STOCK MARKETS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 852, 21 December 1929, Page 12

STOCK MARKETS

SALES IN PROVINCE Good sales at country markets during the week are reported by the Xew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Sales were conducted at Westfield, Papakura, Warkworth, Kaukapakapa, Waiuku (cattle and pigs), and Pukekohe (cattle and pigs). All classes of stock sold at late rates. The company quotes:—Best dairy cows and heifers, £ll to £l4 11s; other dairy cows and heifgers, £ 8 to £lO 11s; aged cows and inferior heifers, £5 to £7 15s; bulls, £11; store and boner cows, £4 to £6 17s 6d; weaner calves and steers, £2 10s to £4 10s; heifers, £2 Is to £3 16s; yearling to 18-months heifers, best, £6 to £8; yearling to 18-months steers, £ 5 to £6 15s: two to two and a-half year steres, £7 to £7 17s 6d; three to three and a-half, £ 8 to £ 9 15s; four to four and a-half, £lO to £lO 15s. PRICES AT FEILDING Press Association FEILDING, Friday. For the final Feilding stock sale of the year there was a fair yardiiPji of fat sheep, including the first of this season’s fat lambs. Prices were: Sheep.—Fat two-tooths, best 25s to 26s 6d, very god 24s 2d to 24s 6d, good weights 22s 9d to 23s Id; fat lambs, averaged 21s 9d; fat woolly ewes, 245; shorn ewes, 17s to 18s 8d; fat wethers, prime, 24s 6d to 265; store two-tooth ewes, to 27s 8d; smal, 24s 2d; twotooth wethers, good lines to 23s 3d, others 22s Id to 22s 6d; black-face two tooths, good, 21s 2d to 22s 4d; fourtooth ewes, to 28s 7d; two and fourtooth. ewes, 26s 4d. Dairy Cattle. —Heifers, £6ss to £8 ss; purebred Jersey cows, to £l6 10s; springing cows, choice, £ll ss; good, £8 15s to £9 17s 6d; fair, £7 to £8 10s. Fat Cattle. —Polled Angus heifers, to £8 15s (equal to 35s 1001 b): light fat Jersey cows, £4 10s to £7; heavy, £9 12s 6d to £10; heavy Shorthorn cows, 7s 6d to £10; Polled Angus cows, £7 £ll 5s ; light bullocks, £10; store cattle, 15-months heifers, £3 17s 6d to £6 10s; weaner heifers, £2 7s; Polled Angus heifers, £5 18s to £8 15s; Hereford cows, £8 ss; cows, mixed colours, £ 4 to £5 15s; yearling steers, to £4 17s! Jersey bulls, £8 to £l3. RATES MAINTAINED Special to THE SUN TE AWAMUTTJ, Today. At the weekly Te Awamutu sale a large entry of beef sold at fully the ruling rates. Store cattle also met with a good demand. Weaner heifers sold well and sheep and pigs were cleared in the usual numbers.