COMMERCIAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 75, Issue 6441, 3 November 1947, Page 7

COMMERCIAL

MATAMATA SALE An average yarding of mostly fat sheep came forward at Dalgety and Co.’s Matamata sale on Wednesday last, with values in advance of recent reduced rates at the Central yards. Competition from outside butchers for a medium yarding of cattle found prices very firm—boner cows sold well up to schedule rates while a steady demand was evident for service bulls. The penning of dairy cattle with no change in values to report. Fat and store pigs came forward in good numbers with values in both sections well up to late rates. Sheep: Fat shorn wethers 45s 3d to 465, forward and light fat shorn wethers 37s 6d to 38s 6d, fat shorn ewes 26s to 27s 6d, store woolly noggets 37s 4d to 37s lOd. Cattle: Light weight P.A. and Hereford heifers £ll 10s to £l2, good fat cows £l2 to £l3, heavy fat Jersey cows £9 5s to £ll 10s, fat Jersey heifers £9 2s to £ll, medium fat Jersey cows £7 17s to £9, light fat Jersey cows £7 to £7 15s, heavy boner cows £5 15s to £7, light co medium boner cows £4 10s to £5 15s, sound empty Jersey cows &6 15s to £7, sound Jersey bulls £lO 5s co £ll, other sound Jersey bulls £7 to £9. Pigs: Choppers £5 18s to £7 11s, heavy baconers £6 Is to £6 9s, medium baconers £5 10s to £5 18s, light baconers and buttermilk pigs £4 10s to £5 Bs, large stores £3 14s to £8 19s, slips £2 18s to £3 4s, maiden Berkshire cross sows to farrow £8 to £8 lOsi MORRINSVILLE STOCK SALE The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Go. Ltd. reports that at their weekly stock sale held at Morrinsville on Friday, a small entry of fat sheep was penned, and prices were on a par with recent sales. Fat cows were penned in medium numbers and values remained fully firm. A smaller yarding of boner and store cows ’also sold freely at firm values. Dairy cattle were yarded in small numbers. Good close up heifers were in demand at late rates, but later calvers were not so keenly sought. Good close up cows or those recently calved sold readily. A medium yarding of both fat and store pigs came forward, baconers and porkers selling on a par with recent quotations. The demand for store and weaner pigs was very keen, all classes selling in advance of recent late rates. Sheep: fat woolly hoggets 47s to 50s, light 42s to 44s 6d, shorn hoggets 38s 6d.

Cattle: Fat young Jersey cows and heifers £9 to £lO 15s, lighter £8 to £8 17s, boner cows £5 10s to £7, bulls £6 17s 6d to £l3 2s 6d. Dairies: Good Jersey heifers c.t.p. £l5 to £l6 10s, medium £l2 to £l4, ‘small and later calvers £9 to £ll, calved heifers £l2 to J£ls, good cows c.t.p. £l5 to £l7, cows in milk £l4 to £l6. . Pigs: HeaVy choppers £6 12s 6d to £8 Ils, others £2 17s to £5 11s, heavy baconers £6 5s to £6 9s, medium £5 16s to £6 3s, light £5 8s to £5 12s, porkers and buttermilk pigs £4 10s to £5 ss, store pigs £3 15s to £4 7s, slips £2 15s to £3 10s, weaners 80s to £2 12s, sows with litters to £l2.