COMMERCIAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5025, 10 September 1926, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

HAMILTON STOCK SALE.

The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company reports:—

At the weekly stock sale in the Frankton yards on Tuesday last we had a small entry of beef and a good entry of fat and store sheep. A fair number of fat pigs came forward, and stores were penned in the usual lai ge numbers. Beef was much firmer than in the previous week, prime bullocks selling ,to £l5, medium prime £l3 12s> 6d to £l3 14s, fat cows £ll to £ll 10s. The fat sheep market was ,anything but brisk, and in some cases we have to report a drop in values from the previous weelCSf from 3s to 44s a head. Shorn fat wethers brought to 265, light shorn 225, prime ewes and wethers, mixed, 335, prime woolly hoggets 28s, medium wethers in wool 265, medium-weight fat ewes 255, light '2ls 6d, forward-conditioned B.F. hoggets 18s, culls 7s 6d, 2 and 4-tooth' store wethers 24s Id, small 20s 9d, citlls 15s 3d, cull ewes in h»mb 17s 6d. Store Cattle. —Fresh conditioned cows £4 7s 6d to £4 10s, good framed stores £3 8s to £4 Is, culls 20s to 355. In calf heifers backward £4 5s to £5, empty heifers £3 to £3 10s. Pigs.—Fats sold firm at late rates, while stores in most cases sold as well as the previous week, with exception of a few lots, towards the end of the sale, which were cheaper. Heavy baconers, £4 16s to £4 17s, /medium prime, £4 10s to £4 12s, medium, £3 15s to £4 2s, good porkers and light baconers, £3 8s to £3 12s, medium £3 to £3 ss, light porkers, £2 10s , to £2 18s, choppers £3 10s to £3 16s, store porkers 35s to £2 2s, slips 27s to 335, best weavers £1 to 2'ss, inferior 9s to 15s, Tamworth cross sows, in pig, £6' 2s 6d, others £3 7s 6d to £6 Is.