RUN CATTLE FAIL TO ATTRACT BIDS

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 72, 18 December 1937, Page 27

RUN CATTLE FAIL TO ATTRACT BIDS

Feilding Stock Sale

LITTLE ALTERATION IN SHEEP VALUES Dominion Special Service. Feilding, December 17. A heavy yarding of run cattle at the Feilding stock sale to-day largely failed to find buyers, though many sales of pens passed at auction were made afterward by private treaty. Fat sheep values did not show much change, although better prices were recorded for very prime hoggets. A couple of pens of maiden ewes also brought good figures, but for the rest late rates ruled. Store wethers started well, the demand being fairly keen, but fat cattle, which were in light condition, met a quiet eale. Dairy stock were unchanged on recent quotations. Prices ranged as follows Fat sheep: Extra prime hoggets, 28/6 to 29/3, prime 24/2 to 25/-, average lines 23/6, light 22/6 to 23/-; best wethers 25/1, others 23/- to 24/4; prime ewes 18/- to 19/9, second grade, 18/- to 18/7, light 16/8 to 17/9; prime maiden ewes 24/- to 24/6; good b.f. two-tooths 26/-, lighter sorts 23/7 to 24/5, plain 22/6 to 23/-; lambs 16/-. Store sheep: Well-grown two-tooth wethers, to 24/2, smaller 22/10 to 23/4; two-tooth ewes, best, to 33/-. ' Store cattle: Three-year bullocks, good £lO/4/- to £lO/10/-, others £7 to £8 13/-; good two-year P.A. bullocks, £9, fair £7; well-grown two-year P.A. heifers,' £7/9/-, smaller £5/19/- to £6/5/-; good yearling P.A. steers, £5/16/-; small vearling shorthorn steers, £4 to £4/9/-; bow< and calves, £O/2/- to £6/11/- ; empty cows. £3/12/-: yearling Jersey heifers, best £5/1/-, Others £3 to £3/12/6; boner cows, heavy £4 to £4/2/6, others £2/10/to £3/15/-. Fat cattle: Cows, mixed sorts, best £7/5/- to £7/10/-, others £6/5/-; P.A. heifers, light prime £7/9/- to £B, unfinished £5/11/- to £6/15/-; Jersey bullocks £B/5/-; Hereford bullocks, £lO/5/-; vealers, 27/6. Dairy cattle: Springing heifers, best £5/5/- to £6/2/6, backward calvers, £3 to £4/17/6; cows in milk, £6 to £7; springing cows, good £B, poor £3/11/- to £4/10/-. Poultry: Hens, 1/2 to 3/5; pullets, 2/3 to 2/6; cockerels, 1/10 to 3/-; ducks, 1/7 to 6/9; geese, 2/3 to 4/9; turkey hens, 7/- gobblers. 15/6. Pigs: Wenners, 8/6 to £1; slips. 18/to £l/2/6; stores. £l/9/6 to £l/12/6; porkers. £l/10/- to £2/11/-; sow and litter of 11, £6.

Carterton Prices Dominion Special Service. Carterton, December 17. At the Carterton sale to-day a fair entry was submitted. Sheep made late rates. Cattle were very firm. Porkers and baconers met with a dull sale, only one buyer operating. Weaners and slips made late rates. Following are the prices Sheep: Hoggets, 16/- to 22/-; fat hoggets, to 34/6; lambs, 15/- to 23/3; h.m. ewes, 22/6. Cattle : Springing cows. £5 to £7/10/-; springing heifers, £5/10/- to £6/5/-; P.A. cows, £4/10/- to £7/6/-; forward C. and JI. cows, £2/15/- to £4/5/-; store cows, 35/- to £2/7/6; cows and calves, to £4/10/-; yearling heifers, £3/15/- to £4/11/-; bulls, £3/10/- to £7. Pigs: Weaners, good, 17/6 to 19/-; medium, 14/6 to 16/-; small, 7/6 to 11/6; slips. 20/6 to 23/6; store pigs, 25/- to 27/6: porkers, 33/- to 38/6; baconers. £2/17/6 to £3/7/6; choppers, 25/- to 35/-. Dannevirke Sale Dannevirke, December 17. The Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association disposed of a fair yarding of stock under the hammer at the Dannevirke sale on Thursday. Prices ranged as follows: — Fat two and four-tooth ewes, £l/3/6; two-tooth wethers, £l/1/3 to £l/3/-; two-tooth ewes (small)., £l/5/-. Fat dairy cowg. £3/10/- to £5/2/6; store cows, £l/17/6 to £3; two-year steers. £6/15/- to £7/12/6; yearling Jersey heifers,’ £2/10/1 to £3/17/6. Wenner pigs, £l, Williams and Kettig offered a small yarding of sheep and cattle. They quote as follows:—

