STOCK VALUES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 66, 9 June 1927, Page 2

STOCK VALUES

PRICES AT WESTFIELD EXPORTERS OPERATING A bigger percentage of prime steers and heifers were offered at Westfield yesterday than has been the case for a number of weeks and a good firm sale resulted. Competition was keen, and practically the l whole of the offering was sold under the hammer. Prime ox made up to £ll 10s. There was a short yarding of calves with a scarcity of good quality vealers which sold at firmer values. The market for fat sheep was irregular. Under 1,200 came forward and, though few extra choice lines were offered, the bulk of the yarding was well-finished. Wethers predominated. Top price of £ 1 9s was secured for a pen of four-tooth wethers from the Ruakura State Farm. The line was big-framed heavy-skinned sorts in prime condition, but not heavily fat. An indication of the irregularity of values was given, however, when a further pen of four-tooths from the same place, carrying little less weight, made only £1 5s 9d, while a pen of prime two-tooths from Ruakura made £1 6s 6d. A pen of prime leggy wethers rather light in the wool, sold on account of Air. Taylor, Onewera, made £1 Bs. Prime Downcross maiden ewes made £1 3s. Old ewes in good condition made to £1 2s 6d. Lighter-framed old ewes, in good killable condition and carrying a light slipe, made 17s 9d. Only a small offering of store sheep was submitted. Empty light-framed ill-assorted Great Barrier ewes made 13s 9d. Smaller ewes from the same place, exceptionally popr, made 7s 9d. Two. four and six-tooth and f.m. ewes in lamb made £1 3s 6d. Poor conditioned ewes from Kaipara in lamb to Romney rams made 16s 6d. Extremely poor big-framed ewes from the same district made to £ 1 0s 6d.

Exporters and big butchers operating on a yarding of under €OO lambs held the market firm at late quotations, though values tended to be irregular. A small pen of big-framed heavy-skinned prime lambs made £1 5s 9d. Second-grade lambs made higher values in comparison, and a large portion of the offering passed to exporters. These sorts made up to £ 1 2s 6d. Prime shorn lambs made to £l. Store lambs met with a good demand and stunted, ill-assorted, poorconditioned Great Barrier lambs sold for 13s. Worst quality culls made Bs. Rotorua lambs, which should do well on the low country offered on account of Mr. G. Wood, made to 16s. A short yarding of pigs met with a brisk sale and prices were decidedly firmer. PRICES UNDER THE HAMMER Prices under the hammer ranged as follow: Cattle. —Prime ox, £lO 7s 6d to £il 10s; medium prime, £9 10s to £lO ss; light prime, £8 to £9 7s 6d; small and unfinished, £6 10s to £7 17s 6d; heavy prime young cows and heifers, £8 to £9: prime, £7 to £7 17s 6d; medium, £5 12s 6d to £6 15s; light and just killable, £4 to £5 10s. Fat Sheep.—Prime wethers, £1 7s 6d to £1 9s; medium, £1 5s to £1 6s 6d: small and unfinished, £1 2s 6d to £1 4s; heavy prime ewes, £1 2s to £1 3s: medium old ewes, 18s to 19s 9d; light just killable, 16s to 17s 9d. Calves.—Runners made £2 14s to £4 6s; heavy vealers, £2 34s to £3 12s; medium, £2 3s to £2 12s; light, £1 15s to £2 2s, rough, 12s to £1 ss; fresh dropped, 4s to 16s. Pigs.—Choppers made £3 to £5; heavy baconers, £3 11s to £3 15s; medium baconers, £3 5s to £3 9s; light baconers, £2 19s to £3 3s; heavy porkers, £2 15s to £2 18s; medium porkers, £2 9s to £2 13s; light porkers, £2 3s to £2 7s. COUNTRY SALES The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Coy. report holding a sale at Papakura and two clearing sales, one at Puni and the other at Clevedon, during the week. The firm quotes:— Best dairy cows and heifers, close to profit, £lO to £l4 10s; other do., £7 10 to £9 15s; backward springers, £4 to £S; aged cows and inferior heifers, £2 to £3 17s 6d; bulls, £2 to £6 15s, according to weight; empty cows, £1 15s to £3 10s, according to condition; yearlings, to 18-months heifers, best £2 to £3 15s, others. 16s to £1 18s; do. steers, £2 10s to £3 15s; 2 to 23-year steers, £4 to £4 15s; 3 to 3i-year do., £5 to £5 15s; 4 to 43-year do., £6 to £6 12s 6d: grown steers in forward condition, £7 to £7 15s; bredeing ewes, 17s to £1 6s; store wethers,, £1 Is to £1 4s 4d. HAMILTON VALUES Good iualify beef was in shorter supply at this week’s Hamilton stock sale. Bidding was brisk, and prices were maintained at late quotations. A small yarding of store cattle met with a fair demand, and dairy cows close to profit met with a firm market. A good yarding of fat and store pigs was penned. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Co., Ltd., quote as follows: Prime heavy fat _ows, £6 12s to £G 3 7s; medium weights, £5 to £5 7s; lighter cows, £4 to £4 12s 6d; small veal calves, £1 to £1 6s; two-year-old steers, £4 ss; 16-iaonths-old steers, £2 10s; fleshy cows, £2 8s tc £2 17s; springing heifers, £7 03 to £8; dairy cows, close to profit, £7 35s to £11; fat wethers, £1 5s 9d to £1 6s; light wethers, £1 3s; fat ewes, 36s to ISs 3d; good wolly hoggets, 18s Id; small hoggets, 12s 4d. Choppers, £2 12s to £4 15s; heavy haconeis, £3 Cs to £3 13s. medium baconers, £2 ISs to £3 5s light baconers and leavy porkers, £? 8s to £2 15s; porkers to £2 6s; stores, £1 12s *o £1 17s; slips, £l 2s to £1 8s; weaners, j’Js to 16s.