Stock, Wool, and Produce Markets.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 33, 7 August 1897, Page 2

Stock, Wool, and Produce Markets.

0 STOCK MARKET. Report of Charles Cart's stock sales : j - Birmingham sale, Wednesday 4th August— Although only a small sale , was advertised a fair yarding of both sheep and cattle came forward. No | sheep were sold under the hammer, but ( with the exception of two pens all found purchasers afterwards. Feilding sale, Friday, 6th August.— This was a record sale for this time of , the year. 10,000 sheep and 150 head of , cattle were yarded. The attendance was ( very large and the result of the sale . satisfactory, there being buyers present | from the West Coast. The class of ibeep j was very good. Wethers and hoggets ( fully maintained recent values, but , empty ewes were not in demand. There was no change :u the value of cattle. . Birmingham.- Fat cows, £8; fat and forward ewes, 7s to 7a 3d ; ewes in lamb, 6s 6d to 7b; wethers, 9s, 9s 6d, 9s 7d, 9a , 9d ; lambs, ss. ' Feilding. — Springing heifers, £3 to £4 10s ; dairy cows, forward in calf, £2 10s to i' 4 10s ; fat cows, £3 6s to £3 12s ; 18- ' mouths steers, i'l 13a ; 2 year steers, 325. Hoggets, ss, 6s Id, 6s 2d", 6s Bd, 6s lOd, ■ 7s, 7s 3d, 7s Cd, 8s Id, 8a 6d, 8s 9d ; ewes in Jamb, 4s 3d, ss, 5a lOd, 7s, Bs, 8s 3d ; dry ewes, 6s, 6s Sd, 6s 4d, 6s 9d ; fat wethers, 11s 7d to 12s ; wethers, 9s, 9a 3d, 9s 4d, 9a lid, 9s lOd, 10s Id, 10s Bd, 10s 6d, 10s 9d, 11s, lla 2d, 11s 3d, ; fat owes, 9a. Messrs Gorton and Son report : — Since last report we held sales at Awahuri on Friday, Marton on Tuesday and Sandon on the following day. Empty ewes are difficult of sale at reduced rates, other classes sold readily, though no advance in prices was noticeable. At Awaburi we yarded close on 3000 sheep and all changed hands chiefly under the hammer but three lots. At Marton 2200 sheep were penned and all sold but a few pens of empty ewes. One line of 900 wethers realized 10s 3d. The Sandon sale was made unpleasant by the exceptionally rough weather, and though nearly all the advertised stock came forward, the attendance of buyers was limited. However, only two pens returned home unsold. The cattle market is still lifeless except for milkers to calve. Wequote: — At Awaburi - Store wethers, 9s lOd to 10s Id ; fat ewes, 8s Id to 8s 2d ; ones in lamb, Bs ßd to 10s Id ; shorn hoggets, 7s 2d ; woolly do, 8s 3d ; empty ewes, 6s to 6s 3d. Marton —Wethers, Pa, 9s Id, 10s to 10s 3d ; mixed hoggets, two lots, 7s 4d ; empty ewes, 4s 6d. Cattlo- Milkers, £4 ss. Sandon -Weth era, 9a 6d ; wether hoggets, 5s 2d to 7s lid ; empty ewes, 6s. Cattlo — Milkers, £410s. Messrs Abraham and Williams' stock report : — Our sales for the wock oomprise Levin, Pahiatua and Palmorston. We had small entries at Levin. There was a good attendance, but b<ddiug was slow under the hammer, and the scarcity of feed throughout the district is making itself , felt. We disposed of all the sheep that came forward, and most of the cattle. ; At Pahiatua we bad good entries of both ! sheep and cattle, Little business was done at auction, but we succeeded in quitting the bulk of the stock after the sale. At Palmerston yesterday more stock came forward than was advertised, but bidding was very lifeless for any thing except good wethers and hoggets. Ewes in lamb receded in value considerably, and dairy stock were lower than for some sales past. The following prices were realised : — Lftvin — Sheep — Mixed hoggets, 7s 6d ; culled ewes in lamb, 5s 3d. Cattle -3 year steers, Id 15s ; 18 month cattle, 20s to 255. Pahiatua— Sheep — Fat wethers, 10s 6d to 12s ; 2 tooth wethers, 9a ; hoggets, 4s 9d to 6s lid ; culls, 2s lOd. Cattle - Fat bullocks, £5 ; 2 and 2£ year steers, £2 13s 6d to £2 14s ; 18 month steers, 37s 6d ; springers, £3 2s 6d to £4. Palmerston— Sheep— Fat ewes, 9s ; fat and forward do, 7s 6d ; 2 tooth wethers, 9s 3d to 9s 6d ; Lincoln ewes in lamb, 7s Id ; others, 3s 9<l to 5s 6d ; empty ewes 4s 6d ; hoggets, 5s 6d to 6s 9d. Cattle-Fat bullocks (light weights), £4 10s to £5 ; fat cows, £2 15s ; springing cows, £4 ; 2 year steers, £2 10s ; yearling Bteerß, '62% to 365 ; yearling heifers, 295.