10s; smaller, £2 15s to £3 ss; extra choice dairy heifers, close to profit, £ll to £l3: Jater cnlvers, £8 10s to £lO ss; backward heifers, £7 JOS to £8; medium quality cows, £8 to £S 15s; backward cow*:, £G 15s to £7 10s. Dalgety and Company, Limited, reports a small yarding of both sheep and cattle. Although no prime beef was yarded competition for fair quality Jersey cows and heifers was particularly keen. In the sheep sections two _pens of heavy prime wethers from Mr. L. H. Larner, liiwitahi, made £1 3s 3d and £1 Gs; medium fat Shorthorn cows, £6 14s to £8 14s; heavy fat Jersey cows, £6 4s to £~ 12s Gd; 'medium, £5 to £5 18s; heavy boners £3 to £3 16s; medium, £1 18s to £2 17s 6d; light, 15s to £1 17s 6d; yearling Jersey heifers, good quality, £4 ss; smaller, jta 7s to £3 12s 6d. Dairy cattle: Competition was not as keen as last week, but young cows and heifers close to profit met with a good demand. Springing Jersey heifers,. £8 to £0 ss; smaller and moire backward sorts, £6 30s to £7 15s; Jersey cows, close to calving, £7 to £8 10s; later culvers, £5 10s to £7 10s TE AWA3VIUTU ENTRY . JERSEY COWS TO £ 12/5/-

Dalgety and Company, Limited, reports having held the tri-weekly sale at Te Awamutn. A large yarding of cattle and a small yarding of sheep came forward. There was a very animated sale for beef, prices being right up on a par with Westfield values. A feature of the entry was a pen of prime heavy bullocks on account of Mrs. M. Moorhead, which realised from £ls to* £l6 12s 6d, and pens of lighter prime quality Polled Angus bullocks from the Tokanui Mental Hospital, which sold after keen bidding at prices ranging from £ll 15s to £l4 2s (id. Cowsi and heifers from the* estate of Mr. G. O. Bayley made from £9 to £lO 15s. Equally good prices were obtained for entries of prime cattle from Messrs. Jacob and Williams, Mr. J. T. Young and Mr. Alf Kay. Sheep: Prime fat wethers made £1 9s to £1 lis; store lambs, 10s. Cattlo: Heavy prime fat bullocks made £ls to £l6 12s Gd: lighter prime, £ll 15s to £l4 2s 6d; prime fat heifers, £9 to £lO 15s; heavy prime cows. £S 5s to £9 10s; lighter, £6 10s to £7 17s 6d; heavy boners. £3 to £3 17s; medium, £1 18s to £2 17s Gd; lighter, 15s to £1 15s. Dairy cattle: In a very heavy market,' bidding was brisk for good quality sorts close to profit, but as is usual this year backyard sorts were slow of sale. Young Jersey cows, close to profit, made £lO 5s to £l2 ss;; others. £8 to £9 ss; more backward sorts, £5 to £6 15s; Jersey-Shorthorn-cross cows," £9 15s to £ll ss; Jer-sey-Shorthorn-cross cows, more backward. £5 10s to £7 15s; Holstetn-cross cows, £7 10s to £lO 15s; backward, £4 10s to £6 ss; calved cows, £G 10s to £8 15s; springing Jersey heifers, close to profit. £lO 15s to £l2 ss; more backward, £6 10s to £8 ss; Jersey-Shorthorn-cross heifers. £8 to £lO ss; Jersey-Holstein-cross heifers, £7 5s to £9 