LIVE STOCK MARKET

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 196, 16 May 1936, Page 16

LIVE STOCK MARKET

Breeding Ewes in Demand FEILDING SALE Dominion Special Service. Feilding, May 15. Heavy yariinge of sheep and cattle were forward at the stock sale to-day. 'The feature of the sale was the keen inquiry for breeding ewes and store lambs, which showed a very firm market, especially for ewes in lamb, the market for which is far from satisfied. The fat sheep market showed an easing tendency for ewes and wethers, which were down (id. to 1/- a head. Fat lambs were firm and appreciably above export schedule. The dairy cattle market is still firm, witli good prices offering, though in some eases vendors had exalted notions of value, resulting in some passings. The store cattle market is weaker except for good quality, while fat cattle are still easy. Fat sheep: Prime lambs to 24/6; extra prime, 27/3; good pens. 21/9 to 22/4; light from 15/- to 19/11. Prime ewes, 22/(5 to 23/6. Medium, 20/- to 21/6; light, 18/1 to 19/1; inferior from 15/1 to 17/4. Prime heavy wethers, 26/6 to 27/6; medium to 26/-; average lines to 24/9; light, 22/- to 23/-. Store sheep: Breeding ewes in lamb, full mouth, 16/2; four and five-year, 22/11; poor, 19/6; five-year, 18/10; good six-tooths to fouryear, 36/-. Best ewe lambs, 25/10 to 27/9 ; medium, 21/7 to 23/-; shorn wether lambs, 17/- to 18/9; b.f. lambs, small, 16/4; small two-tooth ewes, 33/-; good four-year ewes, 28/2; fair pens, 21/3; forward two-tooth wethers, 25/2; poor, 16/9. Store cattle: Two-year Hereford steers, £5/12/6; forward Hereford cows, £4/4/-; medium forward P.A. cows, £3/17/-J forward three-year P.A. steers, £7_to £7 15/-; good two-year P.A. steers, £5/8/6; inferior condition ditto, £4/4/- to £4 7/6; two-year P.A. heifers, good quality, £5/1/- to £5/7/-; fair condition ditto, £4/4/- to £4/7/-; forward Shorthorn cows, £3/12/-; two-year Shorthorn heifers, £4/5/-; small two-year steers, £4 18/-; good two-year steers, £6; yearling steers, £2/5/-; empty' Jersey heifers, £2 to £2/18/-; best weancr Jersey heifers, £2/17/-; forward cows. £3 to £3/11/-; lighter, 30/- to 50/-. _Fat cattle: Fat cows, dairy breeds. £5 to £5/15/-; medium quality, £4/10/- to £4/17/6; plain, £3/5/- to £4/5/-; light Jersey steers, £4 13/- to £5/11/-; medium P.A. heifers, £5/12/6; Jersey heifers, £3/15/- to £4 12/6; best vcalers, £2/1/- to £2/4/-; small, 21/- to 37/-; runners, £3/5/-. Dairy cattle: Springing heifers, close to profit, £5/15/- to £6/2/-; good lines to £5/7/6; late calvers, £3/12/6 to £4 10/-; springing cows, close to_ profit. £5 10/- to £6; good quality to £5/5/-; late calvers, £3/5/- to £4/5/-; heifers in milk, £5/10/-; good second calvers, £5/12/6; inferior, 25/- to £3/15/-. Poultry: Hens, 1/- upward; cockerels, 1/1 to 2/6; pullets, 1/9 to 5/-. Pigs : AVeaner<i’. 5/- to 8/-; weaners, 4/to 8/1; slips. 5/6 to 9/-: stores, 17/-_to £l/4/6; small porkers, 17/6; boar, 15/-.

Hugh Burrell and Sons’ Dispersal

Feilding, May 14. The dispersal sale of Southdown sheep on account of Messrs. Hugh Burrell and Sons, Feilding, on AVerlnesday, was attended by buyers drawn from a wide area. Owing to the great reputation held by the flock, keen interest was apparent, and highly satisfactory prices were realised. In all, 565 sheep were offered, and all were sold under tlie hammer.

