VALUES NO HIGHER

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 263, 9 December 1930, Page 5

VALUES NO HIGHER

QUIET SALE AT WAIPUKURAU. DEMAND WITHIN STRICT LIMITS ALL SECTIONS SELL CHEAPLY. There was a better attendance of buyers at Waipukurau this morning, when the yarding of cattle was about the same as last week in respect to size. A mixed yarding of second class beef beasts met a poor demand and prices generally on this class were down even lower tlian last week. The quality of the yarding left something to be desired, however, and there was only one beast in the priine category entered. FAT CATTLE RANGE. A lightly finished Jersey cow was passed at £3 10s, while there was only one bid of £2 10s forthcoming on a liglit fat Jersey heifer. Tliis beast was passed at tliis figure. A light prime to prime Red Poll heifer, a well-proportioned, well-fin-ished beef body, was very cheap huying at £6 7s 6d. One lightly finished Jersey cow met the market at £4 2s 6d. A bid of £5 10s secured six empty Hereford cross eows, a lightly finished line of fairly grown voung cattle. Another line of six from the same source met the market at £6 10s. Two big-framed Shorthorn and Holstein cows, fairly filled out, were cheap buying at £5. QUIET MARKET- FOR STORES. Store cattle Were yarded in fair quantities and met a quiet market, values heing about on a par with last week, sliowing the same fluctuating tendency. A line from Elsthorpe of stationbred P.A. cows and calves, fairly constitutioned cattle, the cows big i'ramed hut poor, made £3 7s 6d, at which price tliey were very good buying. A station-hred line of 10 young P.A.. Hereford cows, with 10 calves at foot, sold at £4, being also cheap cattle at this figure. Seventeen empty P.A. two-year heifers, a liglit oonditioned line of station cattle, a bit rough in the coat hut in l'air order for the store pens, realised £3 16 s. A big Shorthorn bullock, heavy in frame and in fair forward condition, sold subject to vendor's approval at £7 5s.

A line of 14 well-bred _P.A. yearling steers, four fine oonditioned young cattle of sturd.v stamp, met the market at £3 2s 6d. Six P.A. Shorthorn cross empty cows and heifers, in light order, made a poor sale at £3. A line of five erossbred Hereford cows, with five bonn.v young Hereford calves at foot. met tlie market at £2 14s 6d. A line from Mount Vernon, five yearling Red Poll heifers, | clean skinned line of forward oonditioned young cattle, were very good' buying at £2 2s 6d. Seven P.A. two-year steers, a goodIooking line of well-hred young station cattle, in good forward condition, realised £4 5s. Two Red Poll forward conditioned cows, with good healthy-looking calves at foot, another small line from Mount Vernon, sold at £3 7s. Poor in corfdition but fair framed, five empty P.A. station cows realised £2 12s 6d, the bid connng from a Dannevirke buyer, who secured a cheap line of cattle. . Two empty Jersey-Hereford heifers, a good stamp of young beast, passed at 20s. Four mixed breed dairy two-year steers sold at £1 4s 6d. A bid of 20s was not suificient to seeure two fair conditioned Jersev 18months steers. A good clean-lookiug type of Hereferd stud bull jiass.ed at £4, carrying a reserve of 10 guineas. Another Hereford bull, also of a good useful stamp, passed at £4. IN THE SHEEP PENS. There was a moderate yarding of fat sheep, six pens in all. Values were low from the start and very little demand existed, thougli the quality of the yarding was fair. » The first three pens, contaming 41 fat ewes of a good reliable type, passed witliout a single bid. Twelve prime woolly wethers started at 18s and were passed at this figure witliout a rise. A ligliter line of fat ewes started at 7s and sold finally at 7s 6d. A line more suited for the store pens than for the fat sheep section, seven four-tooth wethers, met the market at 13s. Eleven prime two-tooths, shorn sheep in gooil order, sold at 12s", wliile a single fat wethev made 13s 9d. ^Fourteen liglit prime wethers made 15s 9d, at wliieh price they were passed, IN THE STORE PENS. Two hundred and twenty-four shorn two-tooth wethers, a fair framed, light conditioned line, ex-Waiwhera, sold subject to vendor's approval at 8s 4d. Fifty-one i'our-tooth wetliers. shorn sheep carrying very little condition, sold at 12s lOd.