FRANKTON STOCK SALE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 505, 7 November 1928, Page 14

FRANKTON STOCK SALE

BEEF MARKET FIRM There was a large attendance at the stock sale at Frankton to-day. • Beef was not yarded in as large numbers as the previous week, but quotations ere on a par with the other sales. There was a large yarding of sheep, which sold at easier prices. Auctioneers report as follow:Dalgety and Company, Ltd.—Prime fat bullocks, £l7 8s to £l7 7s 6d; mediumweight bullocks, £ls 10s to £lb; heavy prime fat cows, £9 10s to £ll 15s; lighter sorts, £7 19s to £8 10s; runners, to £5 14s; vealers, £1 12s to £2 15s; fat bobby calves, 14s to 255; others, 7s to 13s 6d; prime shorn wethers, on account of Towers Estate, 34s lid, 35s to 35s 2d; medium-weight fat shorn wethers, 33s to 33s 6d; fat ewes, 25s to 2Ss. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Ltd.—Fair yarding of beef and a large yarding of fat sheep. Beef sold at late ra.tes, but medium quality wethers were a shade easier, while fat ewes sold at late rates. Heavy fat heifers made £l2 10s; medium, £lO 13s; heavy fat cows, £lO 12s 6d to £l2 ™ ed i u c m J> to l7s 6d; light, £7 10s to 2s 6d; forward-conditioned store cows, £6 9s to £6 12s 6d; yearling JerC £l * l \ s: y earlin & Shorthorn 6s * fat "'ethers, woolly, 37s o?’ ft* e }' es * woolly, 345; shorn fat ewes, -os Id; fat woolly ewe hoggets, 35s 6d; tat woolly wether hoggets, 31s to 33s*l- e 9 av i y 9o b f eor \?r s ', - •£ 3 to ~ 3 6s ; li&i't, U°, f" 2 J 7 , s; he avy porkers, £2 .f- to 14s: £1 17s to £2 2s; slips, 2ds to 30s; weaners. 12s to 20s. THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY Tht output of butter from the Northern Setm°v “n! ry Con ‘Pany s .Mangawhare taotoij continues to mount, and so far ' s , Jt asol V, aII . P revious records have been ,„ r .° k ,f n ; „ P >urln S October the output nvir tons, an increase of 23 tons ,h , e aniount for the correspond ins: month last year. The output for the seaso nto the end of October also shows be nL- g -« cr , ease ' the figures for this year 49 tons, against 465 tons. On 7-o e ? day °t last week the factory made 4iS boxes of butter, which is an increase of one box over the highest datt£ put recorded last season. TJif Matakana Co-operative Dairy Company s output of butter last month was 41 tons, compared with 33 tons locwt. in fn' t ri9tlh2 9 u The total for ‘the season fi- was . 8- tons Scwt., against .™ S f } 4c ' vt ' fo >' the corresponding penod of last season. The pav-out for October at Is 4d a lb. butter-fat amounted to £0,1°2, .against £4,122 for October, IJ-,. when the rate was the same. For the present season to October 31 the 1 company has advanced £10,319 to sup- | phers, compared with £8,160 for the cor- j responding period last season.