COMMERCIAL

Waipa Post, Volume 36, Issue 2146, 19 April 1928, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

THE STOCK MARKET. CAMBRIDGE SALE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company reports: A full yarding came forward at Cambridge on Monday last, when we held our usual bi-weekly stock sale. Competition was good on beef and fleshy cows; store cattle sold readily, a slight demand existing for in-calf heifers. Pigs were yarded in exceptionally heavy numbers, and met with poor bidding. Fat cows made £5 17s 6d to £7 17s, fat heifers £4 15s to £5 16s, forward cows £3 12s to £4 6s, store oows 30s to £2 14s, 18-month steers £4 4s to £5 ss, 20>-month in-calf heifers £5 to £6 10s, yearling heifers £2 5s to £2 12s, bulls £3 to £3 ss, shorn lambs 15s 6d, 13s 2d, lis 7d, lis, black-face lambs 15s 9d, porker pigs 28s to 365, good stores 22s to 265, others 14s to 18s, slips 8s to 12s, weaners 5s to Bs, others 2s to 4s 6d, breeding sows 27s 6d to 40s.

WAIKATO STOCK MARKET. SALE IN FRANKTON YARDS. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company reports: At the usual weekly stock sale in Frankton yards on Tuesday there was a full yarding of stock of all classes. Beef maintained late values, and mutton was in firm demand. A large entry of good-qual-ity store to forward bullocks was submitted, but competition for this class was not so keen as at other recent sales; however, the whole entry was cleared at satisfactory nrices. There was an extra heavy yarding of fat and store pigs, and competition for fats was firm, but stores were dull of sale. Medium-weight prime steers sold to £l3 15s, lighter £ll 15s, best prime fat cows £8 10s to £9 12s 6d, medium weights £7 5s to £8 7s 6d, light £6 5s to £7, good runners £4 Is to £4 19s, young and light vealers £1 19s to £2 17s 6d, good forward-condi-tioned 3 and 4-year Hereford bullocks £8 10s to £9 ss, same-age Shorthorns £8 10s to £9 16s, rough steers £5 10s to £6, line of fresh-conditioned empty Polled Angus cows £5 2s 6d to £6 2s, prime fat wethers 32s 3d to 335, unfinished wethers 27s to 295, fat ewes to 24s 3d, prime fat lambs 265, lighter 22s Id, small 18s 6d, 4 and 5-year ewes in lamb to Southdown rams 29s 6d, heavy bacon pigs £4 to £4 10s, light £3 8s to £3 12s, heavy porkers £2 15s to £3 3s, light 35s to £2 ss, slips 10s to 13s, weaners 4s to Bs. Messrs Dalgety and Company report having held their usual weekly stock sale at Frankton yards on Tuesday, when there was a moderate entry of beef; all prime cattle were firm at late ratis, best prime young cows and roifers selling at up to £lO 10s, ordinary fat cows £6 10s to £7 15s, light bullocks £lO ss. There was a very large entry of store cattle, including very good lines of forward well-bred bullocks; bidding was patchy, but practically all sold at the following rates: One pen of Shorthorn bullocks £lO, ditto £9, ditto £8 10s, pen Polled Angus bullocks £9 ss, ditto £8 ss, 7 pens Holstein forward bullocks £9, 1 pen ditto £B, pen rough steers £5 15s, pen forward Shorthorn bullocks £9, 1 ditto £8 10s, ditto £B, one pen store 3-year steers £6 16s, 1 ditto £5 2s 6d, pen 2-year steers £6, 1 ditto £4 18s, pen 3-year steers £6 14s, 1 ditto £5 17s 6d, Polled Angus bull £5 12s 6d, store cows £3 to £4 ss, Shorthorn run heifer calves 355, Shorthorn steer calves 355, small calves 22s 6d. There was a large yarding of sheep, fats selling at late rates; prime fat wethers made to 33s 4d, fat ewes 22s 6d, fat woolly lambs 255. Our yarding of store sheep totalled 4600, including many lines of good 4 and 6-tooth wethers in forward condition, which sold i under keen competition at very satis-' factory prices, principal sales being I 150 wethers 31s 9d, 111 ditto 31s Id, 18 shorn fat lambs 21s 6d, 22 forward ewes 18s 6d, 45 shorn wethers 26s 3d, 151 shorn Romney ewe lambs 19s 6d, 180 woolly wether lambs 18s 6d, 66 ewe lambs 17s 4d, 45 wether lambs 18s Id, 80 aged ewes in lamb 17s lOd, 200 good ewes 27s to 27s 3d, 71 Lin-coln-skinned 2-tooth ewes 245, 600 4 and 5-year ewes in lamb 265, 86 ditto 23s 6d, 85 ditto 255, 200 forward 4 and tf-tooth wethers 29s 7d, 600 4-tooth wethers 30s, 232 forward wethers 28s lOd, 191 forward wethers 29s lOd, 77 4 and 6-tooth wethers 29s 9d, 23 ditto 28s, 88 store wethers 25s 3d, 81 store wethers 25s 7d. There was an exceptionally large yarding of pigs; fats sold well, with stores at late rates, but weaners were hard to quit; heavy baconers made £3 18s to £4 ss, medium ditto £3 5s to £3 16s, light ditto £2 16s to £3 3s, best porkers £2 6s to £2 10s, medium ditto £2 to £2 4s, light ditto £1 10s to £1 18s, choppers £2 10s to £3 18s, best stores 23s to 28s, slips 12s to 18s, best weaners 8s to 12s, others 5s .to 7s.