BUOYANT MARKET

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20917, 23 September 1939, Page 10

BUOYANT MARKET

MORRINSVILLE SALE DAIRY CATTLE SELL FREELY KEEN COMPETITION FOR PIGS A buoyant market in all sections was experienced at the weekly Morrinsville stock sale yesterday when the yardings were small and the enquiry throughout was taken. There were no noticeable price changes, although in sorj.e cases the market was firmer than at Tuesday's Frankton sale. A light yarding of fat cattle contained some good pens of heifers which sold up to £ii 6s, this figure being secured for prime Shorthorn heifers. Lighter heifers were traded at from £7 10s to £9, while light steers met the market at from £8 to £•9 13s. From £7 to £8 was paid for good fat cows with lesser quality sorts selling from £3 to £*6 3s. Rates were unchanged for boners, while the offering of store cattle was keenly competed for. A steady demand resulted in dairy cattle prices remaining fully on a par with recent sales, choice heifers, including lines from Taranaki, making up tp £ll 10s. Cows and heifers of less quality were traded from £‘B to £9. Only a few pens of fat sheep were offered, and, considering the quality, I lie prices realised were very firm. Up to 28s was paid for the best of the wethers and good ewes made to 225. A strong enquiry was forthcoming for a limited entry of hoggets which sold j from 21s to 20s. The operations of farmers in search of light porkers suitable for fatlening had their effect in the fat pig section where values were slightly higher than at Frankton and the market, generally, was very firm. A good proportion of heavy prime haconcrs was included. Lop price for these being £4 3s. Lighter descriptions also cleared readily with prices ranging from 665. Competition for a fair yarding of porkers was animated and a complete clearance was effected at from 42s to 60s a head. The sale of store pigs was followed by a large bench of buyers and bidding was very brisk throughout. Large stores wore knocked down at from 37s 6d to 445, slips from 30s to 355, and weaners from 15s to 275. AUCTIONEERS 1 QUOTATIONS The auctioneers quote as follows: Loan and Mercantile Agency Cattle.—-Medium quality cows and heifers ex Mr R. G. Griffen, of Tauwhare, £8 10s to £lO 10s. Fat Hereford cows and heifers, £9 15s to £lO 10s; prime fat Jersey heifers, £8 10s to £9 ss; medium quality fat heifers, £-6 10s to £7 15s; fat Jersey cows, £5 9s to £6 ss; heavy boners, £4 5s to £4 17s 6d; medium boners, £3 7s 6d to £4 2s 6d; others, £2 to £2 15s; empty 2-year old Jersey heifers, £3 5s to £3 10s; smaller sorts, £2 to £2 15s; small yearling Jersey heifers, £*2 to £2 12s 6d; medium quality dairy heifers close to calving, £9 5s to £ll 10s; later calvers from £8 to £9; backward heifers, £7 Ids to £8 10s; medium quality dairy cows, £6 10s to £8 ss. Sheep.—Prime fat ewes, 18s 6d to 21s; fat ewes, 12s 6d to 16s 6d; prime fat hoggets, 23s to 255; medium hoggets, 16s to 17s 9d; good quality store pigs, 32s 6d to 365. Farmers’ Auctioneering Company Sheep.—Prime b.f. 2-tooth mutton, 2‘6s 9d to 28s; fat woolly wethers, 26s to 27s Gd; light fat wethers, 23s 6d to 25s 3d; unfinished, 225; heavy fat ewes, 20s Gd to 225; prime fat hoggets, 25s 6d to 27s 6d; medium, 23s to 24s 6d; light, 19s to 21s; forward conditioned woolly wether hoggets, l'Bs 9d to 21s Gd; smaller, 17s to 18s; sound mouth ewes with lambs at foot, all counted, 7s Id to 9s 3d. Cattle.—Prime Polled Angus heifers, £9 19s to £ll 6s; light fat Shorthorn steers, £9 13s; heavy fat Jersey heifers, £>G 11s to £7 10s; medium, £5 5s to £6; light, £4 8s to £4 15s; heavy fat Jersey cows, £7 17s 6d to £8 10s; medium, £5 15s to £7; light, £4 10s to £ts ss; heavy boner cows,, £3 10s to £4 4s; medium, £2 5s to £3 ss; light, 35s to £-2 4s; cull cows, 10s to 255; forward conditioned 3-year Shorthorn steers, £7 17s 6d to £8; forward 2year Shorthorn steers, £6 12s to £7 2s; smaller 2-year, £3 11s to £4 8s; 18 0100015’ Shorthorn heifers, £3 to £3 3s; 3-year Friesian steers, £6 2s; good quality yearling Jersey heifers, £3 9s to £3 15s; others, £2 17s to £3 3s. Dairy Cattle.