COMMERCIAL

Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3504, 11 August 1934, Page 12

COMMERCIAL

DAIRY COW PRICES. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Company, Limited, Hamilton, report* on their Frankton dairy sale held on Wednesday as follows: —A good yarding of dairy heifers and a small yarding- of cows which consisted mainly of medium quality stock, met with good competition, and prices obtained were better than at previous sales. We quote: Medium quality Jersey heifers, close to profit £3 15s to £5, more backward do £2 10s to £3 10s, late calvers £1 10s to £2, good qmalitv Jerseys cows, close to profit £3 ss"to £4 15s, more backward and late calvers £2 to £3. HAMILTON DAIRY SALE. Messrs Dalgety & Company, Ltd., report having held their weekly dairy 5i.1,1 e at .Frankton saleyards on Wednesday. There was a large yarding anil a good attendance. For really will grown good quality and low condtioned heifers there wUs really good competition, but medium heifers realised only moderate prices. We quote: Good quality well grown heifers £4 15s to £l6 10s, med iim heifers £3 to £4, low condition and backward £2 to £3, cows £3 to £5 10s, inferior ditto 30s to £2 10s. MOiRRINSVILLE HORSE SALE. 'Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held their Mor-r-insville horse sale on Thursday as under. There was a small yarding and all good sorts offered commanded good competition at full market rates. The following were the principal sales: —Draught geldings £36 10s, £35 10s, £35 10s £3l, £3O, aged geldings £2l 10s, draught mare, aged, £2B, £l6, £36, aged and inferior sorts £4 to £O, harness and sundries at late rates. TE AWAMUTU STOCK. SALE. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report: At Te Awamutu on Thursday only a light yarding of sheep was penned, there being no alteration in prices. A medium yarding of cattle was penned, prices being slightly easier on roughed sorts of fat cattle. A good yarding of dairy heifers met with a fair demand, prices being firm. Quotations: —Sheep: Fat hoggets, prime 24s 9d, store lambs 14s 6d, aged ewes, due to Southdown ramls, 15s 6d to 16s. Cattle: Medium fat steers £6 8s to £7 2s 6d, medium fat cows £3 15s to. £4 10s, lighter £2 5s to £3 12s, good conditioned cows £1 IGs to £2 ss, stores £1 8s to £1 15s, boners 9s to 255, choice Jersey heifers close to profit £4 15s to' £6, more backward sorts £3 15s to £4 10s, inferior quality 35s to £3, sound young cows £3 to £5 10s, older cows £1 15s to £2 10s. Pigs: A medium yarding of all classes of pigs came forward, competition was keen from a medium, bench of buyers and prices realised Wore on a par with late quotations. Quotations: Light baconers £2 5s to £2 IGs, medium porkers 34s to, 365, light porkers 31s to 335, good stores 26s 6d to 30s 6d, smaller stores 20s to 245, slips 16s to 18s, good weaners lis 6d to 14s, other weaners 8s to 10s, 2 voung Berkshire boars realised 233... _ ....... ~„,,,, ~...• . ....... ~.,- >.;.*.