COUNTRY STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24125, 18 November 1941, Page 3

COUNTRY STOCK SALES

TE AWAMUTU YARDINGS Farmers' Auctioneering.—Prime woolly wethers, 28s 3(1; woolly ewe hoggets, 31s; heavy shorn ewes, 15s 9d; light, '22s lOd to 23s lOd. Heavy prime ox, £l2 l(Js to £l3 7s; medium, £ll to £l2 8s; light fat steers, £9 15s to £lO 10s; heavy fat cows and heifers, £8 5s to £9 10s; medium, £."> 5s to £7 10s; fat Jersey cows, £4 15s to £5; heavy boners, £3 10s to £4 4s; young store cows, £3 to £3 15s; others, 35s to £2 10s; yearling P.A. steers, small, £5 5s to £5 12s; yearling Shorthorn heifers.,, £-1 17s to £5 2s; good Jersey heifers, £0 11s to £6 16s; medium, £5 r> s to £'G; small yearlings, £3 10s to £4 10s. Choppers, 25s to £2 lis; medium baconers, £3 10s to £3 14s; light, £3 4s to £3 8s; largo porkers and buttermilk pigs, £2 15s to £3 2s; medium porkers, £2 5s to £2 325; large stores, 32s to £2 2s; smaller, 20s to 30s; slips, 15s to ISs; weaners, (is to 12s; sows, with litters, £5 to £7; breeding sows, £3 7s (id to £3 10s. Loan and Mercantile.—Prime P.A. bullocks, £ll 15s to £l2 7s Gd; Shorthorn steers £lO lis to £ll Is; medium ditto, average £9 12s (id; prime P.A. heifers, £8 5s to £lO 2s fid; prime P.A. cows, £8 to £9 ss; prime heavy cows, £7 5s to £7 17s Gd; prime Jersey heifers, £G 10s to £7 12s Gd; boners, £2 to £4 17s Gd; forward 3-year Hereford steers, £9 to £9 ss; 3-year P.A. steers, £8 to £8 lis; paddock cows, £4 to £5 15s; yearling Holstein heifers, £0 10s to £7; good yearling Jersey heifers, £6 10s to £7 4s; medium, £5 7s Gd to £G 8s; small, £4 10s to £5 ss; good dairy heifers, in milk, £9 10s to £lO 30s; good dairy cows, in milk, £8 15s to £lO ss; springing Jersey heifers, £7 10s to £9; springing Jersey cows, £7 10s to £lO 10s; late calving heifers, £6 to £8 15s; late calving cows, £5 to £7 ss. Good young draught horses, £22 to £25 10s; aged, £lB to £2l. Heavy baconers, £3 16s to £4; medium, £3 10s to £3 15s; lighter, £3 5s to £3 8s; heavy porkers, £2 15s to £3; medium, £2 2s to £2 13s; lighter, 38s to £2 Is; choppers, £2 Is to £3 10s; stores, 18s to 3Gs; weaners, 5s Gd to 16s.

NORTH AUCKLAND VALUES The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, and Alfred Buckland and Sons, Limited, report having held sales at Maungakaramea and Waiotira. At Maungakaramea best dairy cows and heifers made from £5 5s to £0 10s; poorer and more backward, £4 10s to £5; medium fat steers, £lO 5s to £ll ss; medium fat cows, £6 7s Gd to £7 15s; store cows, £3 5s to £4 10s; boner cows, £2 to £2 15s; potter bulls, £1 to £1 15s; herd bulls, £5 to £5 10s; weaner pigs, £1 7s 6d to £1 ICte; good stores, £2 to £2 lis; sows to farrow, £2 10s. At Waiotira, best dairy cows and heifers made from £6 to £7 ss; later calvers, £4 15s to £6; medium fat bullocks, £lO 15s to £ll ss; fat cows, £7 10s to £8 10s; lighter, £6 8e to £7 oS; good store cows, £4 15s to £5 2s; three-year Shorthorn steers, £7 17s Gd to £8 12s; two-year steers, £5 12s Gd to £6 17s Gd; yearling Polled Angus heifers, £2 19s to £4 2s Gd; cows and calves. £6 5s to £7. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, held sales at Kaeo and Mangamnka. At ICaeo, best yearling steers made from £4 to £4 15s; others, £3 10s to £4; cows and calves, £4 10s to £5 10s; stores, £3 17s to £4 ss; boners, £1 10s to £2; hoggets, fair quality, 20s Gd. At Mangamuka, ewe hoggets made 25s Gd: wether hoggets. IBs 9d; Hereford cows and calves, £6 lis; light fat cows, £5 ss; yearling Hereford steers. £1 to £4 7s; three and four-year-old bullocks. £8 2s; coloured yearling steers, £3 to £3 10s. Wright, Stephenson and Company. Limited, and the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company, Limited, held a sale at Wairea, where medium coloured two and three-year steers made £7; Hereford cows and calves. £6 lis; fat and forward Hereford cows, £6 4s; two-year Hereford heifers, empty, £4 10s; yearling Polled Angus and Hereford steers, £4 IGs; yearling Hereford bulls, horned, Sgns to 14gns; smaller, s%gns; Polled Hereford yearling bulls. Ggns to Bgns; mixed coloured "two-year steers. £4 5s to £4 12s; boner cows/ £2 to £2 ss.