—-Best Jersey springing heifers, £9 15s to £l*2 10s; best Shorthorn and Friesian dairy cows, £9 5s to £l3 ss; medium Jersey springing heifers, £7 12s Gd to £9; small Jersey heifers, close to profit, £6 to £7 10s; medium Jersey and Jersey cross dairy cows, £7 5s to £8 ss; backward, £5 10s to £7 15s; inferior and small, £3 10s to £5 ss; dairy cows, close to profit, £9 to £l2 10s; medium quality, £0 10s to £8; poor and backward, £3 to £5 ss. PieS. —Heavy choppers, £2 18s to £3 10s; others, 39s to £2 15s; prime top-weight baeoners, £i to £4 3s; heavy haconcrs, £3 15s to £3 18s; medium, £3 10s to £3 13s; light, £3 3s to £3 8s; buttermilk pigs and heavy porkers, £2 16s to £3 Is; medium porkers, £2 10s to £2 l is; light, £2 3s to £2 8s; light large-framed stores, 37s lo £2 Is; large stores, 30s to 355; medium, 25s to 27s Gd; good slips, 27s Gd to 30s Gd; others, 22s to 255; best weaners, 20s to 26s 6d; others, 12s to 17s 6d; Berkshire boars, £2 5s to £-2 Iws; sows close to farrowing, £i 10s to £G 7s 6d; others, £3 to £3 12s Gd. Dalgety and Co., Ltd. Fat Jersey cows made from £6 5s lo £7 3s; heavy boners, £3 5s to £4 3s; medium, £2 2s to £3; light, 17s Gd to £2. Dairies: Rest springing Jersey heifI ers, £8 to £9 10s; smaller, £o‘lOs to I £7 15s. ] Sheep: Prime heavy fat hoggets, £1 j 9s 3d to £1 9s Gd. j Pigs: Heavy baeoners to £3 19s; .medium ditto, £3 10s to £3 12s; 1 choppers medium weight, £2 10s to ; £2 1 is. ! PIO PIO SALE j Dalgety & Company, Limited, report having held their usual tri-weekly sale at Plo Pio on Thursday. A small yarding of sheep, mainly hoggets, was , offered lo an attendance ol local and outside buyers. Hoggets were vkeii

competed for, good sorts selling is to Is 6d in advance of l&te rates. Quotations: —Medium wethers, 24s 6d; good ewe hoggets, 25s Id; medium, 19s Cd to 20s 6d; small, lis 9d; wether hoggets, 16s 8d; good lata shorn, 15s sd; medium b.f. hoggets, 11s 6d; culls, ss. Abraham and W4lliams, Ltd., report as follows on their Plo Pio sale on Thursday:—We had & small yarding of sheep and cattle and have to report a clearance at priees on a par with late ruling rates. Quotations: Good Romney wether hoggets to 16s 3d, Southdowns 13s 6d, 2-year Shorthorn steers £4 10s, 3 -year Polled Angus to £7, 2-year Hereford heifers £3 17s 6d. yearling Jersey heifers £3 6s, small sorts to £2, boner cows £2 to £2 10», forward conditioned Jersey cows £3 7s 6d, rough dairy cows £3 5s to £3 15s. NEW PAEROA YARDS G. W. Verooe A Co., Ltd., report having held their opening sale in the modern new Paeroa yards, when cattle, sheep and pigs were yarded in good numbers. Competition for all classes was keen from a large bench of buyers and prices in all cases remained firm at recent rates. Fat woolly wethers made from 26s to 28s; killable woolly wethers, 23s to 24s 9d; fat shorn wethers, 235; fat woolly heiggets, 21s to 23s 6d; store woolly hoggets, 16s 6d to 18s 6d; white-faced ewe hoggets (medium,, 19s; killable ewes, 19s; store ewes, 11s to 12s. Cattle: Medium Hereford bullocks, £ll ss; fat Jersey steers, £7 12s Gd to £9 15s; medium fat cows, £7 5s to £8; fat Jersey heifers, £7 to £7 7s Gd; light fat cows, £5 10s to £G 7s Gd; light Jersey heifers, £4 lGs to £5 17s Gd; killable cows, £4 lbs to £5 ss; heavy boners, £3 2s to £3 12s; medium, £2 14s to £3; light, £2 to £2 10s; •Shorthorn and Friesian store cows, *5 15s to £6 ss; young empty Jersey cows, £3 to £4; empty 2-year-old Jersey heifers, £2 IGs to £3 8s; yearling Jersey heilers, £3 3s to £3 15s; rough heifer calves, £2 lo £2 10*; Jersey springing heifers, £8 10s to £9 10s; later springing heifers, £7 to £B, small and backward springing heilers, £5 io £6 15s; Jersey heilers (in milk;, £7 to £9 ss; dairy cows (close to profit), £7 to £8; aged and inferior cows, £3 10s to £4 10s. Pigs: A good entry of pigs was submitted to buyers and prices realised were fully up to late quotations. Heavy baeoners made to £3 18s; light to