STOCK MARKET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 January 1939, Page 3

STOCK MARKET

SALE AT FEILDING,

FAT SHEEP VALUES FIRM. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) FEILDING, January 27. A heavy consignment of run cattle from Gisborne was yarded at the sale today and made the total much larger than usual. These cattle were travel stained and sold at prices much in favour of buyers. A heavy offering of store lambs found the market slightly easier. The first offering for the season of breeding ewes found the market not up to vendors’ ideas of value, though the ewes were not first class. Breeding ewes and fat sheep firmed up and showed a slight advance on last Friday’s sale. Fat cattle were down in price compared with last Friday with a yarding of not extra prime quality. Dairy cattle sold at good values. Good b.f.’s, 19s 9d to 20s 4d; fair, 17s Id to 19s 3d; fat ewes, 10s 8d to 14s 7d; good prime wethers, 19s Id to 19s 9d; inferior, 16s 9d. About 8000 store sheep were yarded, mostly store lambs. The best sale reported was for the annual draft of lambs from F. J. Roberts, Pohangina, an excellent line which made 16s 7d. A good price was paid for shorn wether lambs. Good wether lambs made 14s lOd to 16s 6d; fair condition, 12s to 13s 3d; poor, from 6s 3d to 9s 6d; blackface lambs, good woolly, 14s to 14s 6d; very good, 15s lOd; shori}, ditto, 9s and 8s 6d; white-face wether lambs, 8s Id; two-tooth wethers, good, 16s Id to 16s 4d; others, 14s 9d to 14s lOd; two-tooth ewes, good, 23s 9d; others, 20s; aged ewes, 9s Id to 12s. Springing heifers in forward condition made from £7 to £7 15s and others froms £4 2s 5d to £6. Store cows, boners, made from £2 17s 6d to £3 17s; cows and calves, £4 Is; P.A.Hereford 18-month steers, £5 17s 6d to £6; two-year P.A. steers, £7; P.A.steers, £7; P.A. Hereford-cross bullocks, £9 ss; P.A.-Hereford-cross spayed cows, £4 19s; Red Poll heifers, £6 15s; Hereford prime cows, £7 17s 6d; ditto, heifers, very good, £8 10s; light, £7 12s 6d; P.A. heifers, prime, £8 to £8 10s; light, £7 17s 6d; P.A. prime cows, £7; light prime Jersey bullocks, £5 15s; ditto steers, £5 12s; shorthornJersey cows, £5 12s 6d; ex-dairy Jersey cows, £4 10s to £5 17s 6d, r exdairy Jersey heifers, £5 2s 6d to £5 7s 6d; P.A. vealers, £2 10s; and runners, £3.

In the poultry section hens made Is to 2s 8d; pullets, Is 9d; cockerels, Is to 2s lid cockerel chicks, 4d to lOd; ducks, Is to Is 6d.

Weaner pigs brought Ils 6d to 18s 6d; slips, 18s to £1 2s 6d; arid stores, £1 10s.

CARtERTON SALE.

CATTLE FIRMER IN PRICE.

Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co Ltd report:—We held our weekly sale at Carterton yesterday when a yarding of sheep Well above advertised numbers, and also a fair entry of cattle and pigs. Store lambs comprised the bulk of the sheep entry, and these made prices on a par with recent sales. Wethers and fats were also up to late quotations. Cattle were slightly firmer. The pig market was the same as last week. Practically a total clearance was effected as under:—

Sheep:—Fat S.D. ewes, 4th, to 15s; fat lambs, to 225; fat wethers, to 18s 6d; b.f. lambs, Ils 2d, 13s, 15s to 15s lOd; medium b.f. lambs, 9s 7d to 10s 9d; small b.f. lambs, 5s 6d to 8s 9d; woolly wether lambs, 12s 3d to 15s 3d; ewe lambs, 9s, 11s 3d, 12s sd, 15s, 15s 6d to 19s 7d; shorn ewe lambs, to 13s; small wether lambs, 5s 9d to 9s Id. Cattle: —Springing Jersey cross heifers, to £6 10s; fat cows, £4 15s to £6 10s; forward cows, £3 15s; to £4 2s 6d;i store cows, £2 16s to £3 10s; cows and I calves, £4 15s to £5 6s; potter bulls, | £3 15s to £7 10s.

Pigs: —Weaners (good), 16s to 19s 6d; (medium), 13s to 15s; (small), 6s to 12s; slips, 21s to 255; store pigs, 27s to 335; porkers, 36s to £2 8s 6d; baconer, £2 16s to £3 10s.