FEILDING STOCK SALE

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 255, 24 July 1937, Page 15

FEILDING STOCK SALE

Fat Sheep 2/- Dearer KEEN DEMAND FOR DAIRY CATTLE Dominion Special Service. Feilding, July 23. Prices for fat sheep and fat cattle advanced at the stock sale at Feilding today, fat sheep going up by two shillings a head, with a medium yarding, and indications are that the country is in short supply and prices would probably further advance. Some extra prime quality fat cattle were offered, and these attracted keen competition. Ox beef went to 31/-, and cow beef to 28/- a hundred pounds. There was a smaller yarding of store sheep, and the quality of thg breeding ewes penned was not up to the previous standard. Prices were not quite as good. Store hoggets, especially wether hoggets, were in keen demand, and buyers from Taranaki, Waikato and the King Country operated briskly. The ewe hoggets offered lacked finish. Prices remained at last week’s level. The dairy cattle market showed extraordinary keenness. One line, a special entry of well-bred dairy cows from Cheltenham, brought from £S to £l2/10/-. There was a very good sale for springing cows. Following is the range of prices:—• Fat sheep: Prime ewes to 33/9, good 39/- to 31/6, light 22/6; prime heavy wethers, to 35/6, extra prime, very heavy, 39/2, fair condition to 33/7, light from 27/3; prime hoggets, to 33/-, extra heavy 34/-, fair 26/9, extra heavy 34/-, fair 26/9; prime black-faces, to 33/-. Store sheep: Breeding ewes, twotooths, very good lines, 40/- to 41/6, others to 34/7, four and six-tooth to four-year 36/6, two-tooth to four-year to 36/9. five-year 21/- to 22/2; empty ewes, to 15/6; ewe hoggets, good to 36/-, fair from 26/1; wether hoggets, good to 25/3 (compared with 23/3 last week), other lines from 13/3 to 24/-; black-face hoggets, to 19/-. Dairy stock: Springing cows, special .line, £8 to £l2/10/-, other lines, to £8 5/-; springing heifers, £4/10/- to £7 5/-, second calvers, £4/10/-; heifers in milk to £5/10/-. Store cattle: Potter cows, to £3/17/6; Holstein cows, £3/15/- to £5/2/6; P.A, steers, light. £5/17/6; dairy heifers, empty, to £3/7/6; wearier heifers, £2 15/-. Fat cattle: Very prime heavy shorthorn cows and bullocks, from Awahuri, £ll/2/6; shorthorn heifers. £9/5/- to £ll. cows to £8; Hereford heifers, to £9 17/6; P.A. heifers. £9/9/-; ex-dairy cows, prime, to £6/15/-; heifers, to £7 11/-; vcalers, to £2/10/-. Poultry: Hens, 1/4 to 3/3; cockerels, 1/- to 2/10; ducks, 2/6 to 2/9. Pigs: Wenners, 8/6 to 12/-; slips. 13/6 to 26/-; small stores, 23/6 to 28/6: porkers, 28/-; sows, 47/-.