BREEDING EWES RAW MATERIALS

Evening Post, Issue 11, 13 July 1936, Page 12

BREEDING EWES

RAW MATERIALS

(By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) I LONDON, July 11. Friday's closing prices for the following raw materials were as follows those for July 3 being shown in parentheses:— Cotton: Liverpool quotation, good American middling, spot, 7.13 d a 1b (6.65 d); August delivery, 7.08 d a lb (6.59 d). Rubber: Para, 9§d a lb (Old); plantation smoked ribbed sheet, 7^d a lb (same). Jute: July-August shipment, Indian jute, Dundee quotation, £16 3s lid a ton (£l6 16s 3d). Copra: July-August shipment, South Sea to London or Rotterdam, £12 15s a ton (£l2 10s); smoked, to Marseilles or Genoa, £12 10s a ton (£l2 ss); plantation Rabaul, to London or Rotterdam, £13 15s a ton (£l3 10s) ■ Linseed oil: £25 a ton (£2B 10s). Turpentine: 39s 9d a cwt (38s Gd). TRICE OF EGGS. First grade eggs were quoted on the Wellington wholesale market lodav at Is 4d to Is 5d a dozen.

SLACKER DEMAND

WEEKLY FEILDiNG SALE

There was a heavy, yarding of store sheep, and an average yarding of lats at the i'eilding sale on Friday. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report that the store sheep section was comprised chiefly of aged breeding ewes rw. S.D. ram with a fair penning of both ewe and wether noggets. The demand for breeding ewes was not so keen as at last weak sale, with a strong demand for both ewe and wether hoggets. Fat sheep again sold freely, the supply in this section being short of the demand. Practically no run-bred cattle came forward. Fat cattle: Several pens of station-bred cows of just medium quality were submitted, these meeting with a slow sale. Fat cows ex the dairy were also slow of sale. Dairy cattle: A heavy yarding of both springing cows and heifers was submitted, and we report practically a total clearance with • values considerably firmer than at last week's fixture. Store and potter cows sold at late rates. Quotations:— Fat Sheep.—Lambs, 18s 3d. 19s 2d, 20s 4d, 21s sd, 21s 7d; ewes, 20s lOd, 225, 22s 6d, 23s 6d, 245; wethers, 21s 6d, 245, 25s 6d, 275, 28s Gd, 32s Gd. Store Sheep.—4- and 5-year ewes r.w. S.D., 27s Id; aged ewes r.w. S.D., 20s 2d; wether hoggets; 19s 2d, 20s 6d; ewe hoggets, 225, 265, 30s, 31s 7d; B.F. hoggets, 15s 7d, 16s 9d, 18s 6d, 19s Id, 19s 2d. Fat Cattle.—Here, cows, £4 16s, £4 17s, £5 7s 6d, £5 15s; S.H. cows, £4 18s, £5, £6; P. A. cows, £4 16s, £5 2s 6d, £5 7s 6d; P.A. bullocks, £7 17s; S.H. bullocks, £7 17s 6d; Here, heifers, £6 7s, £6 10s, £6 17s 6d; vealers, £3, £4; cows, £3, £3 "ss, £3 10s, £3 12s Gd, £3 16s, £4, £4 2s, £4 10s, £4 12s. Store Cattle.—Cows, 28s, 365, 38s 6d, £2 Is, £2 4s, £2 6s, £2 11s, £2 12s, £2 14s, £3. Dairy Cattle.—Heifers r.w.b., £4, £4 10s, £4 12s 6d. £4 15s, £4 17s 6d, £5, £5 12s 6d, £5 18s, £6 2s Gd, £6 7s Gd, £6 15s, £7; spring cows, £4 17s 6d, _£5 10s, £6 10s, £9 2s 6d. FAT EWES DEARER. The New Zealand Farmers' Co-opera-tive Distributing Co., Ltd., report that a good yarding of all classes of stock came forward for the Feilding sale. In the fat sheep section ewe mutton registered a further rise of about- Is per head on last week's values. Fat lambs and fat wethers sold at about last week's rates. Most of the ewes in lamb yardsd were of low and fail-ing-mouth variety and bidding on these at auction was sticky. . However, practically everything was sold before the close of the day. Ewe and wether hoggets sold at last week's rates. Fat cattle sold at values on a par with last week. In the dairy section heifers and cows close to profit were.again in keen demand and sold at improved values. A few pens of station cattle changed hands at prices similar to those of the last sale. Quotations: — Fat sheep: lambs, 18s, 18s 9d, 19s Gd, 20s 6d, 22s 6d; wethers, 24s 6d, 25s 9d, 27s 6d, 295, 30s; ewes, 21s, 22s 6d, 23s 3d, 245, 25s 6d. Store sheep: Four- and 6-th. ewes, r.w. S.D. rams, 27s 8d; 4and 5-year ewes, r.w. S.D. rams, 22s 6d, 245, 25s 6d, 265; 5-year ewes, r.w. S.D. rams, 235, 24s 6d, 25s 3d, 26s 6d. w.f.w. lambs, 15s 6d, 16s 6d, 17s, 18s 3d, 19s; b.f. lambs, 11s 6d, 12s 6d, 13s 9d, 15s, 17s; ewe lambs, 22s 6d, 24s 6d, 26s 6d, 28s 3d, 30s. Fat cattle: bullocks, £7 ss, £7 15s, £8, £8 ss; Hereford and P.A. cows, £4 10s, £5, £5 ss; £5 12s, £5 17s; cows, dairy sorts, £3 ss, £3 10s, £4, £4 ss. £4 12s 6d; heifers, dairy sorts, £3, £3 15s, £4 2s Gd; vealers, £2, £2 10s, £2 12s 6d, £3 ss, £3 10s. Store cattle: Empty P.A. cows, £4 to £4 15s; 2J-year P.A. steers, £7 10s to £8 Is. Dairy cattle: Springing heifers, £4, £4 10s, £5, £5 10s, £6, £6 ss; springing cows, £3, £3 15s, £4 10s, £5, £6.