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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 79, Issue 7102, 2 September 1949, Page 3

COMMERCIAL

TE AWAMUTU STOCK SALE The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Co. Ltd., report on their Te Awamutu stock sale held on Thursday. Fat cattie were yarded in good numbers. Both ox beef and cow beef met a ready demand selling at values on a par with recent sales. Store and boner cattle showed no alteration in value. A good entry of dairy cattle, mostly of quality 2-yr heifers for which competition 1 was very keen. Close heifers selling to £2B. Sheep were yarded in good numbers. Fat wethers were not so keen of sale, but realised values on a par with Frankton quotations. The advertised store hoggets were keenly sought, prices being in advance of recent sales. A small yarding of fat pigs and a large penning of store pigs came forward, values in the fat section were on a par with recent sales while store pigs were again in keen demand.

Cattle: Prime heavy Shorthorn bullocks to £24, prime med. P.A. bullocks £2O to £2l 15s, med. prime P. A.

heifers £l5 10s to £l6 2s 6d, heavy P.A. and Hereford cows £l5 15s to £l7 ss, lighter ditto £l4 10s to £l5 10s, heavy boner cows £8 15s to £lO, lighter ditto £7 to £8 10s, light ditto £4 to £6 10s, potter bulls £lO to £l6 10s, top quality calved heifers £26 to £2B 10s, top quality 2-yr heifers closeup £26 to £2B, med. ditto £22 to £25 10s, later calvers £lB 15s to £2l, backward Jersey heifers £l5 10s to £lB 10s. Sheep: Heavy prime fat wethers £2 19s to £3 3s 6d, heavy shorn fat wethers £2 9s to £2 10s, - med. fat ewes 38$ 6d to £2, fat woolly hoggets £2 3s to £2 Bs, lighter fat hoggets B.F. 34s to 395, top woolly W.F. wether hoggets £2 7s 9d to £2 8 S 6d, smaller ditto £2 Is to £2 6s, small ditto 35s 6d to £2. Pigs: Choppers £3 10s to £5 17s 6d, med. baconsrs £5 10s to £5 16s, porkers and buttermilk pigs £4 15s to £5 ss, large store pigs £3 15s to £4 10s, med. ditto £3 5s to £3 12s, slips £2 10s to £3 2s, weaners £1 15s to £2 ss, sows to farrow £8 to £0 10s. TE AWAMUTU STOCK SALE Messrs Dalgety and Co. Ltd., have to report .holding their Te Awamutu sale on Thursday, Ist September, whan a full yarding of beef and hoggets came forward and H medium yarding of dairy cattle comprising mostly heifer descriptions. Realisations for ail classes of fat sheep were firm, while in the beef- sections, prices were firm on late quotations at the central ’yards. There was a good enquiry for quality and close to profit Jersey heifers and these sold freely at firm values. An average yarding of pigs comprising mostly stores changed hands at unchanged prices any alterations being in favour of vendors. Sheep: Good fat woolly wethers 60s to 665, med. fat woolly wethers 53s to 565, good fat woolly hoggets 46s 6d to 49s 3d, med ditto 42s to 45s 6d, forward condition B.F. hoggets 34s 6d to 35s 6d, prime fat ewes 38s 9d to 445, shorn B.F. hoggets 33s to 34s 6d. Cattle: Prime, fat P.A. bullocks £23 to £24 10s, fat P.A. ditto £2O 10s to £22 10s, light fat P.A. cows £l2 to £l4 ss, fat Jersey cows £9 10s to £lO 15s, heavy boner cows £7 to £8 15s, light to med. boner cows £5 10s to £6 15s, empty 2-yr Jersey heifers £8 6s to £8 12s, yearling Jersey heifers £lO to £ll 15s, Dairies: Best quality c.t.p. heifers £26 to £2B, good ditto £2O to £25, other springing Jersey heifers £l5 10s io £lB 10s, sound cows tn calve £l2 to £l5. Pigs: Light choppers £3 10s to £5 17s 6d, light baconers and good buttermilk pigs £5 5s to £5 14s, large store pigs and light- buttermilk pigs £4 16s to £5 Is, good store pigs £4 10s to £4 15s, med. ditto £3 18s to £4 7s, small ditto £3 10s to £3 17s, best slips £3 3s to £3 Bs, other ditto £2 14s to £3, best weaners £2 12s to £2 18s.