STOCK SALES

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 90, 13 October 1934, Page 12

STOCK SALES

SHEEP MARKET STEADY

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

FEILDING, October 12. Prices for fat sheep were just on a par with last week at today's stock sale. It was a question of supply and demand, butchers' requirements being just equal to the offering, thus maintaining prices. The yarding was not large. The store sheep entry comprised principally hoggets, for which the market remains good with evidence that the-country still wants hoggets, and prices, especially for ewe hoggets, remain good. The demand for run cattle is firm, with a good salei-jesulting, though prices generally were easier as compared with recent operations. The fat cattle market was not quite as1 good as last week. Best ox beef reached 22s 6d per 1001b, and cow beef about 17s 6d. The dairy cattle market was fair.

Fat sheep: Prime shorn ewes, 22s 4d to 23s 4d; good weights, 18s 8d to 20s 3d; unfinished, 17s to 18s; prime . wethers, 275; good weights, 24s to 28s; light, 20s' 6d to 23s;1 b.f. hoggets, 24s 3d; prime hoggets, 275; good, 23s 4d to 25s 2d; light from 19s 2d. Stores: Good ewe hoggets, 28s 3d to 28s 8d; fair condition, 22s to 255; m.s. hoggets, 21s 8d; wether hoggets, 17s to 19s 4d; store ewes, 12s. 4d.

Store cattle: Yearling heifers, Jersey, 3Gb to £2 7s; others from .10s to £2 8s; store cows, good condition, 26s to 31s; empty cows, £2 Is; three-year steers, £3 5s to £4 7s 6d; Jersey pedigree bulls, 3V4 to lOgs; ditto, not pedigree, 2% to 4_%gs; two-year bulls, PA to 6gs. Dairy^heifers, springing, good £4 to £5 10s; late calvers, |'£2 to £3 17s, according to calving dates; springing cows, £2 2s to £4; cows in milk, 15s to £3; heifers in milk, £2 10s to £3. Fat cattle: Fat Hereford cows, £6 8s; fat Jersey cows, good £3 10s to £4 12s 6d, light from £2 15s; Shorthorn cows, £3 7s 6d; P.A. bullocks, heavy, £9 to £9 7s; Ayrshire, £7; Jersey, £6 17s 6d to £7 2s 6d; Shorthorn, £7 12s 6d; prime heifers, £5; P.A. runners, £3 11s.