LIVE STOCK PRICES

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 154, 26 March 1938, Page 7

LIVE STOCK PRICES

Very Quiet Tone At Feilding - Sale

BEEF MARKET FIRM Dominion Special Service. FeUding, March 25. The Feilding stock sale to-day was again very quiet. A much smaller yarding than usual came forward. Mutton was in short supply, but this did not have any upward effect on prices. Store sheep sold slowly, the bulk of the entry being confined to lambs, which brought prices about on a par with last week. Store cattle were slightly easier, but for beef the market was firm, with good prices. Following are the realisations. Fat sheep: Best sorts, 20/- to 21/6; prime medium, 15/10 to 10/9; 14/9; extra prime two-tooths, 25/6; prime finished wethers, 24/6 to 25/6; lighter grades, 22/9 to 23/9; unfinished, 16/6 to 20/-; choice heavy lambs, 27/9; average prime, 20/6 to 22/6; light, 16/8 to 19/-. Store sheep: Two-tooth ewes, 32/6 to 34/-; good five-year ewes, 24/6; culls, from 9/-; good b.f. lambs, 16/1 to 17/9; second quality, 12/- to I^/9; backward, 7/9 to 9/4; large wether lambs, 10/2; smaller, 10/6 to 13/6; culls. 5/2 to 7/t. Store cattle: Weaner heifers, best, £2/10/- to £3; small, £l/12/6 to £l/15/-; m.c. weaner steers, £2/12/6 to £3/1/-; P.A. cows and calves, £4/11; empty P.A. cows, £5/8/-; forward cows, £4/11/- to £5; boners, £l/1/- to £3/15/-; P.A bulls, £6/10/-; Jersey bulls, £4/10/- to £B/</6. Dairy cattle: Springing heifers, good, £6/10/- to £B/5/-; others, £4 to £6/4/-; springing cows, £6/15/-. Fat cattle: P.A. cows and heifers, heavy, £B/7/6; lighter, £4/12/6 to £b 10/-; ex-dairy sorts, £5/17/- to £6/17/6; runners, 22/- to 42/6; light bullocks, z 8 15/- to £9/5/-. Poultry: Hens, lid. to 2/-; pullets, 4/3 to 6/-; cockerels, 1/1 to 1/11; ducks, 1/2 to 1/6. Pigs: Wenners, 4/- to 4/6; slips, 5/6 to 11/-; stores, £l/4/6; light porkers, £l/13/-. Dannevirke Sale Dominion Special Service. .Dannevirke, March 25. At the Dannevirke stock sale yesterday Williams and Kettle, Ltd., offered a good yarding of sheep of all classes and a fair yarding of cattle, principally dairy sorts. The demand was good and : all lots met with fair competition, practically a total clearance being effected. Prices ranged as follows: Fat ewes, 17/1 to 17/8; medium twotooth ewes, 25/- to 29/-; good wether lambs, 14/- to 16/1; good six-year ewes, 24/1; s.m. ewes, 16/5 to 20/1; b.f. lambs, good, 16/4; small ewe lambs, 17/10 to 19/-; small wether lambs, 10/- to 12/9; small b.f. lambs, 13/3; small two-tooth wethers, 19/-; one-shear Southdown rams, 1 to 2]gns.; aged, 10/- to £l. Fat Jersey cows, £3/16/- to £5/17/6; store P.A. cows, £4/16/- to £4/18/6; small P.A. heifers, £2/10/-; P.A. steers, £5/2/- to £5/18/6; small Jersey heifers, r.w.b,, £3/5/-, £3/7/6 to £3/15/-; good dairy heifers, just calved, £8; store Jersey cows, £2/10/- to £3/16/-; weaner Jersey heifers, £2/10/-; Jersey steers, £2 10/- to £3/6/-; potter bulls, £2 to £5 10/-. ’ Weaner pigs, 6/- to 10/6. The Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association, Ltd., offered a. fair yarding of all classes of stock. Prices generally were firm on recent rates. They quote sales as follows : — Fat ewes, 16/- to 17/9 ; two-tooth ewes, £l/5/- to 32/-; five-vear ewes, 18/- to £l/2/-; store ewes, 10/- to 13/6; S.D. rams, 10/6 to 2gns.; Romney rams, 15/tc> Ugus.; wether lambs, 12/- to 16/3; S.D.'“lambs, 12/7 to 15/11; ewe lambs, 15/- to 18/6. . . ■ ' Fat cows, £4/10/- to £6; springing Jersey heifers, £5 to £6/5/-: springing Jersey cows, £5/10/- to £7; Jersey heifers, r.w.b., £3 to £4/10/-; weaner Jersey heifers, £l/10/- to £2/10/-; store cows, £l/5/- to £3/15/-; potter bulls, £4/10/to £6/5/-. Mangaweka Cattle Fair Dominion Special Service. Mangaweka, March 25. The New Zealand Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Distributing Company had an entry of 800 cattle and 700 sheep iat the Mangaweka cattle fair yesterday. The yarding of cattle was the best ever seen in Mangaweka. The quality of the bullocks was outstanding and the cattle AS_ a whole came forward in excellent condition. Despite the dry summer competition was keen on all grown bullocks showing condition and quality, but the bidding on female cattle and young steers was inclined to be erratic. The top price for bullocks was £ll/14/-, for a very nice line of 27, account Mr. J. McDonald; 32 account Moyle Brqs realised £ll/9/-: account Mr. F. Healey, £ll/8/-; account Mr. G. Zohs, £lO/12/-; very nice line of 82 account Mr. W. Shaw, £9; splendid line of 24 18-month P.A. steers, account Mr. L. Weston, £7/18/6. The sheep entry was mostly small lots, but ewe lambs sold well and breeding ewes were quite firm on recent sales. Prices were as follows: — Best bullocks, £ll/8/- to £ll/14/-; good, to £lO/12/-; good forward 3]-year P.A. bullocks, £B/12/- to £9; 20-month steers, £5/10/- to £5/17/6; smaller sorts, £4/3/6 to £5/5/-; fat cows, £7; Hereford cows with calves at foot, £6/19/-; fat and forward heifers, £6/11/- to £6/12/-; 20-month P.A. heifers, £4/2/- to £4/4/-; empty cows and heifers, £3/11/-; forward cows, £5. Good five-year ewes, 20/- to 22/5; good medium, 18/- to 20/-; good medium ewe hoggets, 19/6; wether lambs, 10/9 to 13/6; small. 7/3; Romney rams, £2/2/-; aged S.D. rams, 1] to ijgns. Weaner pigs, 11/-. Fordell Sale t ■ Dominion Special Service. Wanganui, March 24. At the Fordell sale the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., submitted a yarding of 2000 mixed sheep and 150 head of cattle to a good attendance of buyers. The ewes offered were average sheep, but met with a good de-: mand from Taranaki buyers, who also competed keenly for lambs, w.f. wether lambs making to 15/-. Cattle met with a good demand, a good line of 41 20month Hereford steers on account of Mr. A. Cameron, No. 1 Line, making £7/6/-. Following is the range of prices:— W-f. wether lambs, 15/- to 14/8; lowconditioned five-year ewes, r.w. S.D. rams, 16/4 to 20/-; small two-tooth ewes, 22/6 to 27/-; fattening ewes, 8/1 to 9/-. Forward Jersey cows. £3/16/-; 20month Hereford steers, £7/6/-. Timaru Ram Fair By Telegraph—Press Association. Timaru, March 25. At the Timaru ram fair to-day there was a yarding of 1465 sheep drawn from all parts of South Canterbury and even farther afield. The sale was one of the best held here for some years, prices showing an improvement on the recent fair at Christchurch and oil other fairs held in this district. The top price was 16] guineas for a Romney Marsh ram sold on account of Gilbert Giddings, Hairlij. Southdowna

