LIVE STOCK MARKET

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3551, 9 May 1939, Page 5

LIVE STOCK MARKET

THE CAMBRIDGE SALE MEDIUM YARDING OF CATTLE Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held their usual tri-weekly sale at .Cambridge yesterday, when there was a medium yarding of cattle and a fair attendance of buyers. The recent drop in the boner schedule was reflected in the cattle prices. Fat bullocks £9; fat heifers £6 10/- to £7 5/-; fat Jersey cows £4 7/6 to £4 15/-; heavy boners £3 2/to £3 17/6; medium boners £2 5/to £2 15/-; lighter boners £1 to £1 15/-. Dairy heifers, backward sorts passed at £4 10/- and £6. Pigs: A small yarding of fat pigs came forward with a full entry of stores. Fat pigs sold on. a par with late rates, while stores and weaners were brighter. Heavy porkers 35/- to £2; prime medium porkers 30/- to 35/-; medium porkers 25/- to 30/-; light porkers 20/- to 25/-; best stores 15/to 20/-; medium stores 12/- to 15/-; small stores 10/- to 12/-; best slips II- to 10/-; medium slips 5/- to 7/-; weaners 4/- to 6/-.