LIVE STOCK MARKET

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 274, 15 August 1936, Page 16

LIVE STOCK MARKET

Ewe Hoggets in Demand FEILDING SALE Dominion Special Service. Feilding, August 14. The high level of prices for ewe hoggets was the feature of the stock sale today, these reaching 36/-, which i s the highest this year. Prices for store sheep have been advancing for several months with no sign yet of a halt. For goodquality ewe hoggets to-day the demand was very keen, while wether hoggets also sold readily at slightly advanced prices. A very small offering of ewes in lamb was forward, and these featured prices are scarcely an indication of market values. Only a small yarding of fat sheep was forward, with fat ewes still selling at high prices, well over export values, butchers taking the whole offering at prices at about last week’s level. Fat wethers maintained previous rates. Only second-quality fat hoggets were offered, and the market declined in consequence. There was a heavy entry of dairy cattle and the sale showed that there was no boom, springing heifers, fairly good quality selling about £6/10/-, fair value considering the fixed prices for butter and cheese. The market for dairy cattle is now stabilised. The fat cattle pens held some good heavy bullocks, which sold at up to 26/- per hundred pounds. Good prime Jersey cows and heifers sold at advanced prices. Store cattle sold at previous rates. Sheep: Fat hoggets, fair condition, to 25/-.; . inferior, from 21/6 to 23/6; fat ewes, prime, 32/-; prime maiden ewes, 32/6; good lines, 30/7; fair medium, 29/9; light, from 22/3; prime heavy wethers, 33/-; very good. 32/-; average 29/6. Store sheep: Ewe hoggets, forward condition, 36/-; good pens, 33/3 to 34/-; fair lines, 30/6 to 32/11; b.f. hoggets. good, 21/10; fair to 19/3; twotooth wethers. 24/10; breeding ewes, two to six-tooth, 28/-.

Dairy cattle: Springing heifers, forward condition, close profit, to £7/7/6; late culvers, from £3; average good lines, £6/10/-; springing cows, forward condition, £6/5/-; late calvers, from £2 17/6; heifers in milk, £2/5/- to £5/12/6. Store cattle: Potter cows, to £3/4/-; forward Jersey cows, to £3/17/-; Holstein cows, £3/14/-; Shorthorn cows, to £4/7/6; Jersey heifers, £3/8/- to £3/14/-; Jersey steers, £2/18/-; weaner heifers, £2/5/: P.A. steers, £5/15/6; Jersey bulls. £3/15/-; P.A. bulls_. £3 to £5. Fat cattle: Prime Jersey .steers, £6; prime Jersey heifers, £5/10/- to £6; prime cows, £6/17/6; light, fjom £3/17/6; good Holstein cows. £5/12/6 to £6/17/-; Hereford cows, £6/10/-; P.A. bullocks, to £B/18/6; Holstein bullocks, £9/1/- to £9/13/-; vealers, £2/5/- to £3. Poultry: Hens, 2/- to 3/5; cockerels, 2/2 to 5/-; ducks, 1/9 to 2/-. Pigs: Weaners, 12/6 to 15/6; slips, 15/6 to 22/-; stores, small, 25/-; porkers, small. 25/-; sows and litters, £3/5/to £4/5/-. Values at Dannevirke All sheep met good competition and maintained recent market rates at the Dannevirke stock sale on Thursday. Wellfinished fat cattle sold well, but dairy cows and heifers met a dragging sale, only good quality early calvers being in demand. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., made the following sales: —Fat hoggets, 22/4; wether hoggets, 14/7, 19/1, to 20/1. Fat Jersey cows, £3/15/-, £3/17/6. to £4; fat Jersey heifers, £2/17/6 to £3/11/-. Fat and forward bullocks, £B/15/-; 2-year-old Hereford steers, £6/5/-: yearling P.A. steers, £5/10/-: small Jersey steers, £2 15/- to £4/12/6; potter Jersey bulls, £2 10/-. Dalgetv and Co., Ltd., report sales as under:—6o 2-th ewes. r.w. Romney rams, 31/3; 4 and 5-year-old ewes, from 14/b. Fat poly cows, from £5/15/- to £6/10/-: single fat Hereford cow, £7/6/-; springing Jersey cows, from £4 to £6/7/6; springing Jersey heifers, from £5/7/6. The Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Co-op. Association made sales as follows:— Fat ewes, £l/4/6 to £l/10/-; 5-year ewes, S.D. rams, £l/6/4; ewe hoggets. £l/7/1 to £l/12/6; 4-th wethers, £l/5/3; wether hoggets. £1 to £l/2/7; fat P.A. heifers, light. £5/10/-. Fat .Jersey cows. £3/10/to £4; springing heifers. £3/10/- to £6; springing dairy cows, £3/10/- to £5;

