FEILDING STOCK SALE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 31, 30 October 1937, Page 17

FEILDING STOCK SALE

Fat-Sheep Market Recovers STRONG TONE IN BEEF MARKET Entries in ifche several sections at the Feilding live stock sale yesterday •wero generally moderate. In the fat sheep section there was a slight recovery on last week's notable collapse but the activity was hardly as strong as was anticipated in view of the refreshing rains. . A very short supply of store sheep found the market very flrm wifh a decidedly strong tone for ewe hoggets which yesterctey made- up to £2 4s 6d. In the beef section run cattle sold well up to lato rates, while ex-dairy sorts experienced a particulariy bnoyant market at hardening values. Store "run cattle. were yarded in limited numbers and the saies made were at late rates with a firming ten* dency. Recent rains have tfncouraged pasture growth and the indications are that cattle are likely to be dearer in the near future. There will not be a sale next week and the intervening fortnight will probably, witness considerable activity in the store cattle market at prices in excess of late quotations. Business in the dairy cattle section was quite firm but the quality of the1 offering was, as usual, very mixedi The offering of fat sheep numbered jus't short of 1000 head, being made up of 240 hoggets, 80 wethers and almost 60Q ewes. The quality was generally i good and the market, although at timesj inclined to be erratic, showed a recov- ! ery on last week's collapse. Most of! the entries were shorn and in some in- j stances it was rather difficult to recoh-i cilo the prices of sheep ln the wool and the shorn lots. An illuatmtion of thU| occurred in the case of wethers, a pen! of 28 woolly sheep, good flecces and in forward condition, selling at 34s lOd, Immediiately following this sale a pen of three shorn wethers, in prime condition, well finishcd, sold at 34s. It was a poser for hoth sellers and buyers for there was not that difference between the meat value of the Woolly wethers and the shorn sheep. Bidding on the hoggets opened rather cautionsty and the first pen of 35 woolly sheep, offered on account of P. J. Kerrigan, was passed in at 29s 6d and subsequently sold at 30s. They were a nict line but unJmished from the meat value