COUNTRY STOCK SALES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 156, 22 September 1927, Page 2

COUNTRY STOCK SALES

TAUMARUNUI VALUES (From Our Own Correspondent) TAUMARUNUI, Wednesday. Weather conditions militated against the Taumaninui stock sale held on Tuesday, and the yarding was small compared with recent offerings. Cattle were easier in price, but sheep sold normally. Cattle.—Fat bullocks to £9; fat cows to £6; plainer sorts. £4 15s to £5; light speyed heifers, £4 5s to £4 12s €d; forward conditioned bullocks, £7 155.; store bullocks, £5 to £5 ss; rough bred bullocks, £4 to £4 15s; cows at late rates. Sheep. —Fat wethers to 25s 3d; fat ewes to 26s 3d; hoggets, 17s 3d. Pigs. —Weaners, 17s to 21s; porker 3, 27s to 32s 6<l. MARKETS FIRM The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report holding sales during the past week at Westfield, Papakura, Kaukapakapa and Waiuku. The firm also held two clearing sales. A steady demand exists for all classes cf stock and values are firm. The Franklin Jersey Breeders* annus.l sale, held at Pukekohe on Tuesday, in. conjunction ’with Alfred Buckiand ani Sons, was a most successful one. The firm quotes: Two-year reg. bulls. 15gns to 50gns; yelling bulls, Bgns to 40gns; older bulls, ihgns to 18gns; yearling reg. heifers, 23gns to 27gns. Other Clares of Cattle.—Best dairy cows and heirers, £lO to £l4 15s; other dairy cows and heifers, £6 to £9 15s; aged cows and inferior heifers, £2 10s to £5 10s; grade bulls, 4gns to 10gn.s; yearling heifers, best Jersey, £4 10s to £6 10s; other Jersey yearling heifers, £3 to £4 7s 6cF other breeds, £1 10s to £3 15s; empty cows and heifers, £2 10s to £4 10s; yearling to 18-months steers, £L» os to £4 ss: two to 2\ -year steers, £4 10s to £5 7s 6d; three to 31-year steers, £5 10s to £6 7s 6d; four to 4£-year steers, £6 10s to forward condition, £7 10s to £8 10s; k beef at fuUy Westfield quotations.