FRANKTON STOCK SALE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 373, 6 June 1928, Page 14

FRANKTON STOCK SALE

SHEEP MARKET FIRM {Special to THE SUN) HAMILTON, Tuesday. Auctioneering firms report on the Hamilton stock sale held in the Frankton saleyards yesterday as follows: The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Ltd.: At our Frankton sale there was a small yarding of beef, a good entry of fat sheep, fat and store pigs, and a small entry of store cattle and sheep. Most of the beef was of medium quality. Prices were on a par with last week. Fat sheep were again firm at advanced prices. Baconers were slightly easier, with improved prices for stores and porkers. Prime heavy cows made £9 Us; fat heifers, £8 4s; fat cows. £7 11s: plain. £6 2s 6d to £6 17s 6d: forward cows, £5 Is to £5 Ss; prime runners, £5 to £s’lts: three-year steers, £6 12s: three-year mixed colours, £5 15s; two-year red polled, in calf, heifers, £7 12s: Jersey heifer calves, £8: springing heifers, £lO 10s; dairy cows, £5 to £9; extra prime wethers, 41s; fat wethers, 37s lOd; small wethers, 34s 6d; ext ra prime fat ewes, 33s 6d; prime fat hoggets, •'3os 2d: store hoggets, 19s 6d; best baconers, £4 5s to £4 Us; medium, £3 12s to £3 17s; heavy porkers, £2 6s to £2 12s; light porkers, 28s to 365; slips, 15s to 17s 6d; weaners, 7s to 12s. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report:

There was a very small yarding of beef and prices were firmer than previous week. All prime young cows and heifers made good prices at equal to the best prices this winter. There were no fat bullocks or steers yarded. We sold heavy fat cows at up to £9 12s 6d; ordinary, £6 15s to £7 15s; inferior, £5 10s to £6 10s; vealers, £3 Bs. There was a fair yarding of store cattle, which sold under good competition at late rates. We sold h pen of good Shorthorn four-year-old bullocks at £8: two-year-old mixed steers, from £5 9s to £5 16s; young store cows, to £4 ss; mixed sex Weaners (Hereford), £3 12s 6d. There was a moderate yarding of sheep. For extra quality prime sheep prices were higher. Good average fat wethers made 37s to 38s 6d: average fat ewes to 28s lOd; light ewes, 23s to 255: woolly lambs, 295; store empty ewes made There was a medium yarding of pigs. Baconers, £3 to £3 15s; porkers, £1 8s £2 4s, good weaners, 17s to £l.