STOCK SALES

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 151, 24 December 1934, Page 10

STOCK SALES

PRICES BARELY SUSTAINED

Dalgety arid Co., Ltd!, report on the Feilding sale held on Friday:—For the last sale of the year prices were barely maintained in all classes. A fair entry of cattle came forward, but met with a dull sale, no .doubt owing to the .dry weather buyers.are acting with caution. Fat cattle were not competed for so keenly, and ,a slight easing in prices was" evident. A nominal yarding of fat sheep came forward and sold on a par with last Friday's sale. Only a few pens/ of grown store sheep were sold at auction, the remainder of the yarding failing to change hands with the exception of an attractive line of shorn Southdown x rape lambs, which sold at from 12s to 14s 9d.«, We quote:—Fut lambs, 19s 6d 20s, 225; store lambs, shorn, 9s lOd, 10s; store lambs,' vfT. shorn, 12s 6d; store lambs, b.f. shorn, 13s Id," 14s 9d; ewes, 7s 9d,'9s Bd/15s; yearling P.A. steers, £3 17s 6d; 2-yr. P.A; 'steers, £4 10s; stove heifers, 19s, £1.25; heifers in milk, £1; stove cows. 18s. £1 2s, £1 2s (3d, £1 10s; Jersey bulls, 15s, £1 ss, £1, 17s 6d, £2 3s; fat bullocks, £5 15s, £6; fat. cows, £1 7s tid to. £4 16s. .. .•■ , ; The New "Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Distributing Co., Ltd., repovt on the Feild-. ing sale:—Owing to the continued dry weather bidding for all classes of stock was dull. Fat sheep prices were hardly up to last week's rates. The offering of store Bh'eep was small, and most lines were passed. -A • full yarding of station cattle came .forward. The., quality all, .round was particularly good,- but here again bidding ,at .auction was lifeless. • Buyers were present, however," and we quitted the bulk ok the offering,dt,prices;on a par; with the previous week. The beef■; market cwas dyer supplied,1 -fthd prices; particularly for heavy-weights,-declined by 5s fo'-7s"6d. ■ Quotations: Fit ewes, 13s, >13s':6d, 14s, 14s 9d; fat wethers;,' 19s «d,- 20s; .21s, 22s 6d; fat lambs, 18si 19s, 20b,' 21s; store sheep, b.f. lambs (shorn), .-, 135,. 145,. 14s : 9d; w.f. lambs (shorn), 11s to 12s 6d; 2-tooth wethers, 17s, 20s, 21s;. fat cattle, fat cows, £2 10s, £3,, £3 15s, £4; fat heifers, £2 15s' £3 ss, £4, £4 17s 6d; vealers 10s, 15s, 20s, 375. Store cattle: Yearling P.A. steers, £3 5s to "£3 17s 6d; yearling P.A. heifers,:. 22s 6d to' 355; '2-yr. P.A. >steers, £4 5s to" £4 10s; P.A.. cows, £2 17s to £3.165. Dairy cattle: Springing cows, £2 to £2 10s;'springing heifers, £2 to £2 15s; cows in milk,' 20s to 30s.