STEADY MARKET

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21218, 14 September 1940, Page 5

STEADY MARKET

VALUES AT MORRINSVILLE LATE RATES MAINTAINED Late market rates were again maintained for rat and boner cattle at the Mor Tins vi lie stock sale yes-terday. competition was keen for dairies at current quotations, pigs and sheep also selling well. The auctioneers quote as follows: 1 Loan and Mercantile Agency Cattle.—Prime fat cows £8 to £8 T2s, heavy fat Jersey cows £6 to £o 15s * m ®* dlum £5 to £5 I4s, heavy boners £4 5s to £4 17s 6d, medium £3 10s to £4 2s bd, if at Jersey heifers £5 to £5 17 s 6d, potter bulls £7 to £8 10s, best quality yearling Jersey heifers £7 5s to £B, medium quality £5 10S to £5 17s 6d, yearling bhorthom heifers £4 T2s 6d to £5 9s, small yearling Jersey heifers £4 10s to £5, yoo-d quality dairy heifers £ll to £l3 ids. later ealvers £'B to £lO Tss, good quality dairy cows £l2 103 to £l4 10s, others £lO to £ll 153. (Sheep.—Empty store ewes lls id, prime rat hoggets 26s to 2S<s. Pigs.—Good store pigs £2 to £2 9s 6d, medium 3'2s to 37s 6d, good weaners 27s to 31 s. Farmers' Auctioneering Company, Ltd. Sheep: Heavy prime woolly wethers to 38s 6d; heavy "fat woolly ewes, 2'ss 9d to 2'6 6S; light fat woolly ewes, 21s 6d; rat shorn ewes, 17s Gd to 20s 0d; prune woolly hoggets, 2-8 S6d to Od; fat woolly hoggets, i».ss to 2-6 s Gd. Cattle: Heavy prime Polled Angus bullocks, £l3; unfinished steers, £9_ igs; prime Jersey heifers, £6 15s to £7 7s 6d; light prime Hereford heifers, £’7; best store DOWS, £6 5s to £7 ss ; fat Jersey cows, £5 to £0 ss; heavy boner cows, £3 15-s to £i 12s; medium, £2 10s to £3 ss; canncr cows, 27s 6d to 37s 6d; best yearling Jersey heifers, £5 17s 6d to £6 ss; small, £4 to £5; empty two-year heifers, £4 lOs to £5 ss; two-year Jersey service bull, £lO 7s 6d; best Jersey heifers, close to prollt. £l2 10s to £ls ss; medium. £lO 5s to £l2; lighter conditioned Jersey Sellers, £8 15s to £9 15s; small Jersey and Jerseycross heifers, £6 10s to £8; Ayrshire cross heirers, £8 15.3 to £l2; Friesian Shorthorn cross heifers, £8 10s to £1 2 53; best Jersey heifers In milk, £l2 to £l6; others, £8 5s to £lO 1 5s; best dairy cows, close to profit, £ll 15s to £l4; others, £7 10s to £1 u; dairy cows hu*mllk, £9 10s to £l3; unsound and cull oows, £7 to £8 ss. Pigs-. Heavy prime baconers, £4 4s to £4 lus; medium, £3 15s to £4 25; light, £3 12s to £3 15s; heavy porkers and buttermilk pigs, £3 5s to £3 105; meditiiu, £2 16s to £3 3s; good quality large Mores, £2 4s 6d to £2 l'2s 6d; large Mores to £2 3s; slips, 3 ; 5s Cd to 37s 6d; best weaners, 24s 6d to 32s Gd; others, 16. s G-d to 225; maiden sows, close to farrowing, £4 10s to £g; sows with liners, is to £'l4 ss; Tamworth boar- 15s to £7; Devon boars, 2gns., to 4Jgus. Dalgoty and Company, Ltd. Cattle.—Fat Holstein cows £8 to £8 10s, fat Jersey and Jersey-cross corws £6 10-s to £7 75 6d, lighter Tat Jersey cows and heifers £5 15s to £G 7s 6d, forwardcondltloned cows £5 to £5 12s Gd, boners £2 to £4 4 s according to weight and condition, empty 2-year Jersey heifers (good quality) £'s 10s to £6, others from £4 17s 6d to £5 55, choice yearling Jersey heifers £7 7s, average Jersey yearling heifers £5 los to £6 10s. Choice quality Jersey heirers £l3 13s to £l4 los, medhuiT Jersey heirers £lO 10s to £ll ss, Inferior sorts £7 to £O, rows in milk to £ll, older Jersev rows £8 15s to £9 10s. Pigs.—Heavy baroners £i :is to £4 ss. buttermilk pigs £3 to £3 ss, pood slips 335 to 3>ss, best weaners 3us, others 2OS to 255. CLAUDELANDS HORSE FAIR G. W. Vercoe and Company. Ltd., report hailing held a horse fair at claudelands yesterday when the advertised entry came forward. The majority ot tne horses yarded were or poor quality and were not in keen demand. Good useilui farm horses sold readily, while hacks sold at late rates. Good userul farm horses made £25 to £3i, others £2u to £2 4, light farm sorts £ls to £lB, aged and inferior up to £l2, good useful hacks £y to £ 15rough hacks to £7.