OPOTIKI PIG SALE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 95, 1 December 1939, Page 8

OPOTIKI PIG SALE

VALUES EASIER Messrs Dalgety and Co,, Ltd., report having held their usual fortnightly pig sale on Tuesday Avhen a large yarding of baconers came forward. Store pigs and weaners Were also yarded in large numbers. There was a large and representativeattendance of buyers. Baconers showed an easing tendency, whilst there was a steady demand for buttermilk pigs at slight ]y lower rates. Weaners also showed a slight drop. Realisations: Heavy prime baconers £3 os to £3 9s, medium weight baconcrs £2 17s (id to £3 -Js, li;|h,t. baconcrs £2 12s 6d to £2 15s, porkers £2 to £2 7s 6d, stores 35s to £2, slips 27s Gd to 355, weaners 15s to 255.

| HAMILTON SALE The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., report:— Sheep: At Frank ton sale on Tuesday a .full yarding of all classes of fat sheep met a steady demand, values remaining on a par with last week's rates, with the exception perhaps of a slight easing tendency towards the end of the sale. Fat lambs were yarded in larger numbers and maintained slightly higher values, while store sheep again met a ready sale. Cattle-: A good yarding of all classes of cattle and A'alues easily maintained last week's quotations. A truck of medium prime bullocks from Mrs M. P. Goosman, Morrinsvill'e, made from £11 to £11 18s, a consignment from Glcncoe Station from £11 to £11 17s, a truck Claudelands from £10 35s to £11 12s, two trucks of prime Polled Angus cows and heifers from Mr ,T. C. Fleming, Whakatane, sold from £0" 5s to £9 19s. A large entry of boner cows sol,d freely at late rates while a good entry of store cattle crcated keen competition and a complete clearance effected. Pigs: A smaller yarding of fat pigs. Competition was not as keen as last week and prices a shade easier. A medium entrj r of store pigs, bidding for which was not as keen as previously with prices slightly easier. Quotations: — Sheep: Fat wethers 22s 3d to 24s fid, lighter 20s fid to 225, prime South down Cross 2 tooth wethers 18s <*([ to 22s 9d,, unfinished and small forward conditioned wethers 17s 9d to 19s fid, young fat ewes 15s fid to «7s. fat ewes 12s fid to 14s 9d, unfinished 8s fid to 12s, fat lambs 22s 3d to 24s fid. lighter 18s fid to 20s Cattle: Medium prime bullocks £10 5s to £11 18s, prime Polled Angus cows and heifers £8 10s to £9 19s, medium prime P.A. cows and heifers £fi 5s to j£B 2s fid, heavy fat cows £fi 2s to £7 10s, medium £,5 5s to £fi, lighter £4 5s to £5, heavy boner cows £3 lfis to £3 4s, medium boner cows £2 14s to £3 12s, lighter 38s to £2 Is, heavy potter bulls £8 to £9 10s, medium £5 10s to £fi 15s, vealers £2 to £2 13s, smaller 15s fid to 295, forward conditioned Hereford bullocks £8 ISs to £9, 3 year P.A. and Hereford steers £7 9s to £7 13s, 2 year Hereford and Shorthorn heifers £2 15s to £3 13s, 2 year Jersey heifers £4 to £-1 ss, yearling Jersey heifers £3 15s to £4 9s. Pigs: Heavy baconers £3 15s to £4. medium £3 10s to £3 15s, light £3 3s to £3 Bs, heavy porkers and buttermilk pigs £2 12s to £3, medium porkers £2 5s to £2 10s. light £2 to £2 4s. choppers 35s lo £3 15s. lnrg.> stores 35s to 3.8s fid, best slips 27s fid to 325, others 20s to 25s fid.