LAMBS SELL WELL

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 128, 1 June 1935, Page 5

LAMBS SELL WELL

STRONG FEILDING DEMAND

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) j

FEILDING, May 31

. Prices for fat lambs were again very firm, last week's record of. 27s being beaten today when a pen of heavywoolled lambs, very prime, fetched 28s. Several exporting. companies operated briskly, a highly satisfactory sale resulting. The keen buying of the past few weeks attracted a very large entry, totalling 10,000, including 5000 fat lambs. The pens of good-condi-tioned, well-woolled lambs raised the keenest bidding, and all venders were quite pleased. Prices for fat ewes and wethers were not so goodi partly owing to the lack of quality and finish. The store sheep market was.not. so interesting owing to the lack; of quality of the breeding ewes entered.. The demand for very good ewes was quite good, but few such were offered. Store larribs also showed that • there is a good market for good-conditioned lamb?, and those offered of this grade brought good figures.; ' ; ■ The cattle market was rather quiet j except for dairy stock, which are bringing quite good prices, the best of which being up about 10s a head on last week's rates. Sheep.—Fat lambs, very prime heavy woolled, 28s; prime woolly, 24s id to 25s 3d; very good, 24s Id to 24s 2d; average lines, 20s to 22s lid; lighter, 19s 7d to 19s sd; inferior lines, from 16s; prime fat ewes, 15s 3d to 16s; light prime, 13s 3d to 14s; unfinished sorts, from 7s 9d to 11s 3d; prime fat wethers, 235; very good skins, 22s to 22s 6d; ; fair average, 20s 5d to 21s 8d; unattractive pens, from 13s 6d. Store sheep: Breeding ewes, r.w. Southdown two-tooth, 235, 25s 6d, to 27s 4d; four and sixtooth to four-year, 22s 9d; four and five-year, good, forward condition, 20s 3d, 22s 6d, to 24s sd; others, 13s. to 19s; five-year, 17s, 6d, 19s 3d, 225, to 235; m.a., 21s 4d; stud S.D. ewes, r.w. S.D. rams, § to 1 5-8 guineas; b.f. wether lambs, good, 14s 9d to 16s 6d; fair, 9s to 13s 10d; b.f. lambs, good, 13s 4d to 14s 6d; fair, 11s 6d; two-tootlv wethers, 21s 6d. . : Cattle.—Dairy cattle, second calvere, £2 to £3;.springing cows, forward, .£■* 10s to £4.155; late, £2 10s to £3 15s; springing heifers, forward, £3 10s to £4 17s 6d; late, from 40s; heifers, in. milk, 60s; pedigree Jersey springing heifer, £6 ss. Store cattle: P.A. and Hereford cows, 30s; Hereford heifer, 325; Hereford cows, 275; Shorthorn heifers, £2 3s; empty Jersey heifers, 23s to 265; weaner heifers, 11s to 235;6a; heifers, £2 10s; P.A. springing cows, 40s; P.A. weaner steers, 40s; ditto, 2^year steers, £3 13s 6d to £3 18s 6d; Shorthorn steers, £4 15s to £3 8s 6d; P.A. bullocks, £4 10s. Fat cattle: PA. heifers, £3 to £4 17s 6d;-Hereford cows, £4 6s; Hereford heifers, £4 17s; vealers, 10s. to 255; runners, 32s to 50s; light fat cows. 3 Poultry.—Hens, Is to 3s Id; pullets, 2s 9d to 4s; ducks, 2s to 3s Id; cockerels. Is 4d to 2s 7d; turkey hens, 5s ed; gobblers, 4s 9d to 6s 6d. Pigs.—Weaners, small, 7s to 9s 6d, others, 13s to 14s; slips, 7s to 14s; stores, 17s to 225; porkers, small, 10s, heavy, 20s to 32s 6d. A LARGE ENTRY. The New Zealand Loan. and Mejs. cantile Agency Co., Ltd., report a large entry at Feilding yesterday. ■ There was a large yarding of fat sheep, and the competition was keen. Fat lambs showed a slight improvement. Ewes and wethers sold at par with last week's prices. There was also a big yarding of ewes of better quality than usual. Good sound-mouth ewes made 22s to 25s lid, good 5 and 6-year ewes, 18s to 20s 6d; medium two, four, and six-tooth ewes, 21s to 22s 8d Store wethers of good quality made 20s to 21s 9d. Lambs were easier by about is per head. Fat and run cattle sold on a par with late values. Some of the Prices realised by the firm were as ?ollows:-69 six-tooth and four^ear ewes at 23s Id, 72 do. at 22s Bd, 95 do. at 25s lid 94 do. at 225; 28 four-year ewes at 21s 6d, 69 six-tooth to fouryear ewes at 23s 6d, 94 two-tooth 7d, 5 do. at 19s 4d, 63 do. at J6s lOd, 59 do at 19s, 103 do. at 20s, 46 do. at Ms 10436 do. at 15s lOd, 37 .do. at H* 54 do at 18s 6d, 24 fat ewes at.l3s 57 fat ewes at 14s, 18 fat wethers at 235, 77 weaner P.A. steers at £2 16s, 12 do. at £2 15s^