COMMERCIAL

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20268, 10 August 1937, Page 12

COMMERCIAL

STOCK SALE. VALUES AT PUTARURU. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report on their usual stock sale at Putaruru yesterday as under: A medium yarding ol' fat cattle and a good yarding of -store cattle came forward to a full bench of buyers and sold under keen competition, the whole yarding changing hands. Heavy fat bullocks made £lt 7 s 6d to £l2; light and unfinished, £8 15s to £9 12s. 6d; medium weight fat Hereford heifers, £8 7s 6d to £lO 6s; fat Holstein cross cows, £7 12s 6d to £8 ss; heavy fat Jersey cows, £6 to £6 14s; light fat Jersey cows, £4 10s to £5 3s; fat Jersey heifers, £4 15s to £5 7s; three-vear-old Jersev heifers. £3 to £3 12s 6d; potter bulls up to £5 J2s Gd. The advertised line of store cattle came forward in good condition and sold readily. Sixteen 2-year-old Hereford cross steers ( small), made £6 16s; 11 2-year-oTd Hereford Polled Angus cross steers (small), £7 2s: 11 2-vear-old cross breeds (small), £4 18s; 9 2-year-old Hereford Shorthorn cross steers, £6' ss: 7 -Hereford cross weaner steers, £5 12s fid; 9 Polled Angus Hereford cross, £5 13s; -8 Shorthorn Hereford cross, £5 7s fid: fi small, £3 14s; # 19 Hereford Polled Angus Weaner heifers, £4 9s; 11 Polled Angus Hereford cross cows, low condition, r.w.b., £5 ss; good quality yearling Jersey heifers, £4 9s to £4 18s. A full yarding of dairies came forward and met with keen competition throughout especially for forward good Jersey and Jersey cross heifers. More backward sorts 'were not so keenly sought. Extra good Jersey heifers, close to profTt, made £lO 10s to £11; good Hereford cross heifers, close to profit, £9 5s to £lO ss; medium Jersey and Jersey cross heifers, close to profit, £7 15s to £9; lighter conditioned and smaller sorts, £6 to £7 'ss; small and backward sorts, £4 to £5 10s; fair quality second oalvera, close to profit, £7 15s; elder cows from £5 to £6 10s. -A good yarding of store pigs came forward and met with a good demand throughout for all classes. Few fat pigs were yarded. Light baooners made £3 7b; medium, 37s to £2 8s; smaller made £3 7s; good store pigs, £2 5s to £2 9s; medium, 37s to £2 3s; smaller sorts and good slips. 32s to 355; medium slips, 27s to 31s; extra good weaners. 30s 6d; good wcaners, 23s to 265: others, 14s to 21s. VALUES AT NGARUAWAHIA. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report having held their Ngaruawahla stock sale yesterday when a large entry of dairy cattle came forward, Including the advertised cows on aocount of Messrs. Fowler Bros., -Glen Massoy, also a pen of oholoe Shorthorn heifers on aocount of Mrs T 9. 'O’Connell, Ngarauwahla. These created spirited bidding from a good bench of buyers, selling at late rates. A small entry of store oattle showed no alteration on market values. Klllable cows made £4 to £4 18s; heavy boner cows, £2 18s to £3 10s; lighter, £2 3s to £2 7s. Dairy cattle; Jersey and Jersey cross heifers, August oalvers, £6 10s to £7 i'ss, later calvers £5 10s to £6 ss; Shorthorn heifers, early calvers, £-8 5s to £9; later, £6 Bs to £7 15s; Jersey and Jersey cross cows, close to profTt, £6 10s to £8; more backward £3 5s to £6; aged and Inferior £4 to £5; store sheep to 265. TALLOW, HEMP AND FRUIT. THT9 ENGLISH MARKETS. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The Department of Agriculture has received the following cablegram, dated August -6, from the High Commissioner for New Zealand, London: — Tallow: The market continues quiet; values are nominally unchanged. Hemp: Manila: The market Is quiet and unchanged. Values for August-October shipments, £3O 10s. Sisal: The market Is quiet; sellers quote August-October shipments, £27 15s. New Zealand: Offers are scarce; . •mall business is done in “Common" ta £2; “rejected,** £24 10s. Apples: There Is fair demand at lower priees. Granny Smith, 10s to 14s; Dougherty, 10s to 12s: Rokewood, 9s to 11s; Tasma, 8s fid to 9s 6d. RABDITSKIN BALE. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Dunedin, report on their rabbltskin sale on Thursday as follows: “To-day’s sale again contained more weight than our last catalogue. We offered some good lots of winter skins, but tho proportion of late outgoing and spring grades was noticeably larger. Competition was keen for all grades, but buyers were operating on slightly reduced limits, and we quote winter bucks at par to 4d lower and does 3d t 6d ' wer. Early h Inter bucks and does were firm. Outgoings and springs rased 2d to fid, and other grades, including In- >r qua ty skins, were firm at last sale’s rates.