FRANKTON STOCK MARKET

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 569, 23 January 1929, Page 10

FRANKTON STOCK MARKET

BEEF VERY FIRM A short supply of beef met with a spirited demand at the Frankton stock sale to-day and prices reached £lB 5s and £l7 5s for prime fat bullocks, the highest prices realised since last winter. Sheep sold very well, although there was an easing in price compared with last week’s rates. The auctioneers’ reports are as follow: — Dalgety and Company, Limited.— “There was a good yarding of beef. Prices were practically the same as last week. All good young cows and heifers and prime sold under good competition. Best young cows and heifers sold from £9 7s 6d to £lO 15s; heavy cows, £lO to £ll 2s 6d; small and light cows, £7 5s to £S 2s 6d; small vealers, 30s. Only a few pens of store cattle yarded. Boner cows made £6 12s 6d; jersey heifer calves made £3 19s; heifer calves, 30s to 555. There was a fairly large yarding of sheep. Fat sheep sold at late rates. Store lambs were a shade easier, although practically all changed hands at very satisfactory prices. Woolly mixed sex lambs &old at up to 21s 3d, short m.s. lambs, 20s Id; shorn wethei' lambs, 18s 6d; cull aged ewes, 17s; f.m. ewes, 20s 6d. One pen of two-tooth ewes, 345. A line of four and six-tooth ewes were passed at 31s 6d. There was a heavy yarding of fat and store pigs, which sold at late rates..” The Farmers’ Auctioneering Company, Limited.—“ There was only a medium yarding of beef and fat sheep, but a. full yarding of store sheep came forward. Beef was again in good demand and firm at late rates. Trices for fat sheep were sightly easier. Although the demand was good for all classes of store sheep prices did not realise recent values. Medium fat steers brought £l4 7s 6d to £ls 4s; lighter prime, £l2 Us to £l3 10s; heavy fat cows and heifers, £9 12s 6d to £10; lighter, £8 5s to £9 ss; killable, £6 17s 6d to £7 15s; runners, £6 15s to £7 ss; vealers, £4 10s to £5 ss; fat wethers, 30s 9d ; forward-conditioned two-tooth wethers, 28s 4d: fat lambs, 28s to 29s It: fat ewes, 20s to 22s 6d; fat hoggets, 28s to 30s; store two-tooth ewes, 27s 6d; fourtooth ewes, 30s; good framed S.M. ewes, 275; five-year ewes, 255. 6d; ewes, failing mouth, 18s to 22s 6d; mixed sex woolly lambs, 22s lOd: shorn ewe lambs, 22s 8d: shorn wether lambs, 19s lOd: cull lambs, 13s 3d to 14s 6d. There was a heavy yarding of fat pigs of good quality which sold at advanced rates under keen competition. Prices were: Baconers, heavy, £3 to £3 Ss; lighter, £2 12s to £2 17s; porkers, heavy, £2 9s to £2 13s; lighter, £1 18s to £2 3s; slips, 22s to 2Ss; weaners, 12s to 18s.” New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited.—“ Prime fat bullocks brought £ls to £ls 17s 6d; lighter fat bullocks, to £l3 2s 6d; fat cows, £9 16s to £ll 18s; lighter cows, £7 5s to £8 2s 6d: fat wethers, 32s to 32s 4d; fat ewes, to 23s 6d; heavy baconers, £2 18s to £3 7s; lighter, £2 3s to £2 15s; porkers, 33s to £2.” • • Messrs. Dalgety and Company. Limited. —“Good fat cows brought £8 to £9 15s: ordinary fat cows , £6 10s to £7 10s; fat heifers, £9 5s to £10; fat ewes, 18s to £1 Is; fat wethers, 31s to 32s 3d: well-grown lambs, 19s to £1 1s; woolly lambs, 19s 6d to 22s 6d; breeding ewes, 27s 6d; twotooth ewes, 31s 6d; inferior ewes, 15s to