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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 72, 17 December 1938, Page 17

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Keen Demand For Sheep At Feilding Sale

CATTLE MARKET FIRM Dominion Special Service. FEILDING, December 16. Though store sheep were represented at today’s Feilding stock sale, the offering was a very modest one, giving little indication of the trend of the market. Fat sheep came forward in good numbers, for which the demand ‘-was keen with prices on the uplift. Station cattle were in fair demand with buyers ready to operate where prices were right, resulting in most lines changing hands. Beef sold a little slower than last week, though prices were more or less unchanged, as also for a few head of dairy stock.

Quotations: Fat sheep: Prime lambs realised 22/to 24/2; second grade, to 21/9; light, 15/- to 18/4; extra prime hoggets, 21/6 to 23/6; medium weights, 19/7 to 20/5; lighter, 18/- to 19/-; best wethers, 20/to 23/7 ; light, 18/4 to 19/10; good ewes, 11/9 to 12/9; second quality, 10/- to 10/9; unfinished, 8/7 to 9/11. Store sheep: Good two-tooth ewes made 26/ Ito 27/8; two-tooth wethers, to 21/3; spring lambs, to 15/-. Store cattle: Good yearling P.A. heifers made £5/6/- to £5/16/-; well-grown two-year -P.A. steers, £7 to £7/9/-; smaller, £6 to £6/15/-; backward, to £5 ; threeyear Hereford steers, to £B/19/-; yearling steers, small, to £3/14/-; yearling Jersey heifers, to £2; P.A. cows, to £5 17/-; cows and calves, to £7/11/-; P.A. cows, to £5/17/-; cows and calves, to £2/2/6; boner cows, heavy, £4/12/6 to £5/10/-; others. £3/5/- to £4/6/-; Jersey bulls, £6/12/6 to £B/15/-; P.A. bulls, to £B/10/-. Dairy cattle: Heifers in milk_made ; to £5/7/6; springing heifers, £5/15/- to £6 2/6. Fat cattle: Prime P.A. cows made £8 10/- to £B/12/6; light prime, £7/2/6 to £7/10/-; unfinished, to £6/15/-; mediumweight heifers, £7 to £7/15/-. Poultry : Heavy hens made 2/8 to 4/1; others, 9d. to 2/6 ; pullets, to 2/11; young cockerels, 1/- to 1/11; others, 2/2 to 4/-; duck and five ducklings, to 4/9; young ducks, 2/11 to 3/9; others, 2/2 to 2/6; geese, 4/6 to 5/-; turkey gobblers, 14/to 15/6; turkey hens, to 8/9. Pigs: Porkers made £l/14/- to £2/6/-; baconers, to £2/6/-; weaners, 17/- to £1 4/-; slips, 15/- to £l/7/-; stores, £l/8/to £l/19/-.