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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3892, 21 April 1937, Page 2

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CAMBRIDGE STOCK SALE. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company Limited report having held their sale at Cambridge or. Monday, when a full yarding of cattle came forward. An average yarding of cows and heifer beef sold firmly at recent improved values, whilst a good yarding of boner cows also met with a ready sale at late rates. Sheep: A fair entry of fat sheep sold firmly, values' being fully on a par with Frankton quotations. Pigs: An average yarding of fats and a medium entry of stores came forward. Fat pigs sold on a par with late rates while stores and weaners showed a slight improvement on late rates. Medium fat cows and heifers £5 Ils to £6 16s, lighter fat Jersey cows and heifers £3 9s to £4 19s, heavy boners £3 3s to £3 16s, medium £2 llsl to £3, lighter 35s to £2 Bs, extra heavy potter bulls to £9 ss, medium potter bulls £4 to £4 Bs, lighter £2 7s 6d to £2 12s.- Sheep: Medium fat wethers to 34s 9d, medium fat lambs 25s 6d to 25s 9d, store lambs 14s 4d to 15s'. Pigs: Heavy porkers £2 3s to £2 7s, light 29s to 31s, small and unfinished 26s to 27s 6d, large stores 21s to 235, slips' 16s to 17s 6d, good weaners 10s 6d to 12s 6d, smaller 6s to 9s, sows and young to £5 Is. SALE AT FRANKTON. Pens were well filled in every section at the weekly Frankton stock sale yesterday, when late market rates were generally well maintained. There was a stiffening of values in the pig section, while firm sales yvere the rule in other departments. Beef was forward in fuller supply and values in the majority of instances firmer. The delivery of ox beef comprised mostly light-weight cattle which sold under steady competition to return late rates. Largest cattle were not so eagerly sought. Prices were generally firm for cow and heifer beef over the early sales, butchers showing ready competition for al attractive pens. Sheep were again forward in full numbers and, altholugh there was no marked trend in the market, wethers were just a shade easier. Ewes showed little alteration, while vendors of fat lambs obtained values current last week. Although there was no advance on the top price of last sale, fat pigs met with a readier trade and values on the whole were firmer. Baconers sold freely to 71s, while good competition was shown for porkers, which sold at between 28s to 455. Prime bullocks £lO 2s Cd to £ll 12s 6d, lighter £8 15s to £9 15s, small £6 10s to £7 10s. Sheep: Extra prime wethers 36s 6d, tat wethers 32s to 34s 6d, unfinished 28s to 30s 6d, extra prime ewes 23s to 24s 6d, fat ewes 18s 6d to 21s 6d, unfinished 12s 6d to 16s 6d, fat lambs 21s 6d to 27s 9d. Pigs: Baconers 50s to 71s, porkers 28s to 455.

Dalgety and Company, Limited.— Sheep: Prime heavy fat wethers 34s to 365, medium-weight wethers 30s to 325, light and unfinished 27s 6d to 295, heavy fat ewes 22s 6d to 25s 3d medium quality ewes 17s to 19s 6d. woolly lambs 29s to 3‘os 3d, mediumweight woolly lambs 26s 3d to 27s 9d, light lambs 18s 9d to 21s, heavy shorn lambs to 25s 3d, medium-weight 22s to 23s 6d. Cattle: Prime mediumweight bullocks made from £lO to £lO 10s, light fat steers £9 10s to £9 17s 6d, flat heifers £6 14s to £8 Is, fat cows £5 5s to £6 7s 6d, heavy runners up to £4, others £2 16s to £3 Is, vealers 31s to 365. Store sheep: Shorn Down-cross lambs 14s, store ewes (empty) low condition 6s 4d to 7s, cull lambs 9s to Ils 6d. Store cattle: Good fleshy cows £3 12s to £4 10s, light boners £2 14s to £3 Is. P'igs: Prime top-weight baconers £3 Ils to £3 12s, prime heavy baconers £3 8s to £3 Ils, prime baconers £3 3s to £3 Bs, medium £2 18s to £3 3s, light £2 10s to £2 18s, butter-milk pig's £2 5s to £2 10s, heavy porkers 38s to £2 2s, medium 33s to 38s, light 28s to 335, small 22s to 265, choppers £2 5s to £2 15s, medium store pigs 18s to 21s, best slips 12s to 14s, best weaners 12s to 14s, others 8s to 10s.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited.— Cattle: M'edium mixed coloured bullocks £8 15s to £9 14s, forward quality store bullocks £7 10s to £B, rough store bullocks £5 12s 6d to £7, heavy Shorthorn fat cows £5 17s 6d to £6 15s, medium £4 18s to £5 10s, heavy Jersey cows £5 to £5 7s 6d, medium £4 7s 6d to £5, ex-dairy store cows £3 10s to £4 ss, heavy boners £2 2s to £2 12s 6d, others to £2, velers up to £3 3s, bulls (heavy) up to £6 15s. Sheep: Heavy fat wethers £1 12s 6d to £1 15s, medium £1 8s to £1 Ils, light £1 7s 6d, heavy fat ewes £1 to £1 2s 6d, medium 17s 6d to £l, light up to 16s, shorn medium lambs 18s to £1 Is 6d. Pigs: Heavy baconers £3 7s 6d to £3 12s, medium £3 2s 6d to £3 6s, light £2 14s to £2 17s 6d, heavy porkers £2 9s to £2 13s, medium £22s to £2 7s 6d, light up to £2, best store pigs £1 Is to £1 3s, light 15s to 20s. slips 13s to 15s 6d, weaners up to 9s, sow and litter £4 10s, breeding lows up to £3 7s.

PUTARURU OFFERING. Dalgety and Company, Limited, reports a medium yarding of fat and store cattle at the sale at Putaruru on Mlonday. All classes met with good competition and were sold under the hammer. A medium yarding of store and fat pigs also came forward. Porkers maintained full late market quotations, and stores and weaners advanced and sold under spirited competition. Heavy fat lambs 24s to 265, heavy Holstein and Shorthorn cows £6 Is to £6 4s. medium £4 10s to £5 15s, heavy Jersey-Shorthorn cross £5 Is to £5 10s, medium weight fat c'ows (dairy sorts) £4 5s to ; £4 17s 6d, lighter £3 15s to £4 2s 6d, heavy boners £3 to £3 12s 6d, others (according to weight) 30s to £2 17s 6d, boner bulls £4 to £6 Bs, weaner Jersey calves (good colours) £2 15s, mixed colours £2. Pigs: Medium porkers 30s to 355, heavy 35s to £2, light 26s to 30s, best store pigs (good quality, but small) 20s to 22s 6d, weaners (medium) 6s 6d to 10s, slips 12s 6d to 14s 6d.