LIVE STOCK MARKET

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3094, 21 December 1933, Page 3

LIVE STOCK MARKET

VALUES AT FRANKTON. . i FAT LAMBS IN DEMAND. There was again a heavy yarding of fat sheep and lambs at the Frankton sale on Tuesday. Competition for wethers femained steady at rates on a par with late sales. Only a small yarding of ewes came forward. Heavy buying by the butchers for the Christmas market resulted in lambs meeting with spirited bidding, and rates were in advance of export values. Ox beef was again penned in good quantity. Prices for heavy-weight cattle remained firm, while rates for good quality medium and lighter weights, showed a decided increase. Cow and heifer beef was penned in smaller numbers and showed an increase on late sales. There was again a heavy yarding of fat pigs, and values for baconers were easier. Porkers remained at about equai to late quotations. A small yarding of stores sold freely under good competition. The auctioneers report as follows: Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Ltd. —Sheep: Prime shorn wethers sold at 23/- to 23/5; lighter

21/5 to 22/6; prime woolly hoggets 23/- to 25/3; shorn 18/- to £1 0/8; prime heavy ewes 12/6 to 15/-; woolly ewes 15/8 to 16/2; prime heavy lambs 21/- to 22/6; medium 19/3 to 20/2; light 16/- to 18/3. Cattle: Heavy fat steers £6 19/- to £7 7/-; medium £6 10/- to £6 16/-; light £5 3/- to £5 10/-; heavy fat cows £4 16/- to £5 9/-; fat heifers £5 4/- to £5 9/-; lighter cows and heifers £3 to £4 10/-; boners to 38/-. Pigs; Choppers 22/- to £2 5/-; heavy porkers 36/- to £2 3/-; medium 32/- to 35/-; stores £1 to 21/6; slips 15/- to 19/-; weaners 9/- to 14/-. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd. —Sheep: Heavy fat wethers sold at 21/6 to 23/-; medium 19/- to 21/-; lighter to 18/-; prime young ewes 12/- to 13/6; heavy fat owes 10/6 to 11/6; inferior to 10/-; medium fat hoggets 16/- to 19/-; prime heavy lambs 18/- to £1; good quality 16/- to 18/-; medium 14/6 to 15/-. Cattle: Medium vealors to 28/-; good quality bullocks £6 10/- to £7 2/3: medium £5 16/- to £6 9/-; light £4 15/- to £5 10/-; prime fat cows and heifers £4 7/6 to £4 15/-; good quality £3 10/- to £4 5/-; medium £2 15/- to £3 7/6; light £2 5/- to £2 12/6; fresh-conditioned cows to £2 2/6; store cows to 32/-. Pigs: Heavy baconers £2 4/- to £2 10/-; medium £1 18/- to £2 2/-; light baconers and heavy porkers 32/- to 36/-; medium porkers 28/- to 31/-: light 23/to 26/-; good stores 20/- to 27/-; small 17/- to 19/-; slips 14/6 to 17/6; large weaners 11/- to 13/-; small to 10/-.

Dalgety and Company, Ltd. —Fat sheep: Prime fat wethers sold at 21/to 24/-; best fat ewes 12/6 to 15/6; others 9/- to 11/3; best heavy lambs 18/7 to 21/9; others 14/- to 16/3. Fat

cattle: Fat bullocks £5 10/- to £0 15/-; choice fat cows and heifers £4 to £5 0/-; ordinary quality fat cows £3 to £3 .17/6; others to 52/-. Fat pigs: Topweight baconers to £2 12/-; lightweight baconers 42/- to 46/-; heavy porkers to 38/-; light porkers 31/- to 35/-. Store pigs: Well-grown stores 22/- to 27/-; small stores 17/- to 21/-; best weaners .14/- to 16/6; small weaners 11/6 to 13/6.