made up to 10} guineas, Ryelands to 10 guineas, and Border and English Leicesters to 9 guineas. Carterton Sale Carterton, March 25. At the Carterton sale yesterday, Wright, Stephenson’s offered an entry well up to advertised numbers. Sheep dragged somewhat, and prices were easier. Springing cows and heifers met with limited competition. Fat and forward cows sold at late rates, and heifers, r.w. bull, and heifer calves, made good prices. Porkers and baeoners sold at par rates, while weaner pigs were easier. Following are prices realised: — Fat lambs (extra good), 26/-; fat ewes, heavy, 21/-;; store cows, 10/- to 12/6; cull ewes, 6/- to 7/-; b.f. lambs, 13/6 to 15/S; small, 10/- to 11/6; b.f. lambs, woolly, 13/6 to 16/-; small, 10/6 to 11/6; store wethers, 21/-. Springing cows, £6 to £8; springing heifers, <5 to £6/5/-; empty 18-month heifers, £3/10/- to £4/10/-; Hereford calves, £2/10/- to £2/16/-; fat cows, heavy, £6/10/- to £7/10/-; lighter, £5 to £5/8/-; forward cows, £3/10/- to £4 5/-; store cows, 35/- to £2/10/-; bulls, up to £6. ■ Baeoners, £3 to £3/10/-; porkers, heavy, 35/- to £2/6/-; lighter, 30/- to 32/6; slips, IS/- to 21/-; weaners, 8/- to 12/-. Martinborough Sale Dominion Special Service. Martinborough, March 24. At the Martinborough stock sale yesterday the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency offered a good entry of sheep and cattle. Competition was on a par with recent sales, a clearance being effected at the following prices:— Fat and forward ewes, 12/-; light fat wethers, 20/- to 22/-, heavy 25/6; b.f. rape lambs, 13/- to 14/11; shorn wether lambs, 10/10 to 11/-; cull ewe lambs, 15/7; small wether lambs, 6/9 to 7/-. Best l]-year P.A. steers, £6/5/- to £6 10/-, medium £5/17/6 to £5/12/-; 2}year P.A. steers, £B/15/-; fat heifers, £8 10/-; cows and calves, £5/7/6; S.H. cows r.w.b., £4/10/-.