PORKERS EASIER

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20731, 15 February 1939, Page 13

PORKERS EASIER

MARKET AT FRANKTON BETTER BEEF FORWARD QUIET SHEEP SALE The lightest supply of beef seen at the yards this year came forward at the Frankton sale yesterday. A feature of the penning of fat oattle was the distinct improvement In quality, this factor having a favourable Influence on competition. Another quiet sale was experienced for fat sheep, while the recent drop In the schedule for pigs was reflected in the slacker demand for porkers. The fat steers available were the best seen for some weeks. Although it opened quietly, the market soon brightened, top sorts selling from £l2 10s to £l3 11s with a top quotation of £l4. The latter figure, which is the best obtained at the yards for some weeks, was given for three heavy Polled Angus steers. Although prices per head were better than last week, this could he attributed mainly to the better quality and the market on the whole could be quoted very firm. From 30s 6d to 35s per 1001 b was paid for the best ox, but in some cases the latter figure was slightly exceeded. Quality was also noticeably better in the cow and heifer beef section, although plain quality pens were not absent. The market in this department was also very firm with top prices showing an advance. Best lines were auctioned from £8 to £9 2s with £5 to £6 10s the usual range for ordinary quality descriptions. Calves again sold readily, £8 10s being the top money for runners. Boner cattle were easy to trade and a slight improvement was sometimes apparent. % Sheep and Pigs Competition for fat sheep again lacked enthusiasm and many descriptions were difficult to quit. Although there was a lowering of values in some instances, the market could be quoted firm. For wethers the top money was 20s against 20s 6d last week. Others ■sold from 17s to 19s w'hile a limited num'ber of woolly wethers sold for 235. Ewes were traded slowly, but prices were much the same, top sorts being quoted from 9s to Us. Although a lower schedule has been ruling for lambs, .these were very brisk of sale and prices were fully up to and sometimes slightly in excess of Ihose of last week. Although porkers were often 2s per head cheaper, baconers, which were penned in smaller numbers, were not affected to the same extent and values for these were very much the same, although the top money of 74s was Is lower than the best money of last week. Store pigs were slightly better of sale and in most instances values showed a slight improvement. Price Summary The following table is a summary of prices realised for fat stock at the Frankton yards during the past fortnight : BEEF (per head) This week Last Week Prime ox .. 30/6 to 35/- 30/6 to 35/Plaln Inf. ox 23/-to 29/6 23/-to 29/Prlme cows . 26/-to 27/6 26/-to 27/6 Second quality cows .... 21/-to 24/6 21/-to 24/6 Light cows & heifers ... 19/-to 22/- 19/-to 22/MUTTON (per head) Extra prime wethers .. 17/9 to 20/- 18/-to 20/6 Fat wethers 15/3 to 17/- 15/3 to 17/UnHn. wethers 13/9 to 15/- 13/9 to 15/Evtra prime ewes .... 9/-toll/- 9/6 toll/Fat ewes ... 7/-to 8/6 7/-to 8/6 Unfin. ewes . 4/-to 6/6 5/-to 7/Fat lambs .. 17/-to 24/- 16/-to 24/Sborn 16/-to 19/3 PIGS (per head) Baconers .... 