VARIABLE DEMAND

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 112, 7 November 1935, Page 4

VARIABLE DEMAND

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LOCAL- PRICES ' EASIER?! » There was no marked .tendency «^m- ' mon to all centres at the livestock-.,].. " held in the Dominion 7&&&PTJA : Johnsonville lm»\vwi^Ws£:. ward, and practically :^^,D WKfetf:' w 'OHNSONVILLE 1 tmiCßfi, "' . Wright, Stephenson, and-Co lAi_ "* w~w TP£i cesw<L re easier thah^ast prime heavy woolly sheep, withverv Cattle.—Prime extra heavy bullocks. £14 lls; single, £14 8s; smSe, £M ss. £13 7s. 6d; prime heavTSSlocks £13 12s 6d smgfe, £13 10s fingleT £12 I 5?! heavy bullocks, £12 ss, 111 15" . fin 5i:o hf ht a3 d un*n«hed bullock* £10, £9 ss; extra prime heavy cows and heifers, £9 10s single, £92s8di £»• rnT «!f as£ ?2 WS and Meifers, £8 10s| £8 2s 6d, £7 10s; cows and heifers, £7! £6 10s, £6 ss, £5 15s; runners, vealersl 255, 20s. j ,«ShSSP-rjPrime extra heavy wethers, 255, 23s 9d; prime heaVy wethers, 23s 6d, 235, 22s 9d; medium wethers, 225, 21s; prime extra heavy ewes, woolly 22s 6d; prime heavy ewes, shorn,' 19s small pen, 18s 6d, 18s, 17s 6d; medium S we!L 16? 6d; heavy horeets, 245, 235, 225. 6d; light hoggets, 21s, 20s; heavy spring lambs, 25s 6d, 255, 24s 6d; medium spring lambs, 235, 22s 9d, 225, 21s 6d; light spring lambs, 20s. WAIRARAPA VALVES. ' The New Zealand Farmers' Co-opera-tive Distributing Company,- Ltd., report that dairy cattle met withtht keenest sale for some time at the weekly Masterton sale yesterday,showing an increase on late rates. Fat sheep were slightly easier, but store* remained firm. Pigs met a good demand. The company submitted a medium yarding of sheep, cattle, and pigs, to a good attendance of buyers, effecting a total clearance at the following range of prices:— Sheep.—Fat wethers, 235; fat woolly Southdown ewes, 245; fat ewes, 15s, 15s' 6d, to 15s lid; shorn ewes and; lambs (all counted), 14s 7d; b.f. '2-tooths, 20s 6d. - . Cattle.—Good springing cows, £5, £5 10s, to £6; springing heifers, £4, £4 ss, to £4 10s; cows in milk, £3 to-£5 10s; heifers, due autumn, ■- £3 3s; yearling Jersey heifers, £2 5s to £2 7s: store cows, £1 Is, £1 ss, £1 10s, to-£l 15s; Jersey bulls, £3 10s, £4 10s, to £5 ss. Pigs.—Sows to farrow, £2 15s; porkers, £1 16s; slips, 22s to -265; good weaners, 19s 6d, 20s, 21s, to -225; small weaners, 12s to 15s. * Dalgety and Co., Ltd., entered' .a medium yarding of sheep, realising the following values:—Fat wethers, 22s 3d; fat maiden ewes, 245; fat; ewes, 15s 8d to. 16s 9d; fat b.f. two-tooths, 20s lOd; twotooth wethers, 15s 2d to 20s 3d.

: > PAHIATIJA SiU-E^ v .v':. Dalgety ■ and. Co., ■ Ltd.,5 report having had' a small yarding of dairy, stock-at the Pahiatua sale • on" Tuesday.: ■ There was the usual attendance,of buyers, and prices were in accord with recent sales. Quotations: Spriijg cows,- 't6'"£-3^7s 6d; empty cows, £ 1 12s;: yearling •. Jersey bull, 41 guineas ' ~ * ' vr