FEILDING STOCK SALES

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1933, Page 13

FEILDING STOCK SALES

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) FEILDIXG, August f With a heavy yarding fat. sheep prices eased slightly except for the priinest lines. Fat hoggets, prime, 20s to 20s 6d; good, 10s to ISs 3d; fair, 11s 8d to 15s 9d; prime heavy ewes, special line, 23s Id; prime,' 19s to 20s lOd; good, to 15s lid; fair, 10s 3d. to 13s sd; prime heavywethers, 33s 2(1 to :24s 7(1; 'good, 19s Gd. to 21s 10(1; fair, 16s 5d to 17s; fat b.f. prime, 22s 9d; good, 18s; medium, 14a to lGs. Store Sheep.—The market showed no alteration from recent rates except that a specially tempting line of two-tooth ewes, r.w. S.D. rams, brought 245; other lines two-tooths,. 14s 9d, 15s 3d to ISs 0d; five-year ditto, good lines, 18e; others, !)s 6d, 10s Bd, to 13s; wether hoggets, 11s 2d, 12s 6d r .to 14s; ewe hoggets, los lOd; m.s. 'hoggets, 12s Cd; fat, forward hoggets,. 13s to 13s 2d. ~, . ■ A big yarding of dairy cattle was offered and 6old at full market values. Heifers in milk, good, £3 to £5; : not sq good, 35s to £3 10s; springing heifers, good lines, £3 17s Gd to £5 los; others, £1 15s to £2 ss; springing cows, good quality, to £6; inferior, £2 2s 6d to £3; cows In milk, 20s to 255. The fat cattle market was firm and steady -with a'good sale generally. Prime bullocks, £4 16s to £5; prime heavy heifers, £6 2s; P.A. lieifers, £4 17s Gd to £5 15s; lighter heifers, £2,6s to £4 11s, according to weight; prinie cow beef, £4 8s Gd to £5 ios for heavy; £1 3s to £4 for lighter.. . . In a small yarding of store cattle, store cows made 10s to 20s; P.A. cows, r.w. PA. bull, £3 4s 6(1; ditto, heifers, ditto, £2 16s; three-year P.A^ steers,. £i 2s 6d. '....• • '