STOCK SALES.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 126, 1 April 1926, Page 8

STOCK SALES.

r MATAMATA. ’ The Farmers’ Auctioneering Co. J held its usual sale at Matamata last week. Fat cows brought £4 10s 1 to £7 10s, fresh-conditioned cows £2 1 16s to £3 19s, store cows £1 to 30s, ! bulls £2 10s to £4 10s. Sheep.—Store lambs 8s to 13s 3d. Pig-s.—Slips 22s to 265, weaners Ss J to 12s. I MORRINSVILLE. There was a fairly large yarding 1 of cattle at Dalgety and Co.’s stock 1 sale at Morrinsville on Thursday, but the bidding, apparently affected by the dry spell, was listless. The prices are: — 'Beef: Fat cows £3 10s to £4 10s; fat heifers £4 12s 6d to £5 2s 6d; ’ store cows £2 to £3 ss; in-calf heifers £3 12s 6d to £5 ss; potting- bulls, £1 ‘ to £3 10s. Young stock: Heifer calves 37s 6d, steer calves 27s 6d. Dairy cattle: Cows £5 2s 6d. Sheep: Store lambs 10s to 13s, Pigs: Weaners 10s to 28s. HAMILTON. At the Farmers’ Auctioneering Co.’s weekly stock sale at Frankton . last week there was a fair entry of steer and cow' beef, only a limited number of well-finished cattle being penned, and competition was anything but brisk. Prices : Medium-weight fat steers sold to £lO 9s, lighter £8 12s to £9 2s 6d, unfinished £6 10s to £8 ss, prime cows £7 7s 6d to £8 ss, medium well-finished £6 to £6 14s, lighter £5 to £5 16s, young and light cows £4 to £4 16s, plain and ordinary £3 to £3 15s, good vealers £3 3s, small 30s to 355, fresh-conditioned cows £2 to £2 6s, culls 15s to £l, two-year incalf medium-quality Jersey heifers £4, same-age Holstein-Shorthom cross £3 Is. A small yarding of sheep was submitted and prices were easier for all classes, to those, reached at the previous sale. Prime woolly lambs 26s 6d, good 24s 9d, good mixed-sex woolly store lambs 14s 6d, medium 10s, small 7s. An extra-heavy yarding- of pigs came forward (principally fats) and values did not reach tire standard of the previous week, bacon company buyers not being keen and operating at reduced rates. All classes ! of stores were again very dull of sale. Good-quality heavy baconers £4 to £4 I 10s, heavy £3 15s to £3 18s, medium £3 10s to £3 13s, good porkers to light j baconers £3 3s to £3 9s, medium pork- j ers £2 10s to £2 15s, light porkers £2 j to £2 Bs, unfinished porkers 32s to j 38s, slips 18s to 225, best weaners 12s j to 15s, young and small 5s to 10s. 1 WEEKLY PRICES OF FAT STOCK FOR EXPORT. The New Zealand Meat Producers’ j Board advises that the followingprices are being offered March 20, I 1926: I Auckland: Prime woolly lambs, 361 b and under, Bid; 371 b to 421 b, 7-ld; second quality lambs 7id. Poverty Bay: Prime Woolly lambs, 361 b and under, Sd; 371 b-to 421 b, 7d; second quality lambs, 63d. Hawke’s Bay: Wethers, 561 b and under, s§d; 571 b to 641 b, 4Sd; 651 b to 721 b, 4id; second quality wethers, 41a; ewes, 561 b and under, 33d; 571 b to 641 b, 3id; prime woolly lambs, 36it> and under, 83d; 371 b to 421 b, 7ld; 431 b ! and over, 63d; second quality lambs, 7 id. Wellington; Wethers, 561 b and under, 5Sd; 571 b to 641 b, 7!d; 651 b to 721 b, 41d; ewes, 561 b and under, 33d; 571 b to 641 b, 3rd; prime woolly lambs, 361 b and under, 83d; 371 b to 421 b, 73d; 431 b and over, 7d. .Canterbury: Wethers, 561 b and under, 6id; 571 b to 641 b, Sid; ewes, 1 under 481 b, 4id; 481 b to 641 b, 4d; prime woolly lambs, 361 b and under, lOd; 371 b to 421 b, 83d; 431 b and over, 73d; quality lambs, 361 b and under® 9d; over 361 b, 73d. South Otag-o: Prime woolly lambs, 361 b and under, 9d; 371 b to 421 b, 7id; i 431 b to 501 b, 7d. I Southland: Prime woolly lambs, 1 361 b and under, 83d; 371 b to 421 b, 7.1 d; 431 b to 501 b, 63d. THE LONDON MARKET. 1 « The New Zealand Meat Producers' Board has received the following- ' cable from its London office, dated March 26, 1926, advising Smithfield > delivered prices at that date as fol- 1 lows:— j 1 N.Z. Wethers and Maidens.— Can- ’ tei-bury quality, selected brands (new £ season’s), 561 b and under, 63d; 571 b to 641 b, 6id; 651 bto 721 b, 6id. Other e brands, 561 b and under, 65d;* 571 b to 641 b, 6id; 651 b to 721 b, 5Sd. j New Zealand Ewes' (new season’s): 641 b and under, ‘ N.Z. Lamb. Canterbury quality (new season’s), 36'ib and under, 10 Id; . 371 b .to 421 b, lOid; 431 b .to 501 b, 9id; j { seconds, 91d. Selected brands (new j "

season’s), 361 b and under, lOid; 371 b to 421 b, lOd. Other brands, first quality (new season’s), 42!b and under, 93d; seconds, BSd. N.Z. Beef.—Ox fores, Sid; ox hinds, 4-d; cow fores, 21d; cow hinds, 31d. Argentine Chilled Beef.—Ox fores,, Sal; ox hinds, 64d. Lamb: Market is steady, consumption satisfactory. Mutton: Market is weaker owing to slow demand.