LIVE STOCK MARKET

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 98, 19 January 1935, Page 14

LIVE STOCK MARKET

Feilding Sale , SHEEP ’ VALUES FIRM Dominion Special Service. Feilding. January IS. An entry of over 16,000, mostly store lambs, ■' was forward lor to-day’s stock sale, with an unusually large attendance of buyers. The sale for store lambs was easier tlujji last week at first, but though there was a heavy offering prices improved towards the end of the day and finished very firm, with a good demand. If rain comes soon the demand will further improve. There was better inquiry than last week for breeding ewes, though no appreciable alteration in prices. Good young ewes are evidently wanted. The 'fat. .sheep market was good,. with improved prices for fat ewes, while’ fat lambs were on schedule xates and fat wethers in fair demand. There was a small offering of store and dairy cattle, and a light entry of fat cattle. The market was dull in all these departments. Fat sheep: Eat lambs, prime heavy, 22/-; good light prime,, 20/1 to 20/3; medium, 19/-; light and unfinished, 16/3; prime heavy ewes, maiden two-tooth, 25/3; very good two-tooth, 21/3; prime ewes, 16/-; very good, 15/6 to 15/10; medium to 14/9; light. 12/6; prime to 16/2; black-face very good, 17/1 to 17/2; good, 15/- to 15/7; medium, 14/4 to 14/10; . inferior lines, 9/7 to 13/2; white-face lambs, good condition, 14/2 to 15/-; fair, 12/1 to 13/6; unattractive, 10/- to 11/9: two-tooth wethers. 17/10. Store cattle: Weaner heifers, 10/-; heifers r.w.b., 21/-; fairly good wethers, 25/6; very good, 23/5 to 24/2; medium, 23/1; light, 21/3; w.f. two-tooths, 20/10; two-tooths, light, 17/S. IS/6 to 21/-. Stores: Very good condition two-tooth ewes, 23/- to 23/10: good ditto, 22/10; fair order, 18/1 ; five-year ewes, good appearance. 17/6 to IS/-; fair, 16/4 to 16/5; inferior, 12/11; aged ewes, 14/-; Jersey heifers, 15/- to 30/-; store cows, 12/6 to 35/-: bulls, 15/- to 30/-; very good P.A. bullocks, £5/10/-; good P.A. steers, £4/12/-. Fat. cattle:- Hereford heifers. £3/7/6; cows, £3/7/6; Shorthorn cows, £4/12/6; P.A. heifers, very good, £6; other P.A. heifers, £3/10/-. Dairy lines: Fat cows, 32/6 to £2/2/6; heifers, £3 to £4; Red Poll fat cows, £4/10/-; P.A. steers, £3/16/-; dairy cows, £2/7/6 to £2/10/-. • The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., made the following sales:—Fat ewes. 14/-, 14/6, 15/6, 16/2; woolly b.f. lambs, good. 17/-, 17/1. 17/3: medium-b.f., 13/6. 14/2, 14/9. 15/6 to 16/1; small b.f., 11/2, 11/6, 12/-, 12/6, 13/-; woolly w.f. wether lambs, best, 13/-, 13/6, 13/10, 14/-, 14/6; medium to 13/-; small, 7/6 to 10/! shorn w.f. lambs. 13/-. 13/6 to 15/10; s.m. ewes, 16/-, 16/6 to 17/2. Fat cows, dairy sorts, £2 to £3 10/-; store Jersey cows, 15/- to 28/6, Hawera Values A good yarding of sheep aud cattle came forward at Newton King Ltd.’s sale held at Hawera last Thursday. Lambs receded in price owing to the verv dry weather which is being experienced throughout the province. Fat lambs to 18/6; fat ewes, 14/6 to 15/-; heavy two-tooth wethers in wool, £l/7/6; cull lambs, 10/- to 11/-; medium lambs, 12/3 to 13/-; large woolly lambs to 14/-; medium b.f. lambs, to 13/9; forward b.f. lambs. 16/6 to 17/-; medium ewe lambs, to 13/6. Fat P.A. cows. £3/15/- to £5/10/-; fat cows ex dairy, £3/10/- to £4/15/-: store cows, £l/5/- to £l/10/-; boners, 10/- to 15/-. Eketahuna Sale Dominion Special Service. Eketahuna, January IS. Included in the entry at the weekly Eketahuna sale were several outstanding lines of lambs, and these made exceptionally good values. Other lambs sold at late rates, the market showing quite a good tone. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., offered 4300 sheep to a good gathering of buyers, realising the following prices:— Sheep: B.F. rape limbs, 15/-, 15/10, 16/7. 17/3 to 18/-: shorn w.f. wethsr lambs, 11/1. 12/2, 13/-, 13/3. 14/-, 17/to 17/1; woolly wether lambs, 13/2 ro 3 4/11; medium woolly wether lambs, 10/4. 11/6. 12/3. 13/1. 13/6. 13/9, 14/to 14/7; medium ewe lambs. 14/3; shorn medium ewe lambs, 10/-, 10/9 to 11/7; four-tooth ewe--, 23/-; two-tooth ewes, 22/3. Feilding Pigs and Poultry Dominion Special Service. Feilding. January IS. Feilding poultry and pig prices were: Poultry, hens 9<l. to 1/7. cockerels 1/to 1/6. pullets 2/1 to 3/6; ducks, lOd. to 1/2. Pigs: Wenners, 10/6 to 13/6: slips. 10/6 to 12/6; small stores, 13/to 19/6; heavier, 20/- to 21/-. WOODVILLE SHOW Judging by the number of entries received and applications for schedules, the 43rd annual show of the Woodville A. and P. Association to be licit! on Saturday, February 9, promises to be a record gathering. Nominations for the chopping events aro coming to hand and a large gathering of axemen is assured. The committee is making every effort to make the 1935 show an unqualified success. The Woodville fixture Is one of the oldest established A. and P. shows in tbo Hawke’s Bay and Wellington provinces. Entries close on Friday. January 25.