FRANKTON STOCK SALE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 801, 23 October 1929, Page 10

FRANKTON STOCK SALE

LATE PRICES HOLD From Our Own Correspondent HAMILTON, Tuesday. There was a good attendance at the stock sale at Frankton today. Quotations for pigs were easier than last week, but beef and sheep brought late rates. Bidding fox* most lines was brisk. The auctioneers report as follow. :

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited.—Fat bullocks, £l3 12s to £l4 17s 6d; lighter fat bullocks, £l2 15s to £l3 10s; heavy fat cows, £9 10s to £ls; lighter cows, £6 2s Gd to £9 ss; baconers. £3 5s to £3 19s; porkers, £2 10s to £3. Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited.—A good yarding of fat cattle and sheep and an average yarding of stores. Prime fat bulloelvs were in keen demand and sold at late rates. Cow beef and fat ewes were slightly easier, while store cattle maintained their values. A heavy yarding of fat and store which met with good competition. oners averaged 7id a lb., while porkers averaged 7d. Dairy cattle came forward in large numbers and good quality dairy cows were eagerly sought after. Fat woolly wethers made 32s 9d; fat shorn wethers, 2Ss 6d; woolly ewes, 23s Gd to 2Gs 3d; fat hoggets, 24s 6d to 26s 6d; fat lambs, 23s Gd to 25s 3cl; prime fat bullocks, £l4 4s to £l4 15s; light fat bullocks, £l3 ls to £l3 14s; prime fat cows, £3O 7s 6d to £32 ls; medium, £S 15s to £9 16s; liglit, £6 15s to £S 10s; forward conditioned cows, £5 12s 6d to £6 ss; store cows, £4 10s to £5 ls; yearling steers, to £3 19s; Jersey-cross cows, in milk, £ll to £l3; Jersey cows, close to profit, £l3 to £l6 ss; backward, £6 15s to £9 10s; lieifers, close to profit, £l2 to £ls 10s; others, £7 10s to £9 15s; lieavy baconers, £4 6s to £4 13s; medium, £3 15s to £4 2s; light, £3 5s to £3 30s; lieavy porkers, £2 ISs to £3 6s: light, £2 6s to £2 14s; good stores, £2 2s to £2 10s; slips, 31s to £2 2s; weaners, 20s to 325.

Dalgety and Company, Limited.—A large yarding of beef, including some lines of very choice bullocks and prime young cows.. Prices were on a par with late rates, with the exception of heavy rough cows, which were a shade lower. A draft of light-weight bullocks made an average of £ls ss. Prime young cows made to £l2 2s, and heavy rough cows, £S as to £9 15s. Light cows and heifers made £5 5s to £6 3 ss. Shorthorn heifers and calves made £6 17s Od; Shorthorn heifers, £7 ls; yearling mixed steers, £5 10s; Shorthorn steers, small, £5; aged cows with calves, £2 ss; prime heavy shorn wethers, to 28s 2d; medium-weight fat shorn wethers, 275; unfinislied shorn wethers, 24s 6d: fat shorn ewes, medium, ISs Sd: prime shorn hoggets, 24s 3d to 26s lid. A line of 50 prime heavy baconers averaged £4 14s 2d. Heavy prime baconers made £4 33s to £4 15s; heavy baconers, £4 to £4 3s: medium, £3 10s to £3 37s 6d; lieavy porkers, £2 12s 6d to £3 ss: ligliter, £2 to £2 10s; large stores, £2 16s to £3 Is; smaller, SSs 6d to £2 14s: slips, 33s 6d to 375; weaners. SSs 6d to 37s Cd; smaller, 16s 6d to 23s 6d.

HIDE MARKET FIRMER AUCKLAND AUCTIONS A decidedly firmer tone was shown in the hide and skin auctions held by the Auckland Woolbrokers’ Association yesterday. Elides sold at from par to id a lb in advance of late rates. Sheepskins were firm at late rates. Cow hides, light, made 6*d to 75-d a lb; medium. 6?d to 74d; heavy, 6gd to 7 5-Sd; cut, to 6id; faulty, 41 d to s£d; ox hides, light 6gd to 7-ld, heavy and medium 7£d to 71d, second quality 6d to 61d, cut 6id to 7d; kips, best grade, 7 3-Sd to 7&d, seconds Gd to 6£d; yearlings, best grade s?id to 9Jd, seconds 7d to 7£d; calfskins, heavy. 91b to 101 b weights, 9£d to 9id; best light ls 02d to ls lid; best medium, ls lid to Is 2d; light and medium, cut, 101 d to lid; slippy, Sid to 9ld. Sheepskins.—Three-quarter to fullwoolled, medium to fine crossbred, 105 dto llld a lb; coarse crossbred, 9id to lOd; faulty, Bld to 9&d; damaged, 7.1 d to 72d; badly damaged and broken, Gld to 7d; half-woolled, medium to fine crossbred. Old to lOd; coarse crossbred, 9d to 9id; faulty, 71d to Sid; damaged, 6ld to 7d; quarter to half-woolled, damaged, old to 6d; lambskins, sound, 3 oid to lOgd; faulty and seedy, Sid to 9d; damaged, 7ld to Sd; salted sheepskins, half to three-quarter woolled, large 9s 9d to 10s each, medium Ss 3d to Ss 9d, light as 6d to 6s 3d; quarter to halfwoolled, large 6s to 6s 3d, medium 4s 9d to 5s 3d, light 2s 9d to 3s Sd.

Tallow.—Best mixed, in barrels, 28s 6d to 29s a cwt; second qualit3 r , 25s to 26s 6d; poor quality and gutstained, 23s 6d to 22s 6d; in tins, good quality, 27s 6d to 2Ss; seconds, 24s 6d to 26&. Horsehair.—Best tail, Is Sd to ls 9d; mixed, ls 6d to ls 7d: shorts, lOd to Is Id; mane, Sid to 9d. Bones.—Clean dry, £5 15s a ton. MORRINSVILLE DAIRYING The comparatively long spell of dry weather experienced last month is reflected in the September returns of dairy factories operating in the Morrinsville district. In most instances production is below that of the corresponding period of last year. The Morrinsville Dairy Company received 244,0291 b of fat, compared with 221,4151 b during September, 1925. The Tatua Dairy Company received 74,399.1 b of fat, compared with 79,3471 bof fat last year. The Norfolk Dairy Company received. 40,5541 b of fat, compared with 44,6561 b of fat last year. The Sunny Park Dairy Company received 38,41.81 b of fat, compared with -44,2191 b of fat last year.