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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 78, Issue 7016, 7 February 1949, Page 7

COMMERCIAL

MORRINSVILLE STOCK SALE The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Co. Ltd. reports that fat sheep were yarded in slightly larger numbers than usual at their stock sale at Morrinsvihe on Friday last. Prices for wethers and ewes were firm, while fat lambs showed a sharp rise. An average yarding of store lambs were in good demana and prices were firm. A large number of breeding ewes were on offer. Two-tooths were in poor demand and prices were easier. Five-year ewes were in better demand and a steady sale resulted. There was a strong demand for a large offering of beef and values remained very firm. A full yarding of boner and store cows also sold freely at slightly higher rates. A full yarding of fat pigs and a light entry of store and weaner pigs was penned. Baconers and porkers remained firm at recent later rates. Store and weaner pigs also sold at unchanged rates.

Sheep: Fat woolly hoggets 45s to 495, fat shorn hoggets 37s to 395, fat ewes 26s to 28s, fat lambs 36s to 40s, lighter lambs 33s to 355, good W'.F. store lambs 22s to 245, medium W.F. store lambs 20s to 21s, small W.F. store lambs 16s to 18s, good B.F. store lambs 22s to 255, 2-tooth ewes 40s to 435, good five-year ewes 36s to 38s, average 5-year ewes 33s to 355. Cattle: Medium weight fat bullocks £l6 4s to £l7 17s, lighterweight fat bullocks £l3 Is to £l5 9s, heavy fat P.A. cows £l2 4s to £l5 12s 6d, heavy fat young Jersey cows £8 15s to £9 10s, lighter fat young Jersey cows and heifers £7 10s to £8 10s, heavy boner cows £6 10s to £8 15s, medium boner cows £5 5s to £6, bulls £7 to £l2 ss, Jersey heifer calves £5 to £6 11s.

Pigs: Heavy choppers £6 14s to £8 13s, others £3 7s to £5 7s, prime heavy baconers £6 13s to £6 15s, heavy baconers £6 10s to £6 12s, medium baconexs £6 to £6 Bs, light baconers £5 10s to £5 16s, porkers and buttermilk pigs £3 10s to £5 ss, large stores £2 15s to £3 ss, smaller £2 to £2 10s, slips 28s 6d to 33s 6d, weaners 14s to 24s 6d.