Top price was brought by a stud ram purchased by Mr. A. Matthews (Canterbury) for 100 guineas, and (he second highest price, 80 guineas, was paid by Mr. E. L. Raynor, Masterton, also for a stud ram. The top price for a ewe was 62. J guineas, which was paid by Mr. James Knight, Feilding, for a 6-th animal. The sale realised a sum considerably in excess of £6OOO, the animals averaging 12 guineas. Details of the higher-priced purchases are as follow :— Six-tooth ewes: Q. Donald, Featherston, 22gns.; Sir Wm. Perry. Masterton. 31gns.: S. Hunt, 21gns.; James Knight, Feilding, 62Jgns.; A. Kirkpatrick, Gisborne, Signs. Four-vcar ewes: J. Knight. 30gns., 45gns., 45gns.; R. 11. Oliver, M’averley, 30gns. Five-year ewes: Q. Donald, 20gns. each for a pen ot four; W. J. Freetli. 20gns. each for four; P. McLachlan. 20gns. for one. Six-year ewes : P. Cooper, four at 25gns. each.

Ram hoggets: D. Ross. 30gns., 27gns.; D. A. Blair, 26gns.; R. Coates., 75gns.; A. Matthews, 65gns.; R. Rowe, 27gus.; C. G. C. Dermer, 34gns.; J. Murray, Tuakau, 26gns.; F. Hawthorne. 22gns. Stud rams: A. P. Neil. 25gns.; P. McLachlan. 25gns.; A. Seifers, Frankton June., 30gns.; E. L. Raynor. SOgns.; A. Matthews, lOOgns.: W. Peat, 77Jgns.; H. H. B. Thompson, 40gns. Ewe hoggets: A. Kirkpatrick, oOgns.; Sir Wm. Perry, 55gns.. 21gns.; F. Aitken, 22gns.; A. A. Verry, 25gns. Two-tooth ewes: J. Hunt, Pembroke, 22gns.; Oakleigh Estate, Canterbury, 30gns., 24gns.; T. May, Hastings, 40gns.; Sir Wm. Perry, three at 26gns. each. Four-tooth ewes: P. Cooper, Masterton, 23gns.; J. S. Hunt, Signs.; J. Hunt Pembroke, SOgns.

Carterton Sale

Carterton, May 15.

Bidding was brisk for sheep, and prices were well up to ruling rates at the weekly Carterton sale to-day, when Wright. Stephenson and Co.. Ltd., offered a big yarding. Store cows were slightly easier, but springers were in d miand, and fats were about tlie same. Weaner pigs met a week market, but porkers were firmer.

Sheep: Fat ewes, 19/5 to 22/6; b.f. lambs, 14/- to 20/-; woolly ewe lambs, 24/7 to 27/-; tat b.f. lambs. 21/- to 21/9; fat wethers, 29/- to 30/7; small wether lambs, 7/6 to 11/-; shorn wether lambs, 16/9 to 17/6; forward wethers, 22/6 to 26/9 ; store ewes, to 14/-. Cattle: Cows, on drop, £5/12/6 to 3year heifers, on drop, £5/7/6 to £6/5/-; 3-year heifers, just calved, £5/17/6 to £7/10/-; i'at cows, £3/5/- to £4/14/-; forward cows, £2 to £3/2/6; store cows, 20/- to 37/6; vcalers, 39/- to £3; bulls, £2/10/- to £4/10/-. Pigs: Good wean; ers, 8/6 to 11/-; medium weaners, 5/6 to 8/-; small weaners, 2/- to 5/-; slips, 13/6 to 17/6; store pigs, 18/- to 20/6; light porkers, 21/6 to 24/-; porkers, 27/6 to 35/-; choppers, to 4D/-; baconers, £2 7/- to £3.

