Advanced Prices For Fat Cows Realised At Fortnightly Sale
A medium yarding of fat and boner cows sold particularly well at advanced prices at the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd’s, fortnightly stock sale held at the Te Puke saleyards. Pigs were yarded in good numbers for this time of the year. Prices for baconers remained firm at late rates. There was a stronger demand for porkers and buttermilk pigs. The sheep ex Matawai and East Coast came forward in good order. Although the demand for breeding ewes has slackened through most farmers having completed their flocks, a total clearance was effected at values very little below the earlier sheep sales. Range of prices realised:— Pigs: Choppers, £5 7s 6d to £7 2s 6d; prime heavy baconers, £6 16s to £7;'medium heavy baconers, £6 8s to £6 16s; light baconers, £5 5s to £6 6s; large buttermilk pigs, £5 to £5 18s; porkers, £4 10s to £5; light porkers, £3 10s to £4 8s; slips, 35s to 455; weaners, 20s to 30s. Cattle: Fat cows ex dairy, £9 to £10; light fat cows, £7 10s to £8 10s; boner cows, £7 10s to £8 10s; light boner cows, £4 ,10s to £7; weaner Jersey heifer £7 12s; potter buls, £lO to £l3; light potter bulls, £5 to £7.
Sheep: Two-tooth ewes, £2 15s to £2 19s 6d; 5-year ewes, 35s 3d to £2; wether lambs, 275; fat wethers, £2 4s to £2 10s.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 10, 15 March 1950, Page 3
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