SMALLER ENTRIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 58, 6 September 1937, Page 3

SMALLER ENTRIES

<. FEILDIMG STOCK SALE SHARP RISE IN BEEF Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report on th 3 Feilding sale held on, Friday, when smaller entries in the' sheep section, came forward. Fat wethers and hoggets were penned in -lighter numbers with no outstanding quality. There was a steady sale at late rates for prime sheep. Fat ewes were not cjuite so numerous, but some well-finished pens were, included. For these there was animated competition, the top price being 445. The offering of hoggets was quite a good one, only art odd-pen,ot ewe hoggets coming to hand, and- for these there was spirited competition with prices about Is 6d better than previous sales. The wether hoggets were a little irregular in sale, but the market was fully firm on late rates. A fair entry of beef cattle sold * to strong competition, the market showing a rise of 20s to 30s a head. The store pens contained principally store Jersey cows and yearling Jersey heifers. There was a good sale in this section. The dairy offering comprised four pens of cows and three pens of heifers. Although there was a good sale, it "ould be hardly quoted as high, as the previous week. Quotations:—Fat hoggets, 27s 6d; fat wethers. -_s 6d, 34s sd, 34s 6d, 375; fat ewes, 32s 6d to 40s; ewe hoggets. 35s 6d, 375. 395, 40s Id; wether hoggets, 233 6d to 255; owe and lambs, 325; heifers, r.w.b.,' £7; dairy cows, £5 10s to £8: Jersey bulls, £4 2s 6d; store cows, £2 16s; yearling heifers, £3 5s to £4 6s; fat P.A. heifers, £9 15s; fat cows ex dairy, £4 ss, £4 15s, £5 7s 6d,. £3 2s 6d, £6 12s 6d. BUOYANT MARKET. The New Zealand Farmers' Co-op. Distributing Co., t.td., report:—There was a very buoyant market for all classes' of stock. A good yarding oi fat sheep met with spirited bidding, and the top price for this season of ±.^ 4s 3d was paid for a line of So fat ewes offered on account of Mr. W. A. Thomson,- Kairanga. The store sheep were confined mostly to hoggets, and. again there was a keen demand. A.1 small yarding of dairy heifers, and cows met with a good sale although tne quality for the most part was not as good ;as u:ual. A fair entry of fat cattle mostly ex dairy, also met with 3 lc____ri Sells Quotations:—Fat sheep: Fat hoggets, 23? Id, 24s 6d, 26s 7d, 2|s; fat wethers. 31s 4d 33s Id, 375, 38s 6d, 395, £2; fat ewes, 345. 35s 6d, 36s 6d, 37s 94 38s f 7d, 3»s 6d, £2, £2 os'6d, £2 4s 3d Store sheep: AVether hoggets, 19s 6d, 2os od, 25s 9d, 27s Id, 27s lOd, 28s 6d; ewe hoggets. 32s 3d, 335, 37s Id, 39s 3d 39s 6d; b.f. hoggets, ,20s, 22s 6d, 24s 24s 7d; ewes ;with 100 per cent lambs, 335, springing heifers, £5, £6 2s 6d, £6 15s, £7 5s £7 10s, £8, £8 15s, £9; heifers in milk. £5, £5 12s 6d, £7: springing cows, £5 to £10 10s; yearling Jersey heifers, £2 6s, £2 13s, £3 17s £4, £| 7s; fat P.A. heifers light £7 Ms to £3 5s fat S.H. cows £7 ss. £7 12s 6d, £7 15s; fat cows ex dairy. '£4 to £9 its 6d; fat heifers, ex dairy, £4 15s to £7 15s. j • ■ ; >