CATTLE VALUES HARDEN

Chronicle (Levin), 3 September 1949, Page 3

CATTLE VALUES HARDEN

Feilding Stock Sale ■ ^ F'or the first time ior many months i'at statioii cattle in appreciable numbers were offered at the Feilding live stock sale • yesterday and considerable interest was displayed in the marketing of the beasts With the exeeption Of one pen of A.A. bulloeks most of.the cattle were unfmished but otherwise earrying condition. Apart from a pen passed in at £25 10s the top price obtained was £24 12s 6d and other saies sustained a price of close to 63s per lOOlbs, a iigure indicating a hardening tendency. The sale opened in fine weather which, however, did not endure for long as a cold southerly with rain" blew np and sent visitors rushing for shelter. Fat sheep maintained late rates with top lines dearer. Although prices remained largely undisturbed, the enquiry for store sheep was not _so general as many pens were passed in. i\lost of the station cattle on offer failed to command interest and very few pens found buyers mostly for the reason that the offerings were largely end of season sorts.

Fat Sheep Of the 1500 head of fat sheep yarded the quality of the majority of entries was only medium but odd pens ineluded some very prime sorts. ,The market opened on a generally firm tcne with, weather conditions suggestive of a warin spring day, but it was not long before there was a violent change' to cold driving rain and this temporarily upset the market as buyers and others departecl for shelter. Top line wethers went to 65s 7d which was just short of 2s better than last week's best price and in the ease of hoggets the best were traded at up to 56s 7d, quite 4s better than last week. Only one pen of ewes was outstanding ont of an entry of over 500 head and this sold at 50s 9d, easily the best price of the season, but below the July-August, 1948, values. The realisations were: Maiden ewes: 2 at 55s; 4 at 59s 4d; 2 at 43s 4d; 2 at 49s lOd; 32 at 47s I0d;- 4 at 60s ld; Down cross 2-ths: 13 at 41s 4d; 6 at 60s lOd; hoggets: 4 at 42s lOd; 54 at 44s 4d; 18 at 43s; 13 at 52s 4d; 6 at 50s ld: 5 at 41s 10d: 8 at 55s 7d: 2

at 3os; 5 at 29s lOd; 22 at 54s lOd; 20 at 43s 7d; 3 at 27s 4d; 6 at 49s 4d; 2 at 54s 4d; 32 at 42s 4d; 1(\ at 56s 7d; 12 at 47s lOd; 41 at 45s ld; 61 at 42s lOd; 14 at 34s lOd; 9 at 48s lOd; 22 at 52s lOd; 32 at 49s lOd; 23 at 38s ld; 24 at 46s lOd; 37 at 42s 7d; 17 at 47s lOd; ■ 9 at 43s lOd; 21 at 45s lOd; wethers: 8 at 61s lOd; 6 at 62s lOd; 26 at 58s lOd; 42 at 65s 4d; 5 at 61s lOd; 11 (shorn) at 48s 7d; 26 at 50s 4d; 2 at 61s 10d; 48 at 54s lOd; 2 at '57s lOd; 30 at 61s lOd; 4 at 58s 7d; 13 at 56s 7d; 19 at 54s 7d; 2 at 64s 7d; 7 at 63s lOd; .5 at65s 7d; 7 at 55s 7d; 2 at 44s lOd; ewes: 59 at 45s; 18 at 43s lOd; 8 at 41s lOd; 14 at 42s lOd; 9 at 39s 4d; 2 at 41s 4d; 21 at 39s lOd; 11 at 43s 4d; 22 at 35s lOd; 15 at 28s ld; 15 at 39s 10d; 12 at 39s lOd; 28 at 40s; 3 at 50s 9d; 30 at 35s 7d; 26 at 3Ss lOd; 5 at 39s lOd; 49 at 40s ld; 8lat 32s; 9 at 39s lOd; 5 ht 41s lOd; 23 at 41s ld; 14 at 376 10d; Store Sheep The demand for store sheep suffered an upset as the enquiry, no doubt infiuenced by the sudden change in the weather conditions, weakened to cause many pens to be passed in. The entry was in excess of advertised numbers and approximately 2900 head were sold under the hai,nmer. Good typey sheep found buyers at late rates, there being no falling away in values despite ,thfe fact that many pens were not s'old. The realisations inciud-ed' a sale of 41 mixed aged ewes with 58 lambs at foot at 27s 6d all counted. Ewe hoggets were traded at np to 55s lOd and a pen of 60 m.a. in-lamb ewes chan'ged hands at 53s. Two tooth wethers sold at 54s 4d. The saies were: Wether hoggets: 103 at 4Ss ld; 493 at 47s; 52 at 45s 7d; 51 at 42s 6d; 172 at 48s ld; 61 at 43s 3d; 106 at 44s Gd; 93 at 38s 7d; 43 at 46"S; 35 at 45s 2d; 20 at 30s; 7 at 42s 4d; 39 at 46s 4d; 66 at 44s ld; 21 at 44s; ewe hoggets: 110 at 43s ld; 130 at 55s lOd; 117 at 48s 3d; 51 at 45s; 158 at 48s; Down cross hoggets: 119 at 40s 2d; 104 at 39s 4d; 89 at 41s 6d; 35 at 37s; 41 at 35s 10d;-4-th Wethers: 15^ at 53s; 2-th wethers: 91 at 54s 4d; in-lamb ewes: 60 m.a. at 53s; 29 2-ths at 52s; 41 m.a. ewes with 58 lambs at foot 27s 6d all counted, Fat Cattle The oFering of fat cattle included just on 50 head of station sorts, numerieally quite the biggest yarding experienced for many months. With the ex-

