STORE SHEEP

Evening Post, Issue 28, 1 August 1936, Page 6

STORE SHEEP

FIRM TONE AT FEILDING

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) , FEILDING, July 31. The market for breeding ewes showed a firm and promising one at the livestock sale today, when some good lines offered brought extra keen competition, two-tooth ewes in lamb going to 375, and four-tooth to 38s 3d. There was also an improved market for ewe hoggets and wether hoggets, grown wethers advancing in sympathy with wether hoggets. The presence of outside buyers supported the fat sheep market, but the quality of the entry spoilt the average, and only very prime quality attracted attention. Very prime wethers went to 35s 3d, very prime ewes to 325, while a further rise is expected for these lines if quality is offered. •

An exceptionally heavy yarding of dairy cattle found the market quite recovered from last, week's drop, and prices again went to the highest level of the year. The store cattle yards comprised mostly boner cows and young Jersey heifers, the latter selling at firm prices, representing an advance of about 15s on the rates of a month ago. Run cattle sold fairly well. The heavy yarding of fat cattle comprised heavy prime beef lines which sold at top prices, ox beef making^ 30s a 1001b, and cow beef 255. Fat sheep: Prime heavy fat wethers, 35s 3d; good line, 30s; lighter, 26s to 295; prime heavy ewes, 295; extra prime o.ea^' 325; yery Z°ad' 28s ld; lighter, 23s 8d to 26s 6d; inferior, from 17s 3dprime two-tooths, to 27s 6d; prime hoggets, light, 23s 7d; fair weights, 21s 8d; light, from 17s 6d. Store sheep: Breeding ewes, two-tooth, 375; four, six-tooth, 38s 3d; four-year, 335; four, five-year. 32s 6d; five-year, to 29s 8d; m.a., 23s to 29s 6d; ewe hoggets, good, 30s lOd to 335; fair fsom 25s 7d; wether hoggets, good to'22s 9d, fair 18s 2d to 21s 9dwethers, 20s to 25s 2d. . ' Dairy cattle: Springing heifers, close J?A V£\ gr ,*£6a to £7 1Os; late-calvers, £4 to £5 15s. Store cattle: Boner cows forward condition, to £3 7s; poor, from ass; forward dairy cows," to £4 10swearier Jersey heifers, good, to £3 10s: shorthorn cross steers, £3 4s; small shorthorn steers, £4; Holstein cows,----h i s'-^- A- steers> £5 6s; cows, £4 15s; heifers,.£2; 17s; P.A. bull, £13 ss. Jjat cattle: Heavy prime P.A. bullocks, £9 12s to-£9 14s; P.A. steers prime, £6 17s 6d to £7 i7s 6d; prime heavy P.A. cows, £8 5s lighter £4 £7 £Gv 6T\P^F- A- heifer* he av Vt £7 15s, light to £6 15s; prime Jersey cows to £5 ss; light £4 15s; runners, £5 6s; vealers, £2 15s. .Poultry; Hens, 2s; lid to 3s 2d; ducks, erel|lsld:^^ 2s6dtO^9d =cock:inf i +gs: i s We£l ners>6s6d t0 14s 6d; slips, 10s to 18s; stores, 16s Bd to 28s; porkers 26s 6d; sows, 30s; sows in pig 60s

HOGGETS IN DEMAND; ™\ denC Ac l or both ewes a^d wether hoggets A few pens of store wethers met with keen competition at Is 6d apai. _Pnme lines made good Dricps Xr UnA niS Hed ,lines werl not sort alter. Another heavy yarding of dairy stock came**prward, both good quaHty conl;rn d seifT5 eifT- sf llin S well, but lov£ conditioned and inferior sorts were not so keenly sort after. The run beef market showed a slight appreciationon recent values, and dairy sorts also 6ald 2 r s esd toWS™^ 2,' s Scl' to 23s 2d; fat ewes 18s ??<; Iss 6d S toW^ 3 6d; fet Sers^l 7d SiWif? hoggets, 255, 25s mmmm «,/* S.D. rams, 25s 26s 3d To t a ,' 2 17s> to £3 10s- yearline Jersey h e ,fe rs £3> £3 2s ed%y%Tloito Im-. fu l 0^ ck- Sj £9- £910s> £9 iS: £4 18s'*? td%Tio° WSl £4 ' £4 15s> " Bsv £svl° If s>" springing dairy t5 « 6d, £5 15s, to £7- cow? in milk, £4, £4 15s, £5 £5 2 s '6d?to £6 10s; springing-heifers, £4 £4 in s fa &tf s£fy s 6 i d' £6- £6t£6f7s