FEILDING MARKET

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 134, 8 June 1935, Page 12

FEILDING MARKET

PRICES FOR LAMBS EASIER

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

FEILDING, June 7. Prices for fat lambs were slightly easier owing to the quality generally not being up to the standard of last week, but a few pens of very prime heavy woolled lambs overtopped last week's prices. Exporters are still buying lambs and paying slightly higher than schedule rates. A very good sale resulted for fat ewes and wethers, local butchers competing and sending prices appreciably higher. There was a fair yarding of store sheep, which found'the market for breeding ewes still fair, with good sales for clean, well-conditioned ewes. The yarding of lambs included some tail-end lots off farms. For these there was not a good demand, but good ewe lambs and wether lambs sold well. Small offerings of cattle f&und the dairy market firm at late rates, with other cattle quiet. Sheep: Prime fat lambs, 25s 3d to 26s 9d; extra prime heavy, 27s 6d to 28s 3d; very good lines, 21s lOd to 23s 9d; fair, 18s 6d to 20s 6d; poor quality, 15s 9d. Prime heavy ewes, 18s 4d; special quality heavy. 20s to 20s Id; good, 16s 6d to 17s; fair, 13s 7d to 14s; light, from 9s Id; prime wethers, 24s to 24s 3d; very good, 22s to 235; fair, 19s to 21s 6d; black-faces, 17s to 18s 9d. Store sheep: B.F. lambs, 12s 6d, 13s Id, to 14s lOd; ewe lambs, good condition, 20s to 21s lOd; fair, 18s 4d; out of condition, from 16s; wether lambs, good, 14s 5d to 15s Id: fair, to 13s 9d; inferior lines, from lls 2<3. Breeding ewes: Twotooth, 20s 9d to 28s; four, six-tooth, 235; four-year, 22s 6d to 235; four, five-year, good. 23s Id; others, 19s to 23s 9d; p.b. Southdown ewes, 2J to 3£gns. Cattle:. Dairy second calvers, £-2 5s to £4 10s; cows in milk, £2 10s to £3; springing heifers,, close to profit, £3 to £4 10s. Store cattle: Store cows, forward, 30s to 40s; others, 24s to 28s; P.A. cows, 355; mixed yearling steers, 245; weaner heifers, 24s to 27s 6d; P.A. steers, 21s to 355; potter bulls, 32s 6d to £3 7s 6d. Fat cattle: Prime Jersey cows, heavy, £3 to £4 ss; light, £2 2s 6d to £3 10s; Jersey heifers, light, £3 9s to £2 17s 6d; P.A. bullocks, £8. Poultry: Hens, Is 4d to 2s 9d; pullets; 2s 6d to 3s 4d; cockerels, Is to 2s lid; geese, 3s 6d; ducks, 2s Id to 2s lOd.

Pigs: Weaners, poor, 5s to 7s; better, 8s to 13s; slips, 10s 6d to 17s 6d; stores, 15s to 17s; porkers, 19s to 245.