Two-tooth wethers, 20/6 to 23/-; woolly two-tooth wethers, 27/6. . Good fat Jersey cows, £4/17/- to £4 18/6; light fat Jersey cows, £3/5/-; S.H. bullocks, £8; P.A. cows and calves, £8 5/-: P.A. heifers, £6/5/10; yearling P.A. steers, small. £3/15/-; yearling P.A. heifers, small, £3/12/-; yearlmg Hereford heifers, small, £3/15/-; dairy cows, £5; yearling Jersey heifers, £2/2/6 to £4/10/-; store cows, £2/12/6; jersey bull, £4/10/-. Pig and Poultry Sale. R. Roake and Son yarded a big supply of Christmas and other poultry at the nig and poultry sale. Hens were a little cheaper than usual; geese and turkeys were in good demand. The pig yarding was small in numbers, but prices well up to las.t week. Prices ranged as follows: — Poultry: W.L. hens, 2/- to 2/9; roosters, 2/6 to 3/-; 8.0. hens, 2/6 to 4/-; small cockerels, 9d. to 1/6: large, to 3/-; geese, 5/- to 5/6; turkey hens, 6/6 to 9/-; gobblers, to 22/6; ducks and drakes, 2/5 to 2/8; duck and .11 ducklings, 11/3; hen and six chicks, 4/-. Pigs: Small Tammy weaners, 13/- to 16/-; medium, 17/-; good Berkshire weaners, 18/- to £l. i Palmerston North Horse Fair Palmerston North, December 17.

At the Palmerston North horse fair yesterday there was spirited competition for a special line of Clydesdales from Canterbury that came forward in splendid condition. The line was cleared at prices ranging from £35 to £65 (for a six-year-old draught gelding, broken to all work), -Prices realised are as follows :—

Six-year-old draught gelding, £65; nine-year-old draught mare, £6O; eight-year-old draught mare, £4O; chestnut gelding, eight years old, £35; aged draught gelding, £4O; seven-year-old draught, in foal, £4O; 1.0-year-old gelding, £27; aged mare, £35; nine-year-old hack, £5/10/-; several aged horses from £5/10/- to £l5. Pig Fair At Palmerston North Palmerston North, December 17. A capacity entry of pigs came forward at the Palmerston /North fair yesterday. A total clearance was effected. Poultry was also in heavy supply, 2000 birds being disposed of. Prices generally for all lines were considerably cheaper, due to the large entry. Quotations are as follows;— Pigs.—Wenners, 10/- to 21/-; slips, to 28/-; stores, to 36/-; porkers, 38 to 43/-. iLambs.—l9/- to £l. Poultry.—Turkey gobblers, 12/- to 10/6; turkey hens, 7/6 to 11/6; young goslings, 3/6 to 4/6: geese, 3/6 to 4/-: young ducks, 6/- to 8/- a pair; old ducks, 3/- to 5/-; heavy 8.0. hens, 5/6 to 6/6; best W-L. hens, 3/10 to 5/-; light hene, 3/- to 4/6; best heavy cockerels, 6/6 to 8/10: light and small cockerels, 1/- to 4/-; ducks and ducklings, 10/-

to 12/-; turkey with turkey chicks, 21/to 23/6.

Cattle Clearing Sale Bulls, December 17. The New Zealand Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Distributing Co. held a very successful sale on account of Mrs. J. A. Saveli. The cows were well bred and came torward in excellent condition. We quote. Grade Jerseys in profit £7/15/- to £» 2/6, others £4/10/- to £5/15/-; best pedigree cows 16jgne. to 17gns., others 9gns. to lOgns.; lower testing cows, 6gns. to Signs.; yearling pedigree heifers Aigns. to ujgns.; grade yearlings, £4/o/- to ii 11/-; bull calves, 2igns. to Signs. Six-year mare, £33/10/-. Sows to farrow, 42/6 to 3}gns.ffi porkers, 31/-; weaners, 17/6.