WEEK COMPARATIVELY BUSY.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1931, Page 11 (Supplement)

WEEK COMPARATIVELY BUSY.

FAT STOCK HARDER TO PROCURE.

The continuous rain and stormy ea ' thor which have been prevailing have naturally had a detrimental effect on the Taranaki stock market, states this week’® 'report by the Farmers’ Go-op-erative Organisation Society. The week 1 has again been comparatively bW» however, the firm states, and activity has been displayed in most sections. Fat sheep are becoming difficult to procure in the district and the southern end is the only place where supplies are available in quantity. Fat cow<? also are becoming difficult to procure and the northern end is bare of supplies. Ewes in lamb are still in demand but it is late to shift them with safety and a number of vendors of this class will have to sell them with lambs at foot later. Ewe hoggets have been quoted more freely during the week, and easily sold at prices ranging from 10s to 13s Gd. Wether hoggets are not being quoted in large numbers ami the demand is restricted, sales being effected during the week at 7s Gd to Ils 3d. Fa ewes are practically unprocurable in any number and only one sale was effected during the week, 200 ewes at 15s 6d. Fat wethers are 17s to 20s. _ In the dairy sections there is still little activity in the paddock. _ Large numbers, however, are finding their way ipto the yards and the Hawera sale on Thursday drew a particularly large,entry of approximately 200 heifers, besides a number of springing cows. Prices at auction remain on a par with tho?? ruling last week, although more activity among local purchasers has been evident. Paddock sales in this class have been made during the .week to outside purchasers at £7 to £B. Wearier heifers continue to attract attention and the best seem difficult to procure, prices ranging .from £2 15s to £3 10s tor really good yearlings. The mixed-colony well-grown heifer is saleable at from.3os

to £2. Holdover heifers are beginning to come on the market and bring 20s to 27s 6d. . In the store cattle section there is very little inquiry and practically no sales are going through. The few store cows which find their way into the saleyards meet poor competition, with prices ranging from 22s 6d to 30s. Pi»-s have suddenly come into prominence and there is a strong demand at prices considerably over the purchasers ideas of their true value. Sales are easy to make both privately and at auction, a large number having changed hands durin" the week. Prices for store pig* s range°from 22s to 28s- Gd, with weaner pigs selling from 10s to 16s. F. Reardon’s sale at the Hawera yards last Friday attracted a large, attendance. The cows came forward in splendid condition and, carrying the usual guarantee, met a ready sale, averaging °£B 15s, the top price being £lO 10s and the younger and closcst-up cows making £8 10s to. £9 10s. The Hawera pig fair conducted onithe same day was very successful, although the entry was considerably less than anticipated, a number - of vendors keeping their pigs at home owing ,to the rough weather. The entire yarding was disposed of under the hammer. Sows to farrow made £3 15s to. £4; poikcis, 28s to 30s, and weaner pigs 15s to 20s. For the Opunake sale. there was a much larger entry than usual in the dairy pens. Heifers sold reasonably well but cows were .very difficult to quit, the average price for the best being £5 to £6. Store cattle were cleared under the hammer at the usual Weaner heifers, medium, £2 2s; holdoyer, £1 to £1 4s. Guaranteed sound ‘cows, account J. S. Tosland, £9 10s; account E. G. Holmes, £5 and £6 ss, account J. C- Cox, £5 10s to £b s. Springing heifers, good, i. 7 10s to £ 10s; medium arid later calvcrs,. £o 10e to v There was at the Manaia sale a much larger entry of dairy cattle. Some good heifers were offered to a medium attendance. Dairy'heifers were in demand but cows were very difficult to sell at vendors’ ideas of reasonable value, the best of tho cows making £5 10fl to £7. Extra rrood heifers on account of Major Bourke made £9 to £lO 10s. On account of • other vendors good heifers close up'made £7 10s to £-8 los, and medium arid later calvers £o 5s to £7 A small entry of store cows was cleared under the hammer at 25s to 355; ■weaner heifers, medium, to £2 At" the Eltham sale a good yarding came forward and dairy cattle met rather a slack sale, dairy heifers mak : inJ £5 15s to £7 12s 6d. A good yarding of store cattle was cleared under the hammer. . . ' The Hawera sale and special. heifer fair brought forward an .exceptionally yarding of dairystock,: someG very fine heifers coming through the ring. As hasvbeen the case throughout the season better quality close-up heifers sold well, but the later and mixed-colour heifers were very difficult, to quit at reasonable money. A number oi outside buyers was present, and heifers were purchased to go to North Auckland, Opotiki and the Waikato. Cows did not meet with a brisk sale, and it was difficult to obtain what appeared reasonable prices for wood guaranteed sound cows. The cleaiinw sale on account of Mr. Mua Carr prior to the main sale was a success, the best of the cows fetching £7 to £9, with the later cows averaging £o to £6 10s. A. large entry of sheep met a wood sale considering that the quality of ■ most of the yarding, was only fair. -’ Quotations are: Wether hoggets, 7s gd io Us; fat wethers, account A. G Robertson, 18s 3d; 5-year ewes,running with S.D., fair. 10s 2d,, poor, 8s to 8s Gd. A yarding of approximately 100 piris jnet keen competition and was cleared' finder, the haiqirief at .the following rates: Weaner pigs, 12s to. 18s; stores” 20s to 36s 3d, . Dairy cows sold as follow: Best quality close to profit, £7 to £8 10s; later, £4 10s to .£5 15s; calved cows, best to £7; medrum lower-conditioned, 35s to £5; heifers, account W. O. Williams, a pen at. £7 10s; account A. C. Richards, £lO to £B*lss? account ReaSe ' B»os., £9, £8 ss, '£7 15s; account C. Tarrant, £8 ss, £B, £7; account J. A.. Robertson, £8 ■JOs, £7 ss; account Johnson Bros., £8 ss, ’' £B, £7 , 10s;. account G. . Cockerton, £6 10s; account R. B. Douglas, £7 ss, £6 10s; account C. J, Hawken, £7 ss, £7; account G. W. Williams, £7; Cprcoran Bros., £7 Tss, £6 ss; account other 1 vendors, heifers, £5 10s to £7 10s. Store cattle met a ready sale at the following rates: Forward cows, £2 to £2 15s; light fat cows, £3 10s to £4; good 2-J-year Shorthorn ■steers, £2 I6s; Holstein do., £2 8s; empty heifers, 255.