DEPRESSING SALE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 102, 1 May 1937, Page 15

DEPRESSING SALE

HEAVY FEILDING ENTRY

LIVESTOCK MARKETS

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) FEILDING, April 30.

With 9000 sheep advertised and more than 20,000 yarded for -today's stock sale, potential purchasers at Feilding experienced ah embarrassment of riches, and the . consequence was a very depressing sale. A large proportion of the breeding bulls came from outside districts. There were many pens of local raising but they were not of good quality and the auctioneers found sales almost impossible. However, for pens of ewes showing condition and quality the market was very good. ■. For instance,, two-tooth ewes, running .with Southdown rams, made to 40s, and good four-tooths to 35s 9d. Store lambs shared the common fate, over-supply, pulling down rates, but there was a fair sale for wether lambs. For ew;e lambs the demand was poor. Fat sheep sold readily, exporters competing with local butchers and keeping up prices.

: Prices for fat cattie were slightly easier, cow beef making 20s per iUOID and ox beef to 255. The station cattle lines oilered were only cleaning-up lines, with nothing outstanding. Tnere was a good demand lor winter caivcrs in the dairy section. '*. ■■'"..,

The range of prices was as ' follows: — ■. ".■:'■■

Fat sheep: Prime heavy lambs, 25s Id; extra prime, 295; good weights, to 24s 8d; light, from 17s; prime,heavy ewes, to 245; good, to 23s 6a; light, from 17s; good heavy prime wethers, 30s to 31s 9d; extra prime, 32s 6d; fair average weights, to 265; prime two-tooths, 33s 6d. Store sheep: Breeding ewes, two-tooths, 34s to 4Us; four-tooths, 3Gs. 9d; four and six-tooths, 32s lOd; fourtooth to four-year, to 35s 6d; four-year, to 20s; five-year, 23s 9d; m.a., 19s; store . lambs, b.l's, good, to 23s lOd; others, from 15s Id to 19s. lOd; w.f. lambs, woolly, to 18s; others, from 10s 9d; • ewe lambs, to 27s 4d. Fat cattle: Prime heavy bullocks, £10 2s 6d; P.A.Hereford cross cows, to £7 15s; Holstein heifers, £5 7s; ex dairy breed cows, prime heavy, to. £7; • heifers, prime, to £7 10s; vealers, to £4; runners, to £3 15s. Store cattle: Boner cows, 22s to £3 ss; forward cows, to £4 3s; weaner Jersey heifers, to £2 17s 6d; heifers, r.w.b., to £4 7s 6d. Run cattle: P.A. heifers, weaners, to £4 17s 6d; twenty-month, £5 to £5 10s; cows, £5; P.A. steers, weaners, £5 ,7s- 6d; twenty-month, £6 12s; rising threeyear, to £7 14s; Shorthorn bulls, £5. Dairy section: Springing heifers, to £6 15s; springing cows,-to £6; cows in milk, to £5 10s; second calvers, £6. Poultry: Hens, Is 3d to 2s lOd; pullets, 5s 3d; cockerels, 2s 2d to 3s 3d. Pigs:

Weaners, 3s 3d to 12s; slips, 7s to 14s; stores. 14s to 21s; porkers, 22s 6d to 365.