VALUES ADVANCE

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3299, 11 August 1943, Page 3

VALUES ADVANCE

BREEDING SOWS & STORE PIGS PRICES AT MORRINSVILLE SALE The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company Ltd., report that at their weekly stock sale held at Morrinsville on Friday, a small yarding of sheep comprising chiefly fat lambs with a few pens of breeding ewes. Competition throughout was keen and late rates were fully maintained. A full yarding of fat cows sold freely with values remaining firm. Boner cows were also in shorter supply and values were unchanged; A full yarding of all classes of store cattle, including the advertised entries from Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne districts came forward. Competition from a good attendance of buyers of young cattle was good, and late rates were fully maintained. A good line of good quality grown bullocks was not so keenly sought after, and did not sell as well as younger steers. In calf breeding cows sold up to late rates while empty station-bred cows met with a good enquiry. Yearling steers and heifers realised satisfactory prices.

There was a full yarding of dairy cattle comprising principally heifers. Good quality well-grown heifers close' to profit sold at recent firm rates, but small and poor cattle were not in demand.

A large yarding of all classes of pigs came forward with baconers and porkers remaining firm. Breeding sows and store pigs sold in advance of last week’s prices. ■Quotations: — Sheep.—Fat wethers, 30s; medium fat lambs, 24s 2d to 265; light, 20s lid to 23s 8d; best store lambs, 18s

to 18s 6d; ewe lambs, 18s 3d; wether lambs, 18s 2d; m.s. breeding ewes, 26s 6d; aged ewes, 16s to 19s.

Cattle. —Medium fat Jersey cows, £6 15s to £7; light fat Jersey cows and heifers, £5 to £6; boners, £3 6s to £4 10s; store cows, £2 to £3; 2-year empty Jersey heifers, £2 15s to £3' ss; for-ward-condition P.A. steers, £9 Ils to £lO 12s; 2-year P.Ai steers, £8 13s to £9 ss; 2-year P.A. steers, £6 to £7 2s; yearling P.A. steers, £4 12s 6d to £4 19s; forward condition Hereford steers, £7 5s to £9 7s; speyed Hereford cows, £5 4s to £6 7s 6d; P.A. cows in calf, £5 12s to £6 ss; lighter conditioned, £4 2s 6d to £4 18s; 2-year empty heifers, £4 17s 6d to £5 9s; empty station-bred cows, £7; yearlingheifers, £2 13s to £3 4s.

Dairies. —-Choice well-grown heif-

ers, £l2 to £l4 ss; good quality, £lO to £11; medium, £8 to £9; small, £5 to £6 10s.

Pigs.—Choppers, £3 5s to £3 10s; heavy baconers, £4 15s to £4 18s; heavy baconers, £4 8s to £4 12s; medium, £4 to £4 6s; light, £3 12s to £3 16s; buttermilk pigs and heavy porkers, £2 18s to £3 10s; medium porkers, £2 10s to £2 16s; light, £2 4s to £2 8s; large stores, £2 12s- to £2 17s: smaller, £2 4s to £2 10s; slips, 30s to 38s 6d; weaners, 20s to 28s 6d; sows to farrow, £5 5s to £7; sows with litters, £5 to £lO 10s; pedigree Tamworth boars, 6gns. to 13gns.