LIVE STOCK MARKET

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 197, 18 May 1936, Page 3

LIVE STOCK MARKET

Gisborne Sale Dominion Special Service. Gisborne, May 16. Following closely on the two days’ cattle fair and wet weather intervening, all classes at the weekly sale had moderate entries. There was a small attendance. Nevertheless fat sheep prices firmed. Store sheep showed an advancing tendency, with hoggets definitely dearer. Fat ewes, average quality, IS/- to 18/6; fat lambs, fairly good, to 17/S. Stores: Breeding ewes, four, six aud eight-tooth, 2G/-; sound mouth, 24/5; five-year, 22/6; medium mouths, otherwise good, 23/- to 23/10 ; hoggets, ewes, 19/- to 22/2; top lines, wethers, 17/1 to 17/6; grown wethers, 'good frame and condition, 22/10 to 23/3. The pig market was easy. Raetihi Sale At the Raetihi sale last Thursday Freeman R. Jackson and Co., Ltd., had a yarding of 1200 sheep. The demand for sound wethers and lambs was keen, particularly for the latter. The demand still seems unsatisfied. Cattle sold well considering the lateness of the year. ITices were as follow:— Fair to good wether lambs (in wool>_. 19/2, medium shorn wether lambs, 17/7 to 18/3; small ditto, 13/9 to 15/9; small ewe lambs, 20/-; two and four-tooth wethers, 24/- to 24/3; aged wethens. 19/-; b.f. lambs, 16/1. Cattle: Small good-conditioned three-year P.A. steers, 16/17/-; coloured bullocks, £5/12/6; twoyear Holstein steers, £4/12/-; small S.H. Iross ditto, £3/12/-; meaty empty cows, £3/5/-. £3/18/- to £4/1/-; store cows, £3 to £3/4/-; boners, 33/6 to £2/1/-; emptv heifers. £3/3/- to £3/12/-; aged dairy cows, £2/2/-, £2/10/- to £3; winter calver, £5/10/-; cows with calves at font, £3/15/-. Palmerston Pigs and Poultry Palmerston North, May 16. According to the Dominion Auctioneer, ing Company's report, there was a poor demand for the fair yarding of pigs offered at their weekly sale this morning, but a few lines of weaners sold at good prices. Several good quality porkers also realised up to vendors’ expectations, but generally the demand was not. as good as during the past few weeks. An extra large yarding of poultry was offered, every line being in keen demand, with consequent prices considerably in excess of last week’s realisations. The prices were as follow:— Pigs: Small weaners. 4/- to 5/-: best weaners, up to 8/-; slips, 7/- to 8/-; stores. 16/- to 17/-; light porkers, 23/- to Poult I’.v: White bens, 3/- to 5/-; black liens, 4/6 to 6/-: ducks. 4/- to 5/-; cockerels. 6/- to !)/- (all prices per pair) ; pullets. .“/- to 5/- each : turkey bens, 5/- to 6/- each ;■ gobblers, 8/- each. > - Mangaweka Sale At the Mangaweka sale last Thursday Dnlgcty and Co., Ltd., had an entry of S7O breeding ewes and hoggets and had, a total clearance. Although some wedgrown hoggets were included in the offering tile main portion comprised smaller sorts. Ewe hoggets, 18/3. 21/-. 24/1 ; wether hoggets. 1(1/8, 15/10. 17/1; b.f. hoggets. 11/6. 12/1. 16/-: empty two-tooth ewes. 24/-: breeding owes, 20/-, 22/6. 25/7; wethers, 23/-, 23/1. Eketahuna Clearing Sale Abraham and Williams I.id. held in conjunction witli Wright. Steplieuson and Co.. Ltd., a most successful clearing sale on behalf of the Estate of .Sven N’illson. Eketahuna. on Monday last. As the propertv lias been sold, the whole flock ot mixed aged ewes and cattle attracted a large attendance. Five hundred four and five-year ewes r.w S.D.. 24/6: 107 six-tooth ewes r.w. S.D.. 32/-; 144 four-tooth ewes r.w. S.D., 36/-'; 212 two-tooth ewes r.w. S.D., 34/-: 65 empty two-tooth ewes. 27/-. Cattle: 36 forward bullocks, £S/7/G: 37 P.A. cows r.w. P.A. bulls. £7/5/-: mixed sex calves, £"/HI/-: 16 20-month P.A. steers. £6: 13 20-moiith P.A. heifers, fl Feilcling Sale Prices At th.. Feilding stock sale lasi Friday Abraham and Williams Ltd. made tlie following sales: —Fat sheep: Fat ewes, 18/1 18/2 20/-. 21/7, 22/6; tat wethers. 27/-; fat "lambs.’lB/11. PJ/6. P.'/H. -<V-. 21/-, 21/4. 21/0, 22/-, 22/5. 23/4, 24/-. Store sheep: B.f. lambs. 14/6. !</-, 18/o, w.f. lambs. 14/10; Corriedale lambs. 117- 15/1; wether lambs. 12/11, 16/2; ewe lamlw. 24/10, 26/4, 27/9: two-tooth to five-venr ewes r.w. S.D., 28/9; f.m. ewes r.w. S.D.. 12’-. 16/2. Fat cattle: Vealers, 37/-, £3/5/-; Jersey steers. L> 11/- £4/13/-: cows, £2/12/6. £2/17/0, £3, £3/7/6. £3/10/-. £3/17/6. £4 £4/2/6. £4/7/6, £4/12/6. £5/2/6. Store cattle: Weaner Jersey heifers. £2/17/-: cows, •MW- 23/- 25/-. 36/-. £2. £2/1/-. £2/4/-. £O/0 q; £•_>/.’>/-. £2/10/-. £2/12/6. £3/1/-■ £3/4/-' £3/11/-- Station cattle: P.A. heifers’, £4/4/-, £5/1/-; yearling P.A.

