COUNTRY STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23507, 18 November 1939, Page 7

COUNTRY STOCK SALES

MORRINSVJIiLE VALUES COW BEEF RATES FIRM KEEN DEMAND FOR BACONERS [from our own correspondent] MORTtINSVILLE, Friday An average yarding of, cattle containing a small entry of cow beef came forward at the Morrinsville stock sale to-day values for most classes being firm at late rates. Boner cows and potter bulls realised prices equal to recent quotations. Yearling Jersey heifers were entered in good numbers, top price being £6 lis. A small offering of ( dairy cattle sold readily at late rates. Bidding was steady for a fair yarding of sheep and a total clearance was effected. Offerings of two-tooth wethers and woolly two-tooth ewes created keen interest. Competition for baconers and porkers was very keen. Prices for a heavy penning of stores and - weaners showed a decline on lato rates. Choppers also sold at reduced prices. Auctioneers quote:— • Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited.—Sheep: Fat two-tooth woolly wethers, 223 3d to 27s Gd; two-tooth woolly ewes, 27s 8d; two-tooth shorn ewes, 21s 3d; fat shorn owes. 14s to 14s 9d; store twotooth wethers, 17s 2d to 10s; smaller, 35s 3d; store hoggets, 12s. Cattle: Heavy fat Shorthorn and Hereford cows, £G 15s to £ i 10s; heavy Friesian cows. £7 12s (id to £8 Is; medium Jersey cows, £5 l'Js to £<; light, £4 15s to £5 ss; medium fat Jersey heifers, £4 10s to £5 15s; heavy boner cows, £2 10s to £4 ss; medium, £2 8s to £3 3s; light, 37s to £2 4s; cull cows, 20s to 30s; heavy potter bulls, £8 7s Gd to £0 16s; medium, £0 to £7 ss; others, £2 15s to £5; best yearling Jersey heifers, £6 lis; good quality yearling Jersey heifers, £5 4s; smaller and mixed-coloured heifers, £3 5s to £4 9s; inferior quality, £2 10s; small yearling Polled Angus and Hereford-cross steers, •-'(is to £2; small Polled Angus and Herefordcross heifers, £2 to £2 Gs. Dairy cattle: Jersey springing heifers, £8 10s to £lO 10s; Jersey-cross springing heifers, £0 5s to £7 2.5 (id; heifers in milk, £0 to £0; springing dairy cows, £7 10s to £9; best Jersey cows in milk, £8 15s to £lO 15s; medium, £4 10s to £(> 10s. Pigs: Heavy choppers, £2 iGs to £3 13s; others, £2 to £2 14s; top-weight baconers, £4 Is to £4 4s; heavy baconers, £3 17s to £4; medium, £3 10s to £3 15s: light, £3 4s to £3 8s; buttermilk pigs and heavy porkers, £2 1 (is to £3 3s; medium porkers, £2 10s to £2 14s; light, £2 4s to £2 8s; extra large-framed store pigs, £2 to £2 3s; large stores, 33s to 38s; slips. 24s to 31s; good weaners, 20s to 255; others, 12s Gd to lGs Gd.

Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited. —Medium fat Jersey steers, £7 10s to £8 2s (id; small crossbred steers, £5 10s to £5 15s; fat Jersey heifers, £G to £0 7s Gd; medium quality, £4 15s to £5 3 0s; light-weight. £3 30s to £4 ss; heavy fat Jersey cows, £G to £6 12s Gd; medium fat cows, £5 2s (id to £5 17s. Gd; heavy boner cows, £4 7s (id to £5; medium, £3 5s to £4 ss; light, £2 oS.to £3 10s: others, from 30s to £-2; cows with calves at foot, £3 "10s to £4 18s; heavy potter bulls, £7 to £7 10s; medium-weight, £G to £0 15s; others, £4 10s to £5 15s; empty two-year-old Jersey heifers, £3 to £3 12s fid; others, £2 10s to £2 15s; medium quality yearling Jersey heifers, £3 10s to £4; medium-weight baconers, £3 Gs to £3 10s; heavy porkers, £2 10s to £2 17s; medium, £■l to £2 8s; lifcht. 34s to 38s; good buttermilk piKS, £2 17s to £3 3s; good store pigs, 25s to 30s; medium, Kis to 225; fat hoggets, £1 to 21s Gd; fat wethers, 21s to 22s Gd; fat ewes, 13s to 15s.

