STOCK MARKET

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIX, Issue 3157, 7 November 1929, Page 8

STOCK MARKET

HAMILTON SALES. VARIOUS RE-PORTS. Messrs Balgety and Company, Ltd., report on their usual weekly stock sale fit Frankton salcyards on Tuesday, sth November, as under: — There was an average yarding of -*'%eef. Prices were much on a par with last week’s rates. Choice ox sold at 40/. per hundred; prime cow and heifer beef at equal to 35/- to 38/-, according to quality; aged fat cows £7 15/- to £9r light cows and heifers £6 2/- to £7 12/6; runners up to £5 17/6. Store cattle .were'in short supply, and all classes gold at late rates. Store cows £6 to £7 5/-; small cull heifers £3 10/- to £4 5/- ; small high-grade Jersey yearling heifers £ 6; dark Jersey yearling heifers £5 5/-; bulls £4 to £B. There was an average yarding of fat sheep. Prices were about on a par with last week’s rates. Heavy shorn \pethers 27/- to 28/10; fat wethers 25/9; fat shorn hoggets 23/10; fat woolly wethers 33/-; store cull wethers 20/' to 28/-; ewes and lambs 30/-. There was a heavy yarding of fat and store pigs. Store pigs were slightly easier than last week’s rates, and light porkers also were a bit easier. Prime heavy baconers £4 to £4 9/-; medium £3 13/- to £4; heavy porkers £2 15/- to £3 1/.; lighter 39/- to £2 12/6; large stores 39/- to 43/-; slips 31/- to 37/6; weaners, best 20/- to 27/6; others Jf>/6 to 17/6. A particularly' fine line of 40 prime baconers for Messrs Ayers and .Smith, Waharoa, averaged £4 9/-. The Farmers’ Co-op. Auctioneering .•Company, Ltd., report: — At the weekly stock sale in the Frankton' yards on Tuesday we had a good yarding of cattle and a medium yarding of sheep. Competition was keen throughout and increased prices were for both steer and cow beef. Store cattle and sheep were sold at late jatpp. There was a good yarding of fat and store pigs, and prices were slightly -below last week’s quotations. Bhiry 450ws came forward in average numbers and met with a ready demand. We • quote: Fat steers £l4 6/- to £l4 16/; medium fat steers £l2 11/- to £l3 7/6; fat cows £lO 13/- to £l2 14/-; medium fat cows £8 19/- to £lO 11/-; light fat oows £6 17/6 to £8 2/6; vealers, £2 13/to £2 15/-; 3 and 4-year-old steers £9 14/- to £ll 7/-; 2 to steers £7 17/0 to £8 2/6; store cows £4 to £6 5/-; Jersey and Jersey cross yearling heifers £5 6/- to £B, the latter price being realised by a very choice pen from Mr W. Boyd, Matangi; 2-year Shorthorn heif-. ers £6 13/- to £7; bulls £5 to £9 10/-. Pigs: Heavy baconers £4 to £4 4/-; medium baconers £3 12/- to £3 16/-; light baconers £3 3/- to £3 10/-; heavy porkers £2 15/- to £3; light £2 5/- to £2 12/-; good stores 35/- to £2; slips 28/to 33/-; weaners 15/6 to 24/-. i New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:— At Hamilton sale on Tuesday we penned fat and store cattle in average numbers, and a fairly large yarding of tfat sheep, also fat and store pigs in full supply. Beef was in keen demand, and a, considerable rise in values resulted for both steers and cows. Fat .sheep sold under good competition at prices on ft par with late sales. Both fat and store pigs were ■ a trifle easier. We quote: Fat bullocks £ls to £ls 17/6; lighter ,£l4 1/-; prime heavy fat cows had heifers £ll 7/6 to £l2 15/- (these latter were sold on account of Mr R. Gollan, and purchased by F. Crothall, Baglan); prime cows, medium weights, £9 12/6 to £ll 2/6; lighter, £8 12/- to -£9 5/-; plain fat cows £7 6/- to £8; cows in fresh condition £5 10/- to £6 12/-; 15-months Shorthorn heifers £5 7/6; heavy fat shorn wethers £1 8/6 to £1 9/9; prime fat shorn ewes, £1 2/- to £1 2/9; aged ewes 16/- to £1 0/3; light fat lambs £1 3/- to £1 5/-; woolly hoggets £1 2/6.' Pigs: Heavy baconers £3 19/to £4 4/-; (lighter £3 11/- to £3 16/-; heavy porkers £2 12/- to £2 19/-; light £2 5/- to £2 10/-; larger stores £1 19/6 to £2 2/-; medium £1 10/- to £1 17/-; weaners 19/- to £1 5/-.