ss; more backward, £5 10s to £6 15s; calved heifers. £8 5s to £9; others, £5 to £6 10s. Pigs: There was a good yarding of fat pigs with an exceptionally heavy yarding of stores, the competition throuc:hout beinc slightly easier than at late sales. The advertised boars on account of Mr. Rushbrook attracted keen competition. Medium heavy baconers made £3 Gs to £3 14s; light, £2 18s to £3 Gs; heavy buttermilk pigs, £2 10s to £2 ISs; heavy porkers, £2 to £2 10s; medium, £1 15s to £2; large stores to light porkers, £1 10s to £1 18s; medium stores, £1 5s to £1 10s; small stores, £1 to £1 ss; choice slips, £1 10s to £1 16s Gd; good, £1 5s to £1 10s; medium, £1 to £1 os; best weaners, £1 to £1 ss; medium, 15s to £1; small, 10s to 15s; sows to furrow. £3 10s to £5 2s Gd; advertised lino of Tamworth boars, 7y ? gns to 7/igns; Berkshire boars, sgns to TOgns. MARKET AT PUKEKOHE [from our own .correspondent] PUKEKOHE, Friday Two purebred Jersey cows, sold on account of Mr. T. A. Millear,, of Tuakau, realised lOgns and 20gns respectively at the weekly stock salo at Pukckohis conducted b.v Alfred Buckland and Sons, Limited. The yarding of dairy 'cattlo was exceptionally large, and sold to a largo bench of buyers. Quality sorts evoked keon competition, but tho interest in poorer sorts was not so great. Beef and boner cattlo camo forward in less than avcrago numbers, and sold under keen competition at values on a . par with recent rates. No extra heavy fat cattlo were received. Fat pigs, of which there was an avorago yarding, sold to "a keen demand at values equal to late rates, baconers averaging from 6%d to 7d per lb, dressed weight, and porkers to 7 1 / J d. Store pigs wero received in large numbers. They met a slack demand, and prices were slightly lower than those obtained earlier ill the month. Choico dairy hoifers, close to profit, mado £ll to £l3 15s; good, £0 to £lO 10s; good, but backward, £<> 10s to; £S; small tnd backward. £3 to £5 10s: best dairy cows, in milk or close to profit. £lO to £l2; good, £S to' £0 10s; good, but backward. £6 to £7 10s; aged, inferior and unsound dairy cows. £2 to £4 10s; primo heavy fat cows and heifers, £9 5s to £9 ISs: medium. £8 to £S 12s Gd; light, £."> 2s Gd io £7 os; other killablo cows and heifers. £3 2s 6.1 to £4 17s 6d; light fat steers £5 5s to £7 12s 6d; heavy boner cows, £3 los to .14 7s; light, 10s to £3; store cows, £3 5s to £o 2s Gd: vearling Jersey heifers, £2 to £'- 19s; bulls, £2 15s to £5 17s 6d. In pigs, choppers realised £2 to £3 ss; medium baconers, to £4 Is; light, £3 8s to £3 16s: heavy porkers, £2 ISs to £3 4s, medium, £2 9s to £2 14s; light. £2 3s to £2 7s; small and unfinished, £1 15s to £2; beset stores, £1 IGs to £2 4s; smaller, £1 10s to £1 13s; slips. £1 4s to £1 8s; good weaners, 113s to £1 4s; others. 8s to 14s; sows with litters, £S 15s to £l- - sows duo to farrow, £3 10s to £G 10s.

