FURTHER DECLINE

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20956, 8 November 1939, Page 13

FURTHER DECLINE

VALUES FOR BEEF SLACK FRANKTON MARKET FAT EWES ALSO CHEAPER The market was again slack for beef at Frankton yesterday and a further decline in values W T as recorded. Competition was often tedious in the fat sheep section, and ewes were often cheaper by 2s to 3s per head. Fat pigs, which were yarded in the largest numbers this season, were fully firm.

The entry of steers was a heavy one for this time of the year, the supply being altogether too large for the demand. Heavy steers sold from £l2 17s 6d to £l3 5s per head in comparison with £l3 9s to £l4 5s last week, all classes being approximately £1 a head lower. The quality was fair but hardly as good as previous weeks. Cows and heifers showed no improvement and while top-quality offerings were firm in some cases, others were often close on £1 a head cheaper. Best descriptions were quoted from £9 15s to £lO 10s, but actually sales above the former figure were limited. The entry included a larger proportion of light and small sorts, which generally made from £4 8s to £5 17s 6d. Quite good meaty sorts yesterday were auctioned from £6 10s to £B. Sheep and Pigs Enthusiasm was altogether lacking in the fat sheep market and the sale was the dullest experienced for some months. Sheep in the wool were confined to just a few pens. Ewes suffered most by the weak demand, all classes being by 2s to 3s a head cheaper. One good line of 40 sold at 17s 9d, but the usual range for good sorts was 13s 9d to 16s 6d, with comparatively few pens selling above 14s 3d. From 16s 6d to 19s 6d was given for fat ewes in the wool. It was more difficult to gauge the strength of the wether marKet as there was considerable variation in quality and it was not easy to compare prices with those of last week. While in not a few cases values were distinctly lower, there were other instances where there was no noticeable alteration. The majority of the pens made from 20s to 22s 9d, with top-quality descriptions changing hands from 23s 6d to 25s 9d.

Despite the large entry, fat pigs sold freely at late rates with baconers being quoted from 65s to 82s and porkers from 40s to 60s. At times values were rather variable and some vendors received slightly less than last week, while others obtained a shade more. Store pigs were also forward in extra large numbers, with the result that values were usually lower than last week. Price Summary The following table is a summary of prices realised for fat stock at the Frankton yards during the past fortnight:—

Individual Consignments For the four best steers from Mr J. A. Gower, of Gordonton, buyers paid £l3 ss, and for others from the same vendor gave £l2 17s 6d to £l3 2s 6d. Four from Messrs. Willoughby Bros., of Tuhikaramea, made £l3 5s apiece, lighter cattle from the same vendor realising from £lO to £ll 17s 6d. Messrs. Whewell Bros., of Tamahere, sold the best of their consignment from £ll to £ll 17s, while from £9 15s to £ll 17s was given for those from Mr T. M. Hall, of Ohaupo Road. From £lO 10s to £ll 2s 6d was paid for those sold on account of Mr N. K. Taylor, while those from Messrs. Blackett Bros, changed hands from £lO 3s to £ll 16s. Cows and heifers from Mr R. G. Griffen, of Tauwhare, were knocked down from £8 10s to £lO ss, while a heavy Shorthorn cow from Messrs. Willoughby was auctioned at £lO 10s. From Mr J. C. Potts came entries that realised from £8 6s to £9 15s. Prime wethers from Mr P. C. Hogan, of Te Awamutu, sold at 25s 9d, while from * 23s 6d to 25s was given for those from Mr G. W. Vercoe’s Hinuera farm. Wethers from Mr D. Johnston sold at 255, while entries from the Weeley Farm were auctioned from 24s to 24s 6d. A line of 40 choice ewes from Mr L. H. Larner, of Morrinsville, sold at 17s 9d.

AUCTIONEERS’ QUOTATIONS

The auctioneers quote as follows: Farmers’ Auctioneering Company, Limited. Cattle.—Medium prime bullocks from Mrs Potts, Hautapu, £lO is to £ll 8s; the f-ame class cattle from Messrs. Blackett Bros., Te Kowhal. £ll 10s; good-con-ditioned two-year steers on account of the same vendor, £io 3s to £ 11; medium prime bullocks offered on behalf of Mr W. H. Worster, Puketaha, £lO 15»; medium prime bullocks. £lO 15s to £ll i ss; lighter, £9 16s to £lO ss; heavy fat cows and heirers, £9 7s 6d to £9 15s; medium fat cows, £6 18s to £7 15s; light, £4 17s