61/-to 74/- 63/-to 75/Porkers 33/-to 60/- 35/-to 62/Weaners 7/6 to 14/- 7/6 to 23/Sllps 16/6 to 22/- 17/-to 23/Large stores 26/6 to 35/- 24/- to 33/6 individual Sales A pair of heavy prime Polled Angus bullocks from Mr J. Hannon, of Cambridge, sold for the good price of £l4, while 5 others from the same vendor made £l2 a piece with another two clearing at £l2 15s. The tops of Mr F. R. Seddon’s line* sold at £l2 15s, while a pair of handy weight Shorthorns from Mr J. C. Potts sold to the bid of £ll 2s 6d. A single entry from Mr A. Wight was knocked down for £ll 7s. Top price for runners, £8 10s, was given for a pair from Mr H. N. Hall, the same vendor selling cows from £8 to £8 ss. Cows and heifers from Mr P. Hunt, of Cambridge, realised from £8 10s to £9 2s. AUCTIONEERS’ QUOTATIONS The auctioneers quote as follows: Farmers’ Auctioneering Company Sheep: Fat wethers 17s Gd to 18s 9d; light fat wethers 15s 6d to 16s 9d; fat hoggets 16s 9d to 18s 3d;

mixe4 sex hoggets 13s to 15s 9d; fat ew T es 9s to 11 s 6d: killable ewes 6s to 7s; heavy fat woolly lambs 21s 6d to 23s 3d; light to medium 15s 6d to 19s 6d; light shorn lambs 14s to 15s 6d. Cattle: Medium prime steers £ll 2s 6d to £ll 7s; lighter £lO Is to £lO 15s; killable Jersey steers to £7; fat Friesian cows £7 13s to £9; lighter, £6 9s to £7 9s: medium prime Shorthorn heifers. £7 19s to £8 17s; fat Jersey cows and heifers £5 7s to £6; heavy boner cows £3 12s to £4 9s; lighter £2 5s to £3 7s; good runners £5 Is to £6 7s; medium vealers, £2 6s to £2 11s; smaller, 27s 6d to 395; rough calves 17s to 20s. Pigs: Choppers 37s to £3 2s; best baconers £3 12s to £3 14s; medium, £3 8s to £3 10s; lighter £3 2s to £3 6s; buttermilk pigs and heavy porkers, £2 12s to £3; medium porkers £2 4s to £2 10s; light 36s to £2; large stores 27s to 355; medium 21s to 265; slips 16s to 20s; weaners 12s 6d to 15s 6d. Messrs Dalgety and Company Sheep: Heavy fat wethers 18s 6d to 19s; medium 17s 6d to 18s; light 16s to 16s 9d; heavy fat ewes 9s to 10s 9d: medium 8s to 8s 6d; light and unfinished ewes 6s to 7s 3d; extra prime fat lambs to 245; heavy fat lambs 22s 6d to 245; medium 18s to 20s 6d; light 16s to 17s 6d. Cattle: Medium fat steers £lO to £lO 15s; medium fat cows, £5 15s to £6 8s: fat Jersey cows £4 15s to £5 7s 6d; heavy boner cows. £3 10s to £3 15s: boner cows £2 5s to £3 2s 6d; potter bulls, medium £5 15s to £6 7s 6d; lighter £i 5s to £4 17s 6d; light runners £2 10s to £3 2s 6d; light vealers 15s to 255; medium yearling heifers (Jersey), £2 to £2 ss. Pigs: Prime topweight baconers, £3 14s: prime heavy baconers £3 10s to £3 13s; heavy, £3 8s to £3 10s; prime medium, £3 4s to £3 8s; medium. £3 2s to £3 4s; prime light £3 to £3 2s; light £2 18s to £3; buttermilk pigs, £2 10s to £2 18s; prime heavy porkers, £2 8s to £2 10s; heavy £2 6s to £2 8s; prime medium. £2 3s to £2 6s; medium £2 to £2 3s; prime light 38s to £2: light 34s to 38s; choppers, heavy, £2 10s to £3 ss; best stores 25s to 30s; medium 20s to 255; best slips 16s to 20s; medium 12s to 16s; best weaners 10s to 12s; others 6s to 10s. Loan and Mercantile Agency Cattle: Ox beef, £l2 17s 6d to £l3 10s; lighter sorts £10; prime heifers, £8 7s 6d to £8 15s; unfinished £6 12s 6d to £6 17s 6d; vealers, £2 7s to £3 11s; smaller sorts £1 15s to £2 3s; light runners, £5 to £5 8s; forward conditioned cows, £4 to £4 ss; fat Jersey cows, £5 to £5 6s; heavy boners £3 10s to £3 16s; lighter sorts £2 5s to £2 10s; potter bulls sold from £6 17s to £9 i Is. Sheep: Prime fat wethers 18s 6d to 20s; medium 16s 9d to 18s; lighter to 15s 3d; fat ewes 9s to 11s 3d; medium 7s 9d to 8s 6d; light up to 7s; fat hoggets sold to 15s; fat lambs 19s 3d to 235. Pigs: Heavy baconers £3 12s to £3 14s; medium £3 8s to £3 10s; light £3 2s to £3 ss; heavy porkers and buttermilk pigs £2 14s to £3; medium £2 6s to £2 11s; light £1 16s to £2 2s; choppers £2 to £2 14s; good