FEILDING STOCK SALE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 49, 20 November 1937, Page 7

FEILDING STOCK SALE

Oar Ow-n Correspondcnt-.)

Station Cattle Market IMPR0VES ox BEEF itLS FIRMiy

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At tke Feilding livergtpck salp ye.ster? , day station' cattle found tke market slightly more buoyant and tke selling was a grept d§al bsUfir thgn was expected. Tkis improyement is due to tke changed weafker conditions and tke promise of m'uck needed rains, Altkougk Feilding kas not as yet experieueed anything like tke quantity of rain needed, tke showers that kave faljen kaye kelped tke grazing si£uation spmewkat aufi giveii grazierg cop.fidcpce, Y.estprday *the weather copditipns wer§ most yariablp and wbile Feilding did not receive muck rajp tkc ' bftck copptry e^perjcnced maQy , heavy showers. , Tkp fat sheep market W9J8 inclinpd tp be a iittle unsteady and tpkipg iPtP gccount tpAay 's akln values tke mairket hpid t9 late quotations, Very fpw gtor§ sheep wsre offered, tke yarding representing • megtly dealers' sheep. Saies made were finn .on late rfttpg. In the beef gectipn some particularly . nice station cattle were offered and the vplups tkronghout, particularly in tke ex dpiry sectipn, were firm. Appirosimately 800 fat sheep were y&rded, made up of just over 100 wethers, 140 kpggets apd tke balance eweg. Praetically tke wboie of tke offering was out Pf tke wool and values were firm at late rates witk the market inelined to be a little sticky, A pen of big framed medium wetkers numberiug 11 ofiered on account of th6 Loekwood Land Co.; of Palmerston North, realised 26§. On present wopl values thcge sheep in tke wool would kave made somewhero between 34s and • 65s,