FRANKTON STOCK SALE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1025, 16 July 1930, Page 13

FRANKTON STOCK SALE

BEEF PRICES FIRMER Special to THE SUN HAMILTON, Today. Prices generally were low at the frock sales at Frankton yesterday, Jvhen fat sheep again were penned in |arg© numbers and in excess of butchers’ requirements. There was a small yarding of beef fcad values rose. Store pigs were offered in a full yarding, but fat pigs few in number. Dalgety and Company, Limited, reported that prime bullocks sold at about 10s a head better and prime cows at 10s to 15s above late rates. Quotations were:—Light, plain-quality builocks. £lO 5s to £ll 2s 6d; ordinary , * at young cows, £8 10s to £9 2s 6d; heavy runners, to £7 4s; extra prime heavy Wethers, to 27s 3d; good heavy jjWthers, 24s to 255; unfinished, 21s to , 8 - extra prime ewes, to 19s 6d; ordinary fat ewes, 14s to 16s 6d; unEnished, 10s to 12s: fat hoggets, extra fj av y, to 23s 9d: ordinary fat hoggets, i4s 6d to 18s; small Romney, ex tra heavy, to 23s 9d; small Romney cross ewe hoggets, 14s; mixed-sex hogpts, forward. 15s 2d; full-mouth ewes, lamb, 14s 6d; medium baconers, £2 to £3 Is; porkers, £1 2s to £2 choppers, £3 Is to £4 2s; large ,Btore s> £1 to £2 is; slips, 25s to P-s 6d; weaners, 15s to 27s 6d. Prices secured by the New Zealand I- and Mercantile Agency Company, were:—Light fat bullocks, 18s to £ll ss; poorer quality, £9 ggto £lO ss; fat cows, £7 27s 6d to “•a ss; lighter fat cows, £7 2s to £7 *»d; poorer quality, £6 Is to £6 10s; Jtore cow's, £3 17s 6d to £4 15s; boner JP’vs, £3 to £3 11s 6d; fat wethers. ‘Jj ,r to 275; lighter wethers, 24s 3d ' *»*; average quality fat ewes, 18s 9( *: poorer quality, 17s to 18s 9d; hoggets, 13s 6d to 14s; medium lambs, 12s 6d to 13s 3d; ewe *«mbs, 15 3 to 16s lOd; ewes in lamb. slOd; cull lambs, 9s; hea.vy. porkers light porkers, £2 8s 1:o £2 12s; *°°£ Store pigs, £1 17s to £2 6s; *eaium store pigs, £1 12s to £1 15s: £1 6s to £1 10s; weaners, 18s to 3s. The Farmers* Co-operative Auctiont. * Company, Limited, reported at ox beef was sold at slightly inrates, and cow beef, mostly of quality, sold at late rates. STUD RED POLLS FOR FIJI / 1 Special to THE SUN • HAMILTON. Today. IUF®, yearling stud Red Polls have flipped by Messrs. If. IV. and T. II- 0 ". Red Poll breeders, of AVuiCfc* H. P. Bayly and Co., cattlejtd.ers * Fiji. fhe first consignment of this p « of cattle to Fiji.