COUNTRY STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23719, 27 July 1940, Page 7

COUNTRY STOCK SALES

MORRINSVILLE VALUES FIRM RATES FOR BEEF. FAT PIG PRICES IMPROVE [from our own correspondent] MORRINSVILLE, Friday A light yarding of fat sheep, mainly wethers and hoggets, sold under steady competition, at the Morrinsville stock sale to-day. Values for beef and boner cattle were firm. Prices for dairy cattle were up to last week's rates. .Bidding wus keen for a small yarding of fat pigs, with prices improving on last sale. Farmers' Auctioneering.—Unfinished wethers, 25s nil; light fat hoggets, '2os Od to '2os Od; forward-conditioned fat wether hoggets, .1 5s Od to ITsj ewe hoggets, 15s Jld. Heavy prime Polled 'Angus heifers, £l2 7s (id; prime Jersey heifers, i's 15s to /.'(> IOs; heavy fat Jersey cows, £5 lOs to £0 15s; unfinished Friesian steers, £8; boner cows, to £1 ,10s; service bulls, £0 lOs to £7 17s (id; empty two-year Jersey heifers, AM to £■• l 10s. (Jest Jersey heifers, close to profit, £0 to £11; later culvers, £(> 10s to £8: heifers, in milk, £0 5s to £8; best Jersey cows, close to profit, til 10s to £l'2 15s; others, £8 to £10; backward cows, £(l to £7 Ids; best cows, in milk, £lO 1 ~>s to .t'l'2 ss; medium fmconers, £ls 17s to £-1 Is; hutter-milk pigs and heavy porkers, £_' 38s to £1! 8s; medium porkers, £"2 10s to £2 lits; large stores, £2 Is to £2 Os Od; slips, 90s to 05s (id; best wen tiers, 25s Od to 02s; maiden Devon sows, close to farrowing, £7 to £8 7s (ill; other Devon sows, £5 lOs to £0 ir>B; maiden Tamworth and Tamworlhcross sows, close to farrowing, £8 to £!) r»s; other Tamworth and Tnmworth-eross sows, £0 2s (id to £7 I ."is; sows with litters, to £l2 17s (id; pedigree Berkshire boars, 7gns to 7'/jgns. Dalgety and Company.—Light fat Jersey cows, £7 to £7 Mis; forward-conditioned Jersey and Jersey-cross cows. £1 17s Od to £0 7s (id; heavy boners, £1 to £1 IOs; empty two-year Jersey heifers, £.' l lOs to £1 ss; potier bulls, .05 lOs to £7 12s Oil. Good store pigs, £'_' to £2 ss; medium, 05s to :18s; slips, •_'.■>* to 2Ss; good maitlen sows, £<S r>s; oilier sows, £1 15s lo £7 10s. Loan and Mercantile. —Medium fat Foiled Angus cows, £ft .Is to -C8 l is; forward-con-dition Polled Angus cows, £7 to £8 2s Od; cows and calves, £7 to £11; fat Jersey cows. £."> lOs to £(> I'2s Oil; boner cows, to £4 17s Od; well-growa yearling Jersey heifers, £5 lOs lo £5 1."»s; medium quality dairy heifers. £lO to £ll ss; later culvers. £8 lOs lo £0 15s; medium qualify dairy cowSj £8 lOs to £lO 15s; later calvcrs, £7 lo £8 ss. Medium fat wethers, 25s to 27s (id; aged breeding ewes, 255. Store pigs, £2 to £2 7s.

