COMMERCIAL

Waikato Independent, Volume XXX, Issue 2313, 20 March 1930, Page 8

COMMERCIAL

LIVE STOCK MARKET. HAMILTON SALES. Messrs Dalgety and dompany, Ltd., report on their usual weekly stock sale at Frankton saleyards on Tuesday as under: — There was a large yarding of fat cattle, which met with a weak demand. All prime beef was 20/- to 30/- per head lower. We sold prime young cows at up to £9; inferior quality cows £4 15/- to £6 10/-; small cows £3 15/- to £4 12/6; runners up to £5 15/-; small ditto £3 5/- ; small calves 5/- to 15/-. There was a very large yarding of store cattle including a line of 240 3 and 4-year steers. The competition generally was weak, although practically every pen yarded was disposed of as under:—l pen of forward Shorthorn steers £ll 10/-; 1 pen ditto £lO 17/6; 1 pen ditto £lO 17/-; 1 pen roan Shorthorn bullocks £lO IS/-; 1 pen ditto £lO 7/6; 1 pen ditto £lO 4/-; 1 pen ditto £lO 13/-; 1 pen ditto £lO 7/6; 1 pen 3-year Shorthorns £9 14/-; 1 pen P.A. steers £lO 12/6; 3 pens Hereford 3-year steers £lO 7/6; 1 pen 3-year P.A. steers £lo* 26 P.A. 2-year steers £S 17/-; 11 Hereford and P.A. steers £8 10/-; 1 pen P.A. 18-months steers £7 IS/-; 3 pens 18-months P.A. steers £7 15/-. We also sold about 120 steers 18-months to 24year at from £4 10/- to £8 o/-; stoic cows £3 to £5 5/-; weaner Jersey heifers £3 2/6 to £3 10/-. Bulls at late rates. There was a moderate yarding of fat sheep, which hardly maintained late rates. Prime fat wethers sold at up to 28/-; medium quality fat ewes 15/7 to 15/-; light wethers 26/-. There was a large yarding of store sheep which sold at about late rates. We sold 36 medium lambs at 12/6; 68 shorn wether lambs at 14/9; 32 do 11/9; 12 smaller lambs 10/-; 74 woolly lambs 19/3; 42 lambs 15/-; 39 m.s. lambs 15/8; 53 store wethers 21/6; 66 2-tooth .wethers 19/3; 29 B.F. cross 2-tooth owes 32/3; 107 4-tooth ewes in low condition 23/3; 186 f.m. cull ewes 9/9. There was a large yarding of fat pigs. Medium yarding of store pigs; while fat porkers sold at slightly easier rates than last week. Store pigs sold on a par -with last week. Heavy baconors £4 to £4 13/-; medium baconors £3 10/- to £3 1//6; lighter £3 5/- to £3.7/6; heavy porkers £2 10/- to £3; medium £2 to £2 10/-; large stores 33/- to 39/6; weaners 10/to lb/6. The Farmers’ Auctioneering Co. The Farmers’ Co-op. Auctioneering Company, Ltd., report:— At the weekly stock. sale in the Frankton yards on Tuesday we had a heavy yarding of all classes of cattle. Beef showed a decrease on last week’s Tates; especially was this noticeable in second-class cow beef. There was a large entry of fat and forward bullocks including some of the best quality Shorthorns that have been yarded at Frankton for some years. These we offered in conjunction with Messrs Dal- ' gety and Co., Ltd., and practically the

whole line was cleared at satisfactory prices. There was an extra large yarding of all classes of sheep, fats selling

at late rates. There is still a fair demand for breeding ewes, also lambs, and practically the whole yarding was jßold. There was a full yarding of fat pigs, baconors selling at late rates, while porkers were slightly below last week’s quotations. Baconers averaged 7sd to 7sd per lb, while porkers realised 7d to Quotations: Medium prime fat bullocks £l2 13/- to £l3 11/-; fat heifers £8 5/- to £8 19/-; fat cows heavy £9 15/- to £lO 8/-; medium £8 19/- to £9 10/-; light £7 5/- to £8 9/-; forward conditioned cows £6 11/- to £6 15/-; forward conditioned steers £lO 16/- to £ll 1/-; 24 and 3-year Steers £7 19/- to £9 5/-; heifer calves 30/- to £2 15/-; potter bulls £5 5/-. Sheep: Fat lambs 20/- to 26/-; others 18/- to 19/-; fat ewes 16/- to 18/6; ewe lambs 16/- to 16/6; wether lambs shorn 13/9 to 14/-; mixed sex shorn lambs 11/9 to 12/3; mixed sex woolly lambs 15/4 to 18/3; mixed sex black-face 2-tooths 16/8 to 19/-; small 12/6 to 16/-; 2-tooth ewes 29/- to 30/3; 2, 4 and 6-tooth ewes 25/9; 4 and 5-year ewes 22/3; 5-year ewes 18/6 to 19/-; aged ewes 13/- to 15/6; Romney rams, 2-tooth, 44gns; Southdown railfc, 2-tooth, 6gns; English Leicester rams, 4 to 44gns. Pigs: Heavy baconers £4 10/- to £4 14/-; medium £4 to £4 6/-; light £3 10/to £3 15/-; heavy porkers £3 5/- to £3 10/-; light £2 10/- to £2 18/- ; good stores 38/- to £2 4/-; lips 26/- to 30/-; weaners 16/6 to 24/-.

N.Z. Loan and Mercantile. At Hamilton sale -on Tuesday there was a very full yarding of stock of all classes. Beef was penned in large supply, and although the demand was .steady, prices declined to the extent of £1 10/- per head for all grades. A good enquiry existed for store cattle. Fat sheep were a trifle firmer, and a 3arge entry of stores were all disposed

of at late rates. We quote: Fat bullocks £l2 10/- to £l3; prime fat cows and heifers £9 2/6 to £9 16/-; lighter do. £7 12/- to £8 14/-; plain fat cows £5 IS/- to £6 12/6; heavy vealers £3 16/- "to £4 1/-; medium do. £2 7/6 to £3 7/-; weaner Jersey heifers £4 2/- to £4 11/*; dairy cows £6 to £10; boner cows £4 to 4 7/6£; prime heavy fat wethers £1 8/2 to £1 11/6; light do. £1 4/-; good fat ewes 17/1 to 19/3; more aged do. 15/- to 16/1; fat and forward woolly lambs IS/9 to 19/6; shorn do. 16/2 to 17/1; black faced store lambs 10/4 to 12/7; Romney mixed sex lambs 12/9 to 13/7; 2-tooth wethers 19/8-to £1 0/6; 300 sound mouth ewes, ex East Coast, 17/-; aged ewes 12/- to 14/-. Pigs: Heavy banners £4 8/- to £4 14/-; medium do. £4 to £4 5/-; light' do. and heavy porkers £3'9/- to £3 16/-; porkers £2 11/- to £3; stores £1 10/- to £1 14/-; slips £1 1/- to £1 4/-; weaners 12/- to 16/6.

THE BUTTER MARKET. ’ PRICES STILL FALLING. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report having received the following cablegram from their London house dated 17th instant. Messrs Samuel Page and Son report:— w Butter: Finest New Zealand butter, 1/- to 2/- per cwt lower (last quotation 139/- to 142/-).