Stock Market.

Feilding Star, Volume xv, Issue 335, 9 June 1894, Page 2

Stock Market.

♦ Mr Chas. Carr reports as follows : — I held sales at Birmingham on the sth and at Feilding on the Bth instants. Owing to the heavy raiiis, the roads were impassable for stock from Pemberton and Apiti, therefore there were about 800 sheep which did not come forward for the Birmingham sale. However, I sold all the sheep that were yarded. At Feilding only a moderate amount of stock came forward. I cauuot say that prices were much in advance of those of late sales, but it was uoticeable that there were a number of buyers present. Quotations are — Birmingham. — Mixed young sheep, 6s l 3d ; shorn lambs, 3s to 4s 3d ; qld ewes, in lamb, 8s 6d. No cattle sold. Feilding. — Three-year-old bullocks, £8 13s 6d ; fat cows, £4 19s ; forward cows, £3 10s ; fat bullocks, indifferent, £5 ; 2- year-old steers, £2 10s. Sheep. — Wethers, 7s to 9s 6d ; shoru lambs, 3s to ss. Mr A. Dernier, of Cloverdcan, was compelled to sell a number of his first-class dairy cows owing to a portion of his land having been covered by silt during the recent flood, and the stock elicited keen competition. I sold, on his behalf, 20 cows, a few of which are in milk, at an average price of £6 2s, the highest being £8 10s and the lowest £4. A pen of seven l«-montbs heifers realised £3 11s per head.