COMMERCIAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 75, Issue 6408, 15 August 1947, Page 7

COMMERCIAL

TE AWAMUTU STOCK SALE Messrs G. W. Vercoe and Company Ltd. report as follows on the firm’s stock sale held at Te Awamutu yesterday: There was a good yarding of all classes of stock. Sheep were in average supply, and met with keen competition. Stores and boner cattle sold well up to ruling rates. Dairy heifers met with spirited bidding, selling up to £2O. The yarding of pigs increased considerably in number and sold at advanced prices. Quotations are as follows: Sheep: Good wethers 38s to 44s 6d, medium' 36s to 37s 9d, wether hoggets 27s to 34s 9d (the latter price being for a line of 134). Cattle: Light fat cows to £9 10s, good boners £5 10s to £7 10s, yearling Jersey heifers £6 2s to £7 15s. best Jersey springers £l6 to £2O, medium £l2 10s to £l6, backward sorts £7 10s to £lO 10s, calved heifers £lO to £l3 10s. . ■Pigs: Medium baconers £6 9s, heavy porkers £5 to £5 15s ( butter-milk pigs £4 to £4 18s, good stores '£3 to £3 13s, slips £2 5s to £2 16s, weaners £1 16s to £2. A total clearance was effected.

RABBITSKIN SALE Another 'large catalogue was submitted at Dunedin to a full bench of buyers at the Farmers’ Auctioneering Co.’s sale held this week. Bidding was brisk and there wafe a particularly keen demand for good grades. Values improved for all grades in comparison with the previous sale and may be quoted firmer as follows:—Broken par to 3d, milky 43d to lid, spotty bucks par to sd, spotty does par to Bd, winter bucks par to sd, winter does 4d to 19d, bloodstained grade par to 14d per lb.