FEILDING STOCK SALE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 77, 31 March 1928, Page 4

FEILDING STOCK SALE.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) FEILDING, Friday. At the Feilding sale to-day there was a medium yarding of sheep and a small yarding of cattle. The bulk of the store sheep were breeding ewes of all ages, and they (told well at prices satisfactory to vendors. A largo entry of black face lambs sold at prices well up to late rates. A good yarding of fat sheep and lambs was practically all sold at prices equal to late rates. Fat lainbs tnado 19/6 to 26/6; fat ewes, good, 20/ to 21/6;' lighter, 18/6 to 20/; fat wethers, fair, 26/3; good, 29/ to 31/; wether lambs, to 15/7; store black face lambs, medium, 14/ to 18/4; two-tooth ewes, 32/; six-tooth and four-year ewes, 27/1; two-tooth ewes, to 24/; four and fiveyear ewes, running with Southdown rams, 21/ to 25/; two-tooth ewes, 37/; four and live-year empty ewes, 23/6; ewe lambs, 16/3 to 19/6. About 300 head of cattle were offered to a fairly keen market, and the prices realised were up to late rates. Polled Angus heifers, two and a-half years, made up to £5 5/; two and a-half-year HerefordShorthorn cross heifers, £4 19/; Jersey weaner heifers, £2 10/ to £3 15/; store cows, £2 to £4 5/: fat cows, £4 17/6 to £5 7/0; three-year Hereford steers, £7 9/; empty Hereford cows, £63/; Holsten cross heifers, £ 4 15/.

TUAKAU. Dnlgety and Company, Limited, report having held their usual monthly sale at Tuakaii, when over the advertised yarding caine forward to a good attendance of buyers, the majority of which came from the Wnikato. A spirited sale resulted, practically everything being sold under thehammer. On account of Crosslands Estate, 160 Romney ewe lambs, £1 0/1; 200 at 19/3; 378 wether lambs, 17/3; other ewe lambs, 14/; other wether lambs, 13/1; m.s. shorn lambs, 10/4, 12/10, 14/4 to 15/. Rams, 14/ to £1 1/. Cattle: Fat bullocks, £10 7/6 to £11 7/6; fat cows and heifers, £6 4/, £0 5/, £6 10/, £7 5/, £8 4/ to £8 10/. A line of forward-conditicned 4%-year bullocks on account of T. G'orneille, Port Wnikato, realised: 11 at £0 4/, 11 P.A. at £11 0/, 11 at £8 2/0, and 12 steers at £7; other bullocks, £7, £7 9/, £7 10/ to £8 8/; 2'/6-year steers, £5 4/ to £0 5/; 18-months steers, £4 to £4 10/; small 18-months steers, £2 15/ to £3? empty cows, £2 10/, £3 2/, £3 8/, £3 10/ to £4; cows and calves, £4 10/; bulls, £4, ,£4 14/.