COUNTRY STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23486, 25 October 1939, Page 5

COUNTRY STOCK SALES

ERANKTON QUOTATIONS _____ I BEEF PRICES EASIER BACONERS MAKE TO £4 [fiiom our own correspondent] ** HAMILTON", Tuosday ' There was another largo entry of ox and cow beef at the Frankton stock sale to-day, values for both classes being slightly -easier. Boner cows were also penned in Jarge numbers and ruling rates were maintained. Values for a medium yarding of store cattlo were slightly easier. Fat sheep eaino forward in largo numbers, but prices woro lowor, compared with last week's rates. Fat lambs sold readily ami storo sheep maintained lato rates. Steady competition was met by a smaller yarding of baconcr and porker pigs, and values were equal to recent quotations. Storo pigs wero in keen demand. Auctioneers quote:— Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited.—-Shocp: Heavy prime woolly wethers, to 335; light, to 'J5s 3d; heavy shorn wethers, 27s to 28s; medium, 25s to 20s (Id; light and unfinished, HQs to tills Oil; prime woolly ewes, 25s 3d; shorn. 208 to 'JIs Od; medium, 17s Od to 10s; light and unfinished, Ms to Ids till; dinner owes, 5s (Id to 3 Is; fat lambs, 23s (id to 28s; ewe hoggets, 21s to iMs; wether hoggets, lis to 18s Cd; store, wethers, 13s to 18s; young store ewes, 15s (id. Cattle: Heavy prime bullocks, £l3 37s Od to £l4 15s; medium, £l.l His to £l3 Is; light, £0 10s to £lO 17s (Id; heavy prime Polled Angus cows, £lo' to £11; medium, £9 to £ll 9s; fat cows, £7 4s to £8 -Is; medium, £5 10s to £0 18s; fat Jersey cows, £0 15s to £7 3 ss; medium, £5 5s to £(> 7s; heavy boner cows, £3 ISs to £1 ss; medium, £2 l'ls to £3 12s; light and killable cows, 3-ls to £2 lis; dairy cows, in milk, £0; two-year bulls, £8 to £10; two-year Polled Angus and Shorthorn steers, £5 8s to £5 Ids; mixed sex Hereford yearlings, £2 7s (id. Pigs: Best baconers, £3 Ids to £3 1 f»s; medium, £3 10s to £3 Ms; light, £3 3s to £3 8s; heavy porkers ami butter-milk pigs, £2 15s to £3 Is; medium, £2 lis to C2 13s; good quality large stores, 37s (Id to £2 Is; medium, 33s to 35s Od; good slips, 30s to 30s; others, 21s Od to 27s Od; best wcaners, 25s to 2Ss Od; others, 15s to 21s.' Cr. W. Vereoo and Company, Limited. — Cattle: Heavy prime bullocks, £ls to £10; prime medium weights, £l3 to £l4; prime, light, £ll 10s to £l2 10s; others, to £11; light-weight Jersey-cross bullocks, to £9 12s Od; heavy fat cows, £9 5s to £lO 4s; prime medium weights, £8 10s to £9; medium weights, £7 15s to £8 7s Od; light, to £7 10s; prime light-weight heifers, £8 10s to £9.105; others, to £8 ss;, heavy fat Jersey cows, £0 15s to £7 10s; medium weights, i.'s 10s to £0 10s; light, to £5 ss; light runners, to £4 17s; heavy vealers, £3 15s to £1 10s; medium weights, £3 to £3 32s (id; light, £2 to £2 15s; small calves, to 355; store conditioned two-year Polled Angus steers, to £7; yearling Polled Angus steers, to £1 lis; yearling crossbred steers, to £3 10s; yearling Polled Angus heifers, to £3 ss; small crossbred heifers, to £2 ss; yearling Jersey heifers, to £4 10s; empty two-year Jersey heifers, to £1; forward conditioned Shorthorn and Friesian cows. £5 to £5 15s; others, to £4 12s Od; heavy honors, £3 15s to £4 10s; medium weights, £3 to £3 12s Od; light, to £2 15s; potter bulls, to £8; fair quality dairy cows (early calvcrs), £8 10s to £9 10s; more backward, to £7 15s; inforlor, to £0 30s; fair quality .Jersey and Jersey-cross heifers (early calvers), £8 to £8 15s; more backward, to £7 10s. Sheep: Heavy prime woolly wethers, 30s to 31s; well-finished medium weights, 2Ss to 29s Od; light, to 275; prime maiden woolly ewes, 27s to 30s; others, to 20s; heavy prime shorn wethers, 27s to 2Ss Od; prime medium weights. 25s to 2GS Od; well-finished light weights, 21s to 21s Od; killable, 22s to 23s (id; unfinished, to 2!s; heavy prime shorn ewes. 20s to 225; medium weights, 18s to 19s Od; light, to 17s; heavy fat woolly ewes, 23s to 255; lighter, 20s to 22s Od. Pigs: Heavy baconers, £3 15s to £3 19s; medium weights, £3 10s to £3 Ms; light, £3 5s to £3 9s; heavy porkers, £2 15s to £3; medium weights, £2 10s to £2 14s; light, £2 2s to £2 Os; choppers, to £3 Ms; large stores, £2 8s to £2 I Is; smaller, £2 to £2 7s; best slips, 35s to 395; smaller, 30s to 345; best wcaners, 28s to 31s; medium, 25s to 275; smaller, to 245; sows, in pig (fair quality), to £5 3 os.

