Wool, Stock, and Produce Markets.

Feilding Star, Volume XXI, Issue 125, 25 November 1899, Page 2

Wool, Stock, and Produce Markets.

THE STOCK MARKET. Messrs Lowes and lorus report of their Mastcrtou stock sale on 22nd Nov : — Sheep entries were limited to shorn ewes and hoggets; Best hoggets, a prime good lot, making Ils9d, others 8s 9d to 9s. Ewes failed to reach owner's reserves. In beef some good quality in ox and cow offered, all these selling, bullocks, I'd 10 ; prime cows, ££ 10s; others ranging from ±'4 down to 70s ; heifers, 62s 6d to 655. In store cattle we had a full yarding with plenty of competition, every pen being sold, store bullocks making 92s Gd ; 2 to 3 yr-steers, 76s ; younger steers, according to class, Gss, 555, 50s ; yearlings 45s ; calves, 38s to 255 ; Ito 2-year heifers, 45s to 50s ; breeding cows 45s to 46s ; | dairy cows and heifers were varied, ! ranging according to age and quality from 40s to 80s. We had a big entry in pigs, and succeeded in making a clearance, best porkers making 29s 6d, weaners, ranging from 8s to 123 6d. Second-hand reaper and binder made £15.

Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright Ciikistchurch, November 22. There were small enures nt Aldington, comprising 2769 fat sheep. 742 fat latnb3, 1119 stoiv sheep. 372efut'.e, and 854 pigs. The 152 fut cattle were mostly light to bandy weights, and the sole was not bri^-kT Late rates were about maintained ! 17s 6d to 20s for prime , lus to 16s for good, and down to 13s for cow and inferior hr-ef ; per hpad steers Ls2s6d to L 7 17s 6d, heifrrs L4 to L 7 ss, cow 3L 3 10s to L6l7s6d. There was littlfl or no demand for store or dairy cattle. There was a mixed entry of f»t sheep, mostly shorn, and a good demand throughout for freez ers, wi'tli Od per head rise Although butchers' opened well, they fell back to last week's prices br-foro the end of the market. Woolly wether?, 18s Gd to ISs 9d, shorn do. 11s 6d to 14s and up to 17s for extra fine show sheep, shorn ewr-s 7s 9d to 12s 11s and up to 14s 3d for extra good woolly, merino wethers 15s lid up to ISs Gd for prime shorn do 10s 6d to 123. There was n good inquiry for lambs for exporf, and the bulk wis taken at an average of about 11s 6d to 12s Id for extra good and down to 9s 6d for small. The only lines of store sheep worth mentioning wr-ro a line of shorn crossbred wclbers afc lla 10s to 19. j , do. wethers and ewes at 10 i 3d. There was a fairly large entry of pip;?, the bulk being small stores, with fats a li tie easier, stores about held their own, and wemers brought 3d per Ib, and porkers 3A-dto 3;jd per Id. Per head — Baconers ranged from 31s to 395, porkers 25s to 30?, stores 15s to 23.-", and weaners 10s to 143.

Messrs Abraham and Williams report as follows : Sales for this week have been held at Woodville, Pahiatua, Dannevirke and Palmerstou. Quotations: — At Woodville on Monday. Three year steers, £4 4s fid ; 2-year steers £i 17s : fat heit'ars, £4 5s ; heifers in calf, £2 5s to i-2 7s 6d ; weanersSSs. Wethers 13s Id ; mixed ho£»gets,-98 lid. At Pahiatua on Tuesday. Three and four-year steers, £4 15s to L 4 19s 6d ; 3-year steers, L 3 14s 6d, L 3 16s, L4, L 4 13s 6d ; 2 year steers, L 2 Ss, L 2 14s, L 2 15, L 3 9s, and extra good line L3 lss; 15-months steers, L2 5s ; 2-years empty heifers, L2 7s 6d, L2 8s 6d, L2 15 and L3 Is ; empty cows, L 2 103 to L3 6s ; springing heifers, L3, L 3 10, L 3 13, L 3 b 15s, L4L47s 6d ; fat cows, L32sto L 3 15s : yearlings, 30s, 355, L2, L2 2s Gd ; > weaners, 30s to 36s 1 Fat ewes, 10s lOd ■ to 11s 4d ; dry ewes, 10s to 10s Gd ; ewes and lambs, 12s 3d to 13s 9d ; mixed hoggets, 10s 7d to 11s 3d. Store " pigs 14s. f At Dannevirke. — Three-year bullocks, 1 L 3 17s 6(3, L 3 19s, L 4 7s, L 4 16s; 2 year steers, L 2 12s to L 3 ss ; yearlings to 15 3 months steers, L23s to L2 7s 6d ; heif 3 ers in calf, L34s ; 4 tooth ewe, 11s ; 4tooth shorn wethers, 9s Sd ; mixed shorn 1 2 tooths, 83. J At Palmerston on Thursday. — Three and 3h year bullocks, L5 3s ; 2£ to 3 year 3 bullocks, L4toL 4 3s ; 2 to 2§ steers, L 3 17s ; 18 months steers, L2 9s ; fat heifers, ) L 3 15s ; dairy heifers in calf, L 3 I4s to L5 ; springing cows, L5 ; fat ewes, 7s 9d ' to 8s sd ; purebred Berkshire weanors, ' Llls,