FEILDING MARKET REPORT.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2371, 30 May 1914, Page 2

FEILDING MARKET REPORT.

A. H. Atkinson and Co. report on their weekly sales yesterday: A medium entry of poultry and, a small one of pigs, with prices on a par with recent sales. A'large quantity of carpentry tools, saddlery, harness, and sundries were also disposed of. Fruit and produce sold at quotations. Poultry, hens 2s, 2s 3d, 2s 6d, 2s 9d, 3s, 3s 3d, 3s 6d, 4s, 4s 9d, roosters 3s 9d, 4s, ss, pullets Is 3d, Is 9d, 3s 6d, bantams 5s (all at per pair), hens and chicks 3s 9d, turkey hens 8s 9d, 9s 3d, 9s 6d per pair. Pigs, weaners lis, 12s, porker 25s 3d, baconers 49s 6d. Fruit and produce: Apples 3s, 3s 6d, 4s, potatoes 8s to 9s 6'd per sack, pig do. 3s 6d, pumpkins 7s 6d sack, onions Id per lb..

GORTON'S WEEKLY REPORT. During the past week we held our regular yard sales at Bulls, HunterviUe, Apiti, and Feilding, and a clearing sale on account of Messrs Jacksou Bros., at Brandon Hall. At Bulls we submitted some 3500 sheep and a good yarding of cattle. Prices for sheep "were for the most part above those ruling at previous sales. Lambs and good sound ewes were most sought after. Wethers, however, did not realise vendors' ideas. Cattle were in fair demand, and nearly all lines were sold. At Hunterville we had a fair yarding of all classesSheep wore harder to quit than at our last sale, and although everything sold prices were hardly up to last sale. At Apiti we had a small yarding, and not much business was done. At Feilding the offerings in both sheep and cattle wore again heavy. There was a largo attendance of buyers, and the market showed a slight recovery on the drop recorded in our last report. We quitted tlie whole of our catalogue with the exception of two small lots of ewes. We quote : —

At Bulls: Fat ewes 17s 3d to 18s 7d, fat and forward ewes 15s 6d to 16s lOd, forward ewes 12s lOd, best shorn wether lambs 15s Id, mixed sex shorn lambs 12s lOd to 13s 3d, medium 9s 6d to 10s lOd, cull lambs 5s lid, cull wethers los lOd. Cattle,, springing heifers £7 to £8 10s, cows just calved £5 10s to £6, fat cowb, light £5 4s to £6 2s, weaner heifers 36s to £2, small weaners 15s to 17s, Holstein bull £5 10s. At Hunterville: Fat ewes 18s 9d, store ewes 14s, f.m. ewes, with Romney rams 12s to 14s lOd, lambs, best 12s 3d to 13s 6d, medium 9s lOd, fat j cows £6 7s to £6 12s 6d, fat heifers !£7 13s, springing heifers £5 10s, 3-year steers £7 4s. At Apiti: Ewes with Romney rams 235, mixed weaners £2 4s. At Jackson Bros.' sale: S.M. ewes with Southdown rams 20s 6d, cull do. 10s, lambs 10s 4d, f.m. • Southdown rams 2-_gus, Romney rams 10s, dairy cows, to calve spring £6 10s to £8 ss, dairy heifers, to calve spring £4 10s to £6. inferior do. £3 17s 6d, weaners 245, store pigs 16s, and furniture and sundries at good prices. At Feilding: On account of Mrs M. M. Perry, 197 lambs at 13s sd; account J. Bussell, 143 lambs 13s 6d; account McLennan Bros., 92 forward empty owes 14s 3d; account S. Jefferies, 101 4 and 5-year ewes wtib Southdown and Romney rams 19s 3d; account A. W. Gaze, 60 medium lambs 10s lOd; account Mrs Dcnsham, 75 lambs 14s 7d; account W. Garlick, 11 forward wethers £1 Is 2d, 16 fat ewes 20s, 11 fat and forward do. 18s lOd; account J. D. Hocking, 24 fat ewes 19s lid, 24 do. 19s 8d: account R. Pearson, 11 forward ewes 16s Bd;_ account Mcfteiuian Bros., 30 b.f. lambs 12s 2d; account G. H. Matthews, 50 store ewes 10s 6d; account F. Waldin, 11 lambs los Id, 30 do. 9s 7d; account J. Northcote, 202 6-tooth to f.m. ewes with Southdown rams 24s 4d. Cattle: Store bullocks £6 12s 6d,- fat cows £5 15s to £6 12s, fat and forward cows £4 5s to £5 Is, store cows £2 10s to £3 lis, springing cows £7 10s, sprinying heifers £6 7s 6d to £7 15s, heifers running with bull £3 2s 6d to £4 Is, weaner steers, medium 21s, weaner heifers 20s to 2_s, 20-months to 2-year steers £4 ss.