COMMERCIAL

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14368, 21 May 1920, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

WESTFIELD MARKETS. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held their fat stock sale at Westfleld on Wednesday as follows: —■ Beef: A good yarding. Prices were a shade better for extra prinie, but unfinished beef was hard to quit. ISxtra prime ox £2 lis. prinie £2 Gs to £2 Bs, ordinary £2 to £2 3s; cow, prime £2 r>s, ordinary 35s to 38s. Slieep: A small yarding; prices hardened accordingly. Extra welliers £2 .'is. prime £2 Is to 38s; good, 35s lo 38s; ewes. prime to 38s; good, 30s to 335, Calves: Prices slightly better. Runners. £5 lOh to £3 10s; vealers, £2 10s to :i<is: others, 10s. Pigs: A big yarding, being In excess of requirements. Bat-oners, £6 10s to £5; choppers, £D to I'i; porkers, £3 10s to £2 lCs. Lambs: A small yarding: a good sale. Prime. 33s to 30s; good, 28s to 255; others, 20s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report: —At Westfleld fat stock market on Wednesday beef was penned in average numbers. Competition was steady, the market showing a firmer lone. We quote: Choice oxen to £2 10s per 1001 b, prime oxen E2 (is lo £2 Or: inferior and rough ox, £1 18s to £2 ss; row and heifer beef. £1 ISs lo £2 (is. Steers sold al from for best £lB to £22 2s (id. others £l3 to £l7 J7s Gd. inferior and small steers £7 :10s to £l2 15s. Cows and heifers sold at from £7 to £l3 2s (id. Calves .came forward in large numbers and were easier, runners selling from £3 15s to £.ll 12s 6cl for a 20-months steer from Mr W. Gray, Cambridge; heavy vealers £3 to £3 14s, medium £2 5s to £2 18s,- liffht £1 15s to £2 4s, lighter £1 to £1 12s (id, freshdropped Lis to 17s. An extra large entry of pijrs sold at much Ihe same Us last week, although more bacon buyers were operating than at recent sales. Medium, to heavy baconer.s, £ \ 5s to £5 13s: heavy porkers-, £3 5s to £4 4s, light £2'to £3 is. unfinished £1 15s to £2. Sheep were penned .'in averrtge numbers and sold at slightly improved prices on last report. No extra heavy prime slieep were penned. Heavy prime wethers £1 :17s Od 175..60.,' light and unfinished £1 lis 911 to £2, Is 3d. medium £1 lis Od to £1 to £1 lis (id: heavy prime ewes £l. I Is to £1 10s. medium £1 7s 3d lo £1 10s od, light, and unfinished £1 3s Gd lo £1 7s. Lambs penned in average numbers sold al late rales, no extra heavy lambs being yarded. Heavy prime lambs £1 7s (id lo £ I lis 6d, medium £1 is lo l'| 7s. light, and unfinished £1 lo £1 3s (id. FARMERS' CO-OP. AUCTIONEERING CO., LTD. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Co.. i.t.i.. reporl:—■ WEEKLY MARKET REPORT. Reef.-- Beef is in moderate supply, bill competition everywhere is exceedjngly dull. The recent Home advices lhave had a very unsettled effect on (be markets generally, but although it may be difficult lo foretell Ihe value of beef six months hence, there seems no reason lo anticipate other than a firm market during Ihe winter and early spring. The freezing work's are expected In resume operations within a week or so, when it is hoped that everything now ready will be absorbed. Mutton.—At most of our markets mutton has been in very fair demand.

Turnip rattle are mooting with poor competition. Turnip crops generally have turnorl out mnrh lighter than they gave promise of In the earty stages'. Stock-owners, however, seem to realise the situation, and arc for the greater part dispose*! to sell.

Store cattle.—There is no improvement I" ronorl in this section, the tendency being in the opposite direction. Calves, however, slill maintain Iheir buoyancy, and satisfactory business ■has been transacted, Two-year empty heifers of nil breeds are also sought after.

Store Sheep.—Tfiore is not much alteration in this section to report from the previous wei Ic. Merc also the tendency is downward, although forward conditioned lines generally find purchasers.

Dairy Cattle.—Tin's branch is very much brisker since we lasl reported, snrl considerable husiness has been recorded. Wherever clearing sales have been conducted results have been most satisfactory

Pigs.—-The ynrdings have been fairly heavy, bul no imnrovement can bo recordi d.

We quote as follows: —Bullocks, heavy primf: £l(s lOh to £JS 10s; medium, £l3 lo £ls; cows, prime fat, £l2 to £l3; medium, £lO to £1 I Ids; Imffers, fat, ElO to £.l I ss; bullocks. three and a-half-year-old, £9 to £lO 10s; cows, fresh-conditioned, £C 5s to £7; .iron,l £5 JOs In £C; steers, two and a-half-year-old, £7 lo £7 10s; 20months, Ercst, £4 ir>s to £5 10s; 20-months, meilium, E.I 5s to £'i: heifers, 20-montiis, best, £5 to £6; 20months, medium, E 3 15s to £'i 10s; dairy cows, best. £l7 lo £2f>; ordinary, t'J to £l2: heifers, Jersev, two-vear. in calf. £l3 10s lo £l7: heifers, Shorthorn, two and a-haif year, in calf, £lO His to £l2 10s; Shorthorn, two-vear, in calf, £7 9s to £8 10s wethers, prime, shorn, .'Ms to 38s; medium, 29s lo 3|s: ewes, .prime, .shorn, 29s to 335; store <v*olher's, .'i-'toolh, .'ids to 3 ss; store wethers, 2-tooth, 27s to 30s; pigs, baconers £5 lo IT, ios, porkers £3 10s to £i 10s, weaners El to £t 10s; horses, heavy draughts £SO to £SO, .medium drnughio £35 to £4O light draughts £22 \„ £2B, harness £ls to 122. hacks !.'') lu £J«.

The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Co.. 1,1,|., report:— WAINGAHO STOCK SALE. At Waingaro nn .May lßlh, we held our usual monthly slock sale, and yarded 500 head of came, comprising 296 2J-ycar to 3J-y-ar old steers, and 20-5 mixed cattle. Sheep were yarded in small numbers. The market* for all classes of cattle was dull. We quote: Fal and forward i-year to SJ-ycar-old sleers, £l2; 3-year to 3*-year-oid sleers, £8 9s to £9 His: 2-year 1,, 21yi ar-old steers, £5 12s Gd'to £(> 15s; fresh condition cows, £7 ; )S lo £7 lis; 6iore covVs, E 5 Lii £5 ills: good coloured mixed sex calves, £3 ss; fal and forward 2 and i-looth wethers, .'ios: ewes, medium quality, been with rams, 19s 3d.