LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 17, 20 January 1934, Page 4

LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

FEILDING STORE SALE.

HIGH PRICES FOR LAMBS. BREEDING EWES IN DEMAND. FEILDING, Friday. Prices for store lambs were exceptionally high at to-day's store stock sale, when 17,000 wore yarded. The demand for rape lambs was very keen and though early prices were high there was no slackening and at the conclusion of the sale it was evident that the market was far from satisfied. The sale had attracted a large number of buyers from a wide area, and the lines purchased were well distributed. Blackfaces were specially in demand, and any early shorn lambs carrying an appreciable coat of wool livened up the bidding at once. Whiteface lambs were also quickly snapped up. Of the total yarding about 3000 were breeding ewes, and for these also the demand was very keen, prices exceeding vendors' reserves in every case. The shortage of ewes in the country on top of the wool boom has sharpened the ruling market rates. One line of two-t.ooth ewes in very good condition was knocked down after spirited bidding for 26/. There were small yardings of store and dairy cattle. The dairy cattle market was again dull. The few lines of store cattle offered brought good prices. Following is the range of prices:— Blackface lambs, good condition, showing wool, 15/5 to 16/1; fair lines, 14/3 to 15/: close shorn, 12/3 to 13/5; wether lambs, heavy woolled, 16/3 to 17/1; very good shorn, 15/ to 15/3; good average lines, 13/6 to 14/8; light and close shorn, 11/ to 13/; woolly ewe lambs, not firstclass, 14/10< whiteface lambs, early shorn, 12/7; very late shorn, 11/6 to 12/1; m.s. lambs, 10/4 to 12/10; two-tooth ewes splendid line. 26/; four-year, 19/; four to five-year, 12/8; five-year, 15/7 and 18/9; five and six-year, 16/10; f.f.m. ewes, 17'', 20/6, 21/6; two-tooth wethers, 17/2 to 13/7; ewes, m.a., 14/6 to 16/7. Dairy Cattle.—Heifers, r.w.b., 37/0, £2 11/, £3 10/; autumn calvers, £2 1/, £2 2/6; poor, 39/; cows f.sd calves, good, £4 10/: others. 3-5/, £2 12/.

Store Cattle.—Two-year steers, £2 16/; three-year steers, £3 8/, £3 18/; Polle<? Angus steers, £2 to £4 as per age.