IMPROVED DEMAND

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20263, 4 August 1937, Page 13

IMPROVED DEMAND

WAIKATO STOCK MARKETS. BEEF PRICES ADVANCE. INTEREST IN STORE SECTION. Fat cattle are on offer In average numbers and are dearer at most centres. Small entries of store cattle are In keen request. A firm trade Is experienced for dairy cattle. Fat sheep are sought at firm to higher rates. Where ohanged, values for store sheep are better. Prloe ohanges In the fat pig section are still In vendors* favour. Store pigs show a hardening tendency. Although the winter period has proved excessively wet, conditions have generally been fairly mild. The weekend weathef gave a hint of spring, but the owning two months are usually the wettest months of the year. It is apparent that spring values have been already reached in some cases in the stock market, and while values for beef usually show a sharp rise next month, values in this section are already mounting. Store cattle values, too, have been on a higher plane than usual this winter and it is diffloult to visualise any substantial advanoe In the spring on current rates. Stock markets in the Waikato have been marked, by a buoyant tone during the week and the only change of note has been in the beef section where the market has strengthened considerably. National Pool Wanted. Farmers throughout the Waikato are taking 00-operative action to prevent Government oontrol of the bobby calf industry and by the forming of pools throughout the district they are demonstrating to the authorities that they are well able to look after their own industry. However, the industry will never be on a really effloient basis until there is one national pool. At the annual conference of the New Zealand Co-operative Pig Marketing Association last week the Auckland Provincial President of the Farmers’ 'Union, Mr H. O. Mellsop, urged; farmers to continue with their work of forming pools, but to form them under the Pig Marketing Association as it was the only co-operative body the farmer had as far as pigs and bobby calves were concerned. Delegates at the conference were unanimous in the opinion that there should be one national pool and agreed that every effort sho-uld be made to obtain this objective. The forming of pools in this district has been stimulated by a comparison of the prices received for the calves in Southland where there has been a pool in operation for some time and; with the prices received In the Waikato, but the comparison Is really a misleading one for according to the statements made by Southern delegates at the conference th*e calves in Southland are considerably heavier and there are other factors that allow of a better price in the southern area. Values for Beef. A rise of fully 2s per 100 lb recorded in the ox beef section at the weekly Frankton sale yesterday provided the highlight of Waikato stock activities for the week, the market being the most animated experienced sinoe last spring. Of course, the excellent quality of the cattle on offer was a factor in the brisk demand, but was not sufficient to account for the substantial advance recorded. Other centres have reported higher rates for ox beef and it is apparent that from now on values will tend to advance. Cow beef was similarly in demand at Frankton yesterday and the selling of one pen of heifers at £ll provided an Indication of the trend of the sale. Prime ox is at present making from 28s to 32s per 100 lb. with plainer sorts making from 20s 6d to 255. Best cow beef sells from 2'6s to 31s and other descriptions from 18s to 255. Market for Sheep. The fat sheep market continues to te marked with the same buoyancy of previous weeks and any price changes have been for the most part in \cndors’ favour. Frankton continues to set the standard of values for other yards where values have not been quite up to the level of those at the central yards. Yesterday at Frankton values were practically on a par with the previous week, although the sale was erratic at times. Best wethers now make from 32s fid In 41s fid and unfinished sorts from 30s to 325. Choice ewes have been traded from 29s to 33s with other descriptions changing bands from 17s to 28s. No variation of values has occurred for lambs. Keen interest, is apparent In -the few lines of brooding ewes that, have been forward at, the yards and recent advanced prices have been well held. i Pig Prices Advanoe. Supplies of fat pigs Rre still hardly sufficient for the demand and values continue to ride at all centres. Last week’s top price of 84s for baconers at Frankton was eclipsed yesterday by the top price of 88s. In both cases these values were for solitary entries, but still they Indicate the trend of the market. Porkers continue to he exceptionally dear and with more buyers now bagining to operate values are likely to rise lo an even higher plane. The store pig section at the various yards is at present one. of the most active departments with prices varying in aecordance with tho supplies forward. Outstanding Jersey Bulls. A sale of Jersey cattle that will be of the utmost interest to every Jersey breeder in the Dominion will he the sale of the consignment of outstanding i Continued In next column.)

Jersey bulls sent direct from New York to New Zealand by Mr Wallace MaoMonnles, of New Jersey. Every one of the 12 Jersey sires that will be offered by Messrs Wright Stephenson and Company, Limited, in Auokland next Tuesday is an outstanding animal backed by generations of superlative breeding and high production records. Every bull Is guaranteed a breeder for Mr MacMonnies has chosen only bulls that he knew positively were 100 per cent getlers. It is said that no greater collection of Jersey sires has ever been assembled In one shipment and their importal,lon to New' Zealand is undoubtedly the greatest event in the history of the Jersey breed In this part of the world. The consignment will include a grand champion at the American National Dairy Show, a junior national champion, a bull sired by a 'brother to a grand national champion and out of a cow with 9841 b buttei-rat. a great imported sire from Jersey Island and the last 2 sons of Soeurette’s Fern, Oxford.