KEENLY SOUGHT

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32413, 29 March 1944, Page 3

KEENLY SOUGHT

boner cows in demand MORRINSVILLE SALE VALUES The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company Ltd., report that at their weekly stock sale held at Morrinsville on Friday a small yarding of fat sheep sold readily at recent improved rates. A smaller yarding of breeding ewes elicited steady bidding and prices were a shade .'better than those realised last sale. Lambs weie penned ih larger numbers and sold at prices on a par with recent sales. A good offering of cow and heifer beef was in demand and values remained firm. A full yarding of boner cows was keenly sought and high values were maintained. A medium yarding of fat pigs and a light entry of store and weaner pigs was penned, values for all classes remaining firm at last week s quotations. Quotations: — .Sheep.—Light fat wethers, 26s 9d; light fat hoggets, 21s 6d to 23s 6d; medium fat lambs, 23s 6d; lighOSs 9d; medium fat ewes’, 16s to 'lBs 9d; light fat ewes, 14s to 15s; cannel ewes, 7s to 8s 3d; w.f. ewe lambs, 15s 7d; w.f. wether lambs, 12s 6d to 14s; good -b.f. lambs, 14s to 14s. 6d; medium, 12s to 13s; small, 8s to 10s; 4 and 6-th. ewes, 23s 3d; 4 and 5-year eWes, 18s to 18s 3d; 5-year ewes, 16s 4d to 17s 6d. Cattle. —Heavy fat cows, £8 to £9 6s; medium, £6 15s to £7 12s 6d; light fat Jersey cows and heifers, £5 15s to £6 10s; heavy boner cows, £5 to £6 10s;, medium, £4 to £4 15s; store cows, £3 to £3 15s; medium Jersey heifer calves, £3 14s to £4 8s; small, £2 18s 'to £3 ss. Pigs.—-Choppers, £2 5s to £3 17s; prime heavy (baeoners, £4 Ils to £4 14s; heavy baeoners, £4 8s to £4 i-0s; medium, £4 2s to £4 6s; light, £3 12s to £4; buttermilk pigs and heavy porkers, £3 to £3 10s; medium porkers, £2 10s to £2 18s; light, £2 2s to- £2 8s; unfinished porkers, 34s to £2;large -stores, 26s 6d to 32s fid; smaller, 2'os to 24s 6d; slips,’ 12s to 16s 6d; weaners, 5s to 10s; Berkshire boars, £3 10s to £5 ss.