CAUNTRY STOCK SALES.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20270, 12 August 1937, Page 20

CAUNTRY STOCK SALES.

RATES AT MATAMATA. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held their fortnightly sale at Matamata yesterday when there was a full yarding of cattle, inoluding th< advertised line of Polled Angus steers and heifers. There was a small yarding of 6heep. Prices realised throughout were firm on late quotations and bidding was brisk. Medium quality Southdown cross lamb 3 made 28s; small white face ewe hoggets, 235. Cattle: Good heavy Shorthorn fat cows, £9 5s to £9 15s; pen of heavy fat Polled Angus oqws, £9 2s 6d; 1 pen at £9; pen of 10 heavy fat Jersey heifers, £8 6s; good quality Shorthorn heifers, £9; heavy fat Jersey cows, £9 to £9 15s; pen heavy fat Jersey oows, £8 15s; medium weight fat Jersey oows, £6 12s 6d to £7; lighter, £6 to £6 12s; small fat Jersey oows, £5 to £5 15s; good quality store, £4 5s to £4 15s; medium store, £3 15s to £4; good boners, £3 2s 6d to £3 10s; boners, 50s to £3; threeyear empty Jersey heifers, £4 5s to £5 2s 6d; smaller three-year heifers, £3 5s to £3 17s; Jersey cows with calves at foot, £4 5s to £5 ss; station cattle (22) two and a-half-year fresh conditioned Polled Angus steers, £9 7s; pen of 16 18-months Polled Angvus steers, £7 15s; pen of 15 small 18months Polled Angus steers. £5 15s; pen of 15. £5 12s; pen of 14 18months Polled Angus heifers (small), £5; pen Jersey cross steers, £3. Dairy Cattle: Choice quality springing Jersey heifers, close to profit, £9 to £9 10s; good quality springing heifers close to profit, £8 5s to £8 15s; moro baokward sorts, £7 5s to £8; smaller, f 6 5s to £7; calved Jersey heifers, £5 10s to £7 ss. There was a medium yarding of fat pigs with a particularly heavy yarding of stores and weaners. Baconers were slightly easier while good heavy buttermilk pigs showed a sharp decline. Stores and weaners with the exception of a few’ cases, did not meet with a ready demand and prices realised were below expectations: Good quality heavy baconers made £3 10s to £3 16s; light. £3 to £3 10s; heavy’ buttermilk pigs. £2 10s to £2 15s; light, £2 5s to £2 10s; heavy porkers, 38s to £2 is; medium, 32s to 3Ss; light. 28s to 325; prime heavy choppers, £2 16s to £2 18s; light, £2 to £2 9s; good quality large store pigs, 33s to 375; medium, 28s to 325; 6mall, (choice quality), 28s to 30s; store pigs, 23s to 28s; choice quality slips, 26s to 295; good. 22s to 265; choice weaners, 25s to 27s 6d; medium, 20s to 255; small. i*9s to 21s; Tamworth cross sows (close to farrowing) £5 10s to £6; more backward sorts, £4 10s to £5 ss. PIRONGIA QUOTATIONS. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., Hamilton. report, as follows on their Pirongla stock and horse sale held yesterday: The cattle yards were filled to capacity. The proportion of heavy beef cows was small, but a number of pens of good quality cows was entered. The majority of the entry comprised unfinished and store cows, but there were, as well, several pens of yearling heifers and a number of dairy cows and heifers. A good bench of buyers were in attendance and a lively spirit ensued throughout. The standard of values was about on a par with realisations at Frankton on Tuesday. Everything sold, yearling heifers. too. making good money. The dairy market was steady at former prices. Less than the advertised number of horses came forward but there were some good farm draughts among the entry. Most sold and the prices secured were satisfactory. Heavy Holstein fat cows made £8 15* to £9 17s 6d; heavy Shorthorn fat rows. £8 5s to £9 ss; medium, £7 10s to £8 7s 6d; medium to heavy Jersey beef cows, £5 15s to £6 16s; unfin ished. £4 10s to £5 7s 6d; forward store cows, £3 15s to £4 7s t'd; good boners, £2 5s to £2 17s 6d; others, up lo £2 2s 6d: medium dairy rows in. l heifers, £7 bs to £S 15s; others. u> to £7. medium yearling Jersey

heifers, £3 8s to £3 16s; on account 1 Mr W. G. Brlndle, one mare was sold ( at £SO to Mr G. Lorrimer. Other ( broken draughts made £25 to £35; ‘ unbroken farm horses, £lB 10s to £2B i 10s‘/hacks, up to £9 10s. I i KAUROA YARDINQB. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, report that at the Kauroa sale yesterday there was a medium i yarding of all classes of cattle. Late rates were maintained on fat and store cattle, but dairies were not as keenly . sought and prices offered on a number of good quality Jersey heifers and young cows did not meet the vendors’ reserve. Forward conditioned P.A. heifers made £7 11s; Jersey heifers, £4 12s; boners, £2 12s to £3 8s; 2iyr. • S.H. steers, store condition, £7 10s; 2syr. cross-bred steers, £4 7s 6d to £5 16s. The advertised line of yearling P.A. steers on account of Mr W. A. Thomson realised £5 16s; 2}yr. S.H. heifers r.w. P.A. bull, £6 19s; cross-bred yearling steers (small), £3 10s. Fair quality young Jersey cows, £5 15s to £6 10s; older cows, £4 i to £5 10s; cross-bred heifers (small), £4 to £5 10s. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report having held their Kauroa stock sale yesterday, when a small entry of cattle came forward. Competition on all classes was keen, and late values j ruled. Prime cows made to £8 7s; medium, to £7 3s; fat Jersey cows, to £4 12s 6d; boner cows, to £3 17s; Shorthorn cows, £5 5s to £6; Polled Angus and Jersey-cross heifers, later. £5 to £6; Jersey cows, springing, £7 15s to £9 ss; later calvers, £5 to £6 10s.