FEILDING SALE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1939, Page 3

FEILDING SALE

TONE DULL & BIDDING LIFELESS (By 7 elegraph—Press Association.) FEILDING, March 4. A smaller yarding of store sheep came forward at the Feilding sale to a fair attendance of the public, states a report of the associated auctioneers. Taking the sale right through, the tone was dull and bidding was lifeless. In the store lambs, considering weather conditions at present prevailing, sales on the whole were satisfactory. The breeding ewes were in keeping with the lower export rates, with prices easier. A medium entry of fat sheep showed a slight drop, while a good entry of fat cattle were hard to quit. Boner and dairy cattle showed little alteration in values. Quotations: — Sheep.—Fat lambs, 14/10, 16/9. 18/-; fat wethers, 15/1, 15/6, 16/-, 16/1, 16/6; fat ewes, 7/-, 8/-, 8/2, 8/6; fat maiden ewes, 12/9, 14/7, 15/9; two-tooth ewes, 24/-, 24/1, 25/-, 25/6, 26/-, 26/8, 28/2, 28/6, 29/-, 30/-. Four-year ewes, 17/10, 18/-; five-year ewes, 10/11, 14/-, 15/-; aged ewes to 9/7; store wethers to 13/10; w.f. wether lambs, tops 12/- to 14/-, medium 9/- to 11/6, culls to 8/-; ewe lambs, medium to 13/10, tops to 18/-. S.D. rams, to 91gns; Romney rams to 4gns. Cattle: Heifers, r.w.b. to £8; dairy cows to £7/10/-; potter cows to £3/15; fat run cows, £5/6/-, £5/8/-, £5/10/-, £6; fat Hereford heifers, £6/7/6 to £7/1/-; fat cows, ex dairy, £5/15/6; jersey Weaner heifers to £3; P.A. steers to £6/10/-.