PRICES RECEDE

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21371, 15 March 1941, Page 3

PRICES RECEDE

SHEEP AT MORRINSVILLE j KEEN INTEREST IN CATTLE I J LOWER SCHEDULE FOR PIGS The auctioneers quote as rollons on the Morrinsville stock sale held yesterday: Farmers' Auctioneering Company, Ltd. Cattle.—Top price or £ l T was received by Mr \V. McLean, or Walton, lor a choice • quality Polled Angus bulluck, purchased by Messrs It. and W. Hella'by, Ltd., AuckI land; Mrs M. P. Goosman sold a Polled AiigTis bullock to the Fanners’ Meat Company, Murrinsville, for £l6 10s: Mr .1. 11. Jlopkins purchased a {rood qua.lity Polled Angus bullock lor £lO 3s from Mr W. MrLean. Top price or £lO 19s was paid by Mr J. 11. Hopkins lor a line of Polled Angus heifers, ollercd on account of Mr A. A. Gibbons. Polled Angus cows made £'3 ISs to £0 55. Heavy prime Polled Angus bullocks £lO to £l7. medium £ll 15s to £'ls lus, heavy prime Polled Angus heifers £lO 19*, lighter £'.) to £9 10s, heavy prime Polled Angus cows £3 lo £9 3s, heavy shorthorn l cow's £0 13s to £7 lus, heavy fat Jersey cows and heifers £-3 13s to £0 7* od, light £ i 13s to £3 10s, heavy boner cows £4 15s lo £3 13s, medium £3 15s to £4 10s, light £:t lo £3 I OS, cunuer cows 35s ,i to £2 14*, heavy fat potter bulls £9 10s to £ll 10s, others £7 to £9, lighter £5 to £0 los, cows and runners £5 2s Gd to £0 9s, rising 2-year in-calf Jersey heifers £7 1 Is to £3 3*, medium quality £7 lo £7 2s, Jersey-cross boilers £G >js to £'7, smaller £i 2s (3d to £! 19s, Jersey heifers in milk £9 10s, dairy cows £G 15s, medium quality weaner Jersey heifers £3 5s to £3 I-As Gd, small Jersey and Jerseycross weaner heifers 3'9s to £.2 12s Gd. j .Sheep.—'Medium prime 2-toofh wethers 2is to 25s Gd, smaller 20s 3d to 235, fat lambs 12s to 13s Gd, heavy lat lambs 23s Gd lo 255. medium 20s to 22s Gd, best woolly black-face lambs 13s Gd to lis id, smaller Ms to l'2s 6d, good shorn blackface lambs 12s to 13* lid, sunal' 10s id to 11s lOd, cull lambs Gs Gd to js Gd, 5-year breeding ewes i?s u 13s, other tound-inouth ew : es 13s to 15s, one-sliear Southdow n rams 51 to 6 gns, l ull-mouth rams l A to 2 gns. Pigs.—Heavy choppers £3 15s to £4 Tss, others £2 4s to £3 13s, heavy baconers £4 to £4 6s, medium £3 12ts to £3 T3s, light £3 3s to £3 10.5, heavy porkers £2 14s to £3, medium £2 65 to £2 103, I light 3‘3s to £2 is, unfinished 30s to 3bs, large ‘stores 23s Gd to 27s 6d, smaller 16s Gd to 21s, slips 106 to 14s Gd, weanI ers 6s to 12 s, pedigree Berkshire boars to Loan and Mercantile Agency ■Cattle.—(Prune Tat Jersey cows £5 2s j Gd to £7 s*. medium £4 12s Gd to £3 is, heavy boner cows £i to £1 lls, medium i £3 5s lo £3 17s Gd, heavy potter bulls £7 5s to £'S 15s, medimill £'G 5s lo £7 2s Gd, fat Jersey heifers £4 5s lo £5 SS, Ayr-shire-Jersey cross in-calf heifers £7 5-s, medium weaner Jersey lieilers £3 lus to £{ is, small £2 iss to £3 7s, weaner Shorthorn dairy heifers £3 10s to £4. Sheep.—. Medium fat lambs 21s to 22s 3d, good store dium Ss Gd to lls 9d. pigs.—bar one is t‘3 5 s to £3 lls. good porkers 37 s Gd to £2 ss, medium 31s to 355, store pigs igs to 19s, small store pigs Gs to lus Gd. Dalgety and Company, Ltd. Sheep.—'Store wethers to 20s Gd, good black-face lambs to l ls. Cattle.—Prime fat Jersey cows £0 to £6 l'ss, light fat cows to £5 166, heavy boners £4 lGs to £5 2s, medium £3 19s to £ i lls, lighter to £3 10s, good quality weaner calves to £1 17s Gd, others £3 12,5 to £3 TSs, heavy potter bulls £8 to £9 lus, lighter £0 to £7 10s. Pigs.—Light porkers 3 2s. TE AWAMUTU QUOTATIONS Dalgety and Company. Ltd., report as follows on their tri-weekly stock sale at To Awumutu on Thursday:— Cattle.—There was a good yarding of all classes or fat cattle and a medium yarding of stores and boners. Fat cattle met a keen demand, boners being well up to- recent rates. Very little interest was shown in store cattle, practically ail lots being passed. Four pens of prime heavy bullock* in Train Tokanui Mental Hospital met keen competition to sell at from £ll 2s Gd to £ I'2, good-quality Polled Angus heifers on account of Mr R. Guy £8 3s, prime heavy bullocks £ll 10s to £l2, lighter £lO 9s to £lO 17s Gd, prime fat Polled Angus heirers £7 7s Gd to £8 3s, prime fat Jersey cows £6 is to £6 13s, heavy boners £3 17s to £1 15s. medium £2 16s to £3 9s, lighter 25s to 355, light putter bulls £4 15s to £6. Sheep.—There was a fair yarding of all classes or sheep which met with a ready sale at recent rates. prime fat lambs made 2Gs Gd to 2.85, fat 22s 8d to 23s Gd, medium 19s to 21s 6d, medium rat wethers IS* 9d to 22s Sd, fat ewes 10s to lls, good store lambs 17s Gd to 18s lOd. medium 13s to 15s, small whiteface wether lambs 14s 4d, small ewe laimlbs to lls, small black-face lambs Ss to 10s, 2-tooth ewes in small lots 17s 3d to 19s Gd. 2, 4 and 6-tooth ewes in small lots 19s 3d to 20s 3d, 4 and 5-year ewes to 20s. 5 and 6-year ewes to 17s 3d, older sheep Ss Sd to !ls 3d. cull ewes 5s t.o 5s 9d, two-shear rams to £3 3s, oneshear rams to £4 is, full-mouth and aged Pigs.—A good yarding or pigs came forward and although a number or the usual buyers were not operating, a steady sale resulted at prices slightly below tihis week’s Frankton quotations. Few baconers were penned and no top weight*, ttie majority or the yarding comprising chleiiy porkers. Store pigs were keenly sought and prices were firm. Light baconers bought £3 to £3 Ss, heavy porkers £2 6s to £2 TSs, medium 3Ss to £'2 ss, light 2'5« to 345, large stores 20s lo 26s Gd, medium 15S to 2Us, Slips 10s to 156, good weaners Ss to 12s, choppers £4 15a to £4 18s. __