weaner Jersey heifers, £2/5/-, i.l/7/- to £2/10/-; store cows, £l/10/- to £2. Williams and Kettle, Ltd., report the following sales : —Sheep : Prime heavy fat ewes, 30/-; fat ewes, 26/10 to 27/3; ul empty 2-th ewes, 32/-; S'J ewe hoggets, 2S/8 ; wether hoggets, to 22/11; small wether hoggets, 15/5; b.f. hoggets, 19/6. Cattle: Heavy fat bullocks, £9 15/- to £l2/5/-; fat P.A. and Hereford cows and heifers, £5 to £7/2/-; fat Jeg'sev cows and heifers, £2/13/- to. £4/15/-; 8 2-ycar Hereford and shorthorn steers, £6 IS/-; springing Jersey cows, £3/7/6 Co £5/5/-: springing Jersey heifers, £3/17/6 to £6/7/6; Jersey heifers, calved, £3/3/to £5/15/-; store Jersey cows, £l/17/to £2/11/-. Pigs: Weaner pigs, 16/- to 18/6; light porkers, 19/- to 23/6. Wanganui Poultry Prices Wanganui, August 14. F. C. Atkinson and Company report the following prices at their Friday mart sale : Light table fowls, 2/6 to 3/- each ; heavy table fowls, 3/3 to 3/9 each; roosters, 3/- to 4/6 each; cockerels, 2/9 to 4/3 each; ducks, 2/9 each ; drakes, 2/9 each. There was an entry of about. 40 pens. The demand was very good, prices still remaining high. Martinborough Sale Martinborougli, August 14. Sheep met brisk competition at the weekly Martinborough sale yesterday, realising very satisfactory prices. Dairy eattle were hard to quit at late rates and most vendors weit forced to reduce their reserves to make sales. Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., offered a full yarding of dairy cattle, making the following values:—Jersey heifers on drop, £5 to £5/2/6: springing Jel-sey heifers, £4 to £4/12/6; Jersey heifers on drop, to £5 2/6; springing cows, £3/10/- to £4: empty cows, £2/1/- to £2/12/6. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.. Ltd., offered a yarding of 300 sheep and 50 head of cattle, realising the following prices:—Sheep: Ewe hoggets, 29/6 ; w.w. hoggets, 24/2 to 25/-; cull hoggets. 10/6. Cattle: Springing heifers, £3/10/-, £4. £4/5/- to £4/15/-; springing cows, £3/10/- to £4/17/6; dry cows, £2/3/-. Carterton Sale Carterton, August 14. Sheep sold well at the weekly Carterton sale to-day, bringing par values. Dairycattle were firmer than last week, although the demand was by no means animated. Fat and store cows made late rates, but late calvers were mostly passed in. Weaner pigs were firmer and porkers and baconers sold well, but bidding for sows with litters at foot was restricted. Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., submitted a big yarding of stock, realising the following prices:— Sheep: Woolly’ wether hoggets, 22/8 to 25/6: fat hoggets, to 25/-; failing mouthed ewes in lamb, 11/3 to 13/-; twotooth wethers, 25/-.

Cattle: Springing cows, £3/15/- to £6/15/-: three-year Ayrshire heifers on drop. £7 to £7/10/-; three-year Jersey heifers on drop, £5/15/- to £7/10/-; twoyear springing Jersey heifers, £4 to £6; two-year heifers, just calved. £3/5/- to £4/15/-; two-year Jersey heifers, late calvers, £2/10/- to £3/5/-: fat cows, £3 16/- to £5/5/-; forward cows, £2/5/- to £3/10/-; store cows, 25/- to 40/-; yearling Jersey heifers, £3/2/-; IS months heifers, £3/15/-, Pigs: Good weanens, 17/- to 19/6: medium weaners. 14/- to 16/6; small weaners, 6/6 to 12/6; slips, 19/6 to 23/-: store pigs, 23/6 to 26/6; porkers, 28/6 to 37/6; baconers. £2/2/6 to £2/12/-; sows to farrow. £2/10/- to £3/10/-; sows with litters, £2 to £5/5/-.