TAT SHEEP EASIER.

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 126, 23 November 1935, Page 16

TAT SHEEP EASIER.

PRICES' FALL AT FEILDING

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) FEILDING, November 22

The fat sheep market showed an appreciable decline in price levels at the stock sale , today, fat ewes especially easing by probably 2s to 3s a head. The small offering was rather lacking in quality, and butchers were not tempted to pay big prices. The store sheep market showed a firm tendency, though the small yarding detracted from the value of the sale as indicating market rates. In some cases venders had too ambitious a conception of the requirements, resulting in i their lines being passed at auction.! The fat cattle market had no signs of renewed animation, with no fancy prices, but there is still a good market for prime Jersey cows; no bullocks were offered. Cow beef made to 20s 1001b. The store cattle pens were largely neglected,, but the market showed a hardening tendency on the lines offered. The dairy cattle market generally was easier. Fat Sheep.—Prime woolly ewes, 22s 6d; light prime, to 22s 2d; prime shorn, to 18s 3d; light, from 15s lOd; prime wethers, to 24s Id; hoggets, prime, 25s 6d, light prime to 23s 4d; unfinished, from 19s sd. Stores: Ewe hoggets, good condition, to 325; fair, to 30s 6d; others, 22s 6d up; wether hoggets, good, to 21s 6d; other lines, from 18s; black faces, 17s to 19s sd.

Cattle —Dairy springing heifers, £2 10s to £5 10s, according to calving dates; springing cows, to, £3; cows in milk, to £4 ss. Fat cattle: Shorthorn prime heifers, £7 15s to £8; cows, £7 2s 6d; P.A. cows, £7 10s; Jersey prime cows, £3 18s 6d to £6 ss; heifers, £4 2s 6d to £3 ss; cows and vealers, £4 ; 16s; runners, £2 6s; vealers, 275. Stores: Forward cows, £2 4s to £2 9s; boners, tj> 37s 6d; heifers, r.w.b., to £3; yearling Jersey heifers, to £2 6s; Shorthorn steers, yearling, to £5 13s; two-year, £6 3s; heifers and cows, £3 6s; P.A. bulls, yearling, £2 4s; two-year, £3; cows, r.w. P.A. bull, £3; Shorthorn bullocks, £8 6s; Holsteiri cows, £3 15s;- empty cows, good condition, £4. . Poultry .—Hens, Is 8d to 2s 8d; cockerels, Is to 2s 9d; pullets, 4s'9d; ducks, 2s.

Pigs.—Weaners, 7s 6d to 14s; slips, 10s to-21s; stores, 20s to. 245; porkers, 27s to 355.