STOCK MARKET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 August 1942, Page 4

STOCK MARKET

SALE AT FEILDING. ALL PRICES FIRM. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) FEILDING. August 28. All prices were firm at the. stock sale today with advances in some departments. Fat sheep showed a further hardening tendency, the primest by well over 40s. Keen competition from outside buyers lifted the prices of store hoggets very substantially, specially for wether hoggets. Fat cattle were in fair supply and sold readily at higher prices. The run cattle market was very good with a total clearance of the offering at firm prices. The dairy cattle market was much alive at satisfactory figures. CARTERTON SALE. GOOD DEMAND FOR SHEEP AND PIGS. Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., report as follows on their Carterton sale yesterday; A good yarding of sheep, cattle and pigs came forward. Sheep and pigs sold well but in the dairy section only heifers showing quality and close to profit were wanted. The following are some of the realisations: Sheep: Prime, heavy wethers, to £2 4s; fat wethers, to 395; light fat wethers, 34s to 355; fat hoggets, 21s Id, 225, 22s 8d to 23s 3d; woolly wether hoggets to 21s 2d; b.f. hoggets, 16s 6d to 18s 6d. Cattle: Choice 3yr Holstein heifers on drop, to £10; choice Jersey heifers, on drop, £lO 10s to £ll ss; springing heifers, £6 10s to £7: Jersey cows on drop, £6 15s, £7 5s to £8; springing cows, £4.105, £5 to £6 10s; fat cows, £5. £5 7s 6d, £6 5s to £6 10s; fat heifers, £5, £5 5s to £7; forward cows, 4 10s to £4 15s; store cows, £2 12s 6d, £3 to £3 ss. Pigs: Porkers, £2 14s, £2 15s to £3 2s; light porkers, £2 Gs to £2 9s; store pigs, to £2 Is; weaners (good), 31s, 32s to 345, (medium) 255, 27s 6d, 29s to 29s 6d, (small) 18s, 20s, 21s, 23s to 245.