FEILDING SALE

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 143, 20 June 1938, Page 4

FEILDING SALE

DISAPPOINTING PRICES

The Associated Auctioneers report that a medium yarding of approximately 4000 store sheep was penned at the Feilding sale on Friday, as against 8000 the previous week. The entry consisted of approximately 3300 breeding ewes and 70U lambs. There was only a small attendance of buyers, due no doubt to the counter-attraction of show week.

The sale opened in the ewe section with an outstanding line of 450 five-year-old Romney cross ewes in splendid condition, running with Southdown rams, offered on account of Mr. A. McLean, Porangahau, Hawke's Bay. They sold under good competition, realising 31s 6d. Competition was most erratic for the balance of the breeding ewes, and it was difficult to gauge values from pen to pen. Taking the sale all over, especially for the older ewes, prices were most disappointing, and it is quite apparent that buyers are still prepared to wait tintil the ewes are visibly in lamb. , Only one pen of wethers came to hand and realised 21s,

In the lamb section the only line of medium ewe lambs which was quotable was passed in at auction and sold privately afterwards at 225. The balance of the lambs, chiefly black-face lambs and an odd pen of small ewe lambs, sold to no change in values. There was a medium yarding of fat sheep. The quality for the most part was good, but competition was quiet and prices showed a further decline. Wethers were in short supply with no alteration in values. A few pens of fat lambs were offered and secured by exporters at about schedule rates. The fat cattle yarding was small, with two pens of good quality , run beef and the usual ex-dairy sorts. Competition, however, was quiet, with no improvement in prices. Only one pen of empty forward condition Polled Angus and Hereford cows was yarded in the run cattle section, and realised £5; a small entry of boner, cows sold under good competition, prices being on a par with those of last week.

Only a small yarding of dairy cattle came to hand. There was a good inquiry for young cows and heifers close to profit, but late calving sorts were dull of sale.

Prices ranged as follows:— Fat lambs, 17s to 22s 4d; fat ewes, 14s 6d to 22s 7d; fat wethers, 25s 9d to 27s 8d; two-tooth to five-year ewes, r.w. S.D. ram, 32s to 335; five-year ewes, 31s 6d; four-tooth to five-year ewes, 25s 9d; four- and five-year ewes, 28s; five- and six-year ewes, 21s to 26s 6d; store wethers, 21s; m.a. ewes, 24s lOd; four-shear purebred S.D. ewes, 21s; b.f. lambs, lis lOd to 14s 2d; medium ewe lambs, 18s 8d to 23s 6d. A small pen of fairly good ewe lambs realised 25s 6d. Dairy heifers, £7 2s 6d to £9; potter cows, £2 7s 6d to £4 7s' 6d; fat bullocks, £10 10s; fat run cows. £8 17s 6d to £9 ss; fat cows, ex dairy, £4 10s to £6 ss; run cows, empty P.A. and Hereford, £5; weaner heifers, £1 '17b to £3. i