COMMERCIAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 5 November 1917, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

FEILDING- SALE At Feilding on the 2nd inst we had a good j-arding of sheep and a small entry of cattle. The market was rattler easier for all classes of stock, althous> most lines changed hands. Prime shorn fat wethers brought 38/, shorn fat ewes 35/, cull shorn ewes IS/1, mixed age ewes and lambs 40/, extra good ewes and hoggets 44/, good mixed hoggets 34/ to 36/6, medium ditto 30/ to 32/6, small and poor ditto 26/2, shorn hoggets 2S/, 3 and 3* year steers £l4 12/, dairy heifers £lO to £l3 5/, store cows £7 15/ to £8 7/6, small yearling heifers £3 10/ to £5 12/6, 2 year empty heifers £S 10/, yearling bulls £6 17/6 to'£B. '■■ ■■' : ■ ■ '- ;; ' •' - : MARTON SALE •• % j Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Marton sale held on Tuesday last as follows: We had a good yarding of sheep, which sold .well. A heavy yard ing of cattle —some 600 —also met with a good sale. We' quote: Shorn ,2th wethers 32/4, mixed hoggets 35/ to 39/1, E. hoggets 34/8, wether ditto 34/6, medium m/s do. to 30/8, small do. 21/3, 24/6, shorn 4th ewes 29/3, 4th wethers £2 1/, fat ewes 35/ to 3S/. 5 year steers £l3 10/ to £ls 10/, 2 year do. Hereford £l2, others £lO 15/ to £ll 12/6,. yearling do. good £S to £9, smaller do. £6 2/ to £7 5/, small Jerst*y sorts £3 to £4 10/, yearling heifers, -cull £3 14/, fair-sorts £5 to £6, best to £7 1/ 2 year do. £B. to £8:15/, 3'year do. £9 19/, 2 year P.A. do. £l2 12/#, 2 year S.H. do. £l2 2/6, ■:M/S yearlings to £7 4/, empty cows £7 12/ to £9 10/, S.H. bull £l2, Holstein do. £l3, fat cows £lO 10/ to £l3, springing heifers £S 15/ to £lO, best do. £lO 15/.