STOCK SALES

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20463, 1 April 1938, Page 2

STOCK SALES

I. TE AWAMUTU VALUES The Farmers* Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Ltd., report having held their usual stock sale at Te Awamutu yesterday, when a moderate yarding of sheep was penned. Competition for all classes was not keen, f store lambs In particular meeting a s weak inquiry. Ox beef was penned In - good numbers, with competition fair at u recent reduced rates. A medium entry of cow and heifer beef was not In keen demand, although heifers realised recent rates. Fat Jersey cows and boners were yarded in large numbers and sold well at firm rates. Potter bulls also realised ruling market values. A good entry of store steers & was dull of sale, while younger store s cattle sold at satisfactory prices. Jert sey heifers, running with bull, were a penned in medium numbers, and sold g well according to condition and quality. A particularly full yarding of fat pigs came forward, although there were really few good quality pigs, the yarding comprising many unfinished lots. A fair yarding of stores and weaners sold under fair competition. Fat ewes made 14s to 15s 6d; store ewes, 10s 6d to 11s; fat woolly lambs, “ 18s to 21s: shorn, 17s 6d to 20s; light, 3 16s to 17s; store lambs, 10s to 12s 9 6d; culls, 7s to 8s 6d. Cattle.—Heavy f bullocks to £ll 15s, medium £lO to i £lO 10s; forward-conditioned store 1 bullooks, £8 9s to £8 10s; heavy fat cows £7 os to £7 Bs, medium £5 10s to £6 10s, light £3 15s to £5; medium prime heifers £6 to £6 12s 6d. light £5 to £5 15s; fat Jersey cows, £4 11s to £5 13s; heavy boners, £3 15s to £4 7s, light £2 to £3 8s; cows and good calves. £6 5s to £8; heavy bulls, £6 6s to £7 17s 6d, medium £4 10s to £6; Shorthorn steer calves, 37s to £2 11s; mixed colour heifers, yearling, 32s to £2 15s; yearling Jersey heifers, to £3; medium Jersey heifers, running with bull, £5 7s to £6 10s; mixed colour heifers, running with bull, £4 to £4 r 12s 6d; Jersey heifers, in milk, to £6 • ss; Jersey cows, running with bulls, - £4 15s to £5 2s 6d. Pigs: Heavy - baconers, £3 18s to £4 2s, medium £3 ■ 12s to £3 17s, light £3 5s to £3 11s, I unfinished £2 19s to £3 4s; heavy - porkers, £2 12s to £2 18s, medium £2 r 5s to £2 11s, light 37s to £2 3s, unfinished. 30s to 355; choppers, £2 15s i to £3 16s; medium stores, 20s to 235; . small, 17s to 19s; slips 13s to 16s; weaners, best 8s to 10s, smaller 4s 6d j to 7s 6d; sows In pig, £2 11s. t WAIHOU YARDINQB 1 t The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Ltd., report: At their usual fortnightly Waihou stock sale yesterday a good yarding of sheep came forward. Competition for all classes was steady and values remained firm. There was an exceptionally heavy yarding of cattle, the beef entry comprising mostly medium fat cows, with only a small proptrtlon of finished cattle. Competition was firm for all classes and a total clearance resulted . at late quotations. Boner cows and potter bulls met with a ready sale, !*. values in this section being in advance of schedule rates. A good offerlng of Jersey calves evoked only fair Inquiry with values slightly easier than at last sale. A full yarding of fat pigs, and a medium entry of stores and weaners came forward. Competition j for baconers and heavy porkers w'as e keen, prices remaining firm at recent quotations. Light and unfinished pork- _ ers sold at slightly reduced rates. r Store stores met a ready sale, but ” smaller sorts and weaners were hard to quit. Medium fat wethers made 24s 6d to 25s 6d; fat ewes, 4s 4d to 15s 7d; light fat lambs, 17s lid to y 19s 7d; small woolly store lambs, 12s •s Id to 12s 6d; cull lambs, 9s lid to Is 10s 3d. Cattle—Fat cows and heif'e ers, £6 10s to £7 ss; lighter, £5 5s ie to £6 4s; fal Jersey cows, £5 3s to l- £5 15s: killable cows, £4 5s to £4 18s; iy heavy boner cows. £4 5s *o £4 18s; ik medium. £3 5s to £4; lighter, £2 2s 6d >r to £3; heavy potter bulls, £7 17s 6d ;e to £9; medium, £6 2s 6d to £7 10s; ly lighter, £i 7s 6ri to £5 15s; Jersey ’® heifer calves, £2 19s to £3 10s; others, >y £2 2s to £2 its; small Jersey calves,, I” 25s to 355; Red Polled heifer calves ~ to £2 2s. Pigs—Heavy choppers, £3 ts 10s to £3 19s; others, £2 18s to £3 ss; ®; prime heavy baconers. £4 to £4 ss; heavy, £3 13s to £3 18s; medium? £3 10s to £3 14s; light, £3 3s to £3 8s; v ’ unfinished baconers and buttermilk ’*? pigs, £2 1.4 sto £3 is; heavy porkers, II £2 9s to £2 12s; medium. £2 to £2 7s; I light, 34s to 38s; unfinished. 28s to 325; large stores, 23s to 26s 6<j; medium, 18s to 225; slips. 103 to 16s. weaners. 5s to Ba, Berkshire boars to I £3 2a 6cL