FRANKTON STOCK SALE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 222, 19 September 1928, Page 4

FRANKTON STOCK SALE.

DAIRY CATTLE IN DEMAND. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report having held their usual weekly stock sale at Frankton saleyards on Tuesday, September 18, as under:—There was a very large yarding of beef, including several lines of choice bullocks. The demand throughout the sale was very steady, and although in some cases prices were a shade lower, a large proportion sold at late rates. Choice ox sold at up to £18 7/6, or equal to 43/ per 1001b. Choice young cows and heifers made to £13 7/6; ordinary cows, £9 10/ to £10 15/. Light and inferior, £6 10/ to £8 7/6. Vealers, £2 17/6. There was a large yarding of store cattle. We sold a pen of three-year-old Hereford steers, £8 17/; a pen of two-year Hereford steers, £7 2/6; store forward-conditioned cows, £7 3/; store empty heifers, £6; Jersey yearling heifers, £5 5/. Dairy cattle were yarded in fair numbers, and there was good competition for anything of quality. Jersey cows brought from £9 to £Yl 10/; Holstein heifers, up to £11 10/; Shorthorn cows, from £8 to £11; Jersey heifers, to £11 10/; backward springers, from £7 to £10. There was a large yarding of pigs. Baconers up to £3 10/. Porkers, from £2 7/ to £2 12/; light porkers, £2 5/; big stores, to £1 6/; slips, 16/ to 18/6; weaners, up to 13/6.

SHEEP VALUES UNCHANGED.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. . Tlic Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Ltd., report:— At the weekly stock market in the Frankton yards on Tuesday, we had a good entry of beef cattle, And a small yarding of fat sheep. Values for both classes were unchanged. A full number of fat and store pigs were penned. Competition lacked briskness * for all classes. We quote:— Beef.—Prime fat steers, £16 17/6 to £18; medium-weights, £14 19/ to £16 5/; prime light two-year steers, £9 18/ to £10 7/6; unfinished, £8; prime heavy fat cows, £15 to £15 12/; prime heifers and young cows, £12 15/ to £13 19/; medium and lighter, £11 to £12 15/; lightweights, £8 to £10; rough and plain, £5 10/ to £7 5/; fresh-conditioned cows, £5 10/ to £5 15/; boners, £3 16/ to £4 15/; yearling Jersey and cross heifers, £.4 11/ to £5 6/; best dairy cows and heifere at profit, £12 10/ to £15 10/ J medium, £10 10/ to £11 10/; inferior, '£?to £8. Sheep.—Prime fat wethers sold to 45/3; heavy fat ewes, 38/; medium, 34/; prime hoggets, 32/ to 35/; forward-conditioned hoggets, 30/6 to 31/; forward-conditioned ewes, 24/; medium woolly ewe hoggets, 34/;-same class wether hoggets, 28/; mixed age ewes, with 50 per cent lambs, 34/ to 34/6. J

Pige.—Heavy baconers, £3 5/ to £3 10/; light baconers, £2 15/ to* £3; heavy porkers, £2 6/ to £2 12/; light porkere, 38/ to £2 2/; slips, 17/ to 22/; weaners, 8/ to 12/.