COMMERCIAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5047, 3 November 1926, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

WAIKATO MARKET REPORT.

The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company reports:—

Beef.—The market is firm, and although Southern buyers have be,en operating sufficient is coming forward to meet the demand, a,nd prices have not improved since our. last report. It certainly looks' as if we have sqen the top price this spring. Fat Sheep.—Plenty Of fat sheep are offering with prices firm at late quotations, best prime store withers making up to 29s and prime ewes 22s 6d.

Store Sheep.—A good inquiry still exists for hoggets, ewes 1 and iapibs, .and wethers out of the wood. Store Cattle, —With the abundance of feqd about, the market for all classes of store cattle is firm. Grown buttocks, young steers, and good-fram-ed store cows' are wanted, and there is ,a keen demand for. good yearling Jersey heifers. Dairy Cattle/—Only small yardings are now coming forward, but good dairy cows and choice springing heifers are till meeting with good competition.

Pigs.—The market is somewhat easier, big yardings' coining forward. Prices for baconers and porkers are equal to 6d per lb. Stores are still meeting with ready saje. Horses. —Good farm sorts are selling well, but heavy draughts and light horses are not in demand. We quote: Bullocks, prime, extra heavy £l4 to £l6, medium £ll 10s to £l2 10s ; cows, prime £9 10s to £lO 10s, medium £7 10s to £9, unfinished £6 5s to £6 15s ; heifers, prime £9 10s to £lO 10s ; steers, forward 4-year £7 10s to £B, 3-year stores £5 15s to £6 sfi, good 2-year £5 10s to £s' 15s, 18■months £4 to £4 10s ; good yearling steers £3 to £4, good yearling Jersey heifers £4 10s to l £5 10,s ; good fresh empty cows £3 10s to £4 55.; aged store cows 30s to £2; choice, in-calfi dairy heifers, best Jersey-cross, £lO to £lO 10's; 2%-year Jersey-cross springing heifers £lo' to £11; 2%-year Shorthorn dairy heifers £8 10s to £9 10s ; good tested dairy herds £lO 10s to £l3, others £7 to £8 10s. Sheep : Wethers, prime woolly heavy 33s to 345, medium 27s to 295, prime shorn heavy 26s to 295, medium 21s to 22s 6d ; ewets, prime woolly heavy 24's to 26s 6d, light 21s to 225, shorn 18s to 20s ; store wethers, 4-tooth 1 , shorn, 21s to 22s 6d, 2-tooth 19s to 20s ; ewes, 4,6, and 8-tooth with lambs 27s 6d t« 30s, 5-year, with lambs 24s to 265, agqd, with lambs 17s to 18s ; hoggets, fat 24s to 275, good store woolly 17s 6d to 18s 6d, small woolly Ils 6d to 13s. Pigs : Baconers., prime £3 16s to £4 ss, medium £3 10s to £3 15,5; porkers £2 15s to £3 ; slips, 38s to £2; weaners 17s to 24s ; breeding sows, good £7 10s to £8 10s. Horses : Heavy draughts £45 to £5O, medium £2B to £32, Spring cart sorts £l6 to £lB, harness hoi'ses £8 to £lO, hacks £5 to £B.