LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 33, 2 November 1929, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

FEILDING SALE Dominion Special Service. Feilding, November 1. Owing to there being no sale next Fridaj- and an extra large yarding of store cattle to-day, special Interest attached to to-day’s stock sale. Unfortunately for the sale a heavy’ thunderstorm with a downpour of rain syvept the town an hour after starting. This greatly interfered with the sale and for some time selling ceased. The improved • weather conditions and good rains during the week had led to hopes of increased prices. These hopes were partially realised. Fat sheep were yarded in average numbers. Fat hoggets advanced 2s. a head, but fat ewes were down slightly. Wethers made about last week’s rates. Fat shorn hoggets, best, 325.; good to 275.; medium, 255. 6d. to 265. 3d.; two-toothp, 275. fld.; for best others, 245. 6d. to 275. Id.; shorn maiden ewes, 275.; older ewes, 21s. 3d. to 22b. 3d.; for best other lines, 17s. -Id. to 195.; ewes in wool. 275. for primest, with good lines at 245. 3d. to 255. 9d.; shorn wethers, prime, to 295. 4d.; others. 235. 7d. to 28s. There was a medium yarding' of store sheep, which found an in-and-out market. Shorn breeding ewes made 14s. 6d., 12s. 10s.; b.f. two-tooths, good lines to 20s. 3d.; medium, 15s. 2d. to 17s. Id.; poorer lines, 14s. 6d. to 16s. lOd.; wethers, 215.; ewes and lambs, 245. 3d. to 31s. 7d.; six-tooth to five-year ewes. 19s. Id.; fat and forward etves, 15s. Id. . A small yarding of dairy cattle again found a ready market. Best springing heifers to £l5; good lines from £ll 10s. to £l3 155.; medium, £8 to £9 2s. 6d.; springing cows, £9, £8 10s.; Ayrshire cows, £lO 55.: cows in milk, £5 7s. 6d. A few choice well-bred Jersey-bulls were offered and sold at £lO to £l5; yearling bulls £4 15s. Fat Cattle Values. A small yarding of fat cattle did not sell readily and several lines were passed. Prices generally advanced 10s. a head. Fat bullocks made up to £l7 (455. to 475. per 1001 b.); fat cows, £8 15s. to £l4 (41s. to 425. per 1001 b.); fat light heifers, £6. The sale of store cattle was interfered with by the rain. Vendors generally had higher notions of values than purchasers and many lines were passed in. vendors refusing to yield. Store P.A. bullocks, big size, sold at £ll 17s. 6d.; steers, £4 155.; yearling Jersey heifers, best lines at £6 12s. 6d. to £7 75.; good, £5 17s. 6d. to £6 2s. edrt others down to £4 135.; twoyear heifers. £5 10s. to £0 10s.; eighteen months heifers passed at £7 65.; empty cows: £3 155., £4 .155.; forward cows, £5 55.; Jersey cross cows and calves, £3 12s. 6d. to £5 12s. 6d. HUNTERVILLE CATTLE FAIR At the Hunterville cattle fair, the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Distributing Co. Ltd. bad an entry of 360 head out of a total yarding of about 1100, and report, a satisfactory sale, everything changing hands with the ■ exception of about 30 head. The inquiry was good for well-bred cattle, although owing to the continued dry spell prices were not equal to those ruling a month ago. Values were: Four-vear P.A. bullocks, £ll to £l2; 3year I?.A. steers, to £lO 10s.; 2-year P.A. steers, £8 6s. to £9 55.; mixed coloured bullocks, to, £lO 18s.; Holstein steers, to £8 2s. 6d.: Jersey-steers, £5 75.; empty heifers, ■ S.H.. 3-year, £7 16s.;' light fat heifers, to £7 10s.; light fat cows, £5 17s. 6d. to £6 125.; forward cows, £4 7s. 6d. to £5 12s.'; store cows, £2 17s. 6d. to £4; 2-vear Hereford heifers, to £7 18s.; yearling P.A.' heifers, to £4.175.; aged P.A. bulls, to £10; others at late rates. Dalgctv and Company Ltd. report having a fair entry at the Hunterville cattle fair on Thursday. Competition generally was not particularly keen, and several pens were passed at auction, but a number were disposed of privately, after the sale. ' Quotations: P.A. bullocks, £ll 65.; S.H. bullocks. £ll 25.; coloured bullocks, £10; 2 and 3-year steers, £8 16s. to £9; crossbred yearling steers, £5-to £5 125.; light fat P.A. cows, £7 15s.

STUD SHEEP EXPORT A VALUABLE SHIPMENT - I By the C. and D? liner Port Melbourne, which left Wellington for Montevideo and London, Messrs. Murray, Roberts and Co., Ltd., shipped on account of Messrs. Pyne, Gould, Guinness, Ltd., of' Christchurch, a very valuable consignment of six merino rams and four merino ewes to Montevideo for the Argentine. ■ The rams and ewes were obtaned from well-known Australiam flocks, and were very fine specimens of the’ merino breed. Some of-the animals cost 500 gns., and the-whole consignment was valued at over £2OOO. Messrs. Pyne,:Gould, Guinness, Ltd., al-, so shipped by this vessel 61 COrriedale and Romney rams and ewes from such wellknown breeders as Mr. N. D. Campbell, Glendhu, Motunau, North Canterbury, Messrs. James Mosley and Sons, Clydesvale, and Mr. A. P. Elworthy, Holme Station, Timaru. This consignment consisted solely ,of one-shear rams and ewes and gave evidence of very careful breeding and selection; in fact, although a keen judge might favour one or the other, as lines in their respective types, they would be hard to beat anywhere in the Dominion. The cost of these sheep ran well into four figures, and ’ there is little doubt they will be a‘ good advertisement for New Zealand breeders.