Feilding Stock Sale

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 37, 13 February 1937, Page 12 (Supplement)

Feilding Stock Sale

THIRTY THOUSAND SHEEP OTTERED. JTORE LAMB MARKET EASIER; BREEDING EWE RATES UNSTEADY. Thirty thousand sheep were yarded at the Feilding live-stock sale yesterday. The offering was made up largely of store lambs and breeding ewes and a fair offering of fat sheep. The quality of the store sheep influenced activities considerably, there being many pens of low conditioned lambs and breeding ewes, and for this reason prices fluctuated. There were very few really first-class pens of breeding-ewes and the sales recorded reflected an easing tendency. The best of the 2-ths realised £2 8s for a small pen of about 50. Many pens were passed as they failed to reach vendors' reserves which were considered as being on the high side considering the outside tendency to easier values and ones more in keeping with the economic condition of the wool and meat induatry. Buyers were offered a wide choice in the matter of store lambs and benefited by the easing up in the rates which failed to equal those ruling last weok. Fat sheep were firm although ewe mutton was inclined to be easier. Some nice wethers on account of Mr. E. W. Barnett, of Tokorangi, realised up to 32a. Lambs were offered in fair numbers with prices ranging from £1 to 28a A rather large offering of fat cattle was made up of dairy sorts with a few choice pens of station cattle which realised to £ll 9a Dairy sorts were cheaper generally. •‘Boner 1 * cows dominated the offering in the store cattle pens and sold at prices fully up to late Tates. A line of young Aberdeen Angus steers realised £7 5a

A small yarding of dairy stock completed the offering and these sold on a quality basis. The following are the quotations:— Fat sheep: Ewes, 16s 9d, 17s 9d, 17s lid, 18s, 18s Id, 18s 2d, 18s 3d, 18s 6d, 19s, 19s 2d, 20s to 21s 6d; wethers, 19s 3d, 22s 3d, 23s 3d, 23s 6d, 24s 7d, 255, 23s 9d, 265, 26s 3d, 26s 6d, 26s lOd, 275, 27s 2d, 27s 3d to 30s, 31s and 32a for well finished entries on account E. W. Barnett, Tokorangi: lambs, 20s Id, 20s 3d, 21s Bd, 21s 9d, 225, 22s 9d, 23s lOd, 24s 6d, 25s 6d, 26s 9d to 28s; b.f., 24s lOd, 26s sd, 27s 9d to 29s Id.

Fat cattle: Bullocks on account S. and J. J. Williamson, £8 10s to £ll 9s; heifers, £5 5s to £7; cows and veaJers, £5 10s; vealers, 25s to 30s; runners, £2 13s; cows, £2 10s, £2 13s, £2 16s, £3, £3 7s (id, £3 15s, £3 17s 6d, £4, £4 2s 6d, £1 12s 6d, £4 17s 6d, £5, £5 2s 6d, £5 7s Od,. £3 10s, £6 17s 6d, £7, £7 7s 6d, £7 10s to £B.

JStore sheep: Wether lambs, 13s sd, 13s 9d, 13s lOd, 14s 4d, 15s 2d, 15s 6d, 16s, 16s 2d, 17s, 17s 4d, 18s, 18s 2d, 1S» 4d, JL&s 7d, 19s fid to 23s Id for a lino of 132 on account of the Russell Est,, Colyton; b.f. lambs, 17s Bd, 17s lid, 18s 2d, 18s fid, 18s 9d, 19s 5d to 19s fid; 2-th ewes, 3fis 7d, 38s, 47s to 48s; 4-th ditto, 365; 4yr., 30s 9d; Tyr., 19s fid, 20s, 20s fid, 24s Id, 24s 9d, 255, 23s fid, 265, 26s Id, 26s lOd, 27s to 27b

fid; fiyr., 19s 3d, 20s, 21s 9d, 22s fid to 235; m.a. ditto, 16s 2d to 16s 4d. Store cattle: Heifers, r.w.b., £3 to £3 JOsj empty heifers, £4 2s fid; ylg. heifers, £2, £2 7s fid to £3 ss; cows and calves, £3 fis; A.A. steers, £7 ss; weaner heifers, £2 Is; ISmths. heifers, £3 Is; boner cows, 28h, 30s, 38s, £2, £2 2s fid, £2 7b, £2 10s, £2 11s, £2 12s, £2 14s, £2 16s, £3, £3 Is, £3 3s, £3 ss, £3 7s fid, £3 Bs, £3 10s, £3 14a, £3 18s to £1 14s. Dairy ce(4e: Bpg. heifers, £3 2s Cd, £3 12a fid to £5 17s fid; cows in milk, £5 12a fid; spg. cow., £5 17s fid; heifer calves, £4 ss.