Dalgety and Company, Limited. —Heavy fat Jersey and Jersey-cross cows, £6.105, to, £7 lis; lighter, £5 5s to £G ss; heavy boners, £3 10s to £4 ss; medium, £2 ss. to £3 Is; lighter, 25s to 355; quality yearling Jersey heifers, passed at £4; others, £3 to £3 7s Gd; potter bulls, heavy, £6 to £7 ISs; others, £4 to £5 7s (id. Pigs: Prime baconers, medium-weight, £3 14s to £3 17s; medium baconers, £3 3s to £3 12s.

MARKET AT PUKEKOHE [from our owx correspondent] PUKEKOHE. Friday An average yarding of cattle was received at the weekly stock sale at Pukekohe, conducted by the 2Cew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited. Beef and store cattle sold at late rates, while there was a fair demand fot quality dairy cattle. A large yarding of both fat and store pigs was received. Fat pigs sold under keen competition and "Westneld rates were well maintained. Store pigs also sold well at the opening of the sale, but became harder to quit in the closing .stages, and values cased accordingly. Best dairy heifers brought £9 30s to £11; medium, £8 to £0 os; smaller, £6 to £7 l">s; best dairy cows, £8 to £lO 10s; others, £G to £7 10s; heavy prime fat cows. £8 10s to £9 15s; medium. £7 to £S ss; light, £3 10s to £6 ss; other killable cows, £1 to £4 15s; boner cows, £1 to £3 17s (Id; best yearling Jersey heifers, £3 10s to Is; others. £2 10s to £3 Ss; small Jersey heifers, £2 to £2 Ss; the advertised yearling and IS-monih Red Poll heifers from Mr. L. J. Maguire, £3 3s to £3 16s; service bulls. £-1- to £8 10s; potter bulls, £3 10s to £7 17s Gd. In pigs, heavy baconers brought £3 lSs to £4 Is; medium, £3 10s to £3 16s; light, £3 to £3 Ss; heavy porkers, £2 12,5 to £2 ISs; medium, £2 6s to £2 10s; light, £1 15s to £2 4s; large stores, £2 to £2 Ss; slips, £1 Ss to £1 16s; weaners, 12s to £1 Ss.

COMPETITION AT TE PUKE [BY' telegraph—OWN correspondent]' i TE PUKE, Friday The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report's a heavy yarding of all classes of cattle. Fat—and grown cattle were keenly sought, but young station-bred lots were neglected Light fat bullocks mado £9 5s to £9 17s 6d; medium fat cows, £6 2s 6d to £7; lighter killab'e sorts, £5 to £5 15s; heavy boners, to £4; light, £2 5s lo £3; four-year Shorthorn bullocks., poor condition, to £8 ss; three-year Hereford and Polled Angus store-conditioned steers. £7 5s to £7 17s 6d; two-year steers to £6 7s Gd; others, £5 to £5 10s; three-war empty Hereford heifers, to £5 13s; Hereford and Polled Angus cows, very poor in condition and quality, £2 15s to £3 8s; yearling Jersey heifers, best quality, £4 5s to £5 ss; other smaller heifers, £2 10s to £3 ISs. Pigs: Heavy prime baconers, £3 8s to £3 13s; lighter, £3 to £3 7s; buttermilk pigs, £2 14s to £3 2s; large stores, to £2 8s; others, £1 15s to £2 2s: slips, £1 8s to £1 14s; weaners, good quality. 17s Gd to £1 5s 6d; others, 12s to Ids; choppers, £2 10s to £3 16s.