NORTH AUCKLAND VALUES [from oun own correspondent] WHAjSTGAREI, Friday The North Auckland Farmers' Co-operative, Limited, reports holding a successful clearing salo on account of Mr. H. R. "Watts, of Kaitaia. The attendance was good and the bidding keen. Dairy cows sold at prices ranging from .CO to £8; two-year-old heifers, up to £7 15s; yearling heifers, up to £2 10a. Walter Wakelin reports a highly successful salo at Kanio, when a largo entry of pigs and a medium entry of dairy cattle met with a spirited demand. The sale of pigs was easily the best held in the north for a considerable time. Large stores made as high as £2 fis 3d, while wjeancrs on account, of Messrs. J. H. Heath, Aponga, and J. F. White, Ivamo, realised OOs and 2Ss 3d respectively. Practic-

ally all the large stores were purchased for the. Waikato, leaving local buyers .to compete strongly for tho smaller class pigs. A_total : g clcarance resulted in the pig section. Dairy! cows and heifers,' showing quality and close to calving, sold readily, the best realisation being £i) 10s for a choice Jersey cow. .Other sales of good springers were in the vicinity of £7. The line of Shorthorn dairy heifers, on account of Mr. H. Hutchinson. Glenbcrvie. came forward in good order. The close-up heifers sold up to £6 ss, while the backward ones were passed in. Dairy cattle: Best cows, close to calving, made from £6 10s -to- £9 10s; good quality backward cows, £4 10s to £6 10s; Jersey heifers, close to profit, £6 to £8; small and backward heifers. £4 5s to £5 los; cows and heifers, in milk, £2 to £G; Shorthorn dairy heifers, £6 to-£6 ss; Shorthorn dairy cows, £5 to £5. 10s; fat Jersey cows, £5 7s Gd; small yearling Jersoy heifers. £2 10s to £3 ss; boner cows, £l> lis Gd to £2 10s; boner bulls, to £5 10s. _ Pigs: Porkers, £2 15s; large stores. £2 to£2 Os 3d; medium stores. 34s to 395; small.stores and good slips, 38s to 355; medium" slips, 21s to 27s Gd; best weaners, ISs to 24s 6d; medium quality sows, £4 to £5 ss^ BACONERS TO £4/1/[BY TELEGRAPH —OWN" CORRESPOXDEN-T] . TE PUKE, Friday - jj; The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports a large yarding of , pigs and a medium entry of cattle at Te - Puke. The entry of buttermilk and store pigs was of good quality and bidding for. these classes was very keen from a large bench of buyers, five trucks having been despatched on account of Waikato buyers. Prices for all classes of pigs showed an ■ upward tendency and practically a total clearance was effected. In the cattle section no beef was yarded. The entry of fresh-conditioned -and boner cows sold at par values. A fair entry of dairy cattle sold readily* at keen values. Pigs: fiaconers made £3 12s to £4 Is; large and good quality buttermilk pigs, £3 3s to £3 Gs; medium buttermilk pigs and heavy porkers, £2 34s to £2 19s; small buttermilk pigs and light porkers, £2 2s to £2 1-s; large, good quality stores, £1 1/s to medium-sized, £1 Us to £1 lGs; small and poor-conditioned, £1 7s to £1 9s; Slips, £1 4s to £1 Gs Gd; weaners, 18s Gd to £1 Is; sows to farrow, £3 10s to £5. Cattle: Freshconditioned cows, £3 Gs to £3 12s; boner cows, £2 to £3 Is Gd; Jersey-cross dairy cows, close to profit, £8 15s to £lO ss; later •; calvers, £5 30s to £7; backward and unsound, • £2 10s to £5; small and late calving heifers,' £3 10s to £5. TANGOWAHINE OFFERING [BY TKLEGKAPII OWN CORRESPONDENT] DARGAV.ILLE, Friday ' Walter Wakelin reports a successful sale., at Tangowahine, when the advertised numbers came forward and sold under keen competition to a good attendance of buyers. Large | stores, the majority of which went to thoWaikato, realised £2 7s Gd, while best weaners, on