STOCK SALES.

Putaruru Press, Volume V, Issue 175, 10 March 1927, Page 8

STOCK SALES.

MATAMATA. Dalgety and Company Ltd. held their regular stock sale at Matamata last week, the prices being as follow: Fat cows £4 2s 6d to £5, cow in calf £4 10s, stores 35s to £3 Bs, bulls £3 to £6 10s, in-calf heifers £4 ss—a line of 18 brought £6 each, and three small heifers £3 each. Sheep.—Lambs, 87 sold at 10s 2d for small shorn lambs, 26 cull ewes at 8s sd. Pigs.—Porkers £2 11s to £2 16s, stores £1 to 275, weaners 6s to 14s. A Berkshire boar fetched 2gns. MORRINSVILLE. The Farmers’ Auctioneering Company had a large yarding at Friday’s stock sale at Morrinsville. Fat stock was well represented and practically all of the lines were cleared. There was an extra large yarding of sheep, about 3000 being penned and all being sold. A large proportion of the sheep were stores, which sold well. The prices are:— Beef.—Light ox £9 to £9 10s ; fat heifers £5 2s 6d to £6 9s ; choice steer calves £2 10s, others £1 5s to £2 ; bulls £3 to £6. Dairy Cattle.—Heifers £4 10s to 310 10s. ( Sheep.—Extra prime fat wethers 28s 6d, others 21s to 22s 9d ; fat ewes 13s 6d to 16s ; fat lambs 20s to 22s 6d ; good store lambs 13s 9d to 14s 6d, medium 10s 3d to 11s 9d, small 7s to 9s. Pigs.—Baconers up to £3 4s ; porkers £2 5s to £2 9s ; slips 28s ; weaners 7s to 19s. HAMILTON. At the Farmers Auctioneering Co.’s sale at Frankton last week there was a good entry of beef, fat and store sheep, pigs, and a good yarding of store cattle. Prime quality beef was equal to last week, but plain and unfinished showed a decline. Fat sheep were firm and competition was keen for store sheep. There was a fair inquiry for store cattle, most of the entry changing hands. Both fat and store pigs were equal to the previous week. Prime fat cows, £6 12s 6d to £6 16s; fat cows, £5 10s to £5 19s, plain £4 5s to £4 15s; fresh-conditioned big framed cows £3 15s to £3 18s; store cows, £2 10s to £3; 5-year store steers £7 15s; good 3-year stores, £6 ss; 21-year steers £5 7s; well-bred 18 months’ steers, £4. Prime heavy fat ewes, 14s fld to 15s; extra heavy prime fat lambs, 275; fat shorn lambs, 17s to 20s 3d; fat wethers 235; big framed 5-yean breeding ewes, 17s Gd to 20s; good shorn rape lambs, 13s lOd; good store woolly lambs, 14s 2d to 15s 6d. Heavy baconers, £3 4s to £3 8s; light baconers, £2 18s to £3 2s; heavy porkers, £2 15s to £2 18s; light porkers £2 os to £2 10s; slips, 25s to 30s; best weaners, 12s to 15s; others, 9s to Us; good stores, £2 to £2 7s. WEEKLY PRICES OF FAT STOCK FOR EXPORT. The New Zealand Meat Producers Board advises that the following prices are being offered for fat stock for export on the 4th March, 1927: Poverty Bay.—Prime woolly lambs, 361 b and under 73d, 371 b to 421 b 6ld, 431 b and over 61d ; second-quality lambs, 6ld. Hawke’s Bay.—Prime woolly lambs, 361 b and under 81 d, 371 b to 421 b 71d, 431 b and over 63d ; second-quality lambs, 71d. Wellington.—Prime woolly lambs, 361 b and under 81d, 371 b to 421 b 75d, 431 b and over 63d ; second-quality lambs, 71d ; prime wethers, 561 b and under 53 d, 571 b to 641 b 43d, 651 b to 721 b 4ld ; ewes, 561 b and under 3id, 571 b to 641 b 3d. Canterbury and North Otago.— Prime woolly lambs, 361 b and under 83d, 371 b to 421 b Bd, 431 b and over 7d ; second-quality lambs, 72d. LONDON MARKET. The New Zealand Meat Producers Board has received the following cable from its London office, dated 4th March, 1927, advising Smithfield delivered prices at that date as follow: N.Z. Wethers and Maidens.—Cancontinued in Next Column)