STOCK REPORTS.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 606, 11 February 1921, Page 3

STOCK REPORTS.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report:—

We held sales of dairy and store cattle during the last week at Westfield, Henderson, and Pukekohe. We had average yardings in all -places, quotations being the same as last report. Best dairy cows and heifers, £ls to £23, others £9 to £l4 15s; aged cows and inferior heifers, £5 10s to £9 10s; bulls, £3 to £9 10s, according to weight and quality; empty cows, £3 10s to £5 10s. Beef at fully Westfield prices. Steers, £l6 ss; cows and heifers* to £lO 15s; calves, £1 to £2 ss; a few Jersey heifer calves, £2 15s fto £4 ss; yearling steers, £2 10s to £3 15s; 18-month steers, £3 17s 6d to £4 10s; 2-year to 242-year steers, £5 to £6 15s; 3-year steers, £7 5s to £9 10s; 3% to 4-year steers, £lO to £l2 15s; 18-month to 2-year heifers, suitable, £5 10s to £8 15s.

Our first annual sheep fairs were held dupring the past week at Tuakau and Clevedon, having average yardings and in both instances report good sales. Two-tooth ewes, best £1 3s 6d to £1 7s 9d, small 17s to £1 2s; fresh full-mouth ewes, best £1 to £1 2s 9d, others 16s ta 19s 9d; aged ewes, 12s to 17s; inferior ewes, 5s 6d upwards; 2-tooth wethers, best £1 Is to £1 4s 6d, small 17s to £1 0s 9d; lambs, woolly, best 12s to 16s 6d, others 7s to 11s 6d; shorn lambs, 6s to 12s 6d; Romney Rams, 2-tooth, 3gns. to 512 gns.; Border Leiceester, 2-tooth, 2*/2 gns to 4gns; aged rams, 7s upwards. In both sales with, the exception of two small lones, everything changed hands. -

Alfred Buckland and Sons, Ltd., port:— : There was a full entry of dairy cattle, but few stores at Westfield on Thursday. The former sold at from £lB to £2l for best, second grade £l2 to £ls, aged and inferior £4 to £10; empty cows, £3 to £4 10s; calves, £1 Is to £1 15s.

We help our first sheep fair of the season at Tuakau on Monday, and penned the advertised number. There was a large attendance, and with the exception of five pens all changed owners. Lambs sold at prices easily equal to the corresponding sale last season. Grown sheep were from 3s to 5s per head lower. Large framed four and five-year-old ewes, £- -s to £1 3s; smaller sheep 18s to £1 0s 6d; two, four, and six-tooth ewes, £1 Is to £1 6s 6d—the latter price for a line of 500 two-tooth ewes from Mr. Len. L. Allen, Oputia Downe, Onewhero; full-mouth ewes, 16s to 18s; failing mouth and cull ewes, 9s to 14s; fat and fo.rward two-tooth wethers, £1 4s to £1 6s 6d; smaller two-tooth wethers,, 18s to £1 2s; best woolly lambs, 18s to £1 2s; smaller woolly lambs 14s to 17s, small 10s“to 13s 6d; best shorn lambs 16s to 18s 6d, smaller 13s to 15s, small 11s to 13s; rams, all ages, £1 Is to £4 4s. At our Clevedon sheep fair on Tuesday we yarded 835 sheep, and all sold to ready buyers at values equal to those ruling at Tuakau the previous day. Two-tooth B. Leicester rams, £3 10s to £4 4s; Romneys, £2 2s to £5 ss; black faces, £4 4s. On Wednesday at our weekly Westfield fat stock market our supply of 257 steers, 136 cows and heifers, and 10 bulls. There was an improved demand, and all choice and prime quality cattle were firmer by fully 2s per 1001 b. Plain and unfinished cows were dull of sale. Extra choice ox sold to £2 11s, choice and prime ox £2 Ss to £2 10s, ordinary and plain £2 3s to £2 7s; cow and heifer beef, £1 13s to £2 10s: rough beef, £1 to £1 10s. Steers ranged in price from £l9 to £22 for heavy prime (no extra heavy steers penned); lighter prime £l6, small and unfinished £8 10s to and heifers £l2 to £ls 15s; lighter £lO to £ll 10s, others £3' to £9.