STOCK SALE.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20259, 30 July 1937, Page 12

STOCK SALE.

MATAMATA YARDINGB. Messrs Balgety and Company. Ltd., report having held their usual fortnightly sale at Matamata yesterday, when only a moderate yarding of stock of all classes came forward. Only a medium bench of buyers operated. Prices realised were on a par with recent. quotations: Good quality fat shorn lambs made 23s 7d, woolly 25s 6d to 26s 6d; good quality fat heifers, £7 to £7 10s; ordinary fat Jersey cows, £5 10s to £5 19s. light £4 15s to £5 10s, unfinished £4 5s to £4 12s 6d; good store cows £3 15s to £4 ss, ordinary £3 5s to £3 15s; heavy boners, £3 to £3 10s; boners, £2 10s to £3; -store steers, £6 to £6 14s; potter bulls, £5 to £6 2s; yearling Polled Angus steers £5 12s. Shorthorn £4 14s to £4 16s; forward good quality Jersey springing heifers £7 10s to £8 15s, medium £7 to £7 10s. A light yarding of fat pigs came forward, with a medium yarding of stores. Prices were firm 'and in most cases were well In advance of previous quotations. No prime top weight baeoners were yarded. Good medium heavy baeoners made £.l its to £3 I Is; good heavy porkers £2 12s to r-j ir.s, medium £2 5s In £2 i;*, ti»ht £■> lo £2 .-,s. small 35s to £?; medium size pood quality slore piss, 30s to 355: medium store pips 25 s to to 255, medium 18s to 20s; best wean- ■ 11 25 - 6d, medium 20s to is small IPs to 20s; maiden Tamwortli and Tamworth cross sows, lo farrow to Tamworth boar, £4; Berkshire-cross sows, to farrow lo Tamworth hoar, £5 10.; medium quality Tamworth cross sows, £,t to £3 7 S 6d; smaller good quality heifers £f, to £7 backward sorts, fa to £6; good quality dairy cows £7 to £8 JOs. medium £8 to £7, more backward sorts £5 to £6.