COMMERCIAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 79, Issue 7101, 31 August 1949, Page 5

COMMERCIAL

OHAUPO STOCK SALE Messrs Dalgety and Co. Ltd, report a heavy yarding of all classes of Jersey cattle descriptions at their stock sale at Ohaupo on Friday the 26th August. Included in the entry were the advertised lines of yearling and empty 2-year-old Jersey heifers which attracted a' large bench of buyers and sold freely under keen competition at very firm prices—the best pen of yearling Jersey heifers realised £l2 15s while the best pen of empty 2-year Jersey heifers went at the bid of £l2 Bs.'Competition for fat and boner cows was good and full central ’yards prices were maintained. In the dairy section only quality and close. to profit sorts were in demand—prices being on a par with late quotations. Cattle: Medium fat Ayrshire cows £l2 15s to £l3 15s, good fat Jersey heifers to £lO 2s, fat Jersey cows £9 6s to £lO 106, heavy boner cows £7 19s to £8 17s 6d, light to medium boner cows £5 4s to £7 Ils, best empty 2-year Jersey heifers £lO Ils to £l2 Bs, other empty 2-year Jersey heifers £8 to £lO 2s 6d, best yearling Jersey heifers £l2 9s to £l2 15S, good yearling Jersey heifers £ll 7s to £l2 ss, medium yearlingjersey heifers £9 15s to £ll, Jersey and Ayrshire cross yearling heifers £9 15s to £9 19s, small yearling Jersey heifers £7 2s 6d to £7 17s 6d. Dairies: Best springing Jersey and Ayrshire heifers £l9 to £2O, other springing Jersey heifers £l6 to £lB, calved Jersey cows and heifers £l4 10s to £l7. HAMILTON STOCK SALE The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company Limited report that at the weekly stock sale held at Hamilton on Tuesday a large yarding of fat wethers did not include as many well finished sheep as last week and prices were considerably lower. Fat ewes were also easier but fat lamb values remained firm. Ox beef was penned in good numbers, but the bulk of the yarding comprised light-weight bullocks and a number ox unfinished pens. There was a good demand for prime cattle but values generally were a shade easier. A good average yarding of cow and heifer beef was freely competed for. Values for prime, heifers were slightly firmer, while the market for cows remained steady at firm rates. A lighter yarding of both fat and store pigs was offered, top baconers improving on last week’s values. Porkers and light to medium baconers remained firm at recent late rates, while store and weaner pigs also sold at prices on a par with last week’s high values. Sheep: Prime heavy wethers 63s to 665, prime ditto 60s to 625, med. ditto 56s to 58s, light ditto 52s to 545, good shorn wethers 4bs to 535, heavy fat ewes 40s to 43s 6d, med. ditto 36s to 38s, light ditto 32s to 345, good shorn ewes 30s to 33s 6d, good W.F. store hoggets (woolly) 47s to 50s, average ditto 43s to 44s 6d, good shorn W.F. wether hoggets 38s to 39s 9d, good shorn B.F. hoggets 35s to 375. Cattle: Extra heavy prime bullocks £26 to £26 10s, heavy ditto £23 10s to £24 15s, med. ditto £22 to £23, light ditto £2O to £2l 10s, plain and unfinished ditto £lB to £l9 ss, heavy prime heifers £l7 to £lB 6s, med. ditto £l5 to £l6, extra heavy prime young cows £l9 17s 6d to £2l 15s, heavy ditto £l5 to £l7 7s 6d, med. ditto £l3 to £l4 ss, light ditto £ll 10s to £l2 10s.

Pigs: Choppers £5 10s to £7 17s, prime heavy baconers £6 17s to £6 19s, heavy ditto £6 12s to £6 15s, medditto £6 8s to £6 10s, light ditto £6 to £6 6s, heavy porkers and buttermilk pigs £5 6s to £5 17s, med. ditto £4 18s to £5 4s, light ditto £4 10s to £4 16s, good quality large stores £4 10s to £4 17s, large ditto £4 to - £4 Bs, smaller ditto £3 10s to £3 16s, slips £2 18s to £3 9s, weaners 35s to £2 16s, sows in farrow £8 10 to £ll 10s, sows with litters to £lB, pedigree Tamworth boars to 10 gns.