STOCK MARKET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1939, Page 3

STOCK MARKET

FEILDING SALE. BUSINESS VERY QUIET. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) FEILDING, March 17. Business' was very quiet at the Feilding saleyards today, when small yardings came forward. Store sheep were not in the same demand as last week, though little change was noticeable in the prices for two-tooths. Aged breeding ewes slipped back, but in many cases the quality was not. what was required. Fat sheep ' were very scarce, with a complete lack of life in the demand. Lambs and wethers sold at late rates: Because of the closing of the Works against boner cattle, there was little doing in this respect. Of station stock yards were empty. Beef values were again depressed, this, also, being a reaction from the congestion in the works. Quotations are: — Sheep: Prime wethers," 19/2 to 20/1; second quality, 18/- to 18/6; first grade lambs, 23/6 to 23/8; seconds, 20/- to 21/6; light, 17/6 to 18/-; prime ewes, 9/10; good two-tooth ewes, 27/6 to 28/4; second quality, 24/9 to 26/-; small 22/4 to 25/6; others, 17/9 to 18/6; fourtooth ewes, 19/- to 21/1: good four and five-year ewes, 17/1 to 18/4; backward. 7/7 to 8/9; best five and six-year ewes, 11/- to 13/-; others, to 9/11; medium fcur-year ewes, 17/1 to 17/3; good sixyear ewes, 14/-; medium two-tooth wethers, 14/-.

Cattle: Hereford cows, £5 to £5 12/6; P.A. cows, £5 2/6 to £5 11/-; Shorthorn cows, £7; dairy cows, best. £4 10/- to £5 2/6; others, £3 17/6 to £4 5/-: vealers, £2 to £2 17/6; cows and heifers, £3 10/- to £5 7/-; boner cows, heavy, £3 to £4 2/6; others, £1 15/- to £2 14/-; potter bulls. £2 5/- to £5 2/6 ;weaner bulls, £1 6/-; weaner heifers, £2 5/- to £3; heifers,, calved. £6 10/-; springing heifers, £4 5/-. Pigs: Weaners, 3/6 to 13/-; slips, 6/6 to 15/-; porkers, £1 14/- to £2 3/-.

CARTERTON SALE. SHEEP IN WEAK DEMAND. Messrs. Wright, Stephenson & Co. Ltd., report: We held our weekly sale at Carterton' yesterday, when we offered a fair yarding to a small attendance Sheep met with a weak demand. Cattle were also hard to quit and prices were easier. Pigs sold at late rates. We quote:— Sheep—Fat b.f.’s to 15/4; fat and forward ewes to 8/7; 2, 4 and 6-tooth ewes to 18/-; m.a. ewes, 7/- to 7/6; shorn wether lambs to 11/2; small wether lambs, to 7/6; b.f. lambs, 7/10 to 8/6' small b.f. lambs, to 4/-; S.D. rams, tc £1 1/-. Cattle.—Cows just calved, £6 to £8 springing Jersey cows, £5 to £5 5/-. springing heifers, to £5; fat heifers, £4 15/- to £6 10/-; fat cows, £4 to £C 7/6; forward cows, £3 to £3 15/-; store cows, £2 to £2 15/-; cows and calves £3 10/- io £4 10/-; bulls, £2 5/- to £7 Pigs.—Weaners, good 7/6 to 9/-. medium 6/- to 7/-, small 4/- to 5/6. slips, 9/6 to 12/-; store pigs, 13/- tc 18/6; light porkers, 23/- to 28/-; porkers, 31- to 43/-; choppers, to 36/-; boars to 40/-.