DEMAND AT FEILDING. [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] FEILDING, Friday All stock prices were easier at the weekly sale, when there was a moderate yarding, except of fat cattle. Fat sheep were down ai;l reeiably in price, with a quiet sale. The highest price for fat wethers, woolly, was 235. Shorn wethers made to 19s lOd; prime hoggets, to 21s Sd; black-faces, to 235; maiden ewes, prime, 225; others, to 18s. Store wether hoggets made 21s lOd; store ewes, 12s; ewe hoggets, to 21s lOd; store wethers, 15s. The dairy cattle market was fairly steady. Springing cows made to £1); cows in milk, to £9 10s. Fat cattk: Prime Polled Angus bullocks, £9 10s; heifers, to £9 2s 6d; cows, to £8 12s Gd; ex-dairy cows, to £0 ss; heifers, to £6 15s; vealers, to £2 IGs; potter cows, to £4; run cattle, bullocks, £6 17s; two-year steers, to £5 15s; Polled Angus cows, to £1; sicers, to £3 18s; heifers, to £1 13s; yearling Jersey heifers, to £5; Jersey\bulls, pedigree, to 11 guineas; others, to £G ss.

ENTRY AT OTOROHANGA , Abraham and Williams, Limited, reports a medium yarding of sheep,. cattle and pies | at Otorohanga. Good shorn fat ones made lis lid; fair fat cows, dairy breeds, £5 17s (id to £5 HHs; light sorts, £4 10s to £1 17s; fresh-conditioned young Jersey cows, £3 10s to £3 los; good boners, £3 10s to £4 ss; lighter. £2 10s to £3 ss; rough three-year steers, £3 los; yearling, £2 os: rough two-year heifers, £2 12s (id; small Shorthorn yearling heifers, £2 7s; fair potter bulla, £7 7s to £S; light, £-1 to £5. Pigs were sold on a firm market. Good porkers made £2 Os to £3 ss: well-grown stores, £1 10s fid to £2 7s; slips, 20s Gd to 31s; weaners. 19s to 30s: small sorts. Os Gd to 14s. TE AWAMUTU YARDING The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports an average yarding of cattle. The offering of young store steers and heifers was neglected. For a small yarding of fat sheep bidding was steadyCattle: Prime fat steers, £l2 2s Cd; medium. £lO 12s fid to £ll ss; light, £S to £0 13s; fat Polled Angus cows, £0 to £7 ss; lighter, £5 ISs; Polled Angus heifers, £0 14s; heavy Shorthorn cows, £7 ss; lighter fat Shornhorn cows and heifers, £5 10s to £0 12s; fat Jersey heifers, £4 12s (id to £6; heavy fat Jersey cows, £fi 2s (id to £7 6s; medium, £4 18s to £5 15s; heavy boner cows, £3-10s to £4 4s; medium, £2 Ss to £3 ss; lighter. 35s to £2 2s; yearling Polled Angus steers, £3 5s to £4; three-year Shorthorn steers in store condition, £7 Is; best yearling Jersey heifers, £3 12s; others, £3 His to £3 18s; heavy potter bulls, £7 10s to i'B ss; medium, £4 8s to £5 10s. Sheep: Fat shorn hoggets, 17s (Id to 19s; fat shorn wethers, 21s to 22s fid; prime woolly hoggets. 25s fid to 2Gs 3d; light woolly ewes. 15s fid; light fat woolly hoggets, 19s to 20s 3d. Dairy caltlo: Sound Jersey cows, to calve, £8 to £8 10s; springing Jersey heifers, £5 10s to £6 10s; Jersey heifers in milk, £5 5s to £O. Pigs: Heavy baconers, £3 ISs to £4 Is; medium. £3 12s to £3 10s; light, £3 2s to £3 10s; heavy porkers and buttermilk pigs, £2 17s to £3; medium porkers, £2 10s to £2 15s; light;, £2 2s to £2-8s; large stores, 37s Gd to £2 3s; medium, 2Ss Gd to 35s Gel; best slips, 2Ss to 335; others. 20s to 2Gs; best weaners, 17s 6d to ISs 6d; others, Os to 15s; sow with young, £5 to £5 6s; sows to farrow, to £3 12s bd.