COMMERCIAL

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1788, 29 July 1926, Page 5

COMMERCIAL

HAMILTON STOCK SALES. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Co. report: At the weekly stock sale in the; Firankton yards on Tuesday we had, a fair entry of beef and mutton, only a small number of fat pigs being penned.' Beef: Fat steei's sold at similar rates to those reached ■ the previous week, while good quality prime cow.g and heifer beef were much firmer. Medium fat steers £lO 12s to £lO 17 s 6d, light £9 2s 6df to £9 17s 6d, small and unfinished £6 15s to £8 2s 6d, extra good quality heavy prime young cows £l2 15s to £l3, heavy prime £ll 5s to £ll 15s, medium prime £8 3s to £9 7s 6d, plain £5 12,s 6d to £6 10s, light £4 10ts to £5, forward conditioned 4 year old Polled Angus and Hereford S.H. cross steer s . 17s 6d to £B, 2 year em/pty Jersey cross heifers £2, mixed yearlings 30s to 345, cull cows £1 to £1 6is, b'est dairy cows at profit £9 to £9 15s, good sorts backward £6 to £7, inferior £3 to £4 10s. Sheep: Prime mutton sold at equal to last week’s rates, plain and ordinary being easier. • Good quality prime heavy 2 tooth wethers 31s, fair 4 and 6 tooth wethers 27s Id, to 28s 3d, extra’ prime, woolly hogge:t(j sold at 28s, medium fat .hoggets 20s 6d to 225. Pigs: Fats Were v firm at late r'ates and stores soldi at advanced prices. Medium baconers £3 17s to £4 7s, good porkers and light baconeiis £3 3s to £3 10s, light £2 10s to £2 15s, best sows due to farrow £5 17s 6d to £7, others £3 5s .to £4, .slips and small porkers 30s to 375, best weaners £1 to £1 7s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Hamilton, report:—At the Hamilton -sale on Tuesday we had a fair entry of prime beef which sold at advanced rates. Prime heavy cows and heifers made from £l2 7s 6dl to £l3 ss, good -coids £8 12s 6d to £9 10s, fat steers £lO 10s to £l2. We submitted a good yarding of sheep for which there was .an improved demand. We quote: Fat wethers £1 11s, fat ewes 18s to £1 Us 6d, light fat hoggets £1 Is 3d, 600 4 and 6 tooth store wethers. £1 4s Id, 2 tooth wethers £1 0s 6d to £1 Is, 900 small hoggets Sis. 6d to 9s sd. An average yarding of fait pigs came forward. Store pigs were penned in large numbers. We quote: extra heavy choppers £7 10s, heavy baconers £4 4s to £4 10s, medium £3 12s to £3 19s, light baconeirs and heavy porkers £3 2s to £3.9is, porkers £2 14s to £2 18s, good stores £2 5s to £2 13s, others £2 to £2 3s, slips £1 Sis to £1 16s, weaner s 18s to £1 2s. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held their weekly stock s ale at Frankton on Tuesday as under: —There, was a moderate yarding of beet for which the demand was good and all classes sold at higher rates. Good quality medium weight bullocks £l2 to £l3, light steers £8 to £9, choice young cowls and heifers £7 10s : to £9 10s, extra heavy £l3 ss, ordinary quality cows £5 15s to £7 ss, inferior quality cows £2 10s to £3 15s. Only a few perns of store cattle were .yarded. Store cows made £2 to £3 10s, in-calf Friesian heifers £5. Dairy coWs Isold at. late rates, best making £7 ho £lO, Others £3 10s to £6, yearling .Friesian, heifers 365. There was a fair yarding of sheep. The demand for fat sheep was; better. 'Prime fat we'therls made 2Ss* • to 31s, fat ewes 19s to 19s 4d, fat woolly lambs, extra good 265, store 2 tooth wethers 21s 4d, store 4 and 6 tooth wethers 24s 2d, full moulth ewes ■in lamb 16s 6d. There we/s a small yarding of fat pigs which sold at late rates. Store pigs were yarded in large numbers and sold, under keen comp'e 1 - tition at late high rates.