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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1924, 21 October 1926, Page 8

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THE STOCK MARKET. HAMILTON sale. The 'Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company reporitsr'At Frankton on Tuesday we haidl a good yarding Of beef, a small entry of fat shelelp and fat and store pigs. There was no imstore cattle, and a good yarding of provement in the price of prime ox on last week's markjet, bult cow and heifer beef was a little easier, prices being equal to 36s for prime Ox and 31s for prime cow and hteifer beef. Fat sheep were 'firm, values advancing .fully 3s per head for ewes and wethers on the previous market. Competition 'wasi kisen for fat andj 'Store pigs at prices equal to; late sales. Prime heavy steers made '£l4 12s, prime steers £l3 9s to £l3 15s, light fat 'stefers. £9 15s to v £lo 17s, one extra primia heifer on account of Mr Barrett (Koromatua.) £l3 12 s 6d, prime fat cows £8 12s Gd'to £8 19s, plain and unfinished £6 Is to.£7 ss, vealers. £2 Is |to £2 18s, prime shorn fat wethers 295, llglht shorn fait wethers 23 s 9d, fat ad forward shorn withers 22s 3d to 23!s 6d, fat woolly ewes ''24s 3d to 26's, stioi-is; 'cows £3 lis to £4, good yearling Jersey heifers 1 £5 ss, prime he'aviy baconers £4 B s v to £4 12s, heavy ibaconers £4 2s to £4 65, ; light baconers £3 15s to £3 17s 6d, heavy porkers £3 ©s to £3 125,. light porkers £2 I's to £3 2s, slips 34s to 375, weaner s 20s to 30 s (330 sold). Thfei 'New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Comlpany reports: At the iHamillton sale at Franktidn yards on Tuesday ibeef waspenned in average numbers, and sold at abbot last week's ■rates. A medium entry of store cattle melt with a fair demand l , and jyeanling hieifers sold 'readily at 'satisfactory figure's. A good yardiftg" oif ifat sheep ■came forward,; for which competition wa s steady ,and Halte"values ruled. Fat stteersi (medium weights) made £l2 2s, prime fat cows £9 12s 6d to £lO 12s 6d;, ordinary fat cows £7 7s to £8 13s, ligbjfer .£6 2's 6d to £7, rough fat cows £4 17s to £5 12s, store cows £2 12s 6d to £3 10s, high-,grade Jersey heifers (yearlings)' £4 'l'ss to £5 17s, Jersey-cross heifers £&■ iSs (to £3, dairy cows £5 10s tO:£8 15s, fat wethers £1 8s 6d to £1 10s Bd, printer fat ewes £1 7s 3d tb £1 7s 9d, light and agted ewes £1 Is 9d to £1 4te 6d, prime fat hoggets £1 6s 3d to £1 8s„ lighjt £1 2s to £1 35,, fat lambs £1 6 S 6d. The entry of both fat and store pigs was larger than the previqute sale; fat pigs were slightly easier, .tout stores sold better than last Week; we sold, heavy baeoner's alt from '£4 '2s to £4 lis, medium baconers £3 8s to £3 19s',heavy porkers £3 t!o £3 6s, medium porkers £2 12s to £2 18s, large (stores £2 to £2 6s, slips £1 8s to £1 15s, weanieirs 17s to £1 2s.

Messrs Dalgety and Company report having held! their usual wleekly stock sale at the iFrankton iyards on Tuesday, as under: ..'Therie was an average yarding of beef/Jthe . (Demand being fair at I'ast 'week's rates; prime bullocks made to £l4 13s, l'ighit ditto £ll 5s to £l3 ss, prime young cows and heifers (average weights) £8 to- £9 7s, extra heavy to !£l3 15s, aged fat cowls £6 2s 6d 'to £6 15s, vealers'£2 to £2 15s. There was a small yarding of store eaititle; two pens of 4iye<ar Shorthorn steers made £7 10s, 'forwa/rd goodframed' cows £4 10s Ho £5 7s 6d, light store heifers £3 to £3 10«, Jersey-cross well-grown yearling heifers £5 10s, smjal- yearlings 24s to £2 13s, dairy cows to £7. There was a moderate yarding of sheep; there was a good demand at full late rates; prime shorn ■wethers made 22s to 24te, prime shorn ewes 20 s to 24s 6d, fat wloolly ewes 15s Ito 18s, fait half-'bred woolly wethers 28s 3d), a. line of '2BO very forward 4 and 6-tooth 'woolly welthers 27s sd, a line of 171 store 4 and 6-tooith wethers 25's. 'Pat arid] stlore pigs were yarded in large numbers; the'demand for heav>y bacon'sirs eased considerably, land porkers/ sold readily at slight'lyimproved rates; store'pigs were in demand, and prices for large stores advancistfl slightly on .laislt week, while weaner sand slip's sold readily ajt late rates; prime haconers made £4 2s to £4 12s, heavy baconer s £3 17s to £4 2s, giood porkers £3 2s ,to £3 15s, medium £2 16s to £3 Is, good 'stores £2 5 S to £2 18s, medium slips '3ss to £2 4s, wteaners 24s to 375, others 16s to 225.

SHIPMENTS OF MEAT FROM SOUTH AMERICA. The New Zealand' Mea Producers Board has received ia cable from its representative/ at Buenos Aires, South America .advising the: following shipments to the United Kiingdom for the fortnight eiided 14th October 1926, from Argentine and Uruguay:— 198,250 quarters chilled beef, 12,374 quarters frozen beef, 30,885 carcases frozen mutton 32.780 carcases frozen lamb. The quantity shipped to the Continent of Europe during the same period t0ta11ed:—79,573 quarters frozen beef and 5,795 carcases frozen mutton.