The Farmer

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 32, 8 February 1937, Page 2

The Farmer

Feilding Stock Sale STORE LAMB MARKET FIRMER. Feilding's week of live Btock activity concluded with the weekly sale held on Saturday when an offering of just on 10,000 store lambs was made to a large attendance of operators. Values which had tended to oase earlier in the week recovered and a good sale resulted, the best of the ewe lambs making to 27s 3d. The market for breeding ewes was not as active as earlier activities gave promise and bidding was such as to result in very little business being done. A select line of 40 2-tooth ewes on account of Mr R. E. Meech, of Pongaroa realised £2 9s 6d, the purchaser being Mr J. Collis, of Kairanga. A special entry of wether and ewe lambs from the Manson estate, Stanway, realised 15s and 23s 7d respectively. Fat sheep were in very short supply only three or four pens being yarded and these sold at late rates while the limited offering of fat cattle changed hands at late rates. The store cattle section was made up of potter cows which continue to command good rates. Dairy lines were in short supply. The following are the quotations: — Store sheep: Mixed age breeding ewes 11s 6d to 19s; 2-th ewes, 32s 4d to 49s 6d; 4 and 6-year do., 27s Id; 5-year do., 22s 9d; 6-year, 25s 6d; 2-th wethers, 25s 3d; ewe lambs, 15s Id, 15s Bd, 17s Bd, 19s, 20s 6d, 21s Id, 21s 4d, 23s 4d, 23s 7d to 27s 3d; wether do., 10s 3d, 10s 6d, 11s 4d, 13s, 13s Id, 14s Id, 14s Bd, 15s, 15s 6d, 15s 7d, 15s lid, 18s sd, 18s 7d, 18s 9d to 21s; shorn Romney lambs, 12s 6d, 13s 9d, 15s, 15s lOd, 17s to 17s 6d; b.f. d 0.,, 12s 7d, 14s 2d, 17s Id, 17s lOd, 18s, 8s sd, 19s 6d to 21s 6d; shorn do., 15s 2d, 15s 6d to 16s 4d; ex Manson estate, wether lambs, 15s; ewe do., 23s 7d. Fat cattle: Steers, £7 12s 6d; cows, £3 7s 6d, £3 15s, £4, £4 2s 6d, £4 6s, £4 7s 6d, £4 10s, £4 12s 6d, £4 15s, £5, £5 2s 6d, £5 7s 6d to £6 ss; Hereford cows, £4 17s 6d; vealers, 255; runners, £3 ss, £3 12s 6d, to £4 2s 6d. Store cattle: Cows, 245, £2 Bs, £2 10s, £2 12s 6d, £2 14s, £2 14s 6d, ££2 15s, £2 16s, £2 17a, £2 18s 6d, £2 19s, £3, £3 Is, £3 7s, £3 9s, £3 10s, £3 11s, £3 12s 6d, £3 13s, £3 15s to £3 17s 6d. Dairy cattle: Springing heifers, £3 ss, £3 15s. Offered on behalf of tho Feilding Jockey Club, 24 acres of rape, ready for feeding off, was purchased by Mr L. T. McLean for £135. MANGAWEKA SALE. The N.Z. Farmers' Co-op. Distributing Co., Ltd., reports a yarding of 4300 lambs at the above sale on Thursday. The market was inclined to be easier compared to our previous sale at this centre, and five or six pens were passed. They quote prices as follows: Extra good w.f.w. lambs, 18s to 19s Id; good ditto, 16s Id to 17s sd; good medium ditto, 14s 4d to 15s fid; medium, 11s Id to 13b 2d; small, 8s 6d to 10s; woolly w.f. lambs, to 18s 6d; woolly b.f. lambs, to 17s Id; medium ewe lambs, 23s Id to 245; fair ditto, 21s; small, 12s fid; fattening ewes, 13s 6d.