COMMERCIAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5367, 21 December 1928, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

WAIKATO MARKET REPORT.

The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., report:—

Beef.—The market firm for both ox and cow beef, beat prime ox making, 40s and prime cow and heifer 36s pejr 1001 b.

Fat Sheep.—Good yardings are com- 1 ing forward, with prices easier for both wether and ewe mutton. Export ■; ers are operating freely on lamb at 9%d per lb. ,

Store Shqep.—There is a good demand, for shorn wethers ; also a good inquiry for ewe's, and lambs. Store Cattle).—-All classes of stores are in demand: gro.wn anjd young, steers, good store cows, and yearling and two-year heifers are much sought after.

Pigs.—Big yardlngjs of both fats and. storqs continue to come prime baconersj and porkers, making equal to 4%d per lb. There is still good competition for all clades of stores.

Horses.—The market is quiet for all classes.

We quote: Bullocks, primes heavy £l4 10s to £lO, medium £l2 10s to £l3 15s; cows, prime heavy £9 10s to £lO 10's, medium £7 10s to £8 10s, unfinished £5 15s to £7; (heifers, prime £9 10S to £lO ; good s f tore epwq £6 to £6 10s ; cull co.ws £2 10s to £3 10s ; steers, forward 4-year £lO to £lO 10s, 4-year stores £9 to £9 10s, stores £8 10s to £8 15s, 2-year steers £7 10s ‘to £B, good yearling steers £6 10s to £7 10s ; choice Jersey and! Jersey-cross 15-months heifers £6 10s to £8; go,od 2-year inncalf Jersey hejifers £ll 10s to £l5. Wethers, prime heavy shorn 31s to 335, medium 29s to 30s; ewes, prime heavy 21s to 22s Cd, medium 18® to 19s; prime fat lambs 28sj to 30s ; prime fat hoggets 33s so 35s ; wethejrs, 2-tooth shorn 24s 6d to 26s 6d, 4-tooth 27s 6d to 28s 6d ; breeding ewes and lambs, sound mouth 38s to £2 ss, aged 28s to. 355, 2-tOoth 35s to £2l hoggets, best woolly store 28s to 30s, medium 235. to 265, small 18s to 22s- Pigs : Baeoners, prime £2 15s to £3 3s, medium £2 10s to £2 12s ; best pbrkeris £2 8s to £2 TOs; slips 25s to 27s 6d j weaners' 14s .to 21s ; good scores 30s to 355. Horsep: Heavy draughts £2B to £34', medium £25 to £32; spring cart sorts £l6 to. £18; hacks and harness horses £5 to £lO. HAMILTON STOCK SALE. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auction-; eering Co., Ltd., reports having held the last sale of the year in the Frankton yards on Tuesday and there; was a good entry of fat cattle and sheep. Competition was keen for light prime ox beef, all classes selling well up to late quotations. Fat Sheep sold at the previous week’s quotations, and all classes of fat and store pigs S)old well up to late rates. Heavy fat steers £l3 to £l4 19s. lighter. £l2 10s to £l3; nine extra cjhoice light prime steers, on account of Mr H; S. Ha.wkins, averaged £l2 4s: a pen of heavy steers, on account of •Mr W. Willoughby Kaipaki, averaged £l4 14s; heavy fat cows £9 Ils to £lO 16s, lighter £8 10s to £lO, fresh- conditioned £6 Is to £7; store cows £s> 10s.

Sheep : Fat, wethers, 30s to 31s 3d, forward store wethers 27s 9d to 28s lOd; fat- ewes 23s 6d; heavy fat idmbs 29s to 30s 9d, lighter 27. s sd. Yearling, Jersey heifers £4 2s 6d to £4 7s 6d, yearling steers £4 2s 6d, bulls £5 10s;; springing heifers clo's,e to profit £7 15s to £8 15s, backward £6 l'ss to £7 10s.

Pigs: Heavy baeoners -£2 17s to £3 3s, medium £2 Ils to £2 15s; heavy porkers £2 5s to £2 9s, medium £2 to £2 4s; slips 22s to 265, wteaners Bs, to 17s. Bobby c.alves 10s to 14s.