COMMERCIAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4054, 30 May 1938, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

TE AWAMUTU STOCK SALE. Messrs Dalgety and Company Limited report on their usual sale at Te Awamutu, held on Thursday, as under. Cattle: A full yarding of beef cattle came forward including several pens of good quality steer and heifer beef which sold radeilv at fully up to late rates, fat cows also sold well while boner cows were fully equal to rulingrates. The store pens were well filled with good quality station cattle and although several pens of P.A. cows running with bull tailed to reach the owners’ reserve quite a good sale resulted and a good clearance was made. Sheep: Very few sheep were yarded and bidding was dull. Fat Bullocks: Fat bullocks on account of G. O. Bailey’s estate, pen 8 fat P.A. steers £l3 ss, pen 7 do. £l3; pen of two ditto, £l4 ss; pen o> light Hereford steers, £l2 7s; On account of Mr M. H. Tims, 6 light P.A. steers £9; light Red Polled steers £9 15s;’ Mr L. Macky 4 light steers £8 15s; 3 do. £8 4s; Bailey’s estate 4 fat P.A. heifers £ll 2s 6d; 2 Hereford P. A. cows £9. These were the principal sales in the fat pens. Fat cows £8 15s to £9 10s; do. heifers £8 17s 6d to £lO ss; ditto Jersey cows heavy £6 10s to £7 ss; do. medium £5 15s to £6; do. light £4 5s to £4 12s 6d; cows with vealers at foot £3 Is to £3 18s ali counted; store S.H. and Holstein cows £4 2s 6d to £5 12s 6d; boner cows heavy £4 to £4 2s 6d; do. med. £3 10s to £3 17s 6d; do. light £2 to £2 12s 6d; heavy fat bulls up to £l2; med. do. £9; others £5 17s to £7 7s 6d, small Jersey weaner heifers £2 10s to £3; do. S.H. do. £2 5s to £2 16s; do. mixed colour do. £2 to £2 17s 6d. Station Cattle: 18 months to 2 years P.A. steers £8 to £8 ss; 21 year mixed

colour do. £6 14s to £6 15s; 2i year P.A. heifers r.w.b. (good) £7 16s; small P.A. cowg in low condition £5 10s; 18 months heifers P.A. empty £5 15s; weaner P.A. steers £3 15s to £4 15s; do. heifers £3 10s to £4 13s; 18 months coloured steers £5 Is to £5

Pigs: A good yarding of fat pigs came forward with a small yarding of stores. All classes of pigs sold very readily under spirited competition and prices realised were well on a par with full late rates. Prime baconers £4 to £4 ss; heavy do. £3 15s to £4; prime med. do. £3 5s to £3 10s; med. do. £3 to £3 ss; prime light do. £2 15s to £3; light £2 10s to £2 15s; prime heavy porkers £2 8s to £2 12s; heavy do. £2 2s to £2 8s; prime med. do. 38s to £2 2s; med. do. 36s to £2; prime light do. 30s to 365: light do. 26s to 30s; choppers heavy £3 12s to £4 6s; do. med. £2 l'os to £3 10s; sows to farrow £3 to £4 ss; good store pigs 22s to 265; med. do. 18s to 225; slips good 15s to 18sCLEARING SALE AT TE MAWHAI. The’Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company Limited, report having held a Clearing Sale on Thursday on behalf of Mr W. H. Short of Te Mawhai. The stock came forward in excellent condition, but owing to the fact that there were not many buyers present, prices realised were slightly lower than late rates.' Realisations were: Forward conditioned Jersey cows made fiAm £8 to £8 15s; Jersey cross dairy *ws in forward condition £7 10s to £8; backward £6 10s to £7 ss; well grown forward Jersey heifers £8 5s to £8 17s 6d; later £7 15s to £8 2s 6d; smaller £6 10s to £7 12s 6d; a line of well-grown yearling Jersey heifers made £4 7s; sows with young £4 2s 6d to £4 10s; sows in pig £4 10s to £5 ss. CLEARANCE AT OTOROHANGA* The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report having held a clearing sale at Otorohanga on Friday, on account of Mr A. Valoise. There was a large attendance of buyers and competition was keen, a total clearance being effected.

The herd of 102 cows came forward | in good condition and sold at satis- ( factory values Seventeen wellgrown in-calf Jersey heifers averaged £8 7s; good Jersey and Jersey cross cows, July calvers, £lO to £ll 15s; later calvers, £8 5s to £9; medium quality Jersey cross cows £6 10s to £8; more backward £5 15s to £6 ss; Jersey cows unsound and threequarter cows £3 12s 6d to £4; good | quality Jersey heifers £9 to ££ 15s; i Jersey heifers, small £7 10s to £8 | 7s; 20 good Jersey calves £4 17s 6d; I sound 18-months bull £7 ss; aged farm ; geldings £9 and £l6; sows in pig £4; sows with litters £6 15s to £7 ss; store pigs 22s to 325. Sundries and farm implements sold at satisfactory prices. YARDING AT OTOROHANGA. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report having held their Otorohanga stock sale on Wednesday, when a medium yarding of all classes of cattle came forward. Competition was steady, prices being on a par with recent quotations. A small entry of sheep and pigs was also penned, and values remained firm.

Cattle: Light fat cows and heifers made £4 10s to £6; kiilable clows £3 5s to £4; boner cows 30s to £2 17s; potter bulls to £5 ss; yearling P.A. steers to £5 6s; store condition 18-months Shorthorn steers £3 Is 1,0 £4; dairy Jersey and Jersey cross, heifers £4 15s to £5; Jersey and Jersey cross dairy cows to £7; Jersey cross calves to £3.

Sheep: Fat ewes to 24s 6d; ewes in lamb to 265; store ewe lambs to 20s 6d; store wether lambs to 19s.

Pigs: Light baconers to £3 3s; medium store pigs to 23s 6d; slips 14s 6d to 16s.