medium, £3 3s to £3 8s; heavy porkers to £2 19s; medium porkers to £2 12s; light, to £2 ss; good stores, to 355; weaners, to £1 ss; smaller, 15s to £1 us Gd; sows in pig, to £4. TE AWAMUTU STOCK SALE New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report on tneir Te Aw&mutu stock sale as follows: A larger yarding of beef met a steady demand, but generally, values were easier. Extra heavy prime steers made £ls 106 to £l6 3s; heavy, £l4 9s to £ls 7s 6d; lighter, £l2 15s to £l3 13s; light, £9 9s to £l2; plain and small, £7 15s to £9; extra heavy prime young cows and heifers, £l2 to £l3 17s 6d; heavy, £lO to £ll 15s; lighter, D 8 to £9 17s Gd; light, £6 to £6 17s 6d; heavy boners, £3 9s to £4 2s; lighter, £2 l'Bs to £3 ss; light, £1 18s to £2 10s; canner cows, £1 10s. The yarding of dairy cattle was smaller than usual but quality heifers met with keen demand. Good quality incalf heifers, clo«e to profit, brought £l2 15s to £ls; good quality but later calvers, £9 10s to £11; poor-con-ditioned and plain sorts, £*s 15s to £7 ss; good quality calved heifers to £l3 10s; others, £6 to £9 15s. Yearling heifers met with steady demand with the top price at £5 6s being paid for a line from Mr T. A. West, uhaupo. These heifers were well grown and in excellent condition. Others sold from £2 11s to £4 6s. Values for sheep were slightly easier. Prime wethers realised 25s to 28s 9d; lighter, 21s 3d to 24s 6d; light, 18s to 20s; unfinished, 12s 9d to 17s 3d; extra prime ewes to 225; prime, 18s Od to 21s; lighter, 12s 9d to 17s; unfinished, Gs to 10s 3d; prime wether hoggets to 255; others 13s to 19s Gd. There was & decline in the values for bacon and heavy pork of which there was a medium entry. Medium and light porks sold readily at late rates. Sows with litters met with a good enquiry as did sows close to farrowing showing any quality. A good entry of stores met with a steady sale at prices slightly lower on those ruling at other recent sales. Heavy baeoners sold to £3 16s; medium, 13 7s to £3 10s; heavy porkecs, £2 15s to £2 l‘8s; medium, £2 8s ft £2 11s; light, £2 to £2 6s; sows with litters, £7 10s to £9 10s; sows to farrow, £5 to £6 ss; backward, £3 5s to £4 10s; large stores, 35s to 41s; medium, 30s to 345; slips, 25s to 28s Cd; best weaners, 21s to 24s 6d; others, 14s to 18s Cd. OTOROHANGA YARDINGS Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Otorohanga sale on Wednesday as follows: —We penned a medium yarding of sheep, cattle and pigs and have to report a ready sale for all classes. Hoggets were in demand at improved rates, as also were pigs, while cattle of all classes sold freely. Quotations: — Sheep.—Heavy fat ewes 18s 6d, light fat hoggets 16s, good store Southdown hoggets 14s 3d to 15s 9d, small sorts lls. Cattle.—Good quality fresh conditioned 2-year Polled Angus steers £7 13s, Herefords £6 13s, fair fat Jersey cows £7 to £7 lls. light fat Jersey heifers £5 10s to £6, good store and boner cows £4 to £4 10s, lighter good sorts £3 10s to £3 17s 6d, light sorts £2 10s to £3, yearling Jersey heifers £3 9s to £3 15s, medium springing Jersey heifers £7 to £8 10s, smaller and later sorts £5 to £6 IDs, (backwa rd £4. Good porkers made £2 17s, store pigs 31s Cd to 37s Cd, good weaners 23s to 28s 6d. sows to £4. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company* Ltd., report that at their Otorohanga stock sale on Wednesday there was an average yarding of all classes with competition keen throughout, particularly in the dairy section, where prices were very keen. A medium entry of store cattle also sold at quite satisfactory rates. Quotations : Cattle.—Light fat Hereford-crost heifers £6 15s. medium killable Jersey cows £5 10s to £5 19s, light £4 15s to £5, heavy boner cows £3 lUs to £4 ss, medium £2 9s to £3 3s, light 35s to £2 ss, 2-year Polled Angus steers £4 17s, empty 2-year Jersey heifers £'2 lls to £3 7s. Dairy cattle: Best springing Jersey heifers £lO to £ll 15s, medium quality £8 to £9 10s. later calvers £6 to £7 ss. Sheep: Store hoggets 12s 9d to 14a 3d.