STOCK SALES

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20727, 10 February 1939, Page 2

STOCK SALES

MATAMATA BTOCK BALE Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report as follows on their fortnightly sale held at Matamata on Wednesday: A small yarding of sheep and cattle came forward. There was a fair attendance of buyers. Sheep sold at slightly easier values owing to limited competition. This applied equally to the cattle market. Two pens of good lambs on account of Mr A. Bellamy and Mr W\ Finlay, of Te Poi, sold at 22s 6d and 20s respectively. Store lambs met with good competition and sold up to 10s 4d. Fat cows and heifers made £7 10s to £7 11s, fat Jersey cows £5 10s to £6 2s 6d, heavy boners £3 7s 6d to £4 ss, medium £2 7s 6d to £2 17s 6d, lighter 25s to £2, heavy potter bulls £6 to £7, others £4 to £5 15s. Southdown lambs sold from 9s to 10s 4d, small Romney whether lambs Bs, do. ewe lambs 10s 4d. There was a full yarding of fat pigs with a medium yarding of stores. All classes of fat pigs sold readily at prices fully on a par with recent Frankton quotations. Stores and weaners met with a dull sale, prices showing a decline on late rates. Prime top-weight baconers brought £3 15s, prime heavy baconers £? 12s to £3 14s, heavy baconers £3 10s to £3 12s, prime medium £3 8s to £3 10s, medium £3 4s to £3 Bs, prime light £3 3s to £3 ss. light £3 to £3 13s, heavy buttermilk pigs £2 15s to £3 2s, buttermilk pigs £2 10s to £2 15s, prime heavy porkers £2 8s to £2 12s, heavy porkers £2 4s to £2 Bs, prime medium £2 2s to £2 4s, medium 38s to £2 2s, prime light 36s to 38s, light 32s to 365, choppers (medium) £2 iOs to £3, best large stores 30s to 335, medium stores £1 to 255, best slips 15s to 20s, best weaners 10s to 15s, service Devon boars £2 10s. WAIHI REALISATIONS The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Ltd., report at their fortnightly Waihi stock sal§ yesterday a full yarding of cattle, including a number of heavy second fat cows, for which competition was firm, with values slightly in advance of last sale’s quotations. Bidding for a full offering of boner cowr and potter bulls was particularly keen, and values for all classes were firmer. A good yarding of fat pigs included a fair proportion of heavy baconers. Competition throughout for all classes was good and late quotations were fully mainmaintaJned. An average offering of store pigs elicited fair inquiry, and a total clearance resulted. Heavy fat Shorthorn cows made £7 10s to £8; heavy second quality cows, £6 2s to £6 15s: light fat Jersey cows and heifers, £4 2s to £4 1«s: heavy boner cows £3 6s to £3 17s fid, lighter £2 5s to £3 2s: medium potter bulls £6 5s to £7, lighter £4 2s 6r| to £5 15s; small Shorthorn heifer calves to 30s. Pigs: Medium baconers £3 8s to £3 its. light £3 2s to £3 6s; heavy porkers and buttermilk pigs £2 iOs to £3, medium £2 4s to £2 Bs, light 35s to £2 2s; large store pigs 25s to 325, slips 18s lo 225. best weaners 12s .to 15, small 5s to Bs. ADDINGTON MARKET (By Tel«traph. Pre«s As*nrqttnn) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. Another heavj yarding of store lambs came forward ai the weekly stock market at Addington and

were again down. Fat lambs sold well at up to last week’s rates, but fat sheep and fat cattle were easier. In the store sheep section the entry of store lambs was about 13.000, the heaviest for the season. For best lines there was little change in values from last, week, but for ordinary rape lambs and culls there was a drop of fully is a head. A feature of the. yarding was the appearance of some excellent Romneys from Chatham Islands, and these met with a good sale, up to 18s being paid for the best of the draft. Best halfbred rape lambs made 13s to about 15s 6d, with average sorts 9s 6d to 12s 6d. A line of good five-year haJfbreds made to 12s 9d, and another line 14s to 14s 3d. Two lots of good six and eight-tooth Romneys from Chatham Islands sold at 19s to 235. The fat lamb entry totalled 2500, compared with 3800 last week. Values remained fully equal to those last week, in spite of the absence of one large exporter. A feature of the sale was the keen operation of exporters fe-r better-class lambs, of which they bought a fairly large number. The yarcing of fat sheep was 6000, about the same as last week. Quality was slightly better, the entry containing more sheep suitable for buchers’ requirements. From the outset the sale was slightly easier, mainly because one of the export firms w*as not on the market, except for odd lines of wethers, but prices were not quotable lower except for freezing ewes, which went back 6d a head. Good quality sheep were eagerly sought by butchers. Extra prime heavy wethers made to 24s 7d, prime heavy 20s 9d to 225, prime medium 18s 6d to 20s 3d, light to 15s 6d, extra prime heavy ewes to 15s 10d, prime heavy 13s 6d to 4 ss, prime medium 11s 9d to 13s 3d, light to Bs. Although the fat cattle entry of 480 was substantially lower than the 560 of last week prices were again weaker on those of last week for all except the very best. Best beef sold aboul last week’s rates, but plain sorts up tj 10s a head cheaper. The large offering of plain medium-weight s-teers was entered and these were more than 10s cheaper in an erratic sale. Some of the plain cow beef was well below* 20s per 1001 b. Extra prime heavy steers made to £l6 12s 6d, prime heavy £l3 5s to £l4 10s, prime medium £ll to £l3 10s, light to £B, extra prime heifers to £lO 12s 6d, prime £'9 to £lO. medium £6 10s to £8 10s, light to £0 ss, extra prime cows to £lO 2s 6ri. prime £6 10s to £8 10s, medium £5 to £6 ss, light to £4 10s. Fat. Pigs.—Porkers came forward in about the same numbers as last week Prices showed very little change, -but heavy-weights, if anything, were a shade easier. Choppers were in medium supply and again met an excellent .sale. Baconers came forward in small numbers and. whereas heavy-weights j maintained last week’s rates, lighter sorts were 2s to 3s easier. Porkers made 39s 6d to £2 17s <’.d. average price per lb. 61d to Bfd: baconers, £2 1 6s 6d to £i 9s 6d: average price per lb, 6d to 6id; choppers £3 3s 6d to £5 3s 6d.