LIVE STOCK MARKET

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 104, 26 January 1935, Page 5

LIVE STOCK MARKET

Feilding Sale A BUOYANT TONE Dominion Special Service. Feilding, January 25. A buoyant tone was in evidence at the stock sale with a yarding of over 20,000 sheep and lambs. There was an extraordinary attendance of interested buyers, who showed keen enterprise, and prices for all classes of sheep showed a firm market, with good sales throughout. Fat sheep were very firm at previous rates, lambs slightly higher, and ewes steady at the higher level reached last week. A very keen demand existed for store lambs, good rape lambs being up by 1/-. a head, and other lambs up 6d. Prices for breeding ewes showed a hardening tendency, with practically a total clearance of the offering. The quality of ths store wethers yarded was not very good, but they sold readily at previous rates. The fat cattle offered were of better quality than at recent sales, with better prices resulting. Best ox beef reached 22/- per 1001 b., and best heifer beef 17/6. There were small yardings of store and dairy cows. Fat sheep: Prime heavy wethers, Z-tr... 25/6; good. 23/4 to 23/9; fair, 21/a; prime maiden ewes, 24/6.; prime heavy ewes, 16/- to 16/3; good, 15/-: light, 14/-. Prime lambs. 23/5 to 23/6; very good. 22/5 to 22/10; good, 20/10 to 21/10; medium, 18/1 to 19/-; light, from 16/- Store sheep: Two-th. ewes, very good. 24/6 to 22/-; others at 21/1; four, six. 20/- to 20/11; four, five-year, good, 18/4 to 18/9; others, 16/4 to 17/10; sixyear, 14/10; s.m. ewes. 16/4 to 16/6: full-mouth, 12/7 to 15/6; ewe lambs, good, 15/9 to 16/-; others, from 11/9 to 13/-; five-year ewes, very good condition, 18/-: others. 12/6 to 16/5; fat and forward wethers. 22/1; two-tooth wethers, good, IS/- to 18/4; others, 16/1 to 17/11 b.f. rape lambs, very good line. 20/2; other good pens. 17/2 to 18/11; fair condition. 14/7 to 16/5; others, from 11/2 to 13/8; white-face wether lambs, good, 16/5; fairly good. 12/6 to 13/6; inferior. from 6/9 to 11/3. Fat cattle: P.A. heifers. £5 to £a/12/6; P.A. cows, £4/5/-; R.P. . heifers, £6; .Shorthorn heifers. £5/15/-: Shorthorn cows. £3/3/- to £3/12/6; Hereford bullocks. £4/10/- to £5/17/-; prime heavy cows. £4/5/- to £4/15/-: light dairy breed cows. £2/7/6 to £3/13/-; light heifers, £2/12/6; vealers. 10/- to 40/-. Stores, yearling Jersey heifers, to IS/-; 18-rnos. heifers. 30/-; boner cows. 16/to £2/5/-; potter bulls, 20/- to £2/15/-. Forward cows, £2/14/-; P.A. Fetters, £4 to £4/5/-; Hereford cows. £3/2/-; Hereford heifers. £2/19/-; dairy springing cows. £2/17/6. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., made the following sales: — fat ewes 13/6, 14/6. 15/- to 16/-; fat lambs 20/-. 21/6 to 22/-; best b.f. rape lambs 16/6, 17/1 to IS/-; medium b.f. lambs 14/6. 15/3, 15/9 to 16/3; best w.f. w. lambs 13/-. 13/6. 14/- to 14/6: small lambs 9/9, 10/-. 10/6 to 11/6; 4 and 5-year ewes, best IS/-, 18/6 to 19/9; 3 m. but light conditioned 16/-, 16/6 to 17/3; fattening ewes 10/-. 11/3 to 12/6. Fat cows, dairy sorts £2/-/-, £2/10/- to £3/-/-. Carterton Values Firm Dominion Special Service. Mastei-ton, January 25. Sheep sold well at Wright, Steiphenson and Co., Ltd.’s Carterton sale to-day, and values were above vendors’ expectations. The sale for enll lambs was especially good. Cattle were on a par with late sales, and pigs about the same as last week. Sheep: Fat wethers, 23/- to 24/-; fat ewes, to 15/3: forward ewes, to 13/3. Fat lambs. 20/1 to 20/3; good b.f. lambs, 16/- to 18/1: b.f. lambs, 11/4 to 15/6; b.f. lambs, small, 6/10 to 8/3; woolly w.f. lambs, 15/- to 16/7; small w.f. lambs. 7/6 to 9/4; shorn w.f. small. 6/- to 7/1; small ewe lambs, 6/6 (o 7/3: small m.s. lambs. 5/- to 6/-; s.m. ewes. 10/2 to 12/2: 2 and 4-th. wethers, 17/7 to IS/-. Cattle: .Springing cows. £3/15/- to £4: Jersey heifers, r.w.b., to £2/19/-; springing heifers, to £3/10/-. Cows and calves 25/- to 32/-: forward cows, 22/- to 24/-: store cows, 11/- to 18/-; cull cows. 3/- to 9/-; bulls. ”/- to 12/-. Pigs: Wenners, 11/- to 14/6; slips. 17/-. 20/- to 22A: porkers. 26/- to 33/-: baconevs. 36/- to £.’’>: sows Io farrow. 51/- to GO/-. HAWKE’S BAY RAM FAIR Inferior Sorts Easier By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hastings, January 25. Values for stud Romney and Southdown rams at r lu- Hawke’s Bay ram fair to-day were on a par with last year’s for quality sires, nith a slack demand for inferior sorts, many of which were passed in. The top Southdown price was 42 guineas, obtained for two shearling rams bred by AV. I’. Gimblett, Hastings, A. C. Vile. Bulls, making to 36 guineas. J. E. Hewitt, Mangamairc, Pahiatua, realised the top price, 30 guineas, for Romneys. Flock Southdown rams were down one halt to one guinea . according to quality. The supply was in excess of the demand, and there were many passings. Mr. Gimblett got the top price of 7J guineas; E. Badger, Whakaronga. realised 64 guineas; also I*. Bissett. Pahiatua. Local breeders were represented to a greater extent in the flock Southdowns than with the flock Romneys, in which Manawatu and Wairarapa breeders sold most of the entries.