COMMERCIAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4536, 13 February 1942, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

LIVE STOCK MARKET SALE AT TE AWAMUTU INCREASED PRICE FOR PIGS The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company report on their live stock sale at Te Awamutu yesterday as follows: Cattle: A full yarding of cattle came forward. No heavy ox was penned, but light prime beef and boners sold fully up to current rates. We quote: Medium-weight bullocks £ll to £ll 15s, light fat ditto £9 16s to £lO 15s, heavy prime heifers £7 17s to £9 12s, heavy fat Polled Angus cows £7 12s 6d to £B, light prime cows and heifers £5 10s to £6 10s, heavy boners £ to £4 17s, medium £3 5s to £3 15s, store cows £2 to £2 15s, potter bulls £1 to £2 16s, Jersey heifer calves £2 15». 8 > W? Sheep: A good yarding of both fat and store sheep sold under steady competition to a large bench of buyers, values being fully up to late quotations. We quote: Fat wethers 21s 6d to 225, store ditto 18s to 19s 6d, prime lambs 22s to 245, fat lambs 20s to 21s 6d, fat shorn lambs 18s lid to 19s Bd, good store white-face wether lambs 14s to 15s 6d, good white-face ewe lambs 15s 8d to 18s, good blackface wether lambs 14s to 15s, cull lambs 8s 6d to 11s, s-m. ewes 15s. Pigs: There was a large yarding of all classes of pigs. Values for fats were slightly in advance of Frankton sales, while store pigs were also in keen demand. There was a large attendance of buyers, and a total clearance was effected. We quote: Heavy choppers £3 5s to £3 17s, medium choppers £2 15s to £3 3s, lighter choppers £1 15s to £2 12s, heavy prime baconers £3 17s to £4 3s, heavy baconers £3 12s to £3 16s, medium baconers £3.3s to £3 Ils, lighter bacdners £2 14s to £3 2s, heavy porkers £2'ss to £2 Ils, medium £1 15s to £2 2s, lighter £1 10s to £1 14s, large stores £1 3s 6d to £1 12s, medium 17s to £1 Is, slips 7s to 14s, best weaners 8s to 12s, others 2s to ss. HAMILTON SHEEP SALE Messrs Dalgety and Company report on their Hamilton Sheep Sale, held on Wednesday last, as follows:—■ There was an exceptionally heavy yarding of sheep, comprising for the main part sheep from the Raglan, Waitetuna and Waingaro districts, with several lines from the East Coast. A very representative bench of buyers was present, and practically a total clearance was effected at

highly satisfactory prices. Our chief sales comprised: A line of 103 5-year ewes ex Waitetuna realised £l. A line of 210 4- and 5-year ewes, 17s. A line of 210 M.A. low conditioned ewes ex Whakatane realised Ils 6d. A line of 2-tooth ewes ex Waitetuna, 265. A line of 2-tooth ewes ex Waingaro, 245. Smaller lots of- ewes realised as follows: M.A. ewes, 13s to 15s 6d; cull ewes, 6s 6d to 10s 6d; 2-tooth wethers, 17s 3d to 20s 6d. Lafnbs: W.F. wether lambs, good 16s 2d to 16s 4d, smaller 12s to 15s Id; small shorn wether lambs, W.F., 12s to 13s Id; ditto shorn ewe lambs, W.F., 12s 6d to 14s; ditto cull ewe lambs, 10s to Ils; small cull shorn lambs, 6s to 8s 6d; B.F. woolly wither lambs, 14s 7d. SALE AT PUTARURU Messrs Dalgety and Company report on their Putaruru sale, held on Monday last, as follows :—A good entry of sheep and-a medium yarding of cattle came forward. Bidding was steady throughout and prices realised were well up to quotations from other centres. We quote:— Sheep.—Medium 2-tooth ewes ex Gisborne £1 4s to £1 ss, medium 4 and 5-year ewes ex Kauroa 14s Id, 14s, 13s Bd, cull ewes 8s 3d, Southdown rams 6gns. Cattle.-—Fat Jersey heifers £4 5s to £5 12s 6d, light fat P.A. heifers £5 3s, fat Jersey cows £4 10s to £5 2s, heavy boners £3 8s to £4 Ils, others £2 Is to £3 4s. Pigs: A medium yarding’of fat pigs came forward with a good yarding of stores and weaners. Fat pigs sold at full late rates, while large stores sold particularly well. Small stores and weaners showed an improvement on late rates. We quote : Medium baconers £3 15s to £3 18s, heavy porkers £2 12s to £3, medium £2 2s to £2 12s, light 36s to £2 2s, large store pigs 34s to 375, small 23s to 295, weaners 11s to 14s. THE AUTUMN FAIRS AN AUSPICIOUS OPENING Large yardings of store sheep continue to eome forward at all the main centres in the Waikato, and on the whole recent values are being maintained. At the present time breeding ewes comprise the largest proportion of the entries in this section, including many consignments from the East Coast and southern districts. Another large offering of local and outside ewes was penned at the Morrinsville centre on Friday, and the advanced rates obtained at the previous sale were again realised. The market for store lambs is not nearly as buoyant as for ewes. While good medium lambs usually sell steadily, the demand is not keen, and at one or two sales recently values have been inclined to ease. With ample feed available and the good price 'for fat lambs, it is difficult to understand why stores are not more readily sought. The annual Hamilton Ram Fair was held at Claudelands on Thursday and Friday of last week. On the first day a large offering of approximately 1200 Southdowns was penned. Competition for good flock rams was steady throughout at prices ranging from 7 to 10 guineas, with a top price of 15a guineas, while medium sorts sold from 5 to 6 guineas. A full penning of Romneys came forward on the second day and the demand in this section was better than anticipated. Good flock rams sold from 8 to 12 guineas and medium from 5 to 7 guineas, with poorer quality from 2 to 4 guineas. The first autumn cattle fair of the season was held at Oparau on Monday, when a good yarding of stationbred cattle chine forward. Competition for well-bred cat(le was keen, and recent quotations for this class were realised.