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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 29241, 11 October 1940, Page 10

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MATAMATA QUOTATIONS The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering- Company, Limited, report that at their Matainata stock sale on Wednesday a good ofTertng- of cow and heirer beef sold under steady competition at values showing- a firming- tendency on late rates. Boner cows realised prices on a par with recent sales, with young- paddocks cows keenly sought at firm values. Dairy Cattle: An average yarding of dairy cattle, comprising chiefly hellers, which met a ready sale. Prices for this class were rally up to recent sales, but cows were not so keenly sought. Pedigree Bulls: a keen demand existed for an entry of pedigree Jersey bulls. The offering Included the advertised entry on account of Messrs. G. S. and N. Bruce, of Walton, a two-year-old bull realising 4 1 guineas. Yearling bulls on account of tlie same vendors sold front 17 to *2B guineas. Sheep: A small yarding of Tat sheep consisting mainly of shorn ewes, with competition remaining steady. Quotations. —Cattle: Heavy fat Shorthorn cows and heifers. £lO 0s to £lO 14s; medium fat Shorthorn and Polled Angus cows. £8 18s to £0 2s; fat Jersey heifers, £7 5s to £8; lighter, £0 to £0 lus; heavy fat Jersey cows, £7 17s to £8 12s 6d! medium, £7 to £7 10s; light. £0 6s to £0 12s; heavy hotter cows, £ « 15s to £5 15s; medium, £3 17s to £4 9s; light. £2 10s to £3 10s; heavy potter bulls, £9 10s; empty two-year Jersey heifers, £4 17s to £5 10s; young paddock cows, £3 10s to £5 Os. Dairy Cattle.—Best springing Jersey heifers, £lO 10s to £l2 1 Os; medium duality, £7 15s to £9 10s; other springing heifers, £5 10s to £7; good heifers in milk, £7 10s to £9 10s; others, up to £6 ss; springing Jersey and Jersey-cross cows. £7 15s to £9 15s. A good offering of yearling Jersey heifers, comprising entries on account of Mr G. Coates, Okorolre, realised £6 los to £7 15&; on account of Mr R. 0. McCabe, Turanga-o-Moana, £4 18s to £7 16s. A pen of Friesian yearling, on account of Mr McCabe sold at £6 2s Gd. Other sales were £6 to £fi ss; Jersey heifers, £5 6s; Shorthorn heifers. £6 9S: two-year pedigree Jersey hulls, to 4 1 gns.; yearling Jersey bulls, 17 To 28 gns.; others. 12 to 17 gns.; best grade yearling hulls, £S to £9 10s; others, £5 15s to £7 oS. Sheep.—Shorn wethers, 30s; woolly hoggets. 31s; shorn hoggets. 24s lOd; fat shorn ewes, 20s to 21s; lighter, 15s 6d to 17s Bd. Pigs.—Heavy choppers, £4 11s to £6 is; others, £3 17s to £4 4s; heavy baconers, £ S 6s to £4 8s; medium. £4 *2s to £4 is; light. £3 15s to £4; buttermilk pigs and heavy porkers, £3 to £3 12s: medium, £2 15s to £2 185; good quality large stores, £2 6s 6d to £2 13s; others, £2 to £2 4S: slips, 30s to 36s 6d; best weaners. 22s Gd to 27s Gd; others. 12s to 20s; breeding sows, £4 10s to £5; Berkshire boars, £3 10s to £5.

PUTARURU OPENING SALE Newton King. Lid., report that at their opening sale at Put arum saleyards on October 7, an exceptionally large entry of all classes or stock, comprising some 250 head of station and store cattle, 5 0 fat and store pigs, came forward and met a very ready sale from a large bench of buyers. Best fat bullocks sold to £ii; best fat Jersey and Jersey-cross cows, from £6 lus to £7 15s; lighter sorts, £5 lus to £*> ss; thTee-year Polled Angus and Hereford steers, £8 4s to £8 17s Gd; two-year Hereford steers, £6 los; Polled Angus cows with calves at foot sold rreely to £7; empty two-year Polled Angus heifers selling to £4 15s; mixed-sex yearling realised £4. Strong competition was the order of the day on the store Jersey cows, any cattle suitable for the grazier being keenly competed for. Best store cows sold from £ i 10S to £5 2s Gd; others, £4 to £4 14s; lighter, £3 5s to £3 17s 6d; boners, £2 to £2 10s; best Jersey yearling, to £7 Is; others, £6 to £G lus. The offering oF bulls met somewhat of an easier sale on recent rates, best twoyear pedigree bulls selling from 24gns. to 26gns., others, logns. to 20 gns; best yearling pedigree bulls, 12gns. to IGgns. The offering of grade hulls, all of which were sold under the hammer, sold freely to £l2; others. £7 10S to £9. An exceptionally large yarding of pigs came forward and met with strong competition from outside buyers. Best baconers sold to £i Is; lighter baconers, £3 14s to £3 18s; best, porkers, £3 5s to £3 12s; lighter. £3 to £3 is; best stores, £2 1 iis to £3; lighter, £2 5s to £2 10S; weaners, 20s to 355. TE KAUWHATA YARDING • \Y. Vercoe and Company, Limited, i report haying held their weekly stock sale at Te Kauwhata on Monday when a large *-ntry or cattle came forward. Competi- | lion* throughout was keen and a very satisfactory clearance resulted. Heavy ! fat cows sold from £7 15s to £8 tos; medium-weights. £7 to £7 12s Gd; light, t., £6 ir,s: forward-conditioned polled i Angus cows, to £7 ss: young empty Sliort- : horn cows, to £6 ins: aged Hereford cows , i r.w.li. . to £7: yearling Jersey heifers, : 1-.. to £6 I": yearling crossbred lieirers, !|o IT, l u-; heavy boners. £ i :,s to £4 IS>; I medium-weights. £:; 15? to £ i 2s Gd; i light, to £3 10s, potter bulls, to £9 la Gd,

good quality Jersey cows, close to profit, £ll to £l2 10s; Others. £9 to £lO 155; backward and inferior, to £8 10s : Jersey and Jersey-cross heifers, close to profit. £ to to £ir»: others, to £9. Pigs.— Heavy prime baconers. £i 9s to £ i I is; heavy. i\ Is to £i 7s; modiumweights. £3 16s to £4: light. £:? 12 s to £3 15s; heavy porkers. £3 r,s to £:: t*s: med-ium-weight-. £2 tss Jo £3 light. £2 IDS to £•-.> 15s: chopper*. In £i |n- : good stores. £2 to £-j 7<: others. :!7,s to 30s: good slips. 28* to 345; smaller, 23s to 275, weaners, to 225.