LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 249, 17 July 1937, Page 15

LIVE STOCK SALES

Fat Sheep Advance Sharply at Feilding DAIRY STOCK SELL WELL Dominion Special Service. Feilding, July IG. Prices for fat sheep advanced sharply at the Feilding stock sale to-day, when a large yarding was offered. Exporters were busy and secured heavy consignments. Fat ewes went to 34/-, which was paid for a very heavy-woolled line from Tiritea. Fat wethers were generally of good quality, with heavy skins. The highest price was 37/-, paid for a pen from Rongotea. Prime two-tooth black-faces made to 31/-. There was a very heavy yarding of store sheep, particularly hoggets. The demand for quality hoggets was quite bright, but inferior lines dragged. One pen ■of good ewe hoggets made 30/-, and good wether hoggets went to 21/-. The market for breeding ewes was still much alive. One pen of first-quality two-tooth ewes, r.w. Southdown rams, from Mangawhata, made 44/-, and another pen from Pahiatua 43/-. Again there were excellent sales of dairy stock. A large yarding of springing cows met with a good demand up to £7/10/-, and springing heifers reached £9/9/-, with second culvers to £O/17/6. Fat cattle were in strong demand, both ex-dairy and beef breeds selling at advanced prices. No run cattle were offered. Potter cows were easier in price. The range of prices was as follows: — Fat sheep: Prime lambs, to 26/9; an extra prime line, to 30/-; fair, medium pens, to 24/3; prime black-faces, to 31/-; medium, from 26/10 to 29/5; prime ewes, 32/6 to 33/-; extra heavy, 34/-; fair lines, 22/6 to 29/-; prime wethers, 32/to 34/6; extra heavy, 37/-; light, 31/3. Store sheep: Breeding ewes, in lamb, two-tooths, 32/- to 44/-; two-tooths to four-year, 34/1 to 37/-; to five-year, 33/6 ; four-year, 32/6; four and five-year, 24/to 26/8; m.a. ewes, 25/- to 30/-; store wethers, 25/- to 26/4; ewe hoggets, very good, 34/- to 36/-; other lines, 25/6; wether hoggets, good, to 21/-; inferior, from 15/6. Fat cattle: Jersey steers, good weight, to £B/2/6; light, £5/15/-; ex-dairy cows,

prime, to £5/10/-; light, from £3/5/-; shorthorn cows, prime, £7 to £B/17/6; Polled Angus bullocks, £B/12/6 ; vealers, £2/17/6: runners, £-1/2/-; potter eows, to £3/16/-. Dairy stock: Springing heifers, advanced £6/15/- to £9/9/-; late culvers, from £3/8/6; springing cows, close to profit, to £7/10/-; late culvers, from £2 10/-; .second culvers, £5/2/6 to £6 17/6.

Poultry: Hens, 1/6 to 2/11; pullets, 2/4 to 3/-; cockerels, 1/7 to 4/-; ducks, 2/-. Pigs (small entry) : Wenners, 17/- to 19/-; slips, 25/6 to 26/-. Heavy Yardings and Advanced Prices at Dannevirke Dominion Special Service. Dannevirke, July 16. Despite heavy yardings of both sheep and cattle, values were firmly maintained at the Dannevirke stock sale yesterday, sheep prices in many instances advancing noticeably. Bleeding cows were practically the only section for which the demand did not improve. There was a large bench of buyers, Taranaki, Waikato and Manawatu being well represented. IVilliams and Kettle, Ltd., offered a very big yarding of both sheep and cattle, the sheep yarding including several special entries of breeding ewes and a number of lots of good hoggets from local farmers. A line of 102 two-tooth ewes, r.w. Romney rams, on behalf of Mr. G. J. J. Buchanan, realised 38/6, the best price obtained for young ewes in recent months. Sold in conjunction witli the NewZealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, a special entry of breeding ewes from Mnngatuna realised the following prices: S 3 four-tooth and six-tooth ewes, r.w. S.D. rams, 34/-; 77 four-tooth to five-year, 32/3; 66 two-tooth, 33/9; 70 m.a., 28/9; 93 f.m., 31/3: 42 four and five-year, 31/-; 51 f.m., 28/9; 42 four and five-year, 30/-; 41 two-tooth, 34/3; 39 four-tooth and six-tooth. 34/6; 34 m.a., 33/9; 40 two-tooth, 33/-: wether hoggets, 19/1 to 19/6; b.f. hoggets, 16/-; 19 P.A. weaner steers, £5/4/-; 24 P.A. cows. £6/2/6.

