For Breeder and Dealer

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 74, 18 June 1927, Page 24

For Breeder and Dealer

Prices for Mediocre Manawatu Herds: —Manawatu values for mediocre herds can be gained from the following quotations of prices realised at clearing sales held during the past week. Quotations: Late cal vers and three-quarter cows, £3 10s, £4 10s, £4 3 ss, £5 ss, £6, £6 15s; August calvers, £7, £7 10s to £8 10s; early calvers, £lO, £lO ss, £ll ss, £l2 5s to £l2 15s; store cows, £1 5s to £2 15s. The complete herd averaged £8 Is. The cows were in good condition.

Keen Competition for Feilding Fat Pens: —Few good store sheep or cattle are offering at the Feilding yards at this time of the year. Ewes in lamb to Southdown rams are in greatest demand. Keen Competition is registered in the fat pens. Fat ewes made 16s to 19s 9d. Fat wethers, 25s 9d to 25s lOd; fat lambs, 19s to 20s 9d; twotooth ewes in lamb to S.D. rams, 23s 8d; four and five-year ewes in lamb to S.D. rams, 19s 6d to 21s Bdj wether lambs, 14s 4d; mixed lambs. 14s 3d to 16s 2d; cull lambs, 8s Id; fat bullocks £9 14s to £9 15s; forward cows, £2 5s to £2 15s; store cows, 25s to 355; weaner Jersey heifers, £3 7s 6d; mixed weaner heifers, 255; springing heifers, £5; springing cows, £5 11s to £8 15s; bulls, £3 to £4 7s 6d.

Taranaki Dairy Cattle Values: Clearing sales are now being held in all parts of Taranaki, tested and grade herds bringing firm values. One herd of 62 cows, sold on account of W. Tait, Auroa, averaged £8 10s per head. Two-year grade Jersey heifers made to £lO 10s, weaner Jersey heifers to £3 13s, while pedigree Ayrshire cows sold to £l3 13s. A herd of 46 cows offered on account of D. Barlow, of the same district averaged £0 10s, cows selling up to £ls 10s.

Waikato Graziers Want Hoggets: Hoggets are in demand in the Waikato and few first-class lines are offering. At Frankton prime fat lambs made to 24s 6d; second grade lambs 20s to 21s; best woolly hoggets 16s to 17s; good woolly store hoggets 13s 6d to 14s; small woolly store hoggets 9s to 10s; best shorn hoggets 14s 6d to 15s 6d; good store shorn hoggets 13s to 14s; inferior weedy sorts made from 9s. I Westfield Market. —-Well-finished stock always commands keen competition. This week extra prime beef made to £l3 ss; prime wethers to £1 11s; lambs to £1 8s 6d; ewes to £1 3s 6d; vealers to £4 12s; baconers to £3 18s, and porkers to £3. Milking Cows; Wanted. —A most successful clearing sale was conducted by the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Co. on account of William Holmes, Ramarama, during the week. There was a very large attendance, top price for grade Jersey cows being £2O, and the whole herd of cows and heifers, 63 in all, averaged £l2 19s. Cows close to profit are keenly sought after by milkmen close to the city, the cold snap having cut down supplies.

Addington Values. —Store sheep: Prices at Addington this week ranged as follow —Crossbred ewe lambs, 19s lid to 22s 9d; inferior crossbred ewe lambs, 14s; forward three-quarter-bred Tvether lambs, 14s 5d to 15s 9d; forward crossbred lambs to 17s; four and six-toothed crossbred ewes. 20s to 255; sound-mouthed halfbred ewes, 255; failing-mouthed crossbred ewes, 12s to 18s; aged halfbred ewes, 6s lOd to 7s 3d forward four, six and eighttoothed half-bred wethers, 22s lOd to 255; sound-mouthed low-conditioned wethers, 15s 9d to 17s 4d; six and eight-toothed halfbred wethers, 19s; four-toothed crossbred wethers, 21s Bd. Fat iambs made: Extra prime, 30s to 31s 7d; prime, 27s 6d to 29s 6d; medium, 24s to 275; light, 21s to 23s 6d; store, 18s to 20s 6d.

Small Entries at Addington. —Except in the fat cattle section, the entry of fat stock was not at all heavy at Addington this week, and the store sheep fell away to about the average of the mid-winter sales. The demand for them was not at all brisk, and the ordinary classes were hard to sell, though there was a disposition on the part of sellers to meet the market. Fat lambs sold well, though the market was of necessity a small one, owing to the advance of the season. Fat cattle met with a fair demand when good-class pens were offered, but the generality was of an inferior class. Only a slight increase in the supply of mutton was noticeable, and the offerings of late have not been at all heavy. Store Sheep Wanted in the Waikato.— The mild winter and fair growth of grass has caused a keen demand for store sheep

and values are firm. Quotations from Frankton are:—Store wethers, four-tooth, 22s to 23s two-tooth, 20s 6d to 21s; breeding ewes, four, six and eight-tooth, 25s to 27s 6d, five-years 20s to 22s 6d, aged 15s to 17s, two-tooth 24s to 265, fourtooth 26s to 28s.

Pedigree Cattle Bring Lower Prices. — Pedigree dairy cattle sales have been held in various parts of the Waikato during the past month, and although prices are not as high as last year, sales have been every bit as good as those held in other parts of the North Island. Two-year Jersey and Jersey-cross heifers are in best demand.

Butchers and Dealers Wage War.— Opunake residents are obtaining the benefit of a meat war which is in progress in the seaside town, states an exchange. It is understood that as the result of a dispute between a skin-buyer and the local butchers, the former has engaged an Eltham auctioneer to hold sales of beef and mutton and quit the joints regardless of price. The result is stated to be highly satisfactory to the purchasers, though the vendor maintains a stolid silence as to the venture from a financial point of view.

Taranaki Land Brings Lower Prices. — An indication of the re adjustment taking place in Taranaki land values can be taken from the fact that a 50-acre farm in the Normandy district which was sold during the boom for £175 an acre, recently changed hands for £SO an acre.