Dalget.v and Company, Limited.—Cattle: Store Polled Angus bullocks, £8 lis to £9; prime fat bullocks, heavy, £33 10s to £ll 17s Od; lighter, £ll 10s to £l2 ss; prime heavy cows, £S 10s to £9 15s; prime fat heifers, .CD 15s to £lO 17s Od; heavy boners, £3 5s to £1; medium, light, £2 5s to t'J- 17s <id; lighter, 25s to 37s Od; good quality yearling Jersey heifers, £4 35s to .Co 4s; others, £2 12s Od to £3 ss. Sheep: Heavy fat woolly wethers, 28s Od to 29s 3d; medium, 20s to 27s Od; heavy fat wethers, 20s Od to 2Ss 3d; medium, 23s to 24s G<i; light and unfinished. 19s to 21s Od; heavy fat woolly ewes, 24s to 29s Od; medium. 22s to 235; heavy fat shorn ewes, 20s to 225; medium, 10s to 18s; fat shorn blackfaced hoggets, 18s to 225; spring lamb, 23s to 20s Ud; store wethers. 10s to ISs Od; ewes and lambs, all counted, Us. Pigs: Heavy baconers, £3 15s. to £4; medium, £3 10s to £3 15s; light. £3 "5s to £3 1()S; butter-milk pigs, £2 18s to £3 ss; good quality porkers. £2 10s to £2 15s; medium, £2 5s to £2 10s; others. £2 to £2 ss; choppers, to £3 Us; largo stores, £2 to £2 7s Od; medium. 35s to £2; others, 30s to 355; best slips, 25s to 30s; medium, 22s to 255; others, 18s to 225; best wcaners, 23s to 295; medium, ISs to 225; others, 10s to ISs; boars, to £3 12s. Xcwton King, Limited.—Fat sheep: Best prime fat wethers, woolly. 2Ss to 29s Od; others, 20s to 27s Od; shorn fat wethers, 21s to 20s Od; others. 22s Od to 23s Od; best prime fat ewes, woolly, 25s to 20s 3d; others, 23s to 24s Od; shorn fat ewes, 19s to 22s 3d; others, 17s to 18s Od; fat and forward woolly hoggets, 21s: shorn fat hoggets. 22s Od. Fat cattle: Three-year Polled Angus steers, £S 17s; others. £7 9s to £8 9s; empty two-year Hereford heifers, £1; weaner Polled Angus heifers. 395; weaner Polled Angus steers, to £2 Ms. Boner cattle: Heavy, £4 to £4 13s; medium, £3 -is to £3 17s; light, C2 Is to £3. Pigs: Heavy baconers, £3 15s to £3 18s; medium, £3 Ss to £3 12s; light, £3 2s to £3 (is; heavy porkers and buttermilk pigs, £2 12s to £3; medium porkers, £2 8s to £2 lis; light, £2 to £2 ss; large stores, 35s to 38s; slips, 2Ss to 325; best wen iters, 22s to 275.

