STOCK SALES.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 161, 2 December 1926, Page 8

STOCK SALES.

MATAMATA. There was a very g-ood all-round yarding of cattle at Dalgety and Co.’s Matamata stock sale on Wednesday. Fat cows, £6 10s to £7 10s, others £4 to £6; store cows, 30s to £3; bullocks, £7 7s 6d; 2-year steers, £4. Dairy heifers, r.w.b., £2 to £3 10s. Sheep: Fat ewes 15s. Pigs sold at late rates. MORRINSVILLE. There was a: fairly large yarding at the Farmers’ Auctioneering Co.’s stock sale "at'"M'drrinsville oh Friday, when there was a noticeable drop in the values of most classes of stock. The beef pens were fairly well filled, ibut here there was a drop in values to the extent of about 4s to 5s per lOOlbr Prime ox beef made from 28s to 295. The top prices were £l2 15s and £l3 10s for two pens of prime fat bullocks sold on behalf of Kereone Estate. The prices offered for fat cows showed a similar decrease.

The demand for young stock also showed a great decline. The demand for dairy cattle is never keen at this time of the year, and the best prices offered last Friday was £ll 5s for a good cow. The pig market was also very dull, the prices being considerably below those- ■'offered' a short time ago. The prices are:—

Beef: Prime fat bullocks £l2 15s to £l3 10s, medium £9 2s 6d to £lO ss; heavy fat cows £9 to £9 2s Bd, fat cows £5 to £6, forward conditioned £4 2s 6d to £4 17s, fresh-conditioned £3 to £3 9s, good empty stores £2 16s to £3 13s, other stores £1 14s to £2 4s, roxigh stores and boners £1 7s 6d to £1 10s; 4-year store bullocks £7. Young stocks: 15-months good quality Shorthorn steers £3 7s, heifers £3 Is; empty 2-year heifers £2 10s to £3 15s; Jersey and Jerseycross heifers £2 10s to £4 ss, mixed sorts £1 17s to £2 2s 6d.

Dairy Cattle: Heifers .close to profit £7 to £9 ss, heifers (calved) £6 to £lO ss, backward £3 to £3 ss; best cows £8 5s to £ll ss, others £6 15s.

Bulls: For service £5 10s to £6, potters £3 15s to £4 4s.

Sheep: Fat shorn wethers 235; fat ewes 16s 3d to 17s 6d; prime fat lambs 265.

Pigs: Medium baconers £3 ss; heavy porkers £2 13s to £2 19s; good stores...£l. 14s. to. £2. ss; slips 275...t0 325; best weaners 20s to 255; others 12s to 18s. HAMILTON. At the Farmers’ Auctioneering Company’s Frankton Sale on Tuesday there was a full yarding of beef, and prices were easier. Light fat steers £9 10s to £lO, small and unfinished £7 ,5s to £9 Is, prime heavy cows £9 4s, fat cows £6 17s 6d to £7 7s 6d, medium fat. cows £5 10s to £6 6s, light cows and heifers £4 5s to £5 7s 6d, rough cows £3 7s 6d to £3 15s, forward-conditioned cows £3 19s to £4 7s, three-year steers to £5 17s, two-year to three-year Polled Angus steers £5 10s, yearling heifers £J2 2s to £3. A fair entry of fat and store sheep was submitted and values were up to the standard of previous markets. Shorn fat wethers 265, medium shorn fat ewes -l&s 6d to 17s 6d, fat woolly hoggets '23s 3d, fat lambs 25s to 26s 3d, forward shonj hoggets 17s Id, small to medium two-tooth and fourtooth store shorn wethers 17s 6d to 18s 2d, culls 14s 3d to los 4d. An extra heavy yarding of fat and store pigs were penned and sold at late rates. Heavy baconers £3 15s to £4 3s, light to medium baconers £3 5s to £3 12s 6d, heavy porkers £2 16s to £3 Is, light porkers £2 7s to £2 12s, slips 33s to 365, best weaners 25s to 30s, small weaners 14s to 18s.

WAIKATO MARKET REPORT. The Farmers’ Auctioneering Company reports:— Beef.—Plenty of both prime ox and

cow beef is offering in the yards and paddocks, the supply exceeding the demand, with prices considerably easier, prime ox being equal to 295. and cow and heifer 25s per 1001 b. Fat Sheep.—Although prices are a little easier the market is firm for prime sheep, but there is likely to be a drop, especially for ewes, as export, prices for this class are very low. Store Sheep.—There is a good inquiry for wethers, hoggets and ewes and lambs out of the wool, but prices are a lot lower than this time last season. Store Cattle.—Big yardings have been coming forward, and although feed is plentiful there has been a decline in prices, due no doubt to the drop in fat cattle. Pigs.—The market continues firm for baconers and porkers at about 6d per pound, the bacon companies operating at this figure, stores still meeting with good competition at high prices. ... Horses.—A few useful farm sorts are wanted, with little inquiry for heavy draughts and light horses. We quote:— Bullocks, prime extra heavy £ll 10s to £l3, medium £9 Is to £lO ; cows, prime £7 to £S, medium £6 to £6 10s, unfinished £4 5s to £4 15s ; heifers, prime £8 to £9 ; steers, 4year forward £7 to £7 ss, 3-year stores £5 10s to £6, 2-year good £4 5s to £5 ; good yeailir.g steers £3 to £3 10s ; good yearling heifers (Jersey) £4 10s to £5 10s ; good fresh empty cows £3 10s to £3 los ; aged store cows £1 10s to £2 ; choice in-calf dairy heifers (best Jerseycross) £lO to/ £lO 10s ; 21-year Jersey-cross springing heifers £9 10s to £lO ; 2i-year Shorthorn dairy heifers £8 Is to £9 10s ; good dairy herds (tested) £lO 10s to £l3 ; others £7 to £8 10s. Sheep : Wethers, prime woolly heavy 33s to 345, prime woolly medium 27s to 295, prime shorn heavy 24s to 265, prime shorn medium 21s to 22s 6d ; ewes, prime woolly heavy 22s 6d to 245, prime woolly light 20s to 21s, prime shorn 17s to 20s ; store wethers, 4-tooth shorn 21s to 22s 6d, 2-tootH l"8s to 19s ; ewes, 4-tooth, 6-tooth and 8tooth with lambs 27s 6d to 335, 5year with lambs 26s to 28s, aged with lambs 17s to 18s ; hoggets, fat 24s to 255, good store woolly 17s 6d to 18s 6d, small woolly 11s 6d to 12s, shorn good 15s to 16s. Pigs : Baconers, prime £3 12s 6d to £3 16s, medium £3 5s to £3 10s ; porkers £2 15s to £2 18s ; slips 38s to £2 ; weaners 17s to 245. Horses : Heavy draughts £35 to £45, medium £2B to £32 ; spring cart sorts £l6 to £lB ; harness horses £8 to £lO, hacks £5 to £B.