FRANKTON STOCK SALE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 457, 12 September 1928, Page 12

FRANKTON STOCK SALE

BEEF MARKET FIRM Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report having held their usual weekly stock sale at Frankton Saleyards on Tuesday, September 11, as under:— There was a good yarding of beef, including some choice lots of prime bullocks. Prices ruled on a par with last week’s rates. Prime ox sold n.t / equal to 43s a hundred. Best bullocks sold at up to £2O, this .price being on account of Mr. E. W. R. Leslie, and bought by Mr. Wm. Thomas. Choice young cows and heifers sold at up to £l3 17s 6d. Ordinary fat cows and heifers, £lO 10s £, 12 ,- ss; interior ditto, £6 15s to £9 J2s 6d; light and’unfinished, £4 15s to £6 ~s 6d. There was a moderate yarding of store cattle. We yarded and sold a line of 120 store cows—mostly Shortnorns, for which competition was very keen, and all pens sold under the hammer as under: Good-conditioned store cows, £6 6 ® t( ? £7 8s; lighter sorts, £5 15s to £6; boners, £4 10s to £5. Dairy cattle were yarded in fair numbers and good competition for all good quality cows and heifers near profit. Good Jersey cross heifers, £l2 10s to £l3 ssothers, £8 to £ll 10s; cows close to profit, £lO 5s to £l3 10s; more backward sorts, £7 10s to £9 15s. There .was a small yarding of fat sheep. Prices were on a par with last week’s, lates, but on the whole the quality was not too good. Heavy prime wethers sold at up to 46s 6d: medium weight ditto, 395; Wes ’ 22s ' i- at woolly hoggets, 345. There was a medium yarding of all classes ot pigs, which sold easier than the previous sale. Heavy baconers, £3 fts to £3 12s; medium ditto, £2 18s to £3 os; porkers £2 5s to £2 13s; light. £1 18s to £2 2s; large stores, £1 8s to £1 12s, slips, 16s to £1 3s; weaners, 12s to los: others, 6s to 9s. The Farmers’ Co-op. AuctioneeringCo.; Ltd., report:— At the weekly stock market, in the Frankton yards, yesterday, we had a good entry of fat cattle. • Prices were on a par with last week, although heavy prime heifers sold exceptionally well. We quote:—Bullocks, fat, £l4 7s 6d to £1» 10s; medium, £ll 15s to £l3 13scows, heavy, fat. £l2 15s to £ls 15s; medium, £9 12s 6d to £l2 9s; light, £6 15s to £S 10s; heifers, prime fat, £ls 15s to £l7; medium, £lO 12s 6d to £ll 15s; cows, fresh conditioned, £5 2s to £6 7s 6d; store, £3 14s to £4 19s; cows, close to profit, £l2 10s to £l4 4s; heifers, Jersey erbss, close to profit, £l2 10s to £l3 10s; Shorhorn cross, £lO 10s to £l2; backward, £8 10s to £9 10s. There was a small yarding of fat sheep which sold about equal to last week’s rates. Wethers, fat, £2 Is to £2 ss; ewes £1 14s to £1 15s 6d; ewes, forward, £1 9s to £1 12s 6d; hoggets, mixed sexes, £1 6s to £1 16s 3d; hoggets, ewe, prime, £2 Is to £2 6s; heavy baconers, £3 3s to £3 10s; light, £2 12s to £2 17s; heavy porkers £2 6s to £2 14s; light, £1 18s to £2 3s; good stores, £1 10s to £1 15s; slips, 18s to £1 4s; weaners, 9s t 14s; bobby calves, 9s to !7s. ____