STOCK SALES.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 150, 16 September 1926, Page 8

STOCK SALES.

MATAMATA. The Farmers’ Auctioneering QK held their usual stock sale at Matamata on Wednesday, the followingprices ruling:— Beef Cattle. Light Fat cows, £5 12s 6d to £6 15s; fresh-conditioned cows, £4 os to £4 15s; better sorts up to £6 17s; stores, £2 2s to £2 13s; empty 18-months heifers to £4 7s 6d; empty yearlings, £4 10s; good yearling steers, £4 4s. Dairy Cattle.—Best heifers, £ll 5s to £l2 10s; others, £5 10s to £7 15s; cows, £7 10s to £S 15s; backward sorts, £3 to £6 10s. Pigs.—Weaners (good), 25s to 28s, others 12s to 21s; slips, 335; stores. 525. MORRINSVILLE. Dalgety and Co.’s Morrinsville stock: sale on Thursday attracted a largeryarding- and a larger attendance of' buyers than has been the case for _ some time. Beef cattle sold fairly, well, but the demand for dairy ers was a little less keen than during:, the past month or so. The prices are:— Beef: Fat cows £6 to £8 7s stores £1 10s to £3 15s. Young Stock—Yearling Jersey crossheifers £2 to £2 Gs, and one lot at £4 2s. Dairy Cattle.—Cows £9 10s to £ll ss, heifers £5 10s to £lO 15s. Pigs.—Porkers £2 12s to £2 18s, large stores £1 18s to £2 4s; weaners 31s to 375; pedigree weaner boars, 2gns to 3gns; pedigree sows, ligns to 2gns. HAMILTON. ,X At the Farmers’ Auctioneering Company’s stock sale in the Frankton yards on Tuesday there was a small entry of beef and a good entry of fat and store sheep. A fair number of fat pigs came forward and stores w©re penned in the usual large numbers. Beef was much firmer than the previous week, prime bullocks selling to £ls, medium prime £l3 12s 6d to £l3 14s, fat cows £ll to £ll 10s. The fat sheep market was anything but brisk and in some cases there was a drop in values from the previous week of from 3s to 4s a head. Shorn fat wethers 265, light shorn 225, ewes and wethers mixed sold to 335," prime woolly hoggets 28s, medium wethers in wool 265, medium-weight fat ewes 255, light 21s 6d, forwardconditioned b.f. hoggets 18s, culls 7s 6d, two-tooth and four-tooth store wethers 24s Id, small 20s 9d, cull# J 15s 3d, cull ewes in lamb 17s 6d. Store Cattle. Fresh - conditioned cows £4 7si 6d to £4 10s, good-framed stores £3 8s to £4 Is, culls 20s to 355, in-calf backward heifers £4 5s to £5, empty heifers £3 to £3 10s. J Pigs.—Fats sold firm at late rates, ’ while stores in most cases sold as well as the previous week, with the exception of a few lots which towards.■Gi the end of the sale were cheaper. Heavy baconers £4 16s to £4 17s, medium prime £4 10s to £4 12s, medium £3 15s to £4 2s, good porkers and light baconers £3 8s to £3 12s, medium porkers £3 to £3 ss, light porkers £2 10s to £2 18s, choppers £3 10s to £3 16s, store porkers 35s to £2 2s, slips 27s to 335, best weaners £1 to 255, inferior 9s to 15s, Tam-worth-cross sows in pig £6 2s 6d, others £3 7s 6d to £6 Is. THE LONDON MARKET. The New Zealand Meat Producers Boatd has received the following cable from its London office, dated 10th September, 1926, advising Smithfield delivered prices at that date as follow: N.Z. Wethers and Maidens.—Canterbury quality, selected brands, 561 b and under 6id, 571 b to 641 b 6Sd, 6518 to 721 b 53d ; other brands, 561 b and under 6d, 571 b to 641 b 58d, 651 b to 721 b sid. N.Z. Ewes.—64lb and under 4Jd. N.Z. Lambs.—Canterbury quality, 1 361 b and under 9§d, 371 bto 421 b 8!d, * 431 b to 501 b Slid, seconds Sid ; selected brands, 361 b and under Sid, 371 b to 421 b Sid ; other brands, first quality, 421 b and under Bid, seconds Bld. N.Z. Beef. —Ox fores 33d, ox: hinds sid. Argentine Chilled Beef.—Ox fores 3id, ox hinds 53d. Frozen Pork. —SOlb to 1201 b lid,. j 1201 b to 1801 b 9 id. Lamb.—Market fair, with firm demand. Mutton.—Fair demand for wethers, demand remains dull for ewes.