STOCK SALE REPORTS.

Waipa Post, Volume XX, Issue 1128, 13 August 1921, Page 5

STOCK SALE REPORTS.

HAMILTON SALE. At Hamilton on Thursday (reports the Farmers’ Auctioneering Co.) cattle were yarded in smaller numbers than at recent sales, there being little alteration in the tone of the market. With the exception of two pens of nice-quality light fat steers, which made £9 10s and £lO Is, the beef pens were filled with cows which left a lot to be desired in the'way of finish. The top price for cows was £7 15s, lighter cows £5 to £5.155, unfinished £3 to £4 15s. The, bulk of the yarding of store stock consisted of young cattle, mostly heifers, which sold under good conditions, A pen of rising 2year empty heifers sold at £5 12s 6d, mixed yearlings and 20-month heifers £3 16s to £4 7s 6d, good quality yearling heifers £2 15s to £3 ss, smaller £1 12s to £2 4s, yearling steers £1 to £1 16s for a pen of quality Shorthorn. Sheep were penned in small number, the quality of the mutton being far from prime. 'Best wethers made 18s to 18s 3d, a line of 200 mixed 2 and 4-tooth wethers 14s 4d. There were buyers found for finished sheep, and a few good pens would have brought good competition. We yarded 271 pigs, the largest so far in the new yards. Baconers and porkers held their ground, but the large number of stores eased the market somewhat. Baconers sold to £5 18s, porkers £3 to £4 7s 6d, well-grown slips £1 10s to £2, smaller 15 to £1 ss, weaners 10s to £1 ss, sows forward in pig £5 to £7, backward and poorer £3 3s to £4. This season’s calves made 3s to ss.