COMMERCIAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5231, 25 January 1928, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

WAIKATO MARKET REPORT. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., report:— Beef.—Thea-e is a - good demand, with prices firm; for both ®x and cow beef, best prime ox making equal, to 30s per 100, and cow and. heifer 255. These prices are considered very satisfactory for this time of the year. Fat Sheep.—There lias been n'° change since the New Year, w-th the exception of, fat ewes, which are somewhat easitsr. Exporters are not operating freely yet on ewe and wether mutton, practically all available space being required for lamb. Store Sheep.—Good yardings have been coming forward, principally of rape and store, lambs, which have been meeting with good competition considering the long dry s P ell and the failure of the rape crops. With a continuance of the dry weather cull lambs are the class most likely to be affected in prices.

Store Cattle.—Very small yardings have, been coming forward, but there is a good demand for all classes. Pigs.—Both fats and stores continue to come forward in large numbers, fats making equal to 4d per lbStores are a good deal easier, with weavers very low, due, no doubt, to the milk supply going off.

Horses.—The market is very "quiet for all classes. We quote:—

Bullocks, prime extra he.avy £l2 to £l2 10s, medium £lO 10s to £llc&ws, prime £7 to £B, medium £6 to £6 15s, unfinished £3 iOs to £4 l»s; heifers, prime £7 5s to £8 5s / steers, forward 4-year £7 IQs to £7 15s, 3-year stores £6 10s to £6 15s, good 2-year £5 5s to £5 15s, yearling £3 ,15s to £4 15s ; good weauer Jersey heifer calves £3 IQs to £4.; aged' store cows 20s to £3; good fresh empty cows £4 10s to £5. Shqep : Wethers .prime heavy shorn 25s tp 26s 6(1, prime medium shorn 24|s to 24s 6d; ewes, prime, shorn 18s to 19s ; fat lambs 23s to 25s 6d; store wethers, '4-tooth 22s to 235, 2-tooth 29s ot 20s; best woolly rape lambs 14s to 15s ; woolly lambs Ils 6d to 12s 6d; best shorn lambs 12s 6d to 14s ; shprn lambs 10s 6d to Ils 6d ; pull lambs 8s to 9s 6d; breeding ewes, 4, 6, and 8too'th 24s to 265, 4-year 255, 5-year 21s to 22s 6d, aged ,15s to 17s *, 2-tooth ewes 27s 6d to 30s. Pigs : Baconers, prime £2 8s to £2 12s, medium £2 5s to £2 7s ; porkers £2 3s to £2 6s ; slips 22s to. 25s weaners 8s to 11s 6d. Horses:’Draughts, heavy £2B to £35, medium £2B to £32 ; spring cart spits £l6 to £lB ; harness horses £8 to £lO ; hapks £5 to £B.