WAIHOU REALISATIONS The Farmers' Auctioneering Company reports an average yarding of fat cows and a light, penning of boner and store cattle at Waihou. Fat co\vs sold readily at advanced values. The demand for store pigs was very keen at firmer values. Heavy fat Jersey-cross cows, .L's 17s (id to .L"7 15s; fat Jersey cows, £ I lis to £5 l is; boners, to £4 'ls; young store cows and empty two-year heifers, £.' l 15s to £5 Is. Prime fat wethers, to 05s; fat hoggets, to'2:ts :id. Good quality Jersey cows, close to profit, £.l'2 5s to £11; later calverx, £lO 5s to £ll, 15s; Jersey heifers, £lO to £i:s IOs; Friesian cows, , V CII 15s; others, £7 to £8 15s; Jersey cow and calf, £lO. Large store pigs, £•_! 5s to £2 Os Od; smaller, :s.s to £2 2s; weaners, to :jis. YARDING AT MATAMATA Dalgety and Company reports a medium yarding of sheep and cattle at Mataniata. Light fat steers, £lo ss; prime fat cows, £7 IOs; light fat heifers, £0 Is; fat Jersey cows, £5 Ids to £0 Os; boners, to £1 Os; Shorthorn cows, running with Polled Angus bulls, £0 ssr Polled Angus cows, running with Polled Angus bulls. £0; springing Jersey heifers, £lO lOs to £l-1; springing cows, close to profit, £0 to £lO 15s. Prime fat wethers, 05s; medium fat ewes, to £1 Is; Southdown hoggets, 17s. Heavy porkers to light baconers. £0 to £0 Os; medium porkers, £•_' l*2s to £•_> IOs; store pigs, to £"_' 8s; slips. •_>ss to OOs; weaners, 20s to 255; maiden sows, £5 to £8 os; aged sows, £0 5s to £(i 10s. COMPETITION AT PAEROA G. \V. Vercoe and Company. Limited, reports that competition for all classes al Paeroa was keen and a good clearance was effected at late rates. Shorthorn and Short-horn-cross cows, in milk and closo to profit, £0 15s to £lO .IOs; later culvers, £8 to £» 10s; backward, to £7 15s; Jersey and Jersey-cross cows, close to profit, to £lO 15s; more backward, to £0 IOs; Jersey and Jer-sev-cross heifers, early calvcrs, £0 15s to £lO 17s (id; backward, to £0; mediumweight fat Jersey cows, £7 to £7 IOs; store conditioned young Shorthorn cows, to £5 ss; boners, to £1 17s; small yearling Jersey .heifers, to £1; fat ewes, to 'J2s Od. DAIRY HEIFERS TO £ls/10/Dairy heifers brought up to CIS lOs at the weel'lv stock sale at Pukrkoho, conducted bv the Loan and Mercantile Company. Dairy heifers realised £7 lOs to £ls los; dairy cows, £7 lo CM ss; prime fat rows. £(• lo £lO 2s (id; other kilhlble cows. £5 to C5 s lss; boners. £"2 to C I 15s; yearling Jersey heifers. £1 15s to £0 2s»(id; bulls, £5 to £7 10s; choppers, £0 to £M IOs; baconers, £0 5s lo £1 8s; porkers, £2 to £0 Os; large stores. £1 IDs to £'2 ss; weaners, 18s to £1 12s; sows duo to farrow, £0 lOs to £S; boars, £1 is to £3 0s PUKEKOHE HORSE FAIR [from otrn own cokhicspondent] PUKEKOHE, Friday The yarding was small, and quality not much iii evidence, at the fortnightly horse sale at Pukekohe conducted by Alfred Buckland and Sons Young medium draughts made t"2 - 2 to C2(i; aged farm horses, £l'2 lo £2O; hacks, £'2 lo £11; child's pony, £0 10s. JAPANESE TRADE SMALLER IMPORTS OF WOOL

Imports of wool into Japan proper have fallen since the beginning of the war, the value for tTio first four months of 1940, in spito of higher prices, having been 9 per cent lower than in the same period of last year, according to Japanese statistics. This is 110 doubt due mainly to Great Britain's demands upon wool supplies, but in part it may have been due to the weaker position of Japan in foreign trade. The war in China, now in-its fourth year, is milking a deep impression upon Japanese industry. The growth of metal and machine industries has been pronounced, but it has been achieved largely at the expense of industries catering lor export. There has been, a 20 per cent increase in machinery industries from 19U1 to 1935, but the number of textile factories has declined. To keep tip supplies of imported materials there has been a drive for trade with countries outside the yen block, particularly Mexico and South America, which is helping the foreign exchange position. A FAVOURABLE JULY FINE WAIKATO PROSPECTS [fhom our own corrkspondknt] HAMILTON, Friday According to many old settlors of the Waikato. this month has been the most favourable .July they have ever experienced from a farming point of view. The rainfall has been light, totalling only 1.91 in. to date, as against the average of 4.8.'1 in., and there has been an almost entire absence of boisterous ■weather. There have been some severe frosts, over 17 degrees being registered 011 one day, but these have been beneficial. For the most part, however, the temperatures have been mild. The farms have never looked better for this time of the year. There has been ample feed available, both in the form of green pasture and in hav and ensilage. The stock have never been in better condition.