LIVE STOCK MARKET

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 299, 14 September 1936, Page 6

LIVE STOCK MARKET

Gisborne Sale Dominion Special Service. Gisborne, September 12. At the Gisborne sale the fat sheep were a good quality entry, recent high rates being maintained. Only ewe's were offering, values being 24/9 to 29/-; second grade, 19/- to 22/-. Stores: A moderate size entry with all values firm, be'st hoggets being slightly advanced. Ewes, running lambs, one counted, 24/6 to 33/9; dry ewes, with condition and mouths, 23/3; fat and forward, 20/-; medium condition 15/6 to 17/-; hoggets, top grade "woolly wethers, 24/-; ewes, 28/-. .Beef: Mostly ordinary Jersey cows, with the market very brisk and everything in demand at higher rates. Jersey cows made 105/- to 115/-; medium, to 80/-; station bullocks, 9gns; Jersey heifers, to 106/-.

Following the ordinary sale was the annual sale on account of Hutchinson Bros.’ registered purebred Hereford bulls from Waihuka station, Waikohu, Poverty Bay. . The entry numbered 28, values ranging from 46 to 140gns., and averaging 70.

Feilding Sale Prices At tlie Feilding stock sale last Friday Dalgety and Co., Ltd., made the following sales:—Fat ewes, 20/10, 25/-, 26/1, 26/10, 28/3, 30/-. 33/-, 36/3; fat hoggets, to 22/-; fat wethers, to 32/-; wether hoggets. 24/4, 25/3, 25/6; ewe hoggets, 27/-, 29/3, 29/8, 33/-, 33/7, 34/-, 35/6, 36/-, 37/5, 38/3, 39/-; m.s. hoggets, 26/4. Store cows, 25/-, £2/1/-, £2/10/-, £2 16/-, £2/18/-. £3 to £3/9/9; yearling P.A. steers, £6 to £6/6/-; two-year P.A, steers, £7/17/6, •£B/2/6.. £B/5/-; yearling Hereford steers, £5/10/-; dehorned Hereford three-year bullocks. £B/12/6; Here-

xurti anu Buunuuxu iwo uuu uiiee-year bullocks, £B/2/6 to £B/10/-; 3-year P.A. bullocks, £B/14/-; dehorned Hereford twoyear steers, £7/12/6; heifers, r.w.b., £3, £3/7/6, £3/15/-, £4/5/-, £4/7/-, £5, £5 5/-,. £5/10/-, £5/15/-, £5/17/6, £6, £6 10/-, £6/17/6, £7/15/- to £9; dairy cows, ! £3/10/-, £3/12/6. to £5; fat cows, dairy I sorts, £4/4/-, £4/15/-, £5/5/-. £5/10/-, | £7/5/-, £7/10/-, £7/12/6 to £8; fat heifers, £4, £5/2/6, £5/17/6. The New Zealand Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Distributing Co., Ltd., report sales as under:-—Fat sheep: Kat hoggets, 22/6, 23/6, 25/-, 26,1'6, 27/3,. 29/-; fat ewes, 28/6, 30/-. 31/3, 32/-, 32/9, 33/-; fat wethers, 31/-, 32/6, 34/-, 35/2. i Fat cattle: Fat cows, £4, £4/12/6,- £5, £5 15/-, £6/5/-? £6/15/-, £7/10/-, £B/5/-, £9 2/6; fat heifers, £4/10/-, £5/5/-, £6, £6 15/-, £7. Store sheep: W.f.w. hoggets, 20/-. 21/-, 21/9, 22/6, 23/6, 24/-, 25/3; ewe hoggets, 32/-, 33/6, 35/-, 36/3. Dairy cattle: Springing heifers, £4/5/-, £5, £5 10/-, £6, £7, £B/5/-, £9/2/6; springing cows, £4, £5/5/-, £5/15/-. £6/10/-, £7, £7/10/-. Store cattle. Yearling P.A. steers;- £6, £6/6/-; two-year P.A. steers, £7, £7/2/6, £7/17/6, £8; three-year P.A. stews, £B, £B/5/-, £B/10/-. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., made sales as follows: —Fat sheep : Fat ewes, 22/10, 24/3, 25/3, 27/3, 28/10, 29/2, 29/10, 31/10, 32/6, 33/7, 35/6; fat hoggets, 22/11, 25/6, 30/6; fat wethers, 23/4, 27/1, 28/-. Store sheep: Wether hoggets, 21/6, 25/10, 26/-; ewe hoggets, 38/6, 39/-, 40/-; b.f. hoggets, 24/9. Fat cattle: P.A. cows, £9/4/-; Hereford cows, £6; steers, £B/15/-; vealere, £2/18/-, £3 14/-; cows, £4/10/-, £4/15/-, £5, £5/10/-', £5/17/6, £6,. £6/10/-, £7, £7/10/-, £7 15/-, £B/10/-, £9j' fat heifers, £5, £5/10/-, £6, £6/5/-, £7, £7/2/6, £7/10/-, £B/7/6, £9. Store cattle: Cows, 20/-, 28/6, 37/-, 38/-. £2, £2/10/-; £2/16/-, £2/18/-, £3, £3/6/-, £3/11/-, £3/15/- £3/17/6; yearling Jersey heiferSj • £3/1/-; shorthorn cows, £4/2/-; P.A. cows, £7. Dairy cattle: Springing heifers, £4, £4/5/-, £4 7/6, £4/10/-, £5, £5/5/-, £5/10/-, £5 12/-, £5/17/6, £6, £6/2/6, £6/10/-, £6 12/6, £6/15/-, £7/8/-: heifers, calved; £3, i £3/10/-, £3/15/-, £4, £5; springing cows, * £3, £3/5/-, £3/10/-,. £4, £4/10/-, £5, £5 10/-. t The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report the following sales : —Fat hoggets, 24/6, 25/-, 26/7, 27/6 to 28/9; fat ewes, 25/6, 26/-, 27/-, 30/-, 32/6 to 35/-; fat wethers, 28/9 to 36/-; ewe hoggets, 28/3, 29/-, 32/-, 33/6, ,

34/--to 36/6; wether hoggets, 21/-, 21/6, 22/-, 23/1 to 24/-; b.f. hoggets, 19/6 to 23/-; store cows, 30/- to £3/17/6; fat dairy cows, £4, £4/5/-, £4/7/6, £4/10/-, £5 to £6/17/6; fat dairy heifers, £4/7/6, £4/15/-, £5 to £5/10/-; cows in milk, £3/15/-, £4. £4/5/-, £5 to £5/17/6; springing heifers,. £4/10/-, £4/15/-, £5, £5 2/6, £5/15/-, £6/9/- to £8; springing cows, £3, £3/10/-, £4, £4/15/-, £5/10/-, £6 to £7/15/-,