STOCK MARKET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 October 1941, Page 3

STOCK MARKET

SALE AT FEILDING ACTIVE CONDITIONS. KEEN BIDDING FOR MUTTON. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) . FEILDING, October 3. A small yarding of good quality stock found the market very active at the Feilding sale today, both cattle and sheep selling readily. Mutton was in short supply and bidding was keen for all prime finished lines, the majority again being out of wool. Wethers were very scarce and not many hoggets were available. Prices for these hardened a little. In the store sheep pens the bulk of the entry was confined to ewe hoggets, best sorts selling to 335, and good second quality to 29s sd. Best wether hoggets realised to 22s and average quality changed hands at 19s sd. Store cattle met with a good sale. Fat and forward three-four-year A.A. bullocks made to £9 Is, and wellgrown three-year lines to £8 Ils. Best two-year A.A. and Hereford steers sold freely at up to £7 15s, while yearling A.A. steers made to £4 12s. A.A. cows pasturing with bull were in demand at up to £6 13s. Beef also made a strong appeal to buyers, a nicely finished entry of ex beef advancing considerably in price. Top weights brought to £l4 17s 6d, and second grade to just on £l2. The top price for cows was £ll 2s 6d and for heifers £l2 7s 6d. CARTERTON SALE GOOD PRICES FOR HOGGETS. RISE IN HEIFER VALUES. Messrs Wright Stephenson and Co., Ltd., report as follows on their Carterton sale yesterday; —A small yarding came forward. Some very good woolly wether hoggets were yarded and made good prices under keen competition. A few shorn wethers were offered and made good values. Heifers on drop showed a sharp rise. There was a very .short supply. Fat and forward cows made late values. Pigs sold well up to late rates. The following are the prices:— Sheep: Fat woolly wether hoggets, to 25s 6d; woolly wether hoggets, to 21s 6d; shorn hoggets, 17s 2d to 17s 9a; fat shorn ewes, to 12s. Cattle: Jersey S.H. cross heifers on drop, £ll ss, £ll 10s to £l4 - ss; springing Jersey heifers, £6 12s 6d to £7 15s; choice yearling Jersey heifers, £5 15s. to £6; fat cows, to £5 4s; forward cows, £3 Is, £3 6s, £3 7s to £3 18s; store cows, 20s, 21s, 245, 30s, 36s to £2 ss; cows and calves, io £4 4s. Pigs: Weaners (good), 20s to 24s 6d; weaners (medium), 16s to 19s; weaners (small), 10s 6d to 15s; choppers, to £2 !ss. '