eeption of a couple of pens the cattle were not prime fat and required linishing. The iirst pen of 6 A.A. bulloeks, prime and almost flnished, was passed in at £25 10s, the vendor wanting £26 10s. These were not big boned cattle, only medium sized but in good order. A big framed Holstein bulloek, wanting finish, sold at £22 7s 6d. A pen of 8 S.H. cross bulloeks in good order but unfinished, sold at £21 12s 6d. Big

framed A.A. bulloeks, 9 in the pen, changed hands at £24 12s, 6d and 9 young A.A. steers lighter were passed. in at £19. A truck of A.A. eows made £15 2s 6d and others sold from £13 17s 6d to £16 15s. Light small A.A. eows sold- at £10. There was good competition'throughout and the prices paid represented close to £63 per 100 lbs. Exdairy eows made from £10 10s to £13' 10s and heifers to £9 10s. Station Cattle |

Business in the station cajttle department was rather quiet and most of the entries were passed in. There was praetically no enquiry for female cattle. Aetually the quality was lacking and very few of the pens made an appeal. The saies were: 60 2-yr A.A. steers at £12; 32 2-yr A.A.-Hereford cross steers . at £11 15s; 6 Hereford empty eows at i £10 17s 6d; small yearling steers sold ■ from £8 8s to £8 17s 6d and a j>en .of %

2-yr A.A. heifers, numbering 6 sold for £9 17s 6d. Dairy Oattle Quality was not very general in the dairy section but entries were beavy and many were of an inferior order. .The selling of dairy heifers occupied most of the day and these sold up to £23 15s. The prices were: Springing heifers: £7, £7 10s, £7 15s, £8 5s, £8 15s, £11* 10s, £13, £14, £15, £15 5s, £15- 10s, £15 15s, £16 10s, £16 15s, £17, £17 10s, £19 to £23 15s; 2-yr heifers £7 5s; ylg heife^ £^5sx £J 7b?J^j^^6 ,J5§, £7 12s 6d, £7 17s 6d, £8 7s 6d, £9 10s, ^£9 12s 6d, £9 15s to £10 10b; heifers. in „milk: £11 5s to £13 10s. Store Cattle A big fentry of store cattle. exporienced strong competition and practic- ™* ally every entry was disposed of. The realisations were: Boner eows:- £3 10s, £5 5s, £5 12s 6d, £6 3s, £6 17s 6d, £6 18s, £7 2s Gd, £7 5s, £7 7s 6d, '£7 10s, £7 15s, £8, £8 4s, £8 5s, £8 10s, £8 17s 6d, £9, £9 2s 6d, £9 5s, £9 .7s Gd, £9 12s 6d, £11, £11 7s 6d to £11 17s 6d; einpty heifers: £9 7s 6d to £12 15s j bulls: £3 15s, £8 to £13 10s.