COMMERCIAL.

Waipa Post, Volume 39, Issue 3088, 12 December 1929, Page 8

COMMERCIAL.

PRICES OF STOCK AT FRANKTCM. LAST TUESDAY’S SALE. The New Zealand Loan and • Mercantile Agency Company reports: At Frankton on Tuesday beef was yarded considerably above average numbers, and generally the advanced prices obtained at last week’s markets were not maintained, although in places light to medium-weight steers and prune cows and heifers sold at about par. A larger entry of fat sheep than usual came forward, and sold under steady competition at late rates. Store cattle met with good demand. Light fat steel’s made £l3 10s to £l3 12s 6d, heavy prime iat cows £lO 15s to £ll 17s 6d, good fat cows £0 to £lO 7s 6d, lighter ditto £7 12s 6d to £8 10s, plain fat cows £7 to £7 10s, veal calves £1 17s 6d to £2 3s, yearling steers £5 5s to £6, Jersey-cross heifers at profit £9 10s to £lO 10s, springing Shorthorn heifers £7 to £8 ss, fat wethers £1 3s to £1 8s sd, woolly ditto £1 14s to £1 14s 6d, woolly hoggets £1 10s, fat ewes in wool £1 5s lOd to £1 os. A good yai’ding of fat and store pigs came forwai'd; prices for fat pigs showed an improvement on late, sales, selling up to £4 4s, stores remaining on a par with late rates; heavy baconers made £3 14s to £3 19s, lighter ditto and heavy porkers £2 13s to £3 9s, porkers £2 4s to £2 12s, large stoi’es £1 17s to £2 2s, smaller ditto £1 11s to £1 15s, slips £1 5s to £1 9s, weaners 15s Gd to £1 Is.

The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company repoi’ts: At the weekly stock mai’ket at Frankton last Tuesday we had a good yarding of cattle, sheep, and p:r~. Steer and cow beef prices were fully maintained at ruling rates, while stox*e cattle also sold at about equal to late rates. Fat wethers sold at prices equalling late quotations. A lai’ge yarding of ewes and lambs showed an easing tendency. Fat steel’s made £l3 2s to £l3 19s, medium steers £l2 Is t!o £l2 Bs, fat cows and heifei’s £9 19s to £ll 11s, medium fat cows £8 5s to £9 10s,' light fat cows £7 2s Gd to £B, forward-con-ditioned coavs £5 17s 6d to £0 12s 6d, stoi’e cows £4 15s to £o 14s, fat shorn wethers 28s Id to 30s, fat shorn ewes 18s 5d to 19s lOd, fat shorn ewes 24s 7d, fat lambs 19s 3d to 225, heavy bacon pigs £3 14s to S 3 17s, medium £3 7s to £3 10s, light £3 to £3 3s, heavy porkers £2 15s to £3 Is, light £2 8s to £2 12s, good stoi’es £1 18s to £2 3s, slips £1 12s to £1 15s, weaners 14s to 255. CAMBRIDGE STOCK SALE. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held their usual tri-week-ly stock sale at Cambridge saleyards on Monday, as under: Thei’e was a moderate yarding of stock, Avhich sold at full market rates. Aged fat cows sold at up to £7 10s, foi’ward cows £0 6s, backward and light cows £4 10s to £5 15s, light cows with calves £6 to £7 10s, yearling Jersey cross heifers £5 10s, small yearling Shorthorn heifers £4 ss, yearling Friesian cross heifers £3 14|S, bull weaners £2 17s 6d, choice Jersey yeai’ling heifers £7 7s 6d, bulls £3 5s to £7, dairy cows £l3, light porkers to £2 12s, store pigs to 355, Aveaners 18s to 245, bobby calves 7s to 14s.

HAMILTON STOCK SALE

Messrs Dalgety and Company Ltd., Hamilton, report having. held their usual weekly stock sale at Frankton Saleyards on Tuesday as under:— There was a large yarding of beef. Competition was weak at the beginning of the sale but toward the end prices were on a par with last week’s. Prime medium weight bullocks sold at up to £l4 7s 6d; other, £l2 15s to £l3 10s; prime quality heifers made up to £lO 15s; ordinary heavy cows £9 5s to £lO ss; inferior and aged weighty cows, £8 to £8 17s 6d; light cows and heifers, £5 10s to £7 2s 6d. There was a large yarding of store cattle and competition was keen at full late rates, and sold under the hammer as under:—l pen Friesian ! bullocks, forward condition, £lO 12s; ! 1 pen Jersey cross grown bullocks, ! £9 13s; 2 pens of good quality 3-4 | year bullocks, £lO 4s; 1 pen 2-year Hereford steers, £9; pen 2-year-old P.A. steers, £9 Is; 1 pen P.A. steers, • £7 19s; 1 pen 2-year Friesian cross 1 steers, £6 14s; 1 pen 2-year Short- ! horn steers, £7 ss; 1 pen Shorthorn 1 and Hereford steers, £7; 1 pen Here- 1 ford yearling steers, £6 6s; 1 pen Friesian steers, £5 17s 6d; 1 pen ■gey cross yearling steers, £4 19s; 1

i pen ditto,' £4 9s; 1 pen Shorthorn i yearling steers, £5 11s; 1 pen small yearling steers, £4 Ss. There was a large yai’ding of fat sheep for which i competition was moderate. Best shorn Avethers sold at up to 28s; fat ! wethers, 275; small fat wethers, 25s 6d; heavy fat eives sold at up to 20s; prime heavy lambs made up to 25s 6d; others, 235; unfinished, 16s to 18s; aged shorn exves with lambs at foot, sold at 16s 9d, all counted. ■ There was a medium yai’ding of fat 1 pigs with a full entry of stores, i Best pigs were a shade firmer while j stores were equal to ruling rates. Best baconers, £3 17s; medium baconers, £3 9s to £3 12s; best porkers,; £2 12s to £3; light porkers, £2 3s to, £2 8s; choppers, £2 14s to £3 3s; large stores, £1 19s to £2 4s; medium stores, £1 13s to £1 16s; slips, £1 8s to £1 16s; best weaners, £1 2s to £1 7s; small weaners 17s to 19s. 1