FRANKTON STOCK SALE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 807, 30 October 1929, Page 10

FRANKTON STOCK SALE

KEEN DEMAND FOR CATTLE Froyix Our Own Correspondent HAMILTON, Tuesday. Owing to the large attendance of buyers and the good yardings there was an unusual scene of activity at the stock sale at Frankton today. The flush of feed in the Waikato and the i demand for young beef stock attracted j farmers from over a wide area, and j bidding for most classes of stock was | spirited. There was a large number j of IS-months and two-year-old steers ! from the Fast Coast, Te Akau and j Mamaku, which were sold under keen | competition. An exceptional demand j existed for good-coloured beef stock, j especially for Shorthorne, Herefords | and Polled Angus. Prices for these : lines were generally considerably higher than was anticipated. Cow : beef was slightly easier. Fat sheep S quotations were on a par with late I rates, while the rates for pigs were j well up to those of previous sales. The I auctioneers report as follow: Dalgety and Company, Limited. — ; Choice quality light bullocks, to £ls . 7s 6d. or equal to 4s a 1001 b: prime ■ young cows and heifers, to £ll 3s; I average quality cows, £8 10s to £10: ' light fat cows and heifers, £ 4 15s to £6 15s; heavy runners, £3 ISs to £6 12s 6d; vealers, £2 10s to £1 7s; fresh three-year Holstein steers, to £lO 7s 6d; two-year Hereford steers, £8 15s; two-year Holstein steers, £8 17s 6d. In conjunction with the Farmers’ Auctioneering Company, 100 Polled Angus yearling steers were sold at £7 7s 6d and 14 at £5 17s 6d. Eleven Hereford yearling steers realised £6 16s. Other cattle were sold at late rates. Prime shorn wethers made to 2Ss 3d; light, 26s 7d: woolly fat ewes, 275; woolly fat hoggets, 2Gs; store hoggets, 24s 6d: prime heavy baconers, £4 4s to £4 7s 6d; ordinary, £4 to £4 j 3s; best porkers, £3 Is to £3; large stores, £ 2 to C.2 6s; slips, 2Ss to 37s j Gd: weaners, 26s to 30s. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile ! Agency Company, Limited. —Good fat i bullocks, £l3 10s to £ls; fat cows, : £7 10s to £9; light cows, to £6 10s; ! fat wethers, to 2Ss 3d; ewes, from 16s; baconers, £3 10s to £4 8s; porkers, ;

Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited. —Good quality fat bullocks gnet with keen competition and sold at late rates, while cow beef and fat sheep were just a trifle easier. Competition was keen for store bullocks and there was a good demand for store and weaner pigs. Fat steers made £ls 13s to £l6 9s; medium fat steers, £l3 7s to £l4 ss; light fat steers, £ll 14s to £l2 17s; fat cows, £9 14s to £ 1 0 7s 6d; medium fat cows, £8 13s to £9 11s; forward-conditioned cows, £6 5s to £8 7s 6d; store cows, £3 19s to £ 6 11s; two-year empty Holstein heifers, £5 17s 6d; yearling Jersey heifers, £5 18s; three-year Polled Angus store steers, £9 16s to £ll Is; four-year Hereford store steers, £lO 16s; fat wethers, to 365: fat woolly hoggets, to 335; shorn hoggets, 22s 4d to 23s lOd; fat lambs, 24s 6d to 27s Id; dairy cows close to profit, £ll to £l3 10s; heifers, £ 8 to £9 10s; heavy baconers, £ 4 2s to £4 6s; medium, £3 15s to £3 19s; light baconers, £3 7s to £3 11s; heavy porkers, £2 17s to £3 3s; light porkers, £2 8s to £2 15s; good stores, £2 5s to £2 10s; slips, 38s to £2 2s; weaners 26s to 3Ss.