FAT SHEEP DEARER

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 10, 11 July 1936, Page 15

FAT SHEEP DEARER

DAIRY CATTLE ALSO

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

FEILDING, July 10. Prices for fat sheep continue to advance, fat ewes going to 255,10 d and fat wethers to 32s 6d, at the weekly stock sale today. The fat lambs offered were of inferior quality, no high prices being reached. A heavy yarding of mature sheep was totally cleared. The total yarding of,sheep was over 7000, with a fair proportion of ewes in lamb, and these mostly being aged, the market proved sticky. Store lambs, however, sold well, black-faced hoggets and ewe hoggets finding the market optimistic.

. A heavy yarding of dairy cows sold readily at advanced prices, which were about 10s ahead of lact week. Dairy farmers -are certainly out to purchase with plenty of power of absorption still evident. .Store cattle sold fairly well, with a firm market for potter cows. The fat cattle market showed a much better tone than oC late, with a yarding of prime quality including a proportion of ox beef. Prices for ox beef were about 27s 6d per 1001b, with cow beef at 245.

Sheep: Fat lambs, prime. 245, good 22s to 22s 6d, fair 18s to 21s; fat twotooths, prime 25s 6d to 265, good 20s 9d; fat ewes, specially heavy 25s lOd, prime 24s Id, good 20s to 23s 6d, fair from 18s Id; fat wethers, very heavy prime; 32s 6d, prime 30s to 30s 6d, average 28s 6d, unfinished from 20s 6d. Store sheep: Breeding ewes in lamb, four,. five-year, good 27s 6d, fair 22s to 26s lOd; five-year, 24s 6d to 25s 7d; s.m. ewes, good to 26s 6d, fair 20s 2d to 235, inferior from 25s lOd; blackfaced hoggets, good 18s Id to 19s 9d; wether hoggets, very good condition to 21s 9d, fairly good 19s 2d to 20s 6d, poor 16s 7d; ewe hoggets, very good 31s 7d to 325, good to 30s lOd, fair from 22s 9d.

Cattle: Dairy cattle, Friesian heifers, springing, £6 to £.6 7s 6d;. Jersey heifers, close to calving, £6 5s to £7 15s; others, £4 5s to £6 15s according to calving dates; springing cows, guaranteed, £9 2s 6d to £9 ss; others, £5 5s to £6 10s; late calvers, from £4 2s 6d; heifers in milk, £4 to £6 ss. Store cattle: P.A. cows, £2 17s to £4 13s; two-year steers, to £3 ss; three-year, £6 18s; bullocks, £7 11s; Shorthorn bulls, £3; young Jersey heifers, 42s to 635; boner cows, good condition, to £3 6s; poor, from 20s. Fat cattle: Hereford cows, heavy, £5 7s 6d, light from £4 16s; Hereford, prime heifers, £6 7s; P.A. bullocks, heavy prime, £8, £8 Is, £7 17s; heifers, prime, £6 2s 6d to £6 10s; cows, prime heavy, £6 to £7 2s; light, from £4 16s; Shorthorn steers, prime, £7 17s 6(jl; heifers, prime, £6 12s 6d; cows, to £5 7s; Jersey bullocks, light and prime, £6; prime cows, .to £5; heifers, to £6; Holstein prime cows. £5; vealers, £2 12s 6d; runners, £3. Poultry: Hens, Is lid to 2s lOd; pullets, 3s 6d to 6s Id; cockerels,. 2s to 2s lid; ducks, 2s 7d to 3s. Pigs: Weaners, good, 10s 6d to 15s 6d; others, 5s to 8s 6d; slips, 11s to 20s; stores,, 22s to 25s 6d; porker, 22s to 345. GOOD TONE THROUGHOUT. "' The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency C6 ir Ltd., report on the Feilding: sale as follows: —Large yavdings of all classes of stock came forjward with a good tone throughout. In the fat sheep section indifferent quality fat'lambs sold at late.rates while fat ewes also held .'firm at recent values:. The few,-pens-of fat wethers yarded were not quite up to recent sales., A large- yarding- of - hoggets, in .which there were some forward lines of wellbred sorts, met with keen competition, the others making 9d on late rates, but ewe hoggets were slightly easier. For breeding ewes prices were barely up to that of recent sales. In' the" dairy section a smaller' yarding of heifers and cows met with much keener competition, and an .advance in prices wa,s noticeable. There was a larger entry of both run and 'cfairy fat cattle anp prices remained firm on late rates. i Quotations: Fat-.:lambs, 18s ;6d ; 19$, 19s Bd, 20s, 22s .6d, 23s 4d,. tb 265... Fat ewes, 18s-4a, ;i9s. 6d; 21s 9d, to 24s lid. Fat wj6thers,.^ss,-,27s 9d,28s 6d, 28s 9d, to-30V-::..-W-,F. i «wetfier hoggets, 17s 6d, 18s, 195.4 d, 19s 6d;?tol2os. BiF. hoggetlf; 16s 4d, :17s Bd, to 19s.' Ewe-hoggets, 21s, 22s 6d, 24s 2d, 24s 7d, to 265. 5-year ewes, f.w. S.D. ramsy 225; 4~and's-year ewes r.w. S.D. rams, 225, 24s 6d to 25s 9d; 2-tooth'ewes r.w. S.D.. rams, 30s. Fs[t dairy cows, £3 17s' 6d, £4 10s, £4 15s, to- £5 2s 6d; fat P.A.-heifers, £6, £5 ss, to £5 15s; springing dairy cows, £'3 12s 6d, £4 15s, £5, to £6; springing heifers, £4 7s 6d, £4 15s, £5 7s 6d, £5 12s 6d, £6, £6 2s 6d, to £6 15s.

MASTERTON SALE. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report on their usual weekly Masterton sale held on Wednesday as follows: —Owing to the recent adverse* weather conditions our entry came forward under advertised numbers, but the sheep yarded met with a keen sale from a large attendance of buyers, and prices were in advance of these of''our recent'sales.: ■ Medium conditioned s.m. ewes r.w. S.D. ram sold at 24s Id.