to £5 13?: fat Jersey cows, £5 to £6 ss; good vealers, to £:?; small calves, 14s to j 24?; heaw boner cows, £3 14? to £4 2s; medium, £2 iss to £3 lls; lighter, 36? to £2 I -?: potter bulls. £4 17s ''d to £5 ss; yearling Jersey heifers, £4 5s to £1 163; two-year empty Jersey heifers, £3 16S to £ t 4S. Sheep.—Prime shorn wethers, 24s to 255; medium, 22s to 235; light, 19s to 21s 3d; heavy fat shorn ewes, 14s to 14s 9d; medium, 11s 6d to 12s fid: prime woolly hoggets. 24s 6d to 26s 9d: prime shorn hoggets. 20? to 2 2? I'd; light, is.- to 19s; Gd; heavy prime lambs, 25s to 2 6s; medium, 22s ' (i to 23s Od; light fat lambs, 19s Gd to 2is. Pigs.—Heavy prime baconers, £3 18s to £1 3S; medium, £3 12s to £3 16-g; light, £3 5s tr. £3 10s; heavy porkers and buttermilk pigs, £2 16s to £3 3s: medium porkers, £2 lls to £2 15s; light. £2 5s to £2 10s; large stores. 37s to £2; medium, 31s 6d to 365; slips, 28s 6d to 32s Gd; good weaners, 23s to 28s; others, l is 1o 21s 6d. Dalgety and Company, Ltd. Sheep.—Prime heavy fat wethers 24s to 25s 6d, medium 22s to 23s 3d, light 18s 6d to 2ls 9d, heavy Tat ewes 16s to 17s, medium 13s to 1 is 6d, light unfinished 10s to 12s 6d, woolly ewes 22s to 23s 3d, medium woolly wethers 26s to 27s 9d, shorn 2-tooth ewes 25s to 26s 3d, wethers 15s to 17s, spring lamb 23s to 255, light 18s to 19s Gd. Cattle.—Prime heavy bullocks £ll 10s to £l4, lighter £9 10s to £lu 12s 6d, prime fat cows £7 15s to £9 2s 6d, lighter £6 5s to £7, heavy boners £3 10s to £i 7s 6d, medium £2 7s 6d to £3, lighter 22s 6d to 355, heavy potter bulls £S to £9, Others £4 to £5 103. Pigs.—Prime top-weight baconers £4 to £4 2s, heavy baconers £3 15s to £l, heavy

do. £3 10s to £3 15s, medium baconers £3 5s to £3 10s, light baconers £3 to £3 ss, buttermilk pigs £2 10s to £3, heavy porkers £2 5s to £2 10s, medium £2 2s to £2 ss, light £2 to £2 2s, choppers £3 to £3 12s, large store pigs 35s to £2, medium 30s to 3 ss, small 25s to 3os, choice slips 28s to 325, medium 24s to 28s, best weaners 26s to 30s, others 20s to 265. Cattle.—Light rat cows £5 to £6 2s, light Tat Jersey cows £3 9s to £4 2s, heavy boner cows £3 to £3 15s, lighter 30s to £2 ss. Sheep.—Heavy shorn wether? 22s 9d to 2 ss, light wethers 17s 9d to 19s Gd, heavy shorn ewes lls to 13s, lighter ewes 8s 6d to 10s. A pen or South Down cross wethers, in Torward condition, made 16s 7d. pigs.—Heavy baconers £3 15s to £3 19s, medium £3 10s to £3 12s, light £3 to £3 Bs, heavy porkers and buttermilk pigs £2 13s to £2 18s medium porkers £2 6s to £2 10s, light £2 to £2 ss, large stores 36s 6d to £2, slips 30s to 345, weaners 18s 6d to 225. G. W. Verooe & Co., Ltd. Cattle.—Ten prime Hereford bullocks, ex Mr J. A. Gower, of Gordonton, £l3 5s with an average of £l3 2s Gd; 14 goodquality Shorthorn and Polled Angus bullocks, ex Messrs. Willoughby Bros., or Tuhikaramea, £l3 ss; good quality Polled Angus bullocks, ex Messrs. Whewell Bros., of Tamahere, averaged £ll 17s; Friesian bullocks, ex the same vendors, to £ll 17s; light-weight Polled Angus bullocks, ex Mr W. I. Taylor, of Ohaupo, averaged £lO 12s 0d; crossbred cattle, ex Mr 11. W. Cleland, or Gordonton, to £lO 15s. Prime medium-weight bullocks, £l2 10s to £l3 ss; prime lighter-weights, £ll 17s 6d to £l2 7s Gd; prime light-weights, £ll to £ll 15s; others, £lO to £lo l~s 6d; plain and unfinished, to £9 12s 6d. Prime Shorthorn cattle, ex Messrs. Willoughby Bros., or Tuhikaramea, to £lO 10s; prime Polled Angus and Hereford cows and heirers, ex Mr R. G. Girffen, of Tauwhare, to £lO ss. Heavy prime cows, £9 15s to £lO 10s; prime medium-weights, £8 10s to £9 7s 6d; others, £7 15s to £8

