TARANAKI STOCK SALES

Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1935, Page 11

TARANAKI STOCK SALES

AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS SHORTAGE- IN ALL SHEEP CLASSES RECENT PRICE rises. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. reports that wet weather was experienced every day during the week, although it has not been so cold. Pastures are moving very slowly and those farmers who fed out ensilage and hay during the d y autumn months are feeling the shoi g of artificial feed. . . • Reports from the London office advis that New Zealand butter is quoted. to 94s 6d and New Zealand cheese as high as 495. Factories holding stocks of cheese at London and later consignments on the water are reaping the benefit of the recent sharp rise in prices; It now that quite a few cheese companies will finally pay out about lOd per lb. butter fat over last season’s output.. Next week a winter wool sale will be held at Wanganui and sheep’farmers will be eagerly awaiting the, result in order to make comparisons. with the rise _m prices experienced over the recent series of/sales at London, • The company railed a further consignment of fat ewes’to one of the branches in the Waikato and these were sold at auction last Tuesday. Satisfactory figures of 20s 9d and 21s were realised. During the week private sales of : at wethers have been made at 23s 6d, but owing to the extreme shortage of all classes of sheep and cattle business in the paddock is fairly quiet, although there is a very, keen demand. A line of 50 forward and store Hereford bullocks was disposed of at £6, and several haffdraught horses have, been sold from £37 to £43. A good inquiry exists for topquality yearling heifers which are making from £2 10s to £3. In' the dairy section odd trucks of good quality two-year Jersey heifers are making from £5 5s to' £5 15s, but the shortage. of. feed and the wet weather have steadied up sales in the paddock very considerably. In the yards good quality heifers close to calving continue to make from £6 up to £7 10s, and second quality heifers £4 10s to £5. - At the Douglas sale last “Monday there was a' good yarding of cattle of all classes, but ;in the dairy section both heiferi and cows were .inclined to be rather backward and prices were not as good as at previous sales. A pen of empty 2-year heifers made 335; small hold-over yearling heifers 20s; sound empty cows, 27s 6d to £2; meaty cows, £2 6s to £2 13s; a fat steer £4 15s; and a light, ‘ unfinished fat Jersey cow, £3 12s. A pen of small b.f. hoggets-made 13s 6d. Young back-country Jersey cows sold from £3 5s to and springing heifers up to £4 ss. A line of .-vfellgrbwn 3-year Jersey Heifers were passed in at £4 17s 6d, but these were not forward enough. '” At the Stratford.sale on Tuesday there was a'fair yarding of cattle, and store cows made from 15s to 245. Good quality back-country in-calf heifers sold up to £4 ss, and calved heifers made £4 10s. Back country' dairy heifers and cows, rather backward, realised from £3 2s 6d to £3 3s. At the Hawera sale on Thursday there was an average yarding of store cattle, a good entry of pigs and the dairy pens were ’ filled to full capacity. Yearling Jersey heifers sold for £2 and small, Hold-over heifers £1; store cows 25s to 355; empty sound cows 345; and light Jersey fat cows £3 3s. Pigs met with a ready sale. Inferior stores made 19s 6d; small stores, 22s '6d; good stores; 25s to 27s 6d; and small porkers, 30s. In the dairy section top quality heifers were sold for as high as £7 10s, and competition was very keen. Two-year springing, heifers on account ,of Mr. K. C. Duckworth made up to £6 15s, and his calved heifers from £4 10s to £5 ss. Three heifers on account of Mr. Arthur Appleyard sold for £4 10s, £5 10s and £7 10s. A line of two and three-year heifers on account of Mr. J. Kerfisk realised £5 10s to £6; odd heifers on.account of sundry other vendors made from £5 10s to £7 ss, and backward sorts from £3 10s to £4 ss. A two-year Holstein heifer, on the point of calving, sold for £6 10s.. A consignment of 30 back-coun-try dairy cows on account of Mr. Lance Goodger, was sold with his usual. guarantee and a good sale resulted.’. Young Jersey cows,- on the point of calving, realised £4 10s to £5 ss, and . mature early calvers £4 to £4 10s. Young Jersey calved cows sold, readily from £4 10s to £6, and mature calved cows from £3 15s to £| 12s 6d.