FAT STOCK PRICES

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 39, 16 February 1931, Page 12

FAT STOCK PRICES

Feilding fat and other stock prices on jbViday (Levin and Co.) were aB follow:— lEwes, 4s to 4s Id; lambs, 0s? Od; twoilooth wethers, 9a 7d; store ewes, 3s Id to 4s Id; b.f. lambs, 7s 8d to Ss 9d; w.f. lambs, 4a to 6s 2d; S.D. rams, 1 guinea to lla guineas; springing cows, £5 to £8 355; fat P.A. heifers, £5 7s Cd; fat cows, ,£3 5s to £4 15a; fat bullocks, £6 7s 6d fU>'£B; fat vealew, £2 3s. • Abraham arid Williams report:—Fat teheep met a good demand at restricted values, and prices showed little variation ion late quotations. For the better classes of breeding ewes there was a strong injnniiy. A special entry of 1000 live-year-ifild owea sold on behalf of Mr. J. Ogilvy, JVtastcrlon, realised from Gs lid to 7s 2d. Cattle section slack. The demand for istores fairly strong. Prices as follows: — Jat ■ two-tooths, 11s Id to 12a; fat b.f.'s, 22a 9d to 13s 4d; fat ewes, 4s 4d, 5s 6d, i!Ss'9d, to 5s lOd; w.f. lambs, 4s Od to 6s 7d; lambs. 3s 9d. as, 7s Od. to Ss lOd; r<TOS, 4s Id to lls 2d; b.f.'s, 9s 9d; ewe Jambs, 8s Id; wether lambs, 5s 6d to 7s 3d; two-tooth ewes, (is 3d, 6s 4d, lls.Cd, ]2s Td, to 13s 6d: four and h'vo-year ewes, 5s lOd; two and four-tooth ewes, Ss lOd; !)■>.!. lambs, 6s Gd, 9* 3<l; five-year ewes, «ts 10d, 6s lid, 7s 2d; fat bullocks, 7s lid: fat cows, £2 2s Gd, £3 10?, £3 ir«, £4 7s'6J, £4.12s Gd, £5 Bs, to .U 10s: forward and five-year-old bullocks, £0 lls to £6 17ei; store cows. £1 ss, £1 12s Gd. £2, to £2 17s 6d; wearier heifers, £1 lls, £1 12s, to £1 17s; empty heifers, £2 13s; springing cows. £7 ss; springing Jieifers, £7; bulls, £2 fls, £2 10s, to £3. At Gisborne, fat sheep prices declined. Ewes, 3s Id to is 9d; lambs, 5s 2d to 8s 8d; wethers, 7s Id to 7s 7d; second grade ewes, 2s 3d to 3s Bd. New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Distributing Company, Ltd.. report a totnl dnaiancc at Cortcrton at the following pi-ions:—Fat and forward ewes, 3s 10d: H.^ST. ewes flight condition), 2> 3d to 2s 4d: store ewes. Is 6d to 2s. Also at Carlo: ton Wright. SiF.phfiiison, and Co., Ltd., fold: Shorn w.t. ewe lambs (smalll. 2s. ,')s. <ti> ;:? id: -sliorn w.t'. wether lambs (small). !?s srl. 3.« 2d, to 3i 4d: woolly wotlicr iambs, 2s 9d to 'Ca Id; fat \unha, 10s 9d.