COMMERCIAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4748, 8 September 1924, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

WAIKATO MARKET REPORT. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., reports : — Beef. —The market is still very firm, with every prospect of keeping so for at least a couple of months. Good yardings are coming tprward, and good sales are also being made, in the paddock. Prime steers and cows are most sought after. Mutton.—There is little change in the price of fat sheep, with the exception of extra prime quality, which is very firm. Store Cattle. —There is a good inquiry for grown steers ; also for young steers, but with few offering. The yardings consist mostly of store cows and yearling heifers, there being little demand for the latter. Store Sheep.—Fair yardings have been coming forward, consisting principally of hoggets, which are finding ready sale at high prices. Dairy Cattle.—The yardings are easing off, dairying being in full swing, but there is still a good demand for choice cows or well grown heifers close to profit, inferior being very dull. Pigs.—Good yardings of fats and stores are coming forward at the different markets, and are finding keen competition at high prices, stores the last week being a little easier owing, no doubt, to the large numbers yarded. .j Horses. —Good heavy, medium, ana light draughts are still, in demand. Bullocks, prime heavy £l3 to £l4 ss, medium £lO 10s to £l2 10s ; cows, prime £7 10s to £9, medium £5 to £5 10s, unfinished £3 10s to £4 ss, stores £1 to £1 15s ; steers, forward 3%-year £5 10s to £6 ss, store 3y 2 -year £4 15s to £5 15s. good 2%-year £3 10s to £3 15s, others £2 5s to £2 10s ; good yearling steers £2 5s to £2 7s 6d, medium £1 5s to £llos. Wethers, prime heavy £2 2s to £2 6s, prime medium 38s to £2; ewes, prime heavy 30s to 335, light 26s to 275; store wethers, 4tooth 32s to 345, 2-tooth 28s to 30S ; ewes in lamb, 5-year 28s to 335, sound mouth 25s to 27s ; hoggets, fat 30|S to 355, forward 25s to 27s 6d; good store lambs 23s to 255, medium 20s to 21s, small 12s 6d to 14s 6d. ‘ Pigs: baconers. prime £4 5s to £4 10s, medium £3 15s to £4; porkens, £2 15s to £3 5s ; weaners, 25s to 32s 6d. Horses : Heavy draughts £5O to £6O, medium £3's to £3B, spring cart sorts £lB to £22, hatndss horses £8 to £lO. HAMILTON STOCK SALE. At Frankton yards on Tuesday last we held our weekly stock sale, there being a good yarding of beef, pigs, and dairy cattle, with a small entry of sheep. Practically the whole yarding was quitted at the following pi ices • Prime fat wethers £2 6s ; fat wethers 38s ; prime fat ewes, 38s to £2 3s ; fat ewes, 32s to 34s ; prime fat -bullocks, £l4 to £l4 Hs; fat bullocks, £ll 19s to £l2 12s 6d, small unfinished £8 10s to £8 17s 6d ; prime fat heifers, £9 17s 6d; heavy fat cows,. £9 10='; fat cows, £7 9s ; fresh conditioned cows, £2 17s to ’£3 2s ; line of 25 4 to 5-year bullocks averaged £7 10s ; best dairy heifers, £ll to £ll ss, others £5 to £7; dairy cows. £6 to £6 15s. Competition was on a par with previous prices for the 400 pigs of all classes yarded, and the whole yarding was quitted at the following prices’ Heavy baconers, £3 15s to £4 ss, ligit £3 5s to £3 10s ; porkers ,£2 15s to £3 7s 6<l : choppers, £4 12s 6d; stbie porkers, £2 to £2 9s ; slips, 33s to 3'ss; weaners, £1 to 30s. CLAUDELANDS STOCK SALE. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., reports: At Claudelands on Thursday last we held our fortnightly stock sale and had a fair entry of pigs and sheep, a small entry of store cattle, and a good yarding of beef and dairy cattle. Practically the whol.e of the entry changed hands under the hammer at satisfactory prices. Fat wether hoggets, extra £2; fat hoggets, 29s_; good forward hoggets, 27 S 28s f light fat steers, £8 15s to £9 9s, heavier, £lO 3s ; fat cows, light, £4 Ils to £5 10s; fresh-conditioned cows, £3 9s to £3 17s 6d; store cows, £2 2s to £2 10s; bulls, 35s to £2 10 s; yearling heifers, 27s to 31s; choice Jersey rcrpss springing heifers, £lo' 10s to £l2 ss, others £9 to £9 15s, small, £5 10ts to £6 15s; choice dairy cows, £8 10s to £l2. Pigs: Light baconers, £3 to £3 9s ; porkers, £2 6s to £2 12s 6d; weaners, 23s to 255.