The Stock Market.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 236, 10 February 1894, Page 2

The Stock Market.

Mr Chas. Carr, auctioneer, reports as follows :— I held stock sales at Birmingham on Wednesday, 7th inst., and at Feildiug on the 9th inst. The attendance was large in botfi places, but bidding was slack, and prices ruled low. I sold uuder the hammer a number of rams iv Birmingham, but iv Feilding a very few were disposed of, there being more brought farward than were required. I quote : — Birmingham — Forward bullocks, £5 5s ; 2-year steers, £'6 ls ; shorn lambs (small), 2s ld to 3s 7d ; full-mouth ewes, 6s. Rams — Thos. Bryce's lgn. to 2gns. ; J. L. Perry's lgn. to ljgns. ; R. Mcßeth's lgn. Feilding— lß-month steers, £2 12 6d ; 18-month heifers, £2 12s 6d ; heifers in calf, (quiet and good), £4 ss; 3-year bullocks, £4 13s ; weaners (small) A'l ss; 2-tooth wethers, 7s 8<1 ; 2-tooth ewes, 7s 8d ; woolly lambs, 4s 6d ; shorn lambs, 4s 3d ; cull ewes, 2s 6d to 3s 9d ; weaner pigs, 7s 4d to Bs. The Egmont Farmers' Union, Limited, reports :— Our Stratford sale, which we attempted to hold on Friday, the 2nd inst., was a complete failure, owing to a heavy storm which lasted all day, and of the few cattle that did turn up very few were sold, as there were practically no buyers. We quote — Steers, Ito 2-year, £2, 8s to £6 12s ; 12 to 18-month mixed, £2 Is to .£2 15s ; cows in calf, £3 12s 6d to £~>. We held o«c usual fortnightly Kale at Hawera on the 7th inst., and have to report that the yards were fairly well filled with stock, a large portion of which, being fat and forward, elicited keen competition. The attendance was larger than of late, several outside buyers being present. It is with pleasure that we have to report a much better tone in the market for stock of all descriptions. We quote— Fat bullocks, £6 2s to £6 13s ; forward do., £5 2s to £5 8s 6d ; steers, 2year, £3 9s to £3 14s -, 18 months do , £2 13s to £3 ; fat cows, £3 15s 6d to £4 lis ; cows and heifers in calf, £3 lis to £5 2s 6d. Sheep. — Wethers, 2-tooth, 8s Id.