Stock Sales.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 272, 24 January 1929, Page 8

Stock Sales.

MATAMATA. Dalgety and Company conducted the weekly stock sale at Matamata on Wednesday. The best beef cattle brought over £9, store cows £5 to £6, bulls £lO ss, dairy cows and calves £7 14s. Pigs : Baconers up to £3, light porkers £2, slips 15s to 255.

MORRINSVILLE. There was a large yarding of cat-' tie and an extra-heavy entry of pigs at Dalgety and Company’s sale at Morrinsville on Thursday. Competition was keen throughout. Store and small lambs also met with spirited bidding. Prices were:— Beef.—Fat cows £7 15s to £8 6s ; store cows £5 11s to £6 Is ; Shorthorn heifers, r.w.b., £5 6s ; small Jersey-cross heifers £5 to £5 14s ; Friesian heifers £5 ; yearling Shorthorn steers £4 5s ; cows and calves £7 4s ; bulls £4 15s to £7 5s ; threeyear Jersey steers £7 3s. Sheep.—Store lambs 20s 6d, small lambs 15s lid. Pigs.—Stores £1 12s to £1 15s, slips £1 2s to £1 Bs, weaners 13s to 19s 6d. HAMILTON. At the Farmers' Auctioneering Co.’s Frankton sale on Tuesday there was a fair entry of fat cattle, and prices were again firm, values being in advance of last week. There was a small entry of fat sheep, with prices on a par with the previous sales. A full yarding of store sheep met with strong competition, the whole of the entry changing hands under the hammer. There was a heavy yarding of fat and ltore pigs, with prices on the improve. Prime medium weight steers, £l4 8s; light prime steers, £l2 7s 6d; prime heavy fat cows, £lO 15s to £11; fat cows, £9 7s 6d to £9 19s, light and unfinished £6 15s to £7 8s; vealers, £2 12s to £3 2s.

Sheep.—Fat wethers, 325; light fat wethers, 28s 6d; prime fat lambs, 30s; a line of 146 woolly ewe lambs 25s lOd, 246 well grown shorn ewe lambs 225, 173 big woolly wether lambs 24s Id, 220 shorn wether lambs 20s 2d to 20s lOd, 206 grown mixed sex shorn lambs 20s 2d, 50 mixed sex small woolly lambs 17s 5d to 18s 4d; good rape lambs, 22s to 24s 6d; cull shorn lambs, 14s 2d to 14s 6d; small woolly lambs, 15s Id; 377 big frame 4-tooth to 4-year breeding ewes, on account of Mr. Gerald Bull, realised 31s 3d; 1001 5-year ewes from the same vendor, 27s 3d.

Pigs.—Prime baconers, £3 2s to £3 7s; heavy baconers, £2 18s to £3 Is; light baconers, £2 12s to £2 17s 6d; heavv porkers, £2 6s to £2 10s; light porkers, £2 2s to £2 ss; stores, £1 13s 6d to £1 17s; slips, 24s 6d to 325; weaners, 9s to 245.