QUALITY LACKING

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3276, 16 June 1943, Page 3

QUALITY LACKING

DAIRY COWS OFFERED AT SALE PRICES AT MORRINSVILLE The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report that at their weekly stock sale held at Morrinsville on Friday there was a good yarding of sheep comprising mostly store lambs with a few odd pens of breeding ewes. Competition was keen throughout and a total clearance was effected at advanced prices. A smaller yarding of fat cows met with a keen demand, values being very firm. Boner cows were again freely competed for and realised firm rates.

The advertised entry of stationbred cattle from East Coast and Hawke’s Bay districts came forward in good order and altogether over 1380 store cattle were penned. There was a large and representative bench of buyers from all parts of the district, and a total clearance was effected at very satisfactory prices, young cattle especially being keenly sought after, while values for all female cattle showed an improvement. There was a. full yarding of dairy cattle, including the advertised herd. Quality was lacking in the majority of the offering and values generally were on a par with recent sales. There was a large yarding of all classes of pigs. A feature of the entry was the large number of good quality baconers for which the demand was keen. Porkers were also sought after, while breeding sows and store and weaner pigs sold well. Quotations: —

Sheep.—Fat wethers, 27s 6d to 295; fat ewes, 17s 9d to 18s 9d; heavy fat lambs, 25s 4d to 275; medium fat lambs, 20s 3d to 21s 7d; store wether lambs, 15s to 17s sd; cull lambs, Ils 9d to 13s 6d; 2-th. ewes in lamb, 23s to 265; m.a. ewes, 20s. Cattle. —Medium fat cows, £6 5s to £7; light fat cows and heifers, £5 to £6; heavy boner cows, £4 10'S to £5 6s; medium, £3 5s to £4 ss; store cows, £2 10s to £3; 2-year empty heifers, £2 15s to £3 10s; Jersey heifer calves, £4 2s.

Store Cattle. —Grown P.A. steers in forward condition, £9 Is to £0 10s; 3-year P.A. steers, £8 9s to £8 16s; 2i-year Hereford steers, £7 2s to £7 15s; 18-months P.A. steers, £6 8s to £6 19s; 18-months Hereford steers, £5 6s to £5 10s; best weaner P.A. cross steers, £5 3s to £5 6s; weaner P.A. steers, £4 19s to £5 ss; smaller, £3 14s to £4 7s; Hereford weaner steers, £3 7s to £3 12s; 3S-year P.A.

heifers in forward condition, £7 8s; 3-year P.A. heifers, £5 10 s to £6 10s; 3-year Hereford heifers, £5 2s 6d to £6; 2-year Hereford heifers, £4 to £4 15s; speyed P.A.' and Hereford cows, £5 10s to £5 11s; P.A. cows, r.w.b., £5 to £5 3s; Hereford cows, £4 5s to £4. 15s; weaner Hereford heifers, £2 16s to £3.

Dairies. —Jersey, and Jersey-cross cows, £8 to £9 10s; Ayrshire-cross, July and August calvers, £7 15s to £8 15s; later calvers, £6 10s to £7 10s; aged cows, £5 to £6; small Jersey heifers close to profit,- £7 10s to £8 15s; others, £6 to £7.

Pigs,—Heavy choppers, £4 7s to £6 others, 30s to £2 13s; prime heavy baconers, £4 18s to £5; heavy baconers, £4 10s to £4 15s; medium, £4 to £4 6s; light, £3 12s to £3 16s; heavy porkers, £3 to £3 15s; medium, £2 12s to £2 16s; large stores, 34s to £2; smaller, 28s 6d to 32s 6d; slips, 20s to 25s 6d; weaners, 14s 6d to 17s 6d; Tamworth-cross sows due to farrow, £4 15s to £7 7s 6d; others, £2 15s to £3 7s 6d; service boars, 37s 6d to £3 2s 6d; sows with litters, £lO 10s to £l3 10s.