COMMERCIAL NEWS

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21216, 12 September 1940, Page 12

COMMERCIAL NEWS

COROMANDEL YARDING Tbe Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company. Limited, report that at their Coromandel stock sale on Tuesday a pood yarding’ of cattle met brisk competition fr-jiu a rair bench or buyers at prices fully equal to late Waikato rates. \ heavy penning of store cattle and bulls was also m keen demand, and here again a ready clearance was effected. They quote:— Cattle: Fat Jersey steers, fs 9S; ra: jersey heirers. £5 12s 6<t to £7; medium bone; cows. £3 to £3 llS; light, £2. Store cattle. Four year shortb >rn an S hurt horn-cross steers, £8 17s; three-year bhorthorn and Shorthorn-cross steers. £7 to £7 ss; three-year Jersey-cros 3 steers. £-i 15'. three-year Friesian steers, £G 1 o<; two and a-half year Foiled Angus ana Shorthorn steers, £5 15s to \ r j<; poor conditioned 2 -year mixed and coloured steers, £4 13s to £5 4s ; two-year Friesian steers, £ i 1 Ss; Foiled Angus steer calves £2 IDs; Foiled Angus heifer calves, £„• 12~; yearling Jersey heirers, £4 10s. bulls: Best jersey service bulls. £0 1 o to £10; three-year Foiled Angus service bulls, £5 15s; is months’ Jersey bulls, g; to £7 2s 6d; 13 months Shorinorn bulls, £6 to £7 17s 6d, yearling Jersey bulls, £i 1 os. Dairy cattle: Spring Jersey and Shorthorn heifers, £3 to £lO 10s; Jersey and Shorthorn heifers, later calvers, £6 to £o; springing Jersey cows, £8 ios to £ll. MERCURY BAY SALE The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering company, Limited, report: At tneir Mercury Bay stock sale on Monday a good penning of cattle, Including a good number (j i young store cattle, came rorward and were keen ol sale with quotations Tor were^* 63 rel,ialnin 3' steady. Realisation? Cattle: Fat cows, £6 3s to £7 ss; lighter, It 19S to £5 17s; store cows, £ i to £i 9s; store heifers, £4 -is to £4 6s; medium toiler cows. £3 lo £ j ns; 4-year Kriesian steer?, £7 i&s to £8; good conditioned 2Jear rhorthoin steer.-, ig 7s od to £•', 15-; poorer conditioned, £5 Us; two-year mix - ♦•d coloured steers, £5 Us; la months Friesian steers, £5 is; yearling Jersey lieuFf; f 5 J } s . t,J »*: yearling shorthorn heifers, £i is; mixed coloured steer calves, £i 4s to £4 4s. poor conditioned yearling Jersey heirers, £3 17s to £* 10s; best Jersey service bulls, £it 1 5s; Shorthorn ser*7 Ce io^ UilS ’ £9 SS; *’ rtCslan service buns. Dairy cattle: Choice springing Shorthorn 1??*’ £io >OS to £lO 17s cd; Jersey and Jer.se>-cross neirers, £s to £9; springing and Friesian cows, £ 7 tOs to is backward Jersey and Shorthorn hellers' **» 10a to £o Iss. ARIA CATTLE FAIR * Sev, ’* ton King, Limited, report that at £ei r Am cattle fair held on Monday some ouo head of station cattle came forward i !l t L„ rnet - UIIII ® tron & competition rrom a large and representative bench or buyerone of the most animated safes sepn lor OuotatlSns r -!f UUlng for aU classes ° r cattle. —Best f at Polled Angus heirers, • ® ** 6(1; best fat Polled Angus shorthorn cows, £7 8i to £8 8s; four-year Foiled Angus steers, to £lO is; three-year Foiled Angus steers, £8 iss to £9 5s- two J®** .f°. ned .„Angus and Hereford steers, ai ios to £, 18«; 4u good quality threeyear Polled Angus heifers, £7; others , £6 to £6 1 0_s ; two-year Polled Angus heirers f t 5 £ ;\ 4 . 5: best y earlln ? Polled Angus steers, £5 5s to £5 12s Gd; smaller, £4 IS- to £4 12s; best yearling Polled Angus tellers, to £4 17s; smaller. £:{ lus to £4 bheep.—Ewe hoggets, 3is 7d.