Stock Market.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 83, 4 October 1895, Page 2

Stock Market.

- — OMessrs Gorton and Son report :— Our stock sales during last week were held at Feilding, Sanson and Waituna. At Feilding the sale was a particularly successful one. Good entries of stock and a good attendance, spirited bidding and satisfactory prices. Every sheep was sold, and all the cattle excepting one pen. — At Sanson the entries were small, and bidding not so spirited. — At Waituna moderate entries, and a successful sale, most of the stock being sold. Our quotations are : — Cattle— Feilding : Fat bullocks, small, £5 8s 6d ; fat ccws, £4 lis to £4 10s ; 2§-year steers, £3 17s 6d ; 2-year steers, £2 15s ; yearling steers, 35s to £2 ; calves, 235. Sanson : Cows, £3 16s 6d ; yearlings mixed, 31s to 33s ; weaners, 17s 6d to 255. Waituna : Cows, £2 5s to £2 12s 6d ; milkers, £3 10s to £4 17s 6d ; 2^-year steers, £3 10s ; mixed yearlings, 35s 6d to 38s 6d ; calves, 15s 6d. Sheep - Feilding : Hoggets : Hoggets, several lines at various prices from 5s lid to 10s 2d ; wethers, 9s 3d to 12s Id ; fat ewes, 10s ; shorn sheep, 6s 6d to 7s ; mixed woolly sheep, 10s 2d. Sanson ; Hoggets, culls to good, 3s 6d to Bs. Waituna : 4-tooth wethers, 12s ; fat sheep, lis Id ; hoggets, various prices from 6s to 9s. Messrs Abraham and Williams report : — Since last report we have held sales at Levin and Palmerston. At the former last Friday there was a good muster of all classes of stock, which was disposed of at ruling rates. Sheep and cattle were in large numbers at Palmerston yesterday, and represented the heaviest entry for some time past. Most of the sheep were hoggets, generally of a sound and desirable class — these were readily disposed of. The sale of cattle was more or less of a special nature, inasmuch as some large lots from Rangitikei sold on account of the breeders, made up the greater portion of the entry. Tbose referred to were Messrs Donald Fraser, Dalrymple and Taylor. Tbe various lots of cattle yarded filled our available space. A prominent feature of the entry was Mr Dalrymple's Polled Angus which were freely completed for, and either in tbe shape of stores or beef commanded top rates ; stores generally, however, sold somewhat irregularly. We quote :— Cattle— Prime fat cows, £5 5s ; fat bullocks, £6 18s 6d to £7 ; Polled Aneus do, £7 13s ; 2£ to 3-year polled steers, £4 13s 6d ; 3 to 3|-year bullocks, £4 lis to £4 13s 6d ; 2^-year steers, £3 lis to £3 14s ; 3to 2±-year do, £3 10a ; 18-mos. cattle, mixed sexes, £2 7s 6d to £2 lis 6d ; mixed weaners and yearlings, 27s ; yearling steers, 42s ; do. heife«s, 35s ; store cows, £2 15s 6d to £3 5s ; 20-mos. polled heifers, £3 7s 6d ; 3-year do, £4 ; yearling do, 365. Sheep — Hoggets, 7s lid to 9s 6d ; others 7s Id to 7s 3d ; ewes and lambs, 10s 3d ; store wether's, lis to lis 7d ; fat wethers, 12s to 13s lOd.