account of Mr. G. McKay realised £1 10s Gd; medium porkers, '£2 5s to £2 15s; light porkers, £1 15s to £2 5s Gd; large stores, £2 to £2 7s Gd;.medium, stores, £1 35s to £2; good slips, and small stores, £1 9s to £1 345; best weaners, iK 5s to £1 12s Gd: other wtuin j rs, 17s to 24s;'; breeding sows. £3 Gs to £5 ss. ji COMPETITION . AT OHAEAWAI J [from our own correspondent! WHANGAREI, Friday # Dalgety and Company, Limited, reports a good yarding at the Ohaenwai sale, when all classes" of cattle were in demand, and practicallv the whole yarding changed hands nt? satisfactory prices. There was a large attend-;, ance of buyers, including some from the Wajv, kato. Springing cows made from £G 7s Gd;, to £G 12s Gd; more backward, £5 to £o 17s i3d; springing heifers, £5 10s to £5 17s, Gd; more backward, £4 to £4 10s;-medium, fat cows. £5 5s to £G 16s; light fat bnk\, locks, £7 36s to £S 7s; boner cows, £1 15s to £4, according to weight; weaner 335-to 355; slips, 21s Gd to 275; store pigs;--33s to 355. . <-> - * " V ■ ; J . - MANGAWHARE OFFERING- f [by telegraph—owx correspondent] - DARGAVILLE. Friday £. ■ A large yarding of springers and a medium yarding of fat and store cattle came forward,at the Mangawhare sale conducted" by the • North • Auckland Farmers' Co-operative, Limited. Prices for fat cattle showed no appreciable increase, and quality was not; . first class. There was a good demand for any close up cows and heifeTs showing;, quality. Fat cows made £6 10s to" £7 15s;ji medium prime, £5 5s to £6 ss; light, £4." to £5 ss; heavy boner cows, £2 10s to £3 10s; potters, £1 to 85s; sound close, up quality dairy cows, £8 ISs to £lO 10s;; medium quality, £6 to£7 10s; backward and inferior, £4 to £5 ss; cows in milk, £5 to., £7; best quality springing heifers, £6 10sV to £S 10s; backward and inferior, £4 10s to £5 10s; yearling Jersey heifers,- medium quality, £2 2s Gd to £2 15s; small,-25s to-. 355; bulls, £4 to £5 10s/ , \/f MARKET AT FEILDING I

[ill* TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] !•'" / FEILDIXG, Friday ■»- Owing to the severe shortage very high'' prices were paid for fat ewes and wethers at tie Feilding stock sale. Fat ewes made, up to- 29s 6d and fat wethers to 275. Prices for :fat hoggets were rattier Jower. Primest .■ fat hoggets made 20s 7<l; fair Jambs, 17s, Id to ISs; poor, from 15s; very prime fat wethers, 275; fairly good pens, 21s 6d to 23s Gd; unfinished pens, 17s to IBs Id; primest fat ewes, 25s Gd to 26s Sd; very special pen, 29s 6d; good pens, 23s 3d to 23s '3d; fair, from ISs; prime hoggets, 225. In the store sheep section there was a,small yarding and little demand. Mixed-age ewes made 21s 2d; two-tooth ewes, 26s 7d; wether hoggets, 10s 2d to 13s. 0:t store cattle there was a fair yarding. Good, three-year Polled Angus steers made £7 7s (3d; yearling Polled Angus steers, £2 16s; two-year, £3 16s to £5 16s; Polled Angus heifers; £3 12s; 'Hereford Polled Angus-cross steers, £3 18s; Hereford Polled Angus-cross cows, £3 12s; Hereford steers, yearlings, £5 16s; two-year, £5 Us. A heavy yarding of dairy cattle met with a keen demand. Forward heifers made . £9 os to £lO 15s; late calvers, £7 5s to' £S £s-6d;~second calvers, forward condition, £8 15s la/£9: springing cows, £7 to £10„ In tlie fat cattle section there was a Email-' yarding and a fair sale. Fat Heteford cows' made £5 8s to £7 ss; Polled Aukus cows, prime, £S 14s; Red Poll cows, good quality, £6 J.ss to £7 ss. . ,/i . OFFERING AT MATIERE j' : [BY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT} TAUMARUNUI, Friday Dalgety and Company, Limited, reportsthat at the Matiere stock sale there was af . good yarding of sheep. Competition was, been, prices all round showing advances on previous local realisations. The cattlo offered consisted mostly of dairy cows-and heifers. All good sorts wero keenly competed for by Taranaki, Waiikato and local buyers. Back»,i ward and inferior sorts' were not sought. A full yarding of pigs changed hands at ruling rates. Sheep: Mixed-aged ewes, been running;; with Southdown and Romney rams, ISs 3a to 20s 3d; mixed-aged ewes with'lambs at foot, 21s 9d; fat and forward wethers, 21s Gd; store two and four-tooth wethers, 175,,. 