COMMERCIAL

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1691, 26 November 1925, Page 5

COMMERCIAL

HAMILTON STOCK SALE. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company reports: At our weekly stock sale in the Frankton yards, on Tuesday we had an extra large yarding of beef (principally fat cows) and store cattle. There was a marked decline in values in the beef pens, while stores and fresh-conditioned steers and bullocks sold under steady competition at late market rates. The bidding for empty dairy heifers of all classes was slack. A small number of sheep were offered, and sold at reduced rates. An extra heavy yarding of fat and store pigs came forward; baconers sold at slightly reduced figures, medium to good porkers showing a further reverse. In the store pens competition was again keen, and the prices for all sorts remained firm. We quote: Beef: Prime heavy cows £lO 11s to £ll ss, lighter prime £9 Is to £9 12s 6d, medium £8 4s to £8 10s, light £5 lOs to £7 2s 6d, plain and ordinary 6s to £4 9s, good-framed fresh-con-ditioned cows £4 to £4 10s, others £3 to £3 10s, stores 36s to 40s, 4-year Hereford steers £9 8s to £9 12s, 3 to-4-year Hereford - 'Shorthorn - cross steers £8 16s, 4-year Polled Angus bullocks £lO, 2 and 3-year £7 16s, 2year Hereford steers £7 2s, 4 and 5year Shorthorn bullocks in fresh condition £9 4s, same age (mixed colours) £B. Sheep: Light prime shorn wethers sold to 32s 6d. 'Pigs: Heavy baconers £4 5s to £4 13s, good baconers £3 l'ss to £4, light baconers and good, porkers £3 5s to £3 12s, medium porkers £2 15s to £2 18s, light £2 5s to £2 10s, small and unfinished 35s to 425, good stores £2 to £2 ss, best slips 33s to 355, others 23s to 275, weaners 21s to 265, smaller 13s to 19s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company reports: At . the Hamilton sale on Tuesday therewas a heavy yarding of both fat and store cattle. Cow b®,?f ; was plentiful, a large proportion being unfinished, and there was a decided drop in values. 'This also applied to fat sheep. Store cattle sold faifly well. We quote: Good fat cows £8 10s to £lO ss, medium cows £7 5s to £8 Is, unfinished cows £5 7s 6d, to £6 15s, veal calves 15s to £1 12s 6d, bullocks in low condition £7 Is, Polled Angus cows £5 2s to £6 Bs, small-framed Shor-thorn cows £3 to £4 9s, 2-year Shorthorn heifers £2 16s to £3 13s, 15-month, steers £4, 15-month Friesian heifers £4 dairy heifers £4 10s to £6 10s, fat woolly ewes £1 11s to £1 13s, store woolly ewes £1 2s 9d, shorn fat hoggets £1 5s lOd to £1 6s 9d, light fat lambs £1 4s 6d. Pigs: Fat pigs were penned in extra lage numbers, and values were easier. Messrs Dalgety and Company report having held their usual weekly stock sale at Frankton sale yards on Tuesday, as under: There was a very large yarding of cattle, including a number of beef, although not many prime bullocks were yarded. The demand generally for beef was lower, although prime heavy cows maintained late values. The store cattle yarded were of good quality, and the demand for goodframed store bullocks was good at slightly lower values. (Store cows and 2-year heifers were lower, with very little demand for the latter class. Light fat steers made £ll 7s 6d, fat cows (heavy) up to £9 15s, mediumweight cows £7 5s to £8 12s 6d, inferior and light cows and heifers £ll2s 6d to £6 15s, forward-conditioned 4; and 5-year bullocks £lO to £lO sa, 3year steers £6 17s 6d, forward store cows £4 to £5 ss, inferior ditto £2 10s to £3 12s 6d, 2-year heifers 30a to W 17s 6d, cows with calves at foot £4 to £4 4s dairy caws £5 to £6 10s, dairy heifers £3 10s to £5 ss. There was a fair entry of sheep. Tim demand for fat aheep was decidedly lower. Extra prime heavy wethers made up to4os for show exhibits, ordinary fat wethers 30s, shorn fat ewes 27s sd, woo y ewes 26s 6d, fat lambs (heavy) 28s ■ to 29a, light ditto 25s 6d to 265, wether hoggets 24s 6d, a line of ewe hoggets 27s (line not reaching owner’s reserve) a pen of mixed-sex shorn hogis a line of aged woolly ewes Sfd lamb, 19s, ,11 counted. also lower, weaners 18s to_2ss.