STOCK MARKET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1939, Page 3

STOCK MARKET

SALE AT FEILDING. FAT SHEEP ADVANCE IN PRICE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) FEILDING. June 9. Prices for fat lambs and fat ewes advanced by Is 6d a head, as compared with last week’s prices, at the Feilding stock sale held today. The medium yarding of wethers and the light offering of lambs and ewes attracted quite good competition. Freezing works’ operators were out to purchase, and this competition helped to lift prices. The best price for fat lambs was 21s 2d, and for fat ewes 17s Id. Store lambs also advanced slightly, with a healthier tone in the market. Few pens of breeding ewes were offered, the range of prices showing no measurable difference from previous rates, but the inquiry was good.

Dairy cattle were offered in small numbers, with a very good response. It was apparent that good-quality cows due to calve are wanted by outside districts as well as in the Manawatu, and the best prices for heifers were higher than the Taranaki average range for this class of stock. A small yarding of run cattle was forward, prices being on a par with recent sales. The fat cattle-yarding was small. Quality was indifferent, and sales were hard to make. CARTERTON SALE. LATE RATES MAINTAINED. Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., report: A good yarding of sheep, cattle and pigs came forward at our Carterton sale yesterday and was offered to a fair attendance. All classes of stock sold well up to late rates and a total clearance was effected under the hammer. Prices were as follow: — Sheep. —Good b.f. lambs, 13s 4d, 13s 7d to 14s 6d; woolly ewe lambs, to 16s 3d; woolly wr lambs, to 13s 6d; med b.f. lambs, 6s Id to 9s; 2-th wethers, to 14s. Cattle. —Cows on drop, to £9; cows’ just calved, to £7 10s; heifers just calved, to £10; spg Jers. heifer, to £6; fat cows, £3 9s to £4 10s; fwd cows, £2 6s to £3 ss; store cows, 35s to 425. Rigs.—Wehners (good), 8s to 10s 6d; weaners (medium), 6s to 7s 6d; weaners (small), 4s 6d to 5s 6d; slips, 12s to 14s; store pigs, 15s 6d to 19s 6d; light porkers, 22s to 255; porkers, 28s to 445; baconers, £3 to £3 ss; choppers, to 41s. EKETAHUNA SALE. KEEN BIDDING. Messrs Dalgety & Co., Ltd., report on their weekly sale held at Eketahuna on Thursday as follows:—A medium yarding of sheep and a good one of cattle were yarded and attracted a large attendance of the public, buyers being present from the Wairarapa, Manawatu, Pahiatua and all the local districts. The cattle yarded, with one or two exceptions, were not of good quality, but bidding throughput was keen and prices were well up to and in many cases above those ruling at late sales. A good clearance was effected under the hammer, and the following list of principal sales will indicate values: —B.F. hoggets, 8s Id; fwd condition 2-th wethers, 13s 6d; fwd B.F. 2-ths, 12s to 12s 9d; 20-mos. Hereford steers, £4 Is; P.A. do, £4 6s; small do, £3 12s 6d; 11 and 21-year Hereford horned steers, £4 ss; empty P.A. cows, £2 15s, £3, £3 7s 6d to £3 10s; wnr P.A. heifers, medium, 28s to 31s; medium wnr P.A. steers, 36s to £2; fat dairy cows, £4, £4 5s to £4 15s; potter bulls, £3 15s to £5.