THE STOCK MARKET.

Feilding Star, 4 June 1907, Page 3

THE STOCK MARKET.

Freeman 11. Jackson and Co. reAt our Wanganui sale on the 29th instant we yarded 550 mixed cattle, 3300 mixed sheep, and 60 pigs. Bidding was fairly brisk, most " m ' h changing hands before the day closed. Pigs sold at advanced prices. At Waverley salo on Friday, dlst, we had a small yarding, viz., 150 mixed cattle and 1250 sheep. Only small lots were yarded, and all found purchasers, except a line of ewes in lamb. We quote; — At Wanganui.— Best cows £6 4s, medium ditto £4 13s to £4 15s, light fat cows £4 Is, store cows 32s Oil i to 355, backward springing cows £2 18s, 15 to 18-months steers £2 2s 6d to £2 6s, 3-year steers £3 17s, fat and forward bullocks £6 5s to £6 9s 6d, quiet heifers in calf £3 9s, heifers and calves £2 17s to £3 5s 6d, 3J-year steers £5 ss, 15-months to 2-year heifers 30s to 32s 6d, weaners 16s to 21s, small ditto 8s to 12s. springing cows (good) £5 16s to £6 10s, others £3 to £4 10s, fresh wethers 16s 8d to 17s 6d, fat wethers 18s 9d, medium woolly lambs 10s, best shorn lambs lls l-od, medium ditto 8s 9d to 9s 7d, small ditto 6s sd, 2tooth ewes ih lamb 12s lOd, fat ewes 14s Id to 15s, fat and forward ewes lls lid to 12s sd, good ewes in lam 15s lid, medium ditto 10s lid. Pigs: Heavy bacoiters £3 14s, medium ditto 32s 6d to 355, heavy porkers 27s to 29s 6d, good porkers 24s to 25s 6d, porkors 21s 4d to 22s 6d, stores 14s to 17s, small ditto 7s to 9s. At Waverley.— Well-bred 3-year steers £5 2s 6d, 3-year steers £4 2s 6d, cows and calves £3, weaner steers 30s, mixed ditto (small) Bs, store cows 35s to £2 6s, full-mouth ewes in lamb 12s 6d, 4 and 6-tooth and full-mouth breeding ewes in lamb 14s 9d, empty ewes (good) lls 9d, fat ewes 14s 9d, stores ewes 5s to 7s 7d, small wethers 12s Id, lambs 8s 2d. Messrs Buckland and Sons, Auckland,, report: — Horses. — Friday being a holiday, we held no sale. Cattle. — Stock of all classes was well represented at Kemuera on Thursday and sold freely throughout, cows near profit selling at £7 10s, dry £3 10s. Fat young calves, in full supply, brought from 23s to £3 2s (113 sold). There was a full yarding of fat cattle, which soW well up to late values, ox beef selling to 225, cow to 18s per 1001 b (249 sold). One thousand eight hundred and seventy sheep were yarded, and sold freely throughout, best wethers selling to 265, lighter weights to 21s, heavy ewes to 21s 6d, others to 18s, best hoggets to 17s 6d, smaller to 14s. Pigs were in average numbers. Small were from 5s to 10s, porkers to 30s. baconers to 40s (141 sold). Hides, skins, tallow, etc. — Hides: Ox 53d to 7j}d, cow 5d to sfd, calf 6d to 6d. horse 12s to 14s, damaged hides 3d to sd, horsehair Is 3d, tallow 25s to 265, bones £4 15s to £5. Skins: Best butchers' 4s 8d to ss, medium 3s 5d to 4s 3d, small and damaged Is 5d to 4s Id. Messrs Dalgety and Coy., Ltd., report on their usual weekly sale at Feilding as follows: — We had a medium entry of sheep and cattle. Bidding was not brisk at auction, but we disposed of the bulk of our yarding at satisfactory prices. Quotations : Sheep : Lambs 9s to 12s, 2-tooth wethers 16s 9d, 2-tooth to f.f.m. ewes in lamb 18s. Cattle: 2-year steers £2 ss; fat and forward cows £3 to £3 10s ; store cows £1 15s to £2 4s; cows in calf £2 Is to £3; weanors (good) 24s to 255.