stores 27s to 31s; medium 23s to 265; slips up to 225; best weaners 16s to 17s 6d; medium 10s to 15s. Messrs G. W. Vercoe and Company Sheep: Heavy prime wethers 19s to 20s; prime mediumweights ißs to 18s 9d; well-finished lightweights 16s 6d to 17s 6d; others up to 16s; prime S.D. cross*wethers 17s to 18s; smaller to 16s; prime maiden ewes 14s to 15s; lighter to 12s 6d; heavy fat ew r cs 9s to 10s; mediumweights to 8s 6d; inferior to 7s; heavy prime lambs 24s to 255; prime mediumweights 22s to 235; prime lightweights 19s to 21s; others 17s to 18s 6d; light and unfinished to 16s. Cattle: Mediumweight runners £5 to £5 16s; prime lightweights £4 5s to £4 15s; others £3 12s 6d to £4; heavy prime vealers £3 to £3 10s; mediumweights £2 to £2 15s; prime lightweights 30s to 38s; small calves up to 255; heavy fat bullocks, £l3 5s to £l4; prime mediumweights £l2 10s to £l3; prime lightweights up to £l2; light and unfinished £9 17s 6d to £lO 10s; prime mediumweight cows £8 10s to £9 2s; lighter prime. £7 15s to £8 7s 6d; mediumweights £6 10s to £7 10s; light up to £6; prime mediumweight heifers £8 to £9; prime lightweights to £7 15s; heavy fat Jersey cows £5 15s to £6 10s; mediumweights to £5 10s; light to £5; forward conditioned S.H. and Friesian cows £4 to £4 15s; others to £3 15s: heavy boners £3 15s to £4 10s; mediumweights £3 to £3 12s 6d; light to £2 15s; potter bulls (heavy), £9 to £10; mediumweights £7 15s to £8 10s; light to £7. Pigs: Heavy baconers £3 10s to £3 14s; mediumweights £3 6s to £3 9s: light £3 to £3 ss; heavy porkers £2 15s to £2 19s; mediumweights £2 8s to £2 14s; light £2 to £2 7s; unfinished 35s to 395; choppers to £3 8s; best stores 34s to 375; smaller 29s to 335; good slips 24s to 28s; smaller 20s to 235; good weaners 12s to 16s; others to 11s; inferior to 6s; sows with litters to £5. Messrs Wright, Stephenson & Co. Sheep: Prime fat wethers, 18s 6d to 19s: fat wethers 17s to 17s 9d; prime 2-tooth wethers 15s; wether hoggets up to 15s 9d; prime ewe hoggets, 15s 6d to 16s; prime 2-tooth ewes up to 15s; fat lambs 18s to 19s. Cattle: Fat cows, £4 10s to £5 7s 6d; heavy boner cow's, £3 6s to £3 15s; medium boners, £2 10s to £3: culls, 30s to £2; in-calf Jersey heifers, £5 10s to £5 19s; yearling heifers 22 10s to £2 15s; heifer calves 30s to £2; potter bulls. Jersey £5 6s to £6 9s; Shorthorns £6 5s to £7. OHINEWAI STOCK SALE Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Company, Limited, report, as follows on their Ohinewai stock sale held on Monday:— There was a good yarding, including fat and forward Polled Angus cows, eighteen months Polled Angus and Hereford steers and weaner calves. A line of 51 Polled Angus cows averaged £5 13s 6d. Fat cows made £6 14s to £8 8s: lighter £5 7s 6d to £6; store cows in good condition, up to £5: 18 months Polled Angus steers £1 to £5; Polled Angus heifers £2 17s Gd to £3 Is; weaner calves 22s to 2 7s. TAUPIRI STOCK SALE The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Limited, report as follows on their Taupiri stock sale held on Monday:— An average yarding of fat pigs met with spirited competition, a total clearance being effected, prices being on a par with the previous Frankton sale. A light yarding of store and weaner pigs came forward but

these attracted little attention, values in most cases not reaching vendors' reserve. Heavy baconers brought £3 11s to £3 14s; medium £3 5s to £3 10s; light £3 to £3 4s; heavy porkers and buttermilk pigs £2 12s to £2 19s; medium £2 5s to £2 10s; light £1 18s to £2 3s; large store pigs made to 275; weaners 5s to 12s.