7s 6d; well-finished light-weights, £7 to £7 15?; others, to £6 10s; prime med-ium-weight heifers, £9 10s to £lO ss; prime light. £8 to £8 17s 6d; others, to £7 10s; heavy fat Jersey cows, £6 10s to £7 10s; medium-weights, £5 15s to £6 7S 6d; light, £4 15S to £5 10S; med-ium-weight runners, £5 5s to £6; others, £4 10s to £5; heavy vealers, £3 10s to £4 ss; medium-weights, £2 15s to £3 7s 6d; light, £2 to £2 10s; small calves, up to 355; forward-conditioned young Shorthorn cows, £5 10s to £6 6s; others, £4 10s to £5; young Friesian cows, to £5 ss; others, to £4; empty two-year Jersey heirers, to £3 18s; rair-quality yearling Jersey heifers, to £4 ss; low-conditioned, to £3 10s; heavy boners, £3 15s to £4 12s 6d; medium-weights. £3 to £3 10s; light, to £2 15S; potter bulls, to £lO 55; rair-quality Jersey and Jersey-cross cows (in milk and close to profit) to £9; more backward, to £7 10s; inferior, to £6 10s.

Sheep.—Heavy prime woolly wethers, 28s to 295; lighter prime, 26s to 27s 6d; light, to 255; heavy fat woolly ewes, is? to 20s 6d; lighter, to 17s; heavy prime shorn wethers, 24s to 255; prime mediumweights, 23s to 23s 9d; well finished lighter-weights, 21s to 22s 6d; light and unfinished, 18s to 20s 6d; heavy Pat shorn ewes, 15s to 16s 3d; mediumweights, 13s to 14s 6d; light, 10s to 12s 6d. Twenty prime lambs, ex Messrs. Clothier Bros., or Karamu, to 25s 3d; prime lambs, ex Mr R. J. Shaw, Paterangi, to 2is; 23s Od was realised Tor a consignment., ex Mr J. Thompson, of Rototuna. Pigs.—Heavy prime baconers, £4 to £4 2s; heavy, £3 16s to £3 19?; mediumweight?, £3 12S to £3 13S; light, £3 5s to £3 Us; heavy porkers. £2 16s to £3; medium weights. £2 10s to £2 15s; light. £2 to £2 9s; choppers, to £3 16s; large stores, £2 to £2 6s; medium, 35s to £2; best slips, 30s to 3 is; smaller, 25s to 295; best weaners, 22s to 245; medium, 19? to 21?; others, to 18s; sows in pig, to £lO ss. Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd. Cattle.—Prime rolled Angus bullocks £ll, lighter sorts £9 to £lO 10s, prime cows ex dairy £6 to £7 ss. lighter sorts £ 4 105 to £5 105, vealers Might) 20s to 355, boner cows £3 10s to £i 10s.

Sheep.—Extra prime heavy wethers, on account Messrs Sharpe and Paul. Pukeatua, 24s 6d to 25s 9d, the latter figure being the best price or the day; medium wethers 21? Gd ld 235; unfinished sorts 19s 6d to 2 0s: prime heavy ewes, account Grassey Downes Estate, 13s to lis; account Morrison Brothers, 13? 3d to 13s 9d; other ewes, 11s to 12s; prime blackface hoggets. 18s to 21?; spring lambs,

2 1s to 22s 9d; shorn wether hoggets, 15s 6d to 17? 3d. the latter price being obtained Tor a line or 200. trucked up rroni the King Country: shorn ewe hoggets, good quality, 24s 10 26?: medium, 21s to 22s 6d; culls. 15s to 17s; store ewes, 17s; cull ewes. 2?.

Pigs.—Heavy baconers, £3 15s to £4 3?. the latter price being obtained Tor the tops of a line of 25 particularly wellfinished baconers from Mr F. Discombe, or Cambridge; lighter baconers, £3 3s to £3 12s 6d; heavy porkers. £2 10s to £3; unfinished pigs, £2 to £2 7s; good stores, 30s to £2 ss; weaners. 22s to 2Ss.

BEEF (per 1001b.) This Week Last Week Extra prime OX 35/6 to 37/6 Prime ox .. 33/- to 34/6 33/- to 35/inferior ox . 26/- to 32/-26/-to 32/6 Extra, choice 33/6 to 35/6 34/6 to 36/6 Prime cows . 28/6 to 32/6 29/6 to 33/Second quality 24/6 to 28/Light cows and heifers 21/- to 25/MUTTON (per head) Extra prime 24/- to 25/9 Fat wethers . 21/3 to 23/6 21/6 to 24/6 Unfinished wethers 19/- to 20/6 16/6 to 17/9 12/6 to 14/3 14/6 to 16/6 Unfinished ewes .... 5/- to 11/6 PIGS (per head) 65/- to 82/65/- to 82/40/- 10 60/15/- to 22/20/- to 25/28/- to 32/31/- to 35/Large stores . 34/- to 44/36/- to 48/6