COMMERCIAL

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1785, 22 July 1926, Page 5

COMMERCIAL

THE STOCK MARKET. HAMILTON SALE. ■ t The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company reports: At the usual weekly stock sale in the Frankton yards on Tuesday we had a fair entry of beef and mutton and only a small number of fat and store pigs. Prime cow and heifer beef was firmer than during the 'previous week. Good-qual-ity prime heavy cows sold to £ll 12s 6d, lighter prime £lO to £lO 10s, medium cows £7 12s to £7 13s, prime fat heifers £7 13s to £8 11s, light cows and heifers £5 10s to £5 15s, fresh-condition cows £4 12s to £4 15 s 6d. Fat sheep showed a considerable improvement on prices reported at other late markets; fat wethers sold to 325, prime fat ewes 26s 6d, prime fat lambs 27s 3d, medium store wethers 245, cull lambs 9s 6d. Prices for all classes of pigs were firm at late rates; prime heavy baconers mad,e £5 Is to £5 ss, good baconers £4 to £4 10s good porkers and light baconers £3 5s to £3 9s, medium baconers £3 10s to £3 17fe, medium porkers £2 17s to £3 2s, light porkers £2 5s to £2 12s, choppers £4 10s to £4 17s 6d, large, stores £2 10s to £2 13a, best slips 30s to 355, small slips £1 to £1 7's, best weaners 17s to 28s, youjng and small 9s 6d to 14s.

Messrs Dalgety and Company report having held their usual weekly stock sale at Frankton yards on Tuesday, when there was a smaller yarding of beief than usual. Extra prime-quuli'.y sold at late rates; plain bullocks made £8 to £8 16s, extra prime heifers and cows £7 10s to £8 17s, medium-quality light heifers £4 15s to £5 ss, inferiorquality cows £3 7s 6d to £4 2g 6d, ,4year, forward bullocks £6 18s to £7 11s, backward, Jersey-cross heiferb in calf £3 15s, dairy cows at late raties. There was a fair yarding of sheep; fat sheep sold at late rates; fat wethers made 30s, fat ewes 21s 6d to 24s 6d. The dtemand for ewes in lamb and stores of all clasises was wleak. We sold fullmouth ewes in lamb at 15s to 16s 6d. There was a small yarding pf fat pigs and a large entry of stores, which all sold at late rates. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company reports that at its Hamilton stock sale on Tuesday a medium entry of beef was submitted, with only a few store cattle, but a good, yarding of sheep. Prime fat cattle, especially cows, sold at advanced rates, but unfinished and plain beef declined in value. Sheep were slightly better in demand than was the case last week, and w,e disposed of most of our entry at auction or afterwards We quote: Fat steers £lO 15s to £l2 10s, prime fat cows £lO to £lO 10s, fat heifers £5 15s to £7 9s, medium fat cows to £6 15s, dairy cows £4 10s to £7, fat wethers £1 7s Id to £1 9s 6d, forward 4-t'ooth wethers £1 4s to £1 4g 9d, small hoggets 12s 6d, good 4-year-old ewes in lamb to English Leicester rams £1 4ls 6d, s mall 3 and 4-year ewes in lamb £1 Is. An average yarding of fat pigs .and a large yarding of stores and, weaniers came forward; both classes of pigs sold at advanced rates/ as follow: Choppers £4 10s to £6, heavy baconers £4 8s to £4 16s, medium bac : oners £3 17s to £4 2s, porkers £2 10s to £3 ss, stores £2 2 S to £2 9s, others £1 17s to £2, slips £1 4s to £1 12s, weaners 17s to £l.