TE KUITI EWE FAIR Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held their annual ewe fair at Te Kuiti when a full yarding of ewes* was offered to an attendance of Waikato and local buyers. Buyers showed a marked preference for genuine age ewes, i.e. four and five-year, though sound mouth ewes in good condition received attention. On small lines of hill country sheep drafted out of bigger lines for condition bidding was keen but for old doubtful mouthed ewes the market w'as dull. The demand throughout remained firm and practically the entire yarding changed hands under the hammer at satisfactory prices, lines of aged marked ewes making 2s to 2s 6d above vendors’ expectations. Twotooth ewes, though subject to keen competition did not sell to values ruling at Taumarunui and Matiere fairs. For two-tooth ewes, a draft from Messrs Mason Bros, topped the market at 28s lOd. A pen from the National Mutual property managed by Mr E. J. Davenport sold at 28s 6d, while entries from Mr T. N. Snowdon and Mr C. Johnston sold at 275. In the fouryear section Mr C. P. Olsson again received top price of 25s Bd, Mr T. Were’s entry selling at 25s 4d. while' annual drafts from Mr E. McPherson and Mr A. Sutherland sold at 2 is 9d and 24s respectively. Mr T. Were’s annual draft of five-year ewes sold at 2is sd, Messrs Barker Bros', entry making 20s 6d. Entries from Tawanui Station and Mr D. D. Vickerman changed hands at 20s Id. Annual drafts of four and five-year ewes from Mr W. H. Blundell and Mrs Reade made 20a 6d. Sound mouth ewes from Mr D. V. Bryant’s Te Kuiti property sold at 15s Bd, Sir Carrick Robertson’s draft selling at 15s 6d, while for five and sixyear ewes Mr J. C. Rolleston received 17s 9d. The following is a list of principal sales: 40 Border Leicester two-tooth ewes. 255; 175 two-tooth ewes 28s lOd; 35 two-tooth ewes. 275; 64 twotooth ewes, 28s 6d; 55 two-tooth ewes, 275; 113 four-tooth ewes, 255; 128 Black Face two-tooth ewes, 14s; 143 four-year ewes, 25s 4d; 115 fouryear ew’es, 245; 79 four-year ewes, 24s 9d: 146 four-year ewes, 25s 8d; 151 four and five-year ewes, 20s 6d; 292 four and five-year ewes, -8s 6d; 284 four and five-year ewes ißs 6d 284 five-year ewes, 20s 6d; 134 five-year ewes, 21s sd: 160 five-year ewes. i 6s: 144 five-year ewes, 15s 6d; 61 fiveyear ewes. 20s Id: 73 five-year ewes, 10s Id; 94 five year ewes, i4s Id; 601 five and six year ewes, 17s 9d; 403 sound mouth ewes, 15s 8d: 310 sound mouth ewes, 15s 6d; 158 mixed age ewes, 20s 6d. OHAUPO REALISATIONS Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held their usual Ohairpo sale on Friday when a full yarding of cattle came forward. Prices were slightly easier than late sales. A total clearance was effected. Fat Friesian cows made £6 to £6 10s; fat Jersey cows. £5 to £6; light, fat cows. £4 10s to £5; heavy boners, £3 to £4 iOs; store cows. £2 to £3; potter bulls, £5 to £9: weaner Jersey calves (small), £2 1 ss; weaner Jersey calves, small and mixed colours, £2 6s. CAMBRIDGE RATEB Messrs Dalgety and Company. Limited report having held fheir tri-weekly sale at Cambridge on Monday. There was a small yarding of sheep and cattle. The sheep consisted mainly of Southdown lambs and sold on a par with recent rates. A pen of wellfinished Polled Angus heifers on account of Mr Geo. Vosper made £B. Fat heifers made £8; fat Polled Angus cows, £6 13s; fat Jersey r.ows, £4 10s to £5 ss: heavy boners, £3 5s to £4 2s 6d; medium. £2 12s 6d to £3 Is; light, £1 7s 6d to £2; bulls, £6 2s 6d to £8 6s: fat two-tooth wethers, 17s 6d; Southdown lambs, 8s to 9s 9d; culled, 4s 6d to 6s. A good yarding of all classes of pigs came forward and a total clearance was effected. Fat pigs sold freely and prices were fully maintained throughout the sale. Stores and weaners were slack although a total clearance was effected and prices were lower. Heavy baconers made £3 10* to £3 12s; medium, £3 5s to £3 10s; light, £3 to £3 ss; heavy porkers, £2 10s to £2 15s; buttermilk pigs £2 15s to £3; medium porkers, £2 5s to £2 10s; light. £2 to £2 ss; small. 35s to £2; best store pigs, 25s to 30s: medium, 20s to 255; small, 16s to 20s; best slips, 12s to 16s; best weaners, 9s to 12s; choppers, medium. £2 5s to £2 15s.