steers, £4/7/6; 24-ycar P.A. steers, £7, £7/10/-. Dairy cattle: Springing cows, £2/15/-, £5/15/-, £6: springing heifers, £4/12/6, £4/15/-, £-1/17/6, £5, £5/7/6, £672/6. Dalgety and Co.. Ltd., report sales as under: Fat lambs, 19/1.1, 20/-, 20/3, 21/-. 21/9, 24/0, 27/3: fat wet tiers, 23/6, 26/6: fat ewes. 17/!!. 21/-, 21/6. 23/6; fat S.D. ewes, 22/6: wether hoggets, 17/9, 18/10; ewe la mils. 22/6; b.f. lambs, 13/3, 19/-; wether lambs. breeding ewes r.w. S.D. rams, 19/-, 21/3, 26/9; two-tooth ewes r.w. S.D. rams, 33/-; four-tooth ewes r.w. S.D. rain, 31/3; six-tooth and four-year ewes r.w. S.D. rams, 36/-; four and five-year ewes r.w. S.D. rams, 22/11: store ewes, 4/-, 12/9; wethers, 25/2: Jersey heifers r.w.b., £2/15/9, £3/1/-. £4/17/6. £5 12/6; dairy cows r.w.b.. £3/12/6. £3 15/-, £4/7/6, £5/2/6, £5/5/-: weaner heifers, 15/-, 17/6; store cows, £l/1-1/-, £2, £2/3/-, £2/10/-, £2/IS/-, £2/19/-. £3 1/-, £3/3/-. £3/5/-: empty heifers, 27/-; Hereford heifers. £5/12/6: I I .A. steers, £5/8/-; P.A. heifers. £4/7/-: vealers, £2 IS/-. £3/7/-. £3/S/-; I’.A. vealers (steers). £-1/5/-: fat cows, £3/5/-. £3 15/-. £3/17/6. £l. £4/2/6, £5, £5/5/-; dairy sorts, £5/10/-, £6; fat heifers, dairy sorts. £5/12/6; fat steers, dairy I sorts, £3/12/6: runners, £2/16/-. The New Zealand Loan ami Mercantile Igoncy Co.. Ltd., made sales as follow: Fat lambs, 18/11, 20/3. 22/-. 2.”./-. 21/10, 25/6 to 26/8: fat ewes. 16/-. 17/9. 19/8 to 20/6; fat wethers, 24/9, 25/3. 26/1 lo 27/6: wether lambs, 15/6, 15/9, 16/-, 1679, 17/-. 17/2 to 17/6; b.f. lambs, 13/-, 1-1/4 to 16/9; ewe lambs. 21/7, 22/- to 24/1: breeding ewes r.w. S.D. rams, six-tooth to four-year. 200 at_29/-; four and five-year, 100 at 23/-, 150 at 25/4. 260 nt 28/2: five-year. 120 at 21/6; fattening ewes, 12/6 to 14/1: store twotooth wethers. 23/9. Springing heifers, £3/10/-. £4/15/- to £5/17/6: springing cows. £3/15/-. £4/17/6 to £5/15/- and £6/2/6: weaner Jersey heifers, £2 to £2 15/-; fat dairv cows. £.’l/2/6. £1 to £4 i5/-; fill I'.A. heifers, £(1/2/6: fat I’.A. cows. £C> lo £6/15/-: empty I’.A. heifers. £5/7/-; store cows, 30/-. £2, £2/10 - to The New Zealand Farmers’ ('operative Distributing Co.. Ltd., report tlie following sales:—Fat sheep: Fat laml>s, 20/-, 21/6. 22/-. 23/-. 24/6; fat wethers, 2-"./-, 24/6, 25/-. 26/-. 27/-; fat ewes. 17/6. 1,8/3, .19/6. 21/6, 22/-. Fat cattle: Fat: cows, dairy sorts. £■’>. £4/5/-. £4,'To -. £4 17/(1 £5/15/-: fat heifers, dairy sorts. £3/5/-. £4/7/6. £4/15/-: vealers. 25/-. 27/6, 30/-, £2/4/-. Store sheep: Fiveyear, r.w. S.D. rams, 19/-, 20/-. 21/~22/-; four-year ewes r.w. S.D. rams. 22.'-, 23/G. 25/-. 2(1,'-: empty ewes. 10/6, 11/-, 12/3. 14/-: w.f.w. lambs. 13/6. 15/-, 16/6.’ 17/5. IS/-: b.f. lambs. 14/-. 15/3, 1675; 17/-; owe lambs. 19/7. 21/6. 23/-, 257-,’26/3. Store cattle: P.A. and Hereford’ bullocks. £7/15/-: wer.ner S.H. slcers. £4/18/-: weaner S.H. heifers, £4 5/- Dairv ealtle: Springing heifers. £L £4.’10/-. £5/5/-. £5/10/-,'£6; springing cows, £3 to £5/10/-.