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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 59, Issue 4185, 13 September 1939, Page 2

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CAMBRIDGE STOCK SALE. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report as follows on their usual triweekly stock sale at Cambridge last Monday:—. There was a small yarding of sheep and cattle, and values were well up to the good prices realised at recent sales, all lots being sold under the hammer. Medium-weight fat steers made £9 17s, light Polled Angus cows £7 7s, fat Jersey cows £6 10s to £7 15s, heavy boners £3 5s to £3 17s 6d, medium ditto £2 2s 6d to £2 18s, light ditto £1 to £1 12s 6d, yearling heifers of medium quality £3 12s, small ditto £1 15s. Prime fat ewes realised 235,' ditto hoggets 255, ditto lighter 16s. Dairies: A good yarding of dairy cattle came forward, and good-quality sorts commanded keen competition, heifers of good quality showing well forward making £9 to £ll, medium ditto £7 to £9, more backward sorts £4 to £6 10s, three-quarter cows £4 to £6 15s, cows to calve £5 to £7, choice calved heifers £9 10s to £lO. Pigs: A good yarding of pigs met prices firm on late rates. Light baconers made £3 6s to £3 Bs, medium butter-milk pigs £2 10s to £2 15s, light ditto £2 5s to £2 10s, medium porkers £2 to £2 ss, light ditto £1 15s to £2, medium stores £1 5s to £1 10s, small ditto £1 to £1 ss, best weaners £1 to £1 ss, medium ditto 15s to £l. HAMILTON STOCK SALE. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held their usual weekly stock sale at Frankton on Tuesday. Sheep: Extra heavy yarding of all classes, prices for prime quality ewes and wethers showing little alteration, while prices for unfinished ewes eased. Heavy prime wethers £1 Ils to £1 14s; med. ditto £1 6s to £1 8s 6d; light and unfinished wethers £1 2s to £1 4s; prime 2-tooth shorn wethers £1 4s to £1 6s 9d; light ditto 18s 9d to £1 3s 3d; heavy prime fat ewes £1 6s to £1 7s 9d; medium fat ewes £1 2s to £1 4s; light and unfinished 15s to 18s; heavy prime hoggets £1 3s 6d to £1 6s 3d; medium fat hoggets 18s to £l. Cattle: A heavy yarding of all classes of fat cattle came forward and although quality was better than penned for many sales prices showed an easing tendency, particularly for prime fat cows and heifers. These being in some cases from 20s to 30s per head down on last sale. Vealers were yarded in small numbers, being dull. Boners were in keen demand, prices showing a slight improvement. The top price for prime heavy bullocks was £l7 15s and prime heavy cows up to £l3; prime heavy bullocks £l3 10s to £1 455; prime Hereford heifers, medium weight to £ll ss; heavy boners £3 5s to £4 3s; medium £2 2s to £3 4s; light ditto £1 to £1 17s 6d. Pigs: A good yarding of fat pigs came forward with a full yarding of stores. All clases sold freely—stores in particular were very firm. Prime top weight baconers £4 to £4 .4s; prime heavy ditto £3 15s to £4; prime medium £3 10s to £3 15s; medium ditto £3 5s to £3 10s; prime light ditto £3 to £3 ss; buttermilk pigs £2 10s to £3; heavy porkers £2 10s to £2 15s; medium ditto £2 5s to £2 10s; light ditto £2 to £2 5s small 35s to £2; large stores £2 to £2 4s; medium ditto 32s to £2; small ditto 26s to 325; best slins 25s to 30s; medium ditto 20s to 255; best weaners 22s to 295; medium ditto 16s to 225; others 12s to 16s; sows to farrow £3 to £5.