THE CITY MARKETS

[ MORE TOMATOES AVAILABLE STRAWBERRY SUPPLIES LARGER There was a good demand for all varieties of apples, Winter Nolis pears and New Zealand grapefruit at the City Markets yesterday. Quantities of hothouse tomatoes are gradually increasing and a fair supply sold freely. After tho warm sunny week-end, quantities of strawberries were much larger. Cabbages and cauliflowers were plentiful, prices being a littlo firmer. Supplies of new potatoes wero much heavier, with values a littlo lowor. Green peas and beans also wero more plentiful. Prices were:— FRUIT Apples, Delicious, 12s to lis a case; Dougherty, Us to 13s Od; Tnsmn, 10s to ISs; Sturmer, I.oslo 13s; pears,-Peter Barry, 12s to las Utl; Winter Nclis, its to 3fis; tomatoes,' hothouse, Is Od to 2s 2d per lb; oranges, Australian, 23s Od lo 27s a ease; grapefruit, New Zealand, extra choice, 11s to las; others, Os to 10s; lemons, according to grade and count, 5s to 17s Oil; bananas, ripe, 20s tid; pineapples, Queensland, 13s to 18s Od: grapes, Cnlifornian, black, 25s to 30s; white, 30s; strawberries. Captain Cook, 2s Od to 3s 3d a chip. FIELD PRODUCE

Asparagus, .tV a d to "Vid '/alb bundles, or Od to Is 2d lib handles; beet, 2s to 8s a dozen; celery, "cooking, (id a. bundle; dessert. Is to Is ltd; carrots. His. to "J.'ls n batf, or 2s .'id to lis it dozen; cauliflowers, 8s to 12s (id a sack; on benches, 2s to ."is a dozen; uibbaßcM. 2s tid to Us (id a sack; on benches, Is Od to 2s (id a dozen; cucumbers, hothouse, .~>s to Os J (Jit; beans, hothouse, nd to Is {-Id per lb; green pens, ."id to lid; kumara.s, Isliiiut, 88s to 38s a cwt; leeks, .'id to (Id a bundle; lottuce, Us to 7 s (id a case; onions, Japanese, 21s a cental, (is a sugar ban; potatoes, now, No. I, liVid to 'i'/jd per lb; No. 2, 1 '/jd to 2'/ a d; Southern, 22s a cwt; pumpkins, choice Triumblc, 82s to .'lS.s'; medium, 22s to 2Ss; parsnips, 5s to 7s (id a hag, or Is (id to 2s a dozen; radish, (id to !>d; rhubarb, .'is to ,"s; spinach, Od to Is tid a dozen; spring onions, Od to Is (id a bundle; swedes, 8s to >ts 8d a bug; turnips. Sd to Is .'ld a dozen. POULTRY Cockerels, heavy breeds, prime, 5 a to 7s each; not prime, 8s to Is; light, prime, 2s to ."is: not prime. 2s to 8s; fat hens, heavy. Is lo ."»s; hsrht. 2s (id to .'is (id; laying hens, heavy, is lo ,Ys; light, 8s to Is; drakes, young prime, Is to (is; smaller, 2s to Ms; old, 2s to 8s; ducks, young, -Is to (Is; old, 2s lo Ms; Reese ."is lo 7s; lurkey hens, ."is 10 7s; gobblers, average price. Is per lb BUTTER AND ECIOS Eggs, hen, first irrade, Is (JVjtl per dozen; R grade, Is l" 3 il; C grnde, ll%rl; duck, first grade, Is B grade, Is .">y,d; C grade, j 11 HdFarmers' butter, Is 2d per Jb. I