COMMERCIAL

Waipa Post, Volume 38, Issue 2286, 28 March 1929, Page 5

COMMERCIAL

WAIKATO STOCK MARKET.

SALE IN FRANKTON YARDS. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company reports: At our' usual sale at Frankton on Tuesday we had an average entry of beef-. Prices for well-fatted cows improved on last week's market but steers were slightly easier. Our entry of fat sheep consisted mainly of , wethers, medium weights selling up to £1 13s 6d. We effected a total clearance of a good entry of store sheep and a fair offering of store cattle. Fat steers made £l3 ss, heavy fat cows £9 7s 6d to £lO ss, light ditto £6 13s to £7 10s, plain fat cows £6 Is to £6 Bs, boner cows £3 to £3 15s, veal calves £2 ,10s to £3 4s, 2»-year steers £7 4s, coloured ditto £4 7s 6d to £5 10s, 18month empty heifers £3 9s to £3 16s, young Shorthorn cows in fresh condition £5 Bs, heavy bulls £5 10s to £7 10s, dairy cows at profit £ll 15s to £l4 10s, fat wethers £1 Is 6d, light 2-tooth ditto £1 10s 6d, fat ewes 19s, shorn mixed-sex lambs 19s to £1 Is 6d, shorn wether lambs 17s 3d to 18s 2d, woolly ewe lambs £1 4s 6d, wether lambs £1 2s 9d, f.m. ewes 14s 3d to 17s, 2-tooth store wethers £1 8s to £1 10s, heavy bacon pigs £3 12s to £3 17s, medium ditto £3 3s to £3 Bs, Tight ditto and heavy porkers £2 12s to £2 18s, porkers £1 l's to £2 ss, unfinished porkers £1 8s to £1 14s, stores 18s to £1 4s, slips 10s to 15s, weaners 5s to Bs. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company reports: At the usual weekly sale at Frankton yards last Tuesday we had an average yarding of beef and a good yarding of sheep. Fat steers were slightly easier, but good-quality heavy fat cows were in demand, and fat sheep sold at advanced rates. A fair yarding of bacon pigs and porkers came forward, bacon* ers maintaining late rates, while- porkers were easier, with little demand for slips and weaners. Medium fat steers made £l2 to £l2 19s, light £lO 5s to £lO 14s, medium fat heifers £8 10s, heavy fat cows £8 10s to £lO 2s 6d, medium fat cows £7 to £7 16s, plain and unfinished £5 10s to £6, good runners £5 ss, heavy fat wethers 3.5 s 3d, light fat wethers 31s, extra prime heavy maiden ewes (sold on account of H. S. Hawkins, Esq.) 36s sd, heavy fat ewes 27s to 27s 6d, lighter 20 to 225, shorn ewe lambs 21s 6d, wether lambs 16s to 19s, good shorn mixedsex lambs at 20 6d, 2-tooth breeding ; ewes 245, aged ewes- 18s to 18s 9d, : a line of 2-tooth to 5-year ewes 26s 6d, 2-tooth Southdown rams (bred by and on account of Mi* C. J. Hawken, 1 Mokoia) £5 5s to 9* guineas, 4-tooth Southdown rams 3 to 61 guineas," wellgrown Shorthorn steer calves £4 9s, Jersey' and Jersey-cross heifer calves £3 10s to £4, bulls £5 to £7, bacon pigs £3 12s to £3 16s, medium £3 2s to £3 9s, heavy piorkers £2 5s to £2 lis, light porkers 36s to £2 3s, slips 26s to 345; weaners 3s to lis. , HAMILTON STOCK SALE.' Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having he.ld their usual weekly stock sale on Tuesday, 26th, at Frankton saleyards as under: There was an average yarding of beef. The demand . for all good quality was better than last week, while inferior sold at late rates. Choice light bullocks at up to £l2 12s 6d, small bullocks £lO 15s, medium quahty cows £8 10s, inferior cows £5 to £5 15s, light good quality heifers £B. There was a fair entry of store cattle. Boner cows and store colws were in poor demand. Pens of good quality forward conditioned bullocks made £lO 7s to £9 2s 6d, mixed pen of 3 year rough steers £7 7s 6d. Jersey heifer calves made up to £5, inferior £2 15s. Dairy cows and heifers sold at late rates. There was a fairly good yarding of sheep. Fat sheep sold at late rates. Prime fat wethers made up to 34s Bd, fat ewes , 24s 3d, fat woolly lambs, small, 18s to 21s. The demand for breeding ewes and store lambs was good, and generally sales included the following: 247 5 year breeding ewes 265, .30 woolly mixed sex lambs 23s 6d, 73 shorn ewe lambs 235. 62 shorn wether lambs 19s 6d, 30 bull rams 15s, 20 ditto 15s 9d. Rams at late rates. There was a medium yarding of both fat and store pigs. Baconers and porkers were on a par with previous sales, whilst stores and weaners sold at improved rates. Heavy baconers £2 8s to £3 16s, medium baconers £2 18s to £3 3s, best porkers £2 2s to £2 Bs, light norkers £1 16s to £2, choppers £2 to £3 2s, large stores 20s toi 335, slips 10' to 15s, weaners 3s to 9s, small Is to 2s.