STOCK MARKET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1939, Page 3

STOCK MARKET

FEILDING SALE. FAT SHEEP PRICES EASIER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) FEILDING, June 30. Prices for fat sheep were slightly easier at the Feild stock sale held today. The extra heavy yarding of wethers, ewes and lambs was probably the cause of the drop in values. Exporters operated with butchers, and there was a fair clearance, though more than the usual number of passings was recorded. In no case did the price exceed 225, ’ whereas last week the best price for prime lambs was 225, and for prime wethers 22s 4d. The drop was about Is a head. The yarding of store sheep was heavy and included a large offering of breeding ewes. The demand for lambs was fairly good. Store and run cattle were forward in large numbers, and the dairy cattle yarding was medium. The dairy cattle were quality animals, and the demand was good with indications of a firming market. Prices are: — Sheep: Fat lambs, prime, 21s 7d to 21s 9d; good, 15s 6d to 18s Id; fair, 14s Id to 15s; light, from 12s; fat wethers very prime, 19s; prime, 18s 2d; good, to 17s 6d; fair, from 15s Id; fat maiden ewes, prime, 16s 6d to 18s 9d; fat ewes, prirpe heavy, 20s to 20s 9d; very good, 17s 3d to 19s 6d; fair, from 13s 6d; b.f.’s heavy, 19s to 19s 9d; good, 18s to 18s 6d; wether lambs in good condition, 10s 6d to 13s 6d; medium quality, 8s 6d to 9s 6d; poor, from 7s 3d; b.f. lambs, 8s 3d to 8s 6d; b.f. wethers, 14s 6d; ewe lambs, good, 14s to 14s lOd; fair, 13s 6d to 13s lOd; 2-tooth wethers, 13s lid; 2-tooth ewes r.w. Romney rams, 29s 9d; r.w. S.D. rams, 28s 6d to 28s Id; 2-tooth to 5-year ewes, 16s to 21s 3d; wether hoggets, 9s to Ils 2d. Cattle: Potter cows, £2 11s 6d to £2 12s 6d; Jersey heifers, £3 10s; good light steers, £3 17s 6d; Hereford steers, £4 ss; PA., heifers, £3 6s; P.A. cows, r.w.b., £3 10s; springing cows, £6 10s; springing heifers, to £6 15s. Poultry: Hens, 2s 2d to 3s 8d; pullets, 4s 6d to 6s 3d; cockerels, 2s Id to ss. Pigs: Weaners, 14s to £1 Is; slips, 18s 6d to £1 3s; sows, £2 to £9 6s; sows and 8 suckers, £9 17s 6d; porkers, £1 16s.

CARTERTON SALE. STORE SHEEP SELL WELL. At the Carterton sale held yesterday Messrs Wright Stephenson and Co., Ltd., offered a good yarding of sheep, cattle and pigs to a fair attendance. The inquiry for breeding ewes was limited, though the store sheep sold well up to late rates. The prices for cattle and pigs were on a par with those of last week. The following were the values realised: — Sheep: Six-tooth and four-year ewes, r.w. S.D. rams, to 16s sd; four and fiveyear ewes, r.w. S.D. rams, to 14s 6d; m.a. ewes, r.w. S.D. rams, 8s to 12s 3d; f.m. ewes, r.w. S.D. rams, to ss; forward bf’s., 9s 6d to 11s 6d; two-tooth wethers, to Ils 4d; fat hoggets, 13s to 13s 9d. Cattle: Cows on drop, £9 2s 6d; heifers, just calved, £8 10s; heifers, on drop, £9 to £10; heifers, r.w.b., £4 12s to £5 10s; empty two-year heifers, £3 to £3 17s 6d; fat heifers, to £5 17s 6d; fat cows, £3 5s to £4 10s; forward cows, £2 10s to £3; store cows, 35s to x 2 3s; bulls, £4 15s to £6 15s. Pigs: Weaners, small, 9s to 12s; good, 15s 6d to 18s; slips, 19s to 20s; store pigs, 21s to 245; light porkers, 29s to 345; porkers, 35s to 455; baconers, to £3 3s; sows to farrow, to £4 10s.