FIRM MARKET

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20845, 1 July 1939, Page 11

FIRM MARKET

MORRINSVILLE SALE INTEREST IN DAIRY CATTLE 'Both dairy pavilions were full with buyers at the Morrinsville stock sale yesterday when dairy cattle values, although showing wide variation at times, were usually fully firm. Good sorts met with a brisk sale, but the same could not be said for inferior descriptions, which were often difficult to quit. Quality cattle sold from £8 TOs to £lO 15s with a top bid of £ll-10s, while less attractive sorts made from £5 12s to £7 and poor cattle from £2 10s to £4 10s. The beer market was poorly supplied and the lighter entry consisted almost entirely of fat Jersey sorts. 'Competition came fairly steadily with buyers paying from £6 to £7 12s for the tops of the offering and from £3 10s to £5 for the majority of pens. There w r as a brighter demand in the boner section and values w’ere sometimes higher. Store cattle, which were forward in fair numbers, sold steadily at firm rates, young steers realising from £4 10s to £5 8s with more backward sorts from £8 17s to £4 Is. 'Fat lambs comprised the fat sheep offering, the best of these selling from 19s to 225, lighter from 16s 3d to 17s 6d and small from 14s 9d to 15s 3d. 'Fat pigs were forward in negligible numbers and values were hardly quotable

AUCTIONEERS’ QUOTATIONS

The auctioneers quote as follows: — Farmers’ Co-op. Auctioneering Co., Ltd Sheep: Fat 2-tooth wethers to 24s fid; B.F. 2-tooth mutton to 20s; prime heavy lambs, 20s 9d to 225; medium fat lambs, 4 7s fid to 19s; light 1 is 9d to l‘6s 6d; good store lambs, 11s 9d; stud Southdown ewes, 14 to guineas; aged rams, 7s. Cattle: Medium fat Friesian cows, £6 12s to £7; light, £4 10s to £5 10s; heavy Jersey cows, £5 to £5 15s; heavy Jersey heifers to £6; medium £3 to £4 13s; heavy boner cows £3 18s to £4 ss; medium £3 to £3 15s; i light, 35s to £2 18s; cull

to 30s. Polled Angus cows, in-calf, £4 10s to £4 15s; Polled Angus heifers. up to £5 6s; Hereford cows, incalf, £3 10s; yearling Jersey heifers £3 6s; yearling Jersey cross heifers, £2 to £2 15s; smaller, 25s to 355; best Jersey heifers, close to profit, £lO to £ll 10s; medium Jersey heifers, £8 6s to £9 10s; more backward, £6 5s to £7 ss; smaller, £3 15s to £5 2s 6d; Ayrshire heifers to £8; calved Heifers, £5 ,10s to £.6 15s; Jersey cows, close to profit, £8 15s to £lO 10s; others, £6 5s to £7 15s; Ayrshire cows, £6 to £7 15s; backward cows, £3 15s to £4 12s 6d.

Pigs: Heavy baconers, £3 11s to £3 16s; heavy porkers, £'2 12s to £2 18s; medium, £2 5s to £2 10s; light, £2 to £2 4s; large stores, 30s 6d to 34s 6d; medium, 26s to 29s Gd; -best slips, 18s to 24s 6d; others, 12s to 16s; weaners, 6s to 10s; sows, close to farrowing, £4 to £6 ss; others’ £2 12-s 6d to £3 12s Gd; sow with litter, £7 15s.