WAIKATO STOCK VALUES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 233, 21 December 1927, Page 12

WAIKATO STOCK VALUES

DEMAND FOR BEEF (Special to THE SUN.) HAMILTON, Tuesday. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report having held their usual weekly stock sale at Frankton saleyards on Tuesday, 20th inst., as under: — There was an average yarding of beef, and a keen demand for all good quality at late market rates. We sold light unfinished steers at £B, prime fat heifers from £6 13s to £7 13s, prime cows to £7 10s, light fat cows £4 15s to £5 17s 6d, vealers to £2 10s.

There was a very fair yarding of store cattle. We sold 2i-year-old Shorthorn steers at £5 10s, a pen of mixed two-year-olds at £4 6s, a pen of low-con-ditioned two-year-old steers, Holstein and Shorthorn, £4; pen of low-conditioned Jersey steers, £3; a pen of 18-months-old hard-conditioned steers, £3 4s. Store cows made up to £4; light 2i-year heifers, 30s to £2 6s; cows and calves, £5 to £5 10s; dairy heifers, close to calving and just calved, from £5 5s to £S There was a small yarding of fat sheep, and the quality was hardly up to the usual standard. Fourteen prime young ewes made 21s 6d; 27 four-tooth wethers, 235; 29 shorn lambs, 16s 9d; woolly lambs (light), 23s 6d. A line of 79 two-tooth wethers, store condition, made 21s 3d. There was a small yarding of all classes of pigs, which sold at late rates. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., report holding the weekly stock market at the Frankton yards today. There was a good yarding of beef, a small yarding of fat sheep and a medium yarding of fat and store pigs. Beef was firm, and prices higher than last week. Prices ranged as follows: Beef. —Heavy fat steers, £ll 13s; light, £9 8s to £lO 10s; heavy fat cows, £6 16s to £7 18s;-prime fat heifers, £7 10s to £7 15s; light fat cows, £5 4s to £6. Vealers: Good, £2 8s to £2 10s; others, 25s to 375. Store cows, £3 10s. Sheep. —Fat ewes and wethers, 255; prime heavy fat lambs, 27s to 28s; light, 23s 9d; forward four-tooth wethers, 23s 9d; two-tooth wethers, 22s 3d; four-year ewes, 23s 6d. Pigs. —Light baconers, £2 3s to £2 6s; heavy porkers, £2 2s to £2 ss; light, 35s to £2; slips, 24s to 28s; best weaners, 15s to 18s; others, 10s to 13s.