4d to ISs Sd; medium ewe hoggets, 3d; medium wether, hoggets. 13s 7d to 14s 2d. ; - Cattle: Best in-calf dairy cows, £7 10s to £9 !2s Gd; heifers, £6 to £8 15s; cows, in milk, £6 5s to £7 15s; store cows, £2 17s 6d to £4 17s Gd. Pigs: Sow with litter,''> £9; stores, £1 13s to £1 IGs; slips, £1" Is to £1 lis; weaners, £1 to £1 3s. ' COMPETITION AT WAIHOU Tho Farmers' Co-operative "Auctioneering' Company, Limited, reports having held tho, Waihou stock sale, when a full yartling of all classes of cattle was penned. The beef entry comprised mostly fat Jersey cows and hcifors, prices for which remained firm onrecent quotations. Store and boner cows ais6 ; maintained late rates. Dairy cattle: There was a good entry of cows and heifers with competition for forward quality heifers very keeri, prices realised being fully up to recent sales. Pigs: A good yarding of all classes camo forward, consisting mostly of . stores and weaners. Bidding for baconers and porkers was steady, values remaining; fully _ cqusl to recent quotations. Competition, m the storo section was very brisk, and prices shoved a marked improvement on late sales. Cattle: Heavy Shorthorn and Jersey cows made £7 to *£7 10s; medium Jersey cows,; £0 to £0 15s; light, £4 12s to £5 95;.-. medium Jersey heifers, £5 12s bd to £6 Is- light. £4 10s to £5; heavy boner cows,.. £3 SvS to £4 ss; medium, £2 10s to £3 3s; - light 35s to £2 ss; cull cows. 10s SO 2oS; : : empty two-year Jersey heifers, £2 to £2 16s; - choice yearling Jersey, heifers, £3 los tq_ £4 is; medium quality, £2 2s to £2 1?5;... othe:: yearling heifers. 20s to 365. Dairy cattle: Quality forward Jersey heifers £ll 10s to £l3 15s; others, £S to £11; backward, £4 10s to £7 ss; Jersey heifers, in milk, £9 5s to £ll 15s; others, £o to £8 10s. Pigs: Medium to heavy 'baconers, £3 9s to £3 15s; light baconers, £3 4s to £3 6s; buttermilk pigs and heavy porkers, £2 17s to £3 Is: light porkers, £2 8s to £2 9s; good quality large stores, 39s 6d to £2 4s; others. 33s Gd to 36s Gd; medium stores, 28s Gd to 31s Gd; slips, 25s to 275: best., weaners, ,25s to 27s Gd; others, —Os to 22s Gd; smaller, 10s to ISs; sows and young,£7 2s Gd to £B. KATIKATI REALISATIONS ... [BY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] TE PUKE, Friday p ;. v Tho Farmers' Co-operativo Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports a good yarding of cattlo at the Ivatikati sale. Tho small entry of fat cows was in keen demand and forward-conditioned and boner cows realised par values. Dairy cattle were rather dull of sale, but most of the vendors met tho „ market. A small yarding of store pigs sold - well under keen competition. Fat Hereford '• and Shorthorn cows made £7 15s to £9; light fat Jersey cows, £5 7s to £5 12s Gd; fresh-conditioned cows, £4 to £4 10s; boner cows, £2 5s to £3 12s; poor-conditionfed, £1 v 3s to £1 13s; empty two-year heifer.v £2 5s to £2 lis; springing Jersey-cross heifers, £5 10s to £0 15s; small and backward, £ os to £5; dairy cows, due September, £o| to £6 10s; late calvers. £3 5s to £4 1 . Pigs: Good stores, £1 10s to £1 l is; slips, £1 55 to £1 9s 6d; weaners, £1 3s; small,J 83. " -