COMMERCIAL

Waikato Independent, Volume XXX, Issue 2319, 3 April 1930, Page 8

COMMERCIAL

LIVE STOCK MARKET.

FRANKTON SALES

Messrs Dalgety and Company,

Messrs Dalgoty and Company, Ltd., report on their usual weekly stock sale at Frankton salcyards as under:— Tbere was a small yarding of beef and prices for prime ox and cows were about .10/- to .15/- per head higher than Jast week. Prime young cows sold at up to £9 10/-; ordinary fat cows £6 15/to £8; light and inferior £4 10/- to £6. Only a few pens of store cattle yarded. We sold in-calf heifers at £7 10/-; inferior do. £6 5/-. There was an average yarding of fat sheep, which sold at late rates. Prime wethers 27/9; prime ewes X6/6 to 20/9; 2-tooth Down cross 25/9; Anterior fat ewes 13/- to 15/-; fat woolly lambs 18/-. There was a very large yarding of store sheep and lambs. The ■demand was weak and all classes were considerably lower than late rates. The following are our principal sales:—2Bo 2 and 4-tooth ewes at 27/-; 120 4 and 5 year ewes 10/-; 110 mixed aged ewes 18/6; 152 do. at 18/3; 110 full mouthed ewes 15/-; 151 4 and 5-year ewes 19/-; JSouthdown rams 3gns; English Leicester rams 3gns; Eomney rams 2gns; aged rams lgn. There was an exceptionally heavy yarding of porkers and baconers. Baconcrs showed a big decline in prices whilst porkers were also easier. Store pigs were much lower than last week. Best baconers from £4 to £4 5/-; medium £3 2/- to £2 17/-; porkers to £3 4/-; large stores £1 13/-; medium 23/6 to 30/-; slips 19/- to £1 2/6; weaners 14/- to 19/-; small weaners 6/- to 9/-; choppers good quality £4 to £4 16/-; medium £1 19/- to £3 13/-. Tanners' Auctioneering Co. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Ltd., report: —At the weekly stock sale in the Frankton salcyards on Tuesday last we had a heavy yarding of sheep and a short yarding of cattle. Prime steers and young cows sold readily at slightly better than last week's quotations. This was no doubt due to the short yarding. Light and medium cow beef was dull .of sale. Fat sheep met with keen competition and realised late rates. There was an extra heavy yarding of store sheep, including some extra good lines of young breeding ewes from Tologa Bay. These met with a fair demand, only the older sheep being sold. Late quotations were realised for store lambs. Fat pigs came forward in increased numbers, the whole yarding changing hands at values which were slightly below last week. Baconers averaged 6f d to 7d per lb, while porkers averageif 6Jd per lb. Quotations: Fat bullocks £l2 10/-; light fat steers £7 13/-; prime fat cows and ■heifers £lO to £lO 10/-; fat cows £8 7/6 to £9 2/6; medium £7 to £8 1/-; vealers £2 10/- to £3 12/-; store cows £3 10/- to £4 5/-; daiiy cows £8 10/- to £9 5/-. Sheep: Fat wethers 26/9 to 27/3; fat lambs 21/6 to 23/6; fat ewes 23/- to 24/-; mixed sex lambs 13/10; mixed sex lambs, small, 9/-; 4 and 6tooth breeding ewes 22/3; 4 and 5-yr breeding ewes 18/- to 20/-. Pigs: Heavy baconers £4 6/- to £4 12/-; medium £3 15/- to £4 2/-; light £3 3/- to £3 10/-; heavy porkers £2 18/- to £3 5/-; light £2 5/- to £2 10/-; stores 30/to £2; slips 22/- to 25/-; weaners 10/lo 18/-; heavy choppers £3 18/- to £4 19/-; lighter £2 tQ £3. N.Z. Loan and Mercantile. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., Hamilton, report:—At Hamilton sale on Tuesday last beef was penned in shorter supply than usual. The steady values which have existed at recent sales for ox beef were fully maintained, while fat cows and heifers showed an advance of about 15/- per last week's market, when a decided drop occurred. Fat sheep sold on a par Wilate quotations, but stores and breeding ewes met with rather a weak demand. A large entry of pigs, came forward, and prices declined to the extent of 5/- to 7/- per head. We quote: Fat steeds £l2 2/6; prime fat cows £8 12/6 to £9 16/-; lighter do. £7 5/- to £8 1/-; plain cows £5 9/-.to £7; runners £3 15/to £5; yearling steers £3 17/-; dairy cows £9 to £lO 10/-; fat wethers £1 7/6 to £1 8/6; light fat 2-tooth wethers £1 5/1; fat lambs £1 2/2 to £1 4/5 for prime; light and unfinished lambs 19/9 -to £1 0/3; fat ewes 15/4 to 19/8; store woolly ewe lambs 16/3 to 16/8; sman do. 11/-; woolly wether lambs 14/9 to 15/3. Pigs: Heavy oaeoncrs £4 to £4 7/-; medium do £3 12/- to £3 16/-; light baconcrs and heavy porkers £3 to £3 10/-; medium porkers £2 10/- to £2 16/-; lighter do. £2 to £2 8/-; unfinished porkers £1 14/- to £1 18/-; stores £1 7/- to £1 11/-; slips 18/- to £1 4/-; g° 0( l wetaners 10/- to 13/-; smaller do. 6/- to 8/-.