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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4430, 26 May 1941, Page 2

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TE AWAMUTU SALE. THURSDAY’S REALISATIONS. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company Limited report: Cattle: At their Te Awamutu stock sale on Thursday, a good offering of ox and cow beef came forward and met keen competition with values fully up to recent quotations for both beef and boner cattle. Sheep: A small offering of sheep was penned. Steady competition ruled at rates on a par with late sales. Pigs: A full yarding of all classes of pigs, including a good proportion of fat pigs which sold freely at slightly advanced rates. For a large entry of store pigs, bidding was not very brisk, and values slightly lower than recent sales prevailed. The advertised entry of breeding sows attracted a large bench of buyers and sold freely at recent values. We quote:— Cattle: Medium prime ox £ll to £ll 7s 6d; lighter £9 to £9 12s; medium prime P.A. heifers £7 5s to £7 16s; light £6 7s; heavy fat Shorthorn cows £6 12s to £6 16s; heavy fat Jersey cows £5 Ils to £5 15s; medium £5 to £5 3s; Jersey cows with calves £6 12s; heavy boner cows £4 10s to £4 15s; medium £3 15s to £3 19s; 15 months store steers £5 6s; Jersey heifer calves £3 6s; Jersey and Jersey cross dairy heifers £7 7s 6d to £8 12s 6d; Jersey dairy cows £B. Sheep: Extra heavy prime iambs 31s 6d to 335; light fat wethers to 235; unfinished to 19s 6d; light fat lambs 21s 6d to 22s 6d; unfinished 15s to 16s 6d; fat ewes to 12s 6d; cull ewes 5s 6d. Pigs: Choppers £3 to £4 7s; medium baeoners £3 Is to £3 7s; light £2 11s to £2 18s; heavy porkers £2 to £2 8s; medium 32s to 38s; light 26s to 30s; best store pigs 22s 6d to 25s 6d; others 15s to 20s. SALE AT OTEWA. Messrs Abraham and Williams Ltd., report having held a very successful clearance sale of cows at Otewa on account of Mi- Faulkener. The cows, a good class lot with a good strain of Ayrshire blood came forward in good order and met with keen competition. Best sorts made £l3 to £l4 10s; early calvers £lO to £l3, while later s»rts realised £7 10s to £lO. The average for the herd was £9 Ils 6d. Two-year heifers made £ll to £ll 10s; good weaner Ayrshire cross heifers £4 15s; Ayrshire bulls 121 to 19 guineas. Brood sows made £4 to £7; small store pigs 20s. SALE AT MORRINSVILLE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company reports on the Morrinsville sale held on Friday as follows:—A large entry of cattle came forward which included the advertised dairy herd on behalf of Mr Geo. Harvey and also the advertised dairy heifers. The sheep entry comprised mostly wethers and hoggets which met only with a fair demand. The dairy cattle were sold before a full bench of buyers and competition throughout was exceptionally keen, especially for the quality dairy heifers; these selling up to £ll 10s. Several pens of store cattle were also yarded, and these also created keen competition. Medium fat S.H. cows £6 10s to £7 ss; heavy fat Jersey cows £5 15s to £6 2s 6d; medium fat Jersey cows £5 to £5 12s 6d; heavy boners £4 10s to £4 18s; medium boners £3 12s to £4 7s; light boners £2 to £2 17s 6d; fat Jersey heifers £4 15s to £5 7s 6d; medium quality weaner Jersey heifers £3 10s to £3 15s; mixed coloured weaner heifers £2 10s to £3; yearling bulls £2 10s to £3 ss; 18-months mixed coloured steers £5 to £5 13s; choice quality Jersey dairy heifers £lO 10s to £ll 10s; medium quality dairy heifers £9 to £lO ss; late calvers £8 to £8 15s; good quality dairy cows £9 5s to £lO 10s; unsound cows £4 10s to £5 15s; 21-year-old Jersey heifers £5 to £6 10s; 3-year-old heifers £5 to £6; medium quality dairy cows £7 to £B.