BUYING SCHEDULES

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20375, 15 December 1937, Page 15

BUYING SCHEDULES

The following are the current buying schedules: — Lambs.—Up to 361 b, 7fd; 37/42, 7id; over 42’s and 2nd, 7id; (usual deduction seedy). Pigs.— Up to 801 b, **d; 81 to 1001 b, 6 Id; 101 to 1401 b, 5 7Jd; 161 to 1801 b 4 7Jd; 1-81 to 2001 b, 4id; over 2001 b, Bsd; exportable choppers, BJd; unexportable choppers, 2d.

made 27® 3d to 28s 8d; fat wethers 25b 6d to 26s 3d; heavy fat ewes 17a Gd to 18s; medium to heavy fat ewes 16s to 16s Gd: fat and unfinished ewes 14s to 15s 9d; heavy fat lambs 20s to 28s; medium fat lambs 22s 6d to 23b 9d; light ditto 19s to 2'is 3d; fleshy white-faced shorn lambs 18s, old ewea and lambs 13s, small 2-tooth wethers 21s to 22s 6d.

For a small yarding of cattle prices were on a par with late «ales. Light fat bullocks brought £lO 5s to £lO 10s, unfinished steers £7 15s to £8 2s Gd, heavy fat Hereford heifers £9 17a Gd to £lO 10s: fat heifers £8 10s to £9 12s Gd, fat Shorthorn cows £6 17s 6d to £7, fat Jersey cows £4 10s to £5 17s 6d, medium vealers £2 5s to £2 12s Gd; light vealers 30s to 37s 6d; boner cows £3 5s to £3 12s 6d; store cows £4 to £4 12s 6d. The advertised line vof store cattle ex Te' Akau came forward in good order and sold readily, 34-year P.A. -steers ex Craigs Estate bringing from £9 8s to £lO js; Hereford cross st.eers £8 Gs to £8 9s; 24year steers ex M. P. Ryan, Te Akau. £8 Is to £8 17s Gd; yearling P.A. steers, same vendor. £6 2s Gd to £7 Is; small yearling P.A. steers £5; ditto Shorthdrn -steers £3 6s to £3 12s; P.A. cows and heifers r.w P.A. bull £6; ye'arling P.A. heifers £5 3s. A full yarding of fat pigs came forward with a moderate yarding of stores and weaners. BaconeF® anrl heavy porkers met a ready demand but. small porkers and unfinished baconers were not so readily sought. Weaners and stores met a ready demand, particularly large stores. Prime top-weight baconers realised £3 lGs to £3 17s, prime heavy baconers £3 12s to £3 16s, medium £3 Gs to £3 lfis, light £2 :18s to £3 4®, buttermilk pigs £2 10s to £2 18s. heavy porkers £2 6s to £2 10s, medium £2 Is to £2 6s, light 36s to £2 Is, small 30s to 365, unfinished 25s to 30s, large stores 33s to 355. medium 28s to 335, small 22s to 28s, best dips 18s to. 225, medium 15s to ISs, best weaners 15s to 20s, medium 10s to 15s, small 5s to 10s. Messrs Q. W. Vercoe and Co. Ltd. Messrs G. W. Vercoe and Co Ltd., report on the sale as follows: — A large yarding of fat sheep came forward. The demand throughout was fairly keen and a total clearance at slightly advanced prices was effected in all sections. This more noticeable in tho case of fat ewes which in some instances advanced fully 2s per head. A line of 126 well-finished wethers ex Mr J. G. Reeves of Waimai sold to 29®. Heavy prime wethers brought 28s io 295, heavy fat wethers 27s to 27s Gd. medium-weights 26s to 2Gs 9d, light and unfinished 24s to 25s Gd. heavy fat maiden ewe's 20s lo 23s fid, heavy prime ewes 20s to 225, heavy fat ewes 18s to 19s, medium-weights lGs to 17® Gd. light and unfinished 13s to 15s, medium-weight fat lambs 23s to 24s 3d; light fat lambs 21s to 22s Gd, shorn wedher lambs to 22s 3d, for-ward-conditioned woolly Romney wether lambs to 20® 9d. A heavy entry of calves sold on a par with last week’s quotations, light runners sold to £4 10s. heavy vetiers £3 to £fi 17s 6d, medium-weight® £2 lo £2 15s, small calves 15s lo 355. Competition for an average entry of ox beef was keen and prices remained very firm, two trucks of good qualiLy Polled Angus and Hereford bullocks ex Mr J. G. Reeve.® of Waimai sold to £l4 Is. Heavy lal bullocks made £lfi 5s lo £l4 Is, medium-weights £l2 10s lo £l3; light, £ll ss, to £l2. Cow and heifer beef came, forward in average numbers and sold under steady competition at rates about equal to those

of last week. Prime oows and heifers ex Mr J. G. Reeves of Waimai sold to £9 19s and for heavy fat Shorthorn cows Mr R. G. Griffin of Tauwhare received to £9 10r. Good quality Friesian heifers ex Mr T. M. Hall of Hamilton realised £9 ss, while Friesian cows from tho same vendor averaged £8 lls. Heavy prime cows sold from £8 10s to £9 19s, heavy fat oows £7 IBs to £8 7s 6d, me'dlum weights £6 10s to £7 10b, light £5 10s to £6 ss, heavy fat heifers £8 to £9 ss, light-weights £6 to £7 10®, heavy fat Jersey cows £6 to £6 15s, medium-weights £5 5s to £5 18s, light £4 10s to £5. A full entry of store cattle the majority consisting of boner cows sold readily at late's t quotations. Store-conditioned two-year-old Shorthorn steers sold to £7 os, store conditioned Friesian steers to £7. good quality mixed-colour yearling steers to £4 17s, Inferior .£2 to £2 15®, empty two-year Jersey heifers to £3 18s, empty two-year Shorthorn heifers to £4 15s, yearling Jersey heifers to £4 3s, forward-conditioned Shorthorn and Friesian cows £4 5s to £5 ss, others £3 15® to £4, heavy boners £3 to £4, others 35s to £2 15s, potter bulls (heavy) £7 to £8 15s, lighter £4 to £6 10s. Fat pigs were yarded in large numbers. baconers remaining firm at late rates while porkets were easier. Especially noticeable was this In the case of light porkers. Heavy baconers realised £3 12® to £3 17s, mediumweights £3 5s to £3 11s', light £2 18s to £3 4s, heavy porkers £2 12s to £2 17r. medium-weights £2 8s to £2 11®. light, £2 2s to £2 7s. unfinished 35s to £2, heavy choppers £3 to £3 16s, others to*£2 17®. Prices for an average entry of store pigs differed little from those of last week. Good stores brought 30s to 355, others 25® to 295, best slips 20s to 245, others 17s to 19s, best weaners lbs to 19s 6d, others 7s to 14s, sows with litters to £5 ss, sows in pig to £2 15s.