STOCK MARKET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 July 1938, Page 3

STOCK MARKET

PRICES AT FEILDING AN IMPROVED TONE By Telegraph.—Press Association, FEILDING, July 8. An improved tone was noticed in the FeUding sale today, the demand for nearly all classes of stock being brighter. Schedule prices ruled more or less for lambs, but ewe and wether mutton was firmer than last week with an allround better demand. Store sheep likewise met a better sale, breeding ewes of quality selling well, as did also best lambs. A good number of inferior lambs met a quiet sale. Business in the cattle section was inclined to be dull, there being no entries of an attractive nature. A fairly substantial yarding of dairy stock sold with good prices ruling for select animals. Realisations were: —

Fat sheep: Prime lambs, 22s 3d to 235; second quality, 29s to 20s 9d; others, 14s 9d to 17s 6d; extra prime wethers, 27s to 28s; prime, 25s 6d to 26s 4d; light, 24s 3d to 255; unfinished, 22s to 23s 3d; extra prime ewes, 20s 23s 6d; prime, 17s 6d to 18s 7d; others, 12s to 16s lOd. Store sheep: Good four and five-year ewes, 25s to 25s 3d; very good twotooth, 38s; small, 27s 9d; backward five-year, 18s; backward six-tooth, 16s 6d; fattening ewes, 7s 6d to 9s 6d; best wether lambs, 17s; second grade, 13s 3d to 14s 6d; inferior, 9s 2d; good b.f. lambs, 13s 3d to 13s lid; small, 8s 9d to 11s 8d;-well-grown ewe lambs, 24s 3d; culls, Ils; two-tooth wethers, 18s Id.

Store cattle: Empty heifers, £3 7s to £4 7s 6d; weaner heifers, £2 14s; yearling steers, £3 to £4 10s; weaner P.A. heifers, £2 15s; boner cows, heavy, £4 to £4 15s; others, £2 7s 6d to £3 15s; ■potter bulls, £5. Dairy cattle: Springing heifers, best, £8 2s 6d to £9; others, £5 to £7 10s; springing cows, good, £7 15s to £9; later cal vers, £5 to £7 10s. Fat cattle: Light bullocks, £6 7s 6d; good bullocks, £9 17s 6d; light heifers, £5 12s 6d; ex dairy cows, £4 15s to £6 7s 6d.

Poultry: Hens, 2s Id to 3s lOd; pullets, 3s 3d to 3s 4d; cockerels, 2s 8d to 3s lOd; ducks, 3s 3d to 3s 9d. Pigs, Weaners, 10s to 18s 6d; slips, 11s 6dto £1; stores, 15s to £1 3s.

CARTERTON SALE. PIGS KEENLY SOUGHT AFTER. Messrs Wright Stephenson and Co., Ltd., report as follows:—We held our weekly sale in the Carterton yards yesterday when a good entry of all classes of stock'came forward and was offered to a large attendance. Sheep and cattle sold on a par with late rates while all classes of pigs were keenly sought after. We give hereunder a list of prices realised:— , Sheep: S.M. ewes, r.w. S.D. ram, to 23s 6d; m.a. ewes, r.w. S.D. ram, 22s to 22s 6d; cull ewes, 10s 6d to 15s Id; woolly wr. hoggets, 14s 6d to 15s Id; b.f. hoggets, to 17s 3d; fat b.f. hoggets, to 20s 6d. '*

Cattle: Springing Jersey heifers, £4 17s 6d, £6 10s to £7; springing cows, £5, £5 10s to £6; empty Jersey heifers, £3 10s to £3 17s 6d; yearling Jersey heifers, to £2 17s; fat cows, £5 2s to £5 10s; forward cows, £3 5s to £4 10s; store cows, 355, £2 to £2 10s; bulls, £6 5s to £7. Pigs: Weaners, Bs, 9s to 10s 6dffi slips, 12s to 14s 6d; store pigs, 16s to 18s 6d; light porkers, 25s to 28s 6d; porkers, 31s 6d to £2 4s; baconers, £2 10s to £2 19s; sows to farrow, £3 2s 6d to £4 17s 6d: choppers, to 30s.