Dannevirke Sale

All classes of sheep met good competition and recent rates were well maintained at the Dannevirke stock sale on Thursday. A medium entry of cattle made late rates. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., made the following sajes:— Fat lambs, 19/9 to 27/6; fat ewes, 25/8; fat wethers, 27/1: store ewes. 15/6 to 17/6: wether lambs. 11/1 to 16/2; ewe lambs, 27/2; yearling heifers, £3/17/6. Dalgety anil Co., Ltd., report sales as under: —Pen fat wethers. 20/-: pen fat ewes, 18/2; fat lambs, 23/- to 23/10; 165 b.f. lambs, 17/1; 136 smaller ditto. 14/7 to 15/9; 2 woolly ewe hoggets, 26/-; 57 fat mid forward lambs, l</4; 26 store wethers, 24/9. The Hawke’s Bay Farmers' Co-opera-five Association, Ltd., made sales as low:—Fat ewes. 18/2. 18/5, 19/- to £1 0/3; fat wethers, £l/3/6. £l/4/-. £l/o/to £l/6/6; fat lambs, £l/4/-, £!/•’/; to £l/6/-; four and five-year ewes. £l/3/6. £l/4/11, to £l/5/5; m.a. ewes, £l/3/4; store ewes, 5/10 to 12/6; fat .Jersey cows £3. £3/10/-. £4, 5 guineas: dairy cows.' £3/10/- to £5; store cows. £l/19/-, £.2/6/- to £2/17/6: Jersey weaner heifers. £3 to £3/5/Williams and Kettle. Ltd., made the following sales:— Sheep : Five-year ewes, r.w. S.li. ram, 27/2; five and six-year

ewes, r.w. S.D. ram, 24/1: five and sixyear ewes, r.w. S.D. ram, 23/10; soundmouthed ewes, r.w. S.D. ram, 24/7; twotooth ewes, r.w. S.D. ram, 33/3; wether lambs. 17/10; wether lambs, 21/3; b.f. lambs, 16/4; fat wethers, 27/6: fat ewes, 18/- to 21/6; fat wethers, 27/5 to 27/9; four-tooth to five-year ewes, r.w. S.D. ram, 23/1; six-tooth to five-year ewes. r.w. S.D ram, 25/9; four and fiveyear ewes, r.w. S.D. rain, 24/6; five-year ewes, r.w. Romney ram, 22/3; four and five-year, r.w. S.D. rain, 24/-; two, four and six-tooth ewes, r.w. S.D. ram, 33/6; b.f. lambs, 17/- to 19/S; medium wether lambs. 15/8; two-tooth wethers, store, 22/7 to 23/6: small wether lambs. 13/to 14/1: medium ewe lambs, 19/4. Cattle: Fat Jersey cows, £2/16/- to £o 17/- ; P.A. cows.' r.w.b., £5/9/-; P.A. weaner steers, £4/5/-; P.A. weaner weaner steers, £4/5/-; P.A. weaner heifers, £3/15/- to £3/17/6: 1 vealer. £2/u/-; store Jersey cow, £2 to £2/12/6, potter bull, £2/15/-; weaner pigs. 6/6 to 10/-. Values at Mangaweka At the Mangaweka sale on Thursday the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Distributing Co.. Ltd., had a yarding of 900 sheep and 260 head cattle. Prices were more or less on a par with previous sales. Good s.m. owes. r.w. Roinnoy rams, 2S/2: ditto, r.w. S.D. rams, 23/3. 23/9. 25/- to 26/6; medium ewe lambs. 20/- to 20/4: forward w.f.w. lambs. 15/1, 16/to 16/3: good medium b.f. lambs, 14/-; smaller sorts. 10/-; two-tooth wethers, 23/1: P.A. cows. r.w. P.A. bull, £4 15/-; fat heifers, £4/19/- to £5/11/-; 24year P.A. heifer, r.w.b.. £4/10/-; rising two-year steers. £6/18/6; S.H. weaner steers, good, £.»/•>/-: fat cows, £,»/!()/- to £6: m.s. weaners, £3/5/-; P.A. weaners, £4/8/-; forward cows. £2/15/- to £3; in-calf Jersey heifers, £3/15/- to £4/5/-. Poultry Prices Wanganui, May 15. - F. C. Atkinson and Co. report the following prices at to-day's mart sale: — Light table fowls, 1/- to 1/6 each; heavy table fowls. 1/6 to 2/6 each; late cockerels. 1/3 to 2/- each; forward cockerels, 2/3 to 3/- each; roosters. 1/6 to 3/each; late pullets. 1/3 to 2 z 6 each; forward, 2/9 Io 3/3 each; ducks. 1/6 to I/- each; drakes. 1/3 to 1/9 each: bantams, 6il. to Hd. each. There was a good entry ot about 70 pens, and the demand was good.