LIVESTOCK MARKETS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 36, 13 February 1939, Page 11

LIVESTOCK MARKETS

FEILDING SALE HEAVY SHEEP ENTRY The Associated Auctioneers report on the Feilding stock sale as follows: A heavy yarding of store sheep came forward to a large attendance of buyers at Friday’s sale and values held firm at par with recent sales. The offering consisted mostly of store lambs with a medium entry of breeding ewes and store wethers. A medium entry of fat sheep sold with prices at sar. The beef section, which was made up with a medium entry of station cattle and a good entry of ex dairy sorts, showed no alteration in values. The runcattlemarket was quiet with boner and dairy cattle fully maintaining late rates. Range of prices:— Sheep.—Fat lambs, tops 21s to 245, medium, 19s to 20s 6d; fat ewes, prime heavy 10s to 10s Bd, heavy 9s to 9s 9d; fat wethers, extra prime 19s 6d to 21s 2d, prime 18s Id to 19s; lighter sorts, 16s 3d to 17s 6d; twotooth ewes, good to 26s 6d, medium to 21s 9d; five-year ewes, 13s 9d to 18s 7d: five and six-year ewes, 10s to 12s; six-year ewes, Ils 3d; store wethers, 11s to 15s; b.f. lambs, tops (woolly) 15s 6d to 18s, shorn 13s 6d to 14s lOd, medium 12s; ewe lambs, tops 16s 10c! to 18s 3d, medium, 12s 3d to 16s Id, culls 4s 2d to 8s; wether lambs, tops 14s 6d to 17s Id, medium 12s to 13s 7d, culls 4s 4d to 5s lOd.

Cattle.—Dairy cows, £7 4s to £8 15s; heifers, £7; potter cows, £2 15s to £4; fat run cows, heavy prime £7 to £8 ss, prime £5 15s to £6 18s; lighter, £4 17s 6d to £5 lOd; fat cows, ex dairy, £4 10s to £5 15s; Jersey weaner heifers, £3 ss; runners, £2 12s 6d; yearling steers, P.A., £2 12s 6d; yearling heifers, £1 15s; two-year P.A. steers, £4 to £7; P.A. bullocks, £7 15s to £9; cows and calves, £.3 18s.