VALUES LOWER

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21206, 31 August 1940, Page 5

VALUES LOWER

MARKET AT MORRINSVILLE FAT SHEEP CHEAPER STORE CATTLE DULL OF SALE Lower values ruled in most departments at the weekly Morrinsville stock sale yesterday when full yardings were on offer. The market for store cattle was in contrast with last week’s sale, the demand yesterday being quiet throughout. . Some 150 grown Polled Angus and Hereford bullocks from the East Coast were forward, but there was no enthusiasm and passings were not infrequent. A heavy entry of fat sheep met with a quiet sale and values fell into line with the lower rates established recently at other Waikato centres. , Although a limited number of top quality sorts sold at practically unchanged rates, other noggets were definitely cheaper. A few sold from 32s 9d to 33s 6d, but the bulk of the entry changed hands from 21s'9sl to 25s 9d. The usual butchers were not operating and this was one factor in the lower values obtained. Ewes ranged in price from 20s to 27s 9d. Store sheep, however, met with a very brisk response, special entries of hoggets and wethers proving very dear. Of one consignment of 645 wether hoggets 320 sold at 24s 2d and the remainder at 23s Id. Smaller hoggets made from 18s to 21s 3d. A consignment of wethers sold to a bid of 27s 7d. Values For Beef An average supply of beef met with only a fair demand, values for the most part being on a par with the lower rates ruling elsewhere. A few pens of light to medium bullocks i were traded from £9 10s to £ll 12s j 6d, and best quality cows were I usually knocked down from £7. 13s ! to £8 ss. ! Dairy cattle met with an indifferi ent sale compared with recent weeks. Top quality sorts, however, sold readily enough, being auctioned from £lO 10s to £l3. A good demand was shown for a fuller yarding of fat pigs, values sometimes showing an improvement.

AUCTIONEERS’ QUOTATIONS The auctioneers quote as follows: Loan and Mercantile Agency Cattle.—Fat Jersey hriTers £7 to £7 i:»s, medium rat Reiters £5 15s to £"> 15s, rat Jersey cows £'- 5s to £7 2s Gd, medium lat cows to to £6 2s 6d, heavy boners £l2 r»s to £li iT? <d. others from £.; to £5 2s »>rt. good quality yearling Jersev heirers £:. to £6 9s, medium quai- . • - ers £4 to £4 15s, medium quality dairy heifers £ll to £l2 15 s. later ralvrs from £9 to £lO 15s, medium quality dairy cows £lO to £ll 10- later calvers £8 to £9 13s. sheep.—Prime fat hoggets 30s to 32s 9d. medium rat hoggets 23s to 2Gs 10d, fat e-wes 21s to 235. pig-—Buttermilk pigs £2 ios to £•< 2s, medium porkers L2 53 Uj £2 16$, me-

dium store pigs 37s 6d to £2 ss, breeding sows £4 to £4 15s. Farmers’ Auctioneering Company, Ltd. Sheep.—Fat wethers '27s 9d to *2*Bs, rat ewes 22s to 27 s, heavy fat hoggets 20s r><3 to 33s 6d, medium fat hoggets 24s 6d to 25s Gd, lighter 22s to '23s, store wethers ex Gisborne 27<s 7d, store wether hoggets ex Gisborne 23s Id to 24s 2d, small 18s to 2'ls 3d. Cattle. Hereford steers £l2 10s, medium Polled Angus steers £ll 19s Gd. rat Jersey-cross steers £9 10s, heavy Friesian and Shorthorn cows £7 15s to £8 ss, good store cows £6 Is to £6 15s, fat Jersey heirers £6 10s to £7 10s, fat Jersey cows £5 dOs to £6 10s, heavy boners £3 10s to £4 7s 6d, medium £2 os to £3, light 20'S to 355, potter bulls to £8 10s, 2-year service bulls £9 12s 6d, best yearling Jersey heifers £5 10s to £6, small £3 15s to £4 ss, 2-yea.T empty Jersey heifers £4 Is>s to £5 10s, 4-year Polled Angus bullocks £9 5s to £9 10s, 3-year Polled Angus bullocks £8 to £8 10s, 2-year Hereford steers £6 to £0 9s, best Jersey dairy heirer? £l2 to £ls ss, dairy heifers close to profit £9 ins to £ll ss, Jersey and Jersey-cross heifers £8 15s to £io ss, Shorthorn and Friesian - cross hMfe-rs £7 'lss to £9 10s. inferior dairy hefrers £5 to £6 10s, best dairy I cows £lO ins to £l3 ss, others £8 5s to £9 10s, inferior £5 <ss to £7 10s. Pigs.—'Heavy choppers £4 to £4 75, 1 others £2 16s ito £3 12s, heavy baconers £4 2s to £4 7s, medium £3 18s to £4 2s, light £3 12s to £3 16s, buttermilk pigs and heaiv.v porkers £2 ISs to £3 ins, medium porkers £2 12s to £2 16s. light £2 ns to £2 IPS. good quality large stores £2 Gs to £2 13s, large stores £2 to £2 4s Gd, smaller 35S Grl to 3'Bs Gd, slips 34s 6d to 37s Gd, best weaners 25s 6d to 31s Gd. others 1-8 s to 22s Gd. Devon sows £7 to £8 ss, maiden Tam worth and Tam-worth-cross sows close to farrowing £4 to £5 ins, others £4 2s Gd to £5, sows with litters £8 15s to £9 ios.

MORRINSVILLE HORSE FAIR i The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile j Agency Company, Ltd., report that at j their special horse fair held at Morrins- • vllle on Thursday a full entry of horses \ came forward, including an entry from i the South Island. There was a large ! attendance of buyers, and competition on \ good quality farm horses was keen but j inferior sorts were bard to quit. Good j unbroken horses elicited keen competition ! and prices throughout were good. The I top price or the day was £39 for a six- : year-okl draught mare. Good young farm , horses sold from £32 to £39, good aged . farm horses £23 to £3l, light farm horses ! £l7 to £24 10s, good unbroken draught horses £2 5 to £3 210 s, light unbroken horses £ls to £l9 10s.

WAINGARO REALISATIONS ‘Messrs Dailgety and Company, Ltd., report that at itheir Waingaro sale, a good , yarding of cattle came forward and, as a result of the good season experienced, ; the stock were in first-class order. A good bench of buyers was present and a total clearance was made under the ham- ' rner at sails factory prices to vendors. Following arc the prices realised:—Three- j year Polled Angus steers, fresh coiull- ! tioned £8 5s to £8 14s, 3-year Shorthorn ; steers, fresh conditioned £8 to £‘S 9s, 2- i year Polled Angus steers £6 12s to £7 ss, 2-year Shortliorn-cross steers £6 7s Gd to £7, crossbred 3-year steers £6 15s ' to £7 ss. Polled Angus cows running with Polled bulls £6 12s Gd to £6 17s Gd, yearling Polled Angus steers £1 Ns to £5 ss, yearling polled Angus heifers £3 5s to £ i 1 Gs, empty 2-year Polled; Angus heifers £ i 19s to £5 2-s. cows witu calves at foot £S to £9 10s, dairy cows! £7 l"s to £9, springing heifers £0 los to i £7 10S, bulls £5 to £9.