COMMERCIAL

Waipa Post, Volume 31, Issue 1766, 5 June 1926, Page 8

COMMERCIAL

ft . HAMILTON SALES. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company report that at the weekly stock sale in the Frankton yard§ on Tuestday they had a full yarding of beef, fat and store pigs, and an average number of sheep were penned. The beef pens consisted chiefly of light and unfinished steers, prime young cows and heifers. 'Steers sold at late rates, while prime cow and heifer,beef showed a further improvement. Beef: Medium-weight fat steers sold to £lO 10s, lighter £8 12s to £9 Is, light and unfinished £7 12s 6d to £8 ss, young and unfinished £6 8s to £7 7s 6d, good quality prime heavy cows and heifers £lO to £lO 10s, prime and heavy £8 14s to £8 17s 6.d, lighter prime £7 9s to £7 15s, cows, plain heavy £6 2s 6d to £7 2s 6d, light £4 5s to £5 10s, rough £3 to £3 19s, stores £1 9s to £1 15s, well-bred Shorthorn calves £2 3s \ forward in-calf 3 year Jersey cross heifers £7 15s to £8 10s, backward £5 to £6. Sheep: Prime heavy fat ewes 23s to 23s 6d, maiden ewes and wethers 26s lid, plain fat ewes 19s, fait woolly hoggets 235; forward conditioned late shorn hoggets 18s. The few lines of in-lamb ewes offered failed to reach the vendors’ reserves. The yarding of pigs consisted of light and unfinished throughout, and they sold at late rates; stores sold as usual; heavy choppers made £4 to £5. light £3 10 s to £3 12s. good porkers £2 15s to £3, medium £2 8s to £2 12s. light £2 to £2 ss, unfinished 33s to 365, best slips £1 to £1 ss, weanei’s 8s to 14s. The advertised pedigree pigs sold a s follow: Four-month pedigree Tamworth sows 4 guineas, Tamworth boars (same age) 4 to 51 guineass .Tamworth sows in pig 41 to 6ri guineas, Yorkshire sows in pig 6 to 7 guineas. Devon sows in pig 6 guineas to 71 guineas. Berkshire sows in pig 71 guineas to 8 guineas, unregistered sows £5 to £5 15s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercafiti'le Agency Company reports: At the Hamilton sale on Tuesday we had a medium entry of beef and store cattle, and an average yarding of sheep. Prime fat cattle sold well, and medium quality made late rates. Values for sheep showed no alteration. We quote: Heavy fat bullocks £l2 13s, light £8 12s, fat cows and heifers £9 5s to £lO ss, lighter prime £7 10s to £8 6s, unfinished cows £5 to £6, fleshy cows £3 17s to £4 6s. rough store cows £1 12s to £2 ss, Jersey-cross heifers in calf £5 to £6 6s, dairy cows £4 to £5 I:ss, light fat 2-tooth wethers £1 7s, fat lambs £1 4s 3d,fat ewes £l, aged ewe s in forward condition 11s 6d to 15s. An average yarding of fat and store pigs came forward; fats were a little easier than at the previous sale, while stores maintained prices ruling at late sales. Heavy baconers made £3 18s to £4 6s, medium baconers £3 5s to £3 12s, light baconers and heavy porkers £2 12s to £2 18s, porkers £2 3s to £2 6s, stores £1 4s to £1 Bs. slips 16s to £l. weaners 9s to 12s sows close to farrowing £4 15s to £6 15s.

Messrs Dalgety and Company report having held their usual weekly stock sale at Frankton sale yards on Tuesday as under: There was an average yarding of beef which sold at late rates. Prime ox sold at equal to 28s per 100 lbs cow and heifer beef (choice prime) up to 26s per 100 lbs; prime (bullocks made £lO to £ll 7s 6d, prime cows and heifers £5 15s to £8 7s, runners £2 12s 6d, to £3. Very few store cattle were yarded; forward cows up to £3 19s. 'Pens of Jersey-cross heifers in calf made £4 10s to £5 17s 6d, empty yearling heifers £2, dairy cows £5 to £7 10s. There was a moderate entry of sheep; the' demand for fat siheep was moderate at about late rates; prime ewes made 20s to 235, 2tooth fat ewes 22s to 24s 6d, fat lambs 2'2s, store ewes 12s, full-mouth ewes in lamb to Southdown rams 17s 6d. Fat pigs were easier, while stores sold at late rates. SALE OF MR MIERS’ JERSEY HERD. At Rototuna this week the Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company held a clearing sale of Mr W. H. Miers’ hgh-grade Jersey herd. There was a good attendance of buyers, and the auctioneers report a most successful sale. The whole herd of 50 cows averaged £ls 13s, making £9 to £22 10s. The line of 2-year in-calf Jersey •heifers made from £ll 10s to £ls 10s. and the high-grade Jersey calves, in small lines, realised from £4 17s 6d to [ £5 15s.