FEILDING STOCK SALE

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 186, 4 May 1937, Page 13

FEILDING STOCK SALE

Analysis of Disposals Heavy yardings of all classes of stock were seen at Feilding last Friday. Although much of the yarding was of inferior quality, there was quite a good proportion of sound stock. Mild weather continues in the Manawatu, promoting growth, and feed is plentiful. The market for store sheep, however, was overloaded, due to the Hawkes Bay supplies, which were considerable. Fat stock sold well, despite a large yarding. The sale was well attended, and values there made are a good indication of the market for various classes of stock. Fat Cattle. There appeared to be about 200 head, mostly ex-dairy sorts. An average number and good average quality. Sales noted were £7/5/- for three light steers; £6/5/-, passed, three light steers, ex-dairy; £7/15/-, 1 cow, “bluey,” a great cow, go about 7201 b. and prime; £5/15/-, one Hereford heifer, only hillable, go 450 lb.; £7/12/6, one shorthorn cow, ex dairy, go 7001 b., prime; £6/12/6, one shorthorn Jersey, 5001 b. to 5501 b. and prime; £6/5/-, one good cow; £lO/2/6, ono P.A. bullock, fat, not prime; £4 10/-, 11 cows, passed. shorthorn-Jersey cross, very mixed lot, from forward stores to fat; £7/10/-, one shorthorn heifer, prime and heavy; £6/3/-, sis “black” cows, only killable; £5/2/6 each, two cows, Jerseys, with calves. Vealers: £2/10/-, Jerseys, about size of small to medium dairy weaners, not particularly meaty; £l/7/6, two very small calves; £2/5/-, one fairly wellgrown Jersey calf; £l, one calf, about size of a fair January pucker”; £3/2?-j two Jersey runners, about size of good dairy weaners; £2/11/-, three Jerseys, size of rather small weaners; £4, three runners, ex dairy and size of good P.A. weaners of to-day. To my mind, calves sold as ve.alers aud runners are making as much as, if not more than, good lines of dairy weaners, with butterfat backing. Lines of these soli! at from 22/6 to 57/6 at this sale. There was an entry of upward of 300 boner cows. These made from £2 to £3 for average sorts. Very plain went down to £l. Good average sorts were worth £2/14/- to £2/16/-, Fat Sheep. The entry comprised about 500 lambs, 140 wethers, and GOO ewes. Lambs made 21/6 to 27/-, ewes 21/6 to 24/-, and wethers 28/- to 31/- for fairly good to best quality sheep. Lambs: Many were barely killable, light and ill-conditioned. A good proportion went to “works.” Some pens noted: 18/9, 69 w.f. woolly, well grown, and fresh, could have had no condition at all; 20/-, 40 b.f. woolly, small and all “seconds”; 21/8, 31 w.f. shorn, not big and only killable; 21/7, 44 b.f. woolly, very ordinary and small ; 21/2, 24 b.f. woolly, small and hard; 17/7, 20 b.f. late shorn, medium-sized, store cor^ition; 22/-, 16 w.f. woolly, medium-sized, and killable; 21/9, 54 w.f. woolly, killable, and size of average store wether lamb; 25/1, 73 w.f. woolly, good size and condition; 11/6, 4 culls, no wool or condition; 24/-, 6 b.f. woolly, small, but prime; 24/8, 40 w.f., shorn, medium size but prime; 29/-, 5 big mixed lambs. A dairy farmer told me he had that week sold on his farm a small line of big, prime, woolly w.f. lambs at 28/clear. These had returned him an excellent profit. Wethers: 27/-, 52 b.f., light but prime; medium-woolled ; 27/-, 23 b.f., prime but light; 31/6, 4 b.f. prime, heavy, bidding started at 30/-; 29/3, 3 w.f. woolly, prime, light; 31/9, 7 w.f., good weights, but light skins; 33/6, 2 b.f., prime, heavy, good skins. Ewee: 24/- and 23/7, 71 in three pens, really good ewes, heavy skins, weighty earcases, but not gross; 21/7, 110 in five pens, fair skins, big frames, some renlly good ewes, but big proportion very plain. Store Cattle. A large entry, much of it second quality and female cattle predominant £5, 50 P.A. weaner heifers, account Mr. P. Redmayne, Halcombe, well bred and grown; £5/12/-, steers, account same vendor: £7, passed, 17 head, 18 months, Hereford steers, good-conditioned stores; £3/5/-. 19 P.A. cull weaners, 11 steers and eight heifers, passed fair to medium cattle; £5/5/-, P.A. steers, size of good weaners; £5/10/-, P.A. heifers, 18 months, small to medium, good condition and fair breeding; £7/5/-, 23 steers, Shorthorn-Hereford, 2J year, passed, fair store order. A number of other lines were passed in. Store Sheep. 19/6, passed, 63 four and five year ewes, r.w, S.D. ram, low condition and failing mouths, 22/- reserve; 38/1, 103 two-tooth ewes, early shorn, well grown, almost fat, r.w. S.D. ram; 18/9, 160 s.m. ewes, mouths quite good, passed, £1 wanted; 31/-, 199 four-tooth, six, four, and five-year-old ewes, r.w. SJD. ram, three rams in, good ewes and brought animated bidding; 24/3, 164 five-year ewes, good frames and order, fairly good mouths and strong woolled; 23/10, 170 b.f. wethers, well grown and forward, looked a useful buy for a fattener; 3G/9, 166 four-tooth ewes, r.w. S.D. ram, passed, 39/- reserve; 16/10, 94 s.m. ewes, r.w. S.D. ram, two rams in, very low mouths, fair order and good skins; 34/10, 67 two-tooth ewes, r.w. S.D. ram, a considerable percentage of b.f. cross ewes, good skins and condition ;' 40/-, 58 twotooth ewes, r.w. S.D. ram, smallish sheep but splendid order, well fleeced and showed breeding; 27/-, passed, 30/- wanted, 345 four and five-year ewes, a Wairarapa line of well-framed, good-conditioned, and well-mouthed ewes, rather late shorn; 17/10, 120 store ewes, a good price for these, were big and fresh but hard and very light ekins; 24/2, 114 five-year ewes r.w. S.D. ram, good frames, good condition and fair mouths, ex Marton, a truly representative line of five-year ewes. This last line would have made as much or more at fair time. When one considers that grazing has been worth quite 4d. a week for 10 to 12 weeks that is, say, 3/8, and adds tuffing 1/- aad aeUing costs lOd., say. a total of 5/6, it is evident that there has been no profit. Prices at fair time were too high, of that there can be no doubt. If 24/2 be a fair price to-day for live-year ewes, then they were worth but 18/8 at the fair. That would have been unfairly low. They were truly worth 20/- to 22/-. Likewise, last Friday’s Feilding values were below true worth.