STOCK SALES

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20832, 16 June 1939, Page 12

STOCK SALES

YARDING AT MATAMATA Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report having held their usual fortnightly stock sale at Matamata on Wednesday when there was a medium yarding of cattle and a good attendance of buyers. The prices for boners were again good, particularly for lighter and mediumweight cattle. Butchers* cows were yarded in small numbers, and sold keenly in consequence. Quotations: Heavy fat Shorthorn cows, to £7 9s: fat* Jersey cows, £5 fis to £fi: heavy boners, £3 5s to £3 j i7s. medium £2 fis fo £2 18s fi.l, lighter £1 7s to £1 18s: potter bulls £ i to £5 ss: yearling Jersey heifers passed. £2 17s: fat Southdown, twotooth. £1 is; fat lambs, 13s fid. Pigs: Only a small yarding of fat pigs came forward, with a good yarding of stores. All classes sold freely at prices at advance on yesterday’s quotations. The penning of fat pigs comprised mainly porkers, while the yarding of stores was mainly large otores. Light baconers, £3; prime medium porkers £2 to £2 ss. medium porkers 35s to £2. prime light 30s to 355, light 25s to 30s: best large stores 28s to 3fis. medium 23s to 28s, small 18s to 235: best slips, 16s to 20s. G. W. Yercoe and Company, Ltd. report having held a clearing sale on account of Mr H. L. Taylor, at Puketaha on Wednesday. The herd came forward in good condition and was submitted to an exceptionally large bench of buyers, and the excellent average of £lO Is resulted. The 20 In-calf Jersey heifers averaged £9 7s. A host of farm sundries and implements sold freely at clearing sale i rates. We quote: Choice Jersey cows J early calvers}, £l2* 10s to £l3 10s; choice Jersey Cows (later valvers), £ll to £l2 ss; good quality Jersey cows (July and August calvers', £lO to £lO 15s: good quality late calvers, £9 to £9 15s; backward cows, to £8 10s: good quality Jersey heifers early calvers), £9 12s fid lo £10; good quality later calvers. £8 5s to £9 10s. The farm horses sold to £2l 10s. CATTLE AT OTOROHANGA The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Hamilton, report as follows on their Otorohanga stock sale held on Wednesday: Cattle: We had an average yarding of all classes of cattle, which met with spirited competition. Medium quality ox sold well, top price being £lO. Boners were fully on a par with the previous sale, the poorer quality selling slightly in advance of late rates. A line of well-grown good quality 20 months’ Polled Angus steers soid at £2 ss. We quote :*Medium quality ox, £9 5s to £10; heavy Polled Angus heifers, £7 ss; heavy boners, £3 5s to £3 16s; medium, £2 9s to £2 17s; lighter sorts, £i 9s to £2 3s. LIGHT YARDING AT OTOROHANGA The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report having held their usual fortnightly stock sale at Otorohanga yesterday. A light yarding of cow beef of medium quality was offered, the market remaining lirm and a total clearance in this section resulted. Several dairy cows in milk and a line of two-year Jersey heifers were offered. Good types were sought after, but poorer sorts were not in demand. Quotations: Light Hereford and Polled Angus cows, £5 Is to £6; Jersey steers, to £5 2s; medium fat cows, £3 12s to £3 17s 6d: empty Jersey heifers. £2 15s to £3 Is; medium boner cows, £2 9s to £3 7s; Jersey cows in milk, £9 lbs to £lO 10s: good twoyear Jersey heifers, to £7 15s. CLEARING SALE AT TOKOROA The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company. Limited,- report having conducted a clearing sale on account of Mr G. D’Ath, of Tokoroa. yesterday, when his whole herd of Jersey and Jersey cross cows was offered before a fair attendance of buyers. The majority of the cattle lacked condition. and as llie cows were mostly late calvers competition was not very keen and a number of the animals were passed, although a fairly satisfactory average f >r the animals sold resulted. Quotations: Best Jersey and Jersey cross cows. July and early August calvers. £7 10s to £8 15s: others, £6 to £7 ss: aged and mature cows. £5 to £5 15s; two lerse: - ringing heifers, to £7: Friesian cows, August calvers, £6 10s to £7 ss: Tamworth cross sows, £3 5s to £4 2s 6d.

HiKUTAIA SALE The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report having held their usual fortnightly slock ".tie at llikutaia yesterday, when a medium yarding of catLlc came forward. Competition was Keen, and a I total clearance effected. Quotations: j Fat Jersey cows, £i Gs to £5 7s Gd; medium fat Jersey cows, £3 12s 6d to £ * 2s; heavy boner cows, £2 15s to £3 3s; medium, £2 2s to £2 14s; cull cows, 27s to 355; heavy potter bulls, £G to £7 12s Gd. MARKET IN SOUTH ADDINGTON STOCK SALE BRIGHT VALUES FOR STORE SHEEP (By Telegraph.—Press Association* , CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. There was again a good sale of fat sheep at Addington to-day. There was a little wider selection in the store sheep pens ami a larger attendance of farmers assisted in a better all-round demand, the store sheep sale being the brightest for a few weeks. A pen of two-tooth lialfbred ewes sold at 17® 7d and a good truck lot of sound-moutheds at its 6<i. Old ewes are still at rock-bottom prices. The Tat lamb sale as a whole was dragging and except for a few butchers’ pens prices were on a par with store rates in a normal season. The fat sheep entry of 4200 was a little larger than last week and quality was patchy. From the outset the was a sound one, with values fully up to those oT last week, with a shade of firming Tor ewes and best wethers. Light and medium wethers were down Is a head. Extra prime heavy wethers made to 30s id; prime heavy, 2 -is Gd to 275; medium, 21s Gd to 245; light, to 16s; extra prime heavy ewes, to 25s lod; prime heavy, 21s to 22s 6d; medium. 16s to I. - 6d; light, to 12s. Quality was again indifferent in the fat cattle section, in which 515 were entered, tlie same number as last week. The market opened satisfactorily for good classes of beer and there were practically no changes in values lor this class. For poorly finished rattle, however, there was an easing. The -ale was slow throughout. Extra prime heavy steers made to £l7 7s Gd; prime heavy. £l3 to £1» ss; prime medium. flu 15s to £l2 15s; light, to £S in-; extra prime heifers, to £lo 12s Gd; pi line, £y to £lO ss; medium, £6 to £8 light, to £5 15s; extra prime cows, to £M 12s 6d; prime, £7 to £8 ss; medium, £5 5s to £0 l"- ; light, to £5. The porker entry was very small at the beginning <»r ihr* .-ale and as a result values were 2 s t“ 3- a head better than last week. However, the entry was more than doubled by late arrivals and over the last few rices sales were exceedingly hard to make at satisfactory prices. Baconers came forward in small numbers and t-he sale was again good and fully equal to the rates of a week ago. Choppers were in medium supply and met an excellent demand. Porkers made £1 Ms to £2 14s Gd; average price per lb, o]d to G}*l; baconers. £2 19- Gd to £5 Is Gd; average price per lb, Gig to 7d.