Other sheep prices were: Heavy fat ewes, 28/-; light, 18/- to 19/-; fat hoggets, 18/5 to 23/-; two-tooth and fourtooth ewes, r.w. S.D. rams, 31/6; m.a., 27/-; small two-tooth, 28/6; four-tooth and six-tooth, 33/3; medium wether hoggets, 17/1; good, 21/-; small, 10/. to 14/6; b.f., 15/- to 17/6; good ewe hoggets, 32/-; small, 18/- to 21/6. Cattle: On behalf of Farnham Station, 46 rising two-year P.A. steers, £7 9/6; 15 empty P.A. cows, £5/11/-. Ou behalf of Mr. W. E. Knight, 31 P.A. weauer steers, £5/11/-. Other cattle prices were: P.A. weaner steers, £5/10/-; P.A. cows, r.w.b., £5 13/6; P.A. weaner steers, £4/11/-; twoyear P.A. heifers, empty, £5/3/6; bullocks, £9/1/-; fat. P.A. cows, £7; fat Jersey cows, £3/15/- to £4/10/-; Jersey heifers, r.w.b., £4/5/- to £5/1/-; dairy cows, £2/12/6 to £3/15/-; store Jersey cows, £l/17/6 to £3; potter bulls, £2 12/6 to £3/12/6.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report the following range of prices :— Fat ewes. 20/10 to 28/6; fat hoggets, 19/- to 23/1; five-year ewes, 29/9; twotooth, 35/3; four and five-year, 21/9; five-year, 31/-; s.in. breeding ewes, from 24/10 to 29/- (all the ewes were depasturing with Southdown rams); good woolly ewe hoggets. 27/- to 29/- and 30/6; good shorn wether hoggets, 19/2 to 21/1; good b.f. hoggets. 21/4. The Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association effected a total clearance under the hammer at prices ranging as follows:— Two-tooth ewes, r.w. S.D. rams, £1 14/6: four and six-tooth, £l/12/6; five-

year, £l/6/- to £l/12/-; wether hoggets, It)/- to £l/2/10; ewe hoggets, £l/8/- to £l/10/-; two-tooth wethers, £l/5/9; fat ewes, £l/4/ to £l/6/-; fat lambs, £l/3/10 £l/5/-. Fat dairy cows, £3/10/- to £5/5/-; weauer P.A. steers, £4 to £4/8/-; twoyear P.A. steers, £7/5/-: empty P.A. cows, £5 to £5/15/-; springing Jersey heifers. £4/5/- to £5; springing Jersey eows. £-1/10/- to £6; store cows, £2/5/to £3/10/-; Jersey weaner heifers, £2 11/-.

Dalgety and Co sold the following:— Fat ewes, 25/- to 28/4 : store ewes, 17/9; wether hoggets, 19/3; five-year ewes r.w. S.D. rams, 24/-. Fat dairy cows, £3/17/- to £5/4/-; weaner Jersey heifers, £l/18/-; sundry small pen lots at current prices. Sheep Values Maintained at Carterton Sale. Dominion Special Service Carterton, July 16. At the Carterton stock sale to-day Wright, Stephenson and Co. offered a small yarding. The sheep were sold at up to las-t week’s values. A small herd of cows was offered on behalf of Mr. 1. 11. Potter, Kaituna. Top price was £lO 5/-. and the average’ £7/15/-. Prices ranged as follows: — Sheep: B.f. lambs, to 17/9; six to fiveyear ewes, r.w. S.D. ram, to 23/10. Cattle: Cows, due August, £6/10/- to £lO/5/-; cows, first culvers, £6/2/6 to £7; Jersey s-teers, £6 to £7/12/-; fat and forward cows, £3/10/- to £4; empty eows, store, £2/15/- to £3/5/-; cull cows, 30/- to £2. Pigs: Weauers. small, 10/6 to 12/6. good 1-1/6 to 15/6; slips, medium, 17/6 to 18/-. good 19/6 to 21/-: porkers, 36/to £2/5/-: baconcrs, to £3. Palmerston Pig and Poultry Prices Dominion Special Service Palmerston North, July 16. Poultry is still in demand at Palmerston North, and a large entry was cleared by the Dominion Auctioneering Co. at prices in favour of vendors. Pigs were in great demand and a large entry was cleared at satisfactory prices. There was a particularly keen demand for best quality pigs. Quotations are as follows: Poultry: Heavy cockerels, 7/- to 9/- a pair, light 6/- to 7/6; fat roosters 6/- to 7/6 a pair, light 4/6 to 7/6; fat 8.0. hens, 7/- to 8/- a pair; W.L. hens, 6/- to 6/6; light hens, 4/- to 5/10. Ducks, 6/tq 7/- a pair, light 5/- to 6/-. Turkey hens, 5/- each. Pigs: Small weaners 8/- to 11/-, best up to 16/-; slips, 16/- to 18/-; stores up to 25/-; light porkers up to 30/-; sow and litter, £5. Ready Market for Dairy Cattle at Dispersal Sale Dominion Special Service. Feilding, July 16.

On behalf of the Eriata Nohera Estate, Wanstead, Waipukurau, Dalgety and Co. held a complete dispersal sale at Feilding saleyarde on Wednesday. The yarding consisted of 120 dairy cows and 40 yearling and two-year heifers. Although the cows were in light condition they sold readily to a representative bench of buyers from the Manawatu district, and a satisfactory sale resulted at fully current values. Prices ranged as follows: — Cows, due July-August £S to £ll, due September £6 to £9, late calvere £5 to £7; springing heifers. £4 to £4/15/-; yearling Jersey heifers, £2/2/6 to £3; Jersey bulls, aged, 4Jgns. to Bgns.; cows in milk, £4 to £6.