LIVE STOCK MARKET

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 193, 30 July 1932, Page 9

LIVE STOCK MARKET

FEILDING SALE PRICES. Feilding, July 29. With a smaller yarding prices for iat sheep advanced appreciably at today’s stock sale. The yarding was of generally better quality, and butchers were encouraged to offer better competition. Fat hoggets, primest quality, 12/6; prime, 10/1: good, 9/-; fair, from 7/4; fat two-tooths, 10/6. Fat ewes: Good demand. Primest heavy, 10/3 and 10/6; prime, 10/- and 10/2; good, 8/- to 8/6; fair, from 7/9. Fat wethers: Primest, 14/3; prime, 13/6 and 13/9; good, 12/3 to 12/8; fair, from 11/4. There was a very keen demand for breeding ewes, and prices were up probably 3/- to 4/- a head on rates offered a month ago. Two-tooth ewes, r.w. Southdown rams, 14/6; two-tooth to four-year ditto, 17/2; four and sixtooth ditto, 16/-; two-tooth wethers, 8/-; wether hoggets, 7/9; ewe hoggets, good, 10/4; others, from 8/4. * A heavy yarding of dairy stock met a firm demand, especially for heifers close to profit. Good heifers, r.w.b., to £7; fairly good lines at £5 5/- to £6 others, from £3 7/6 to £5; heifers, calved, £3 5/- to £3 10/-; cows, guaranteed sound, close to profit £7 10/- to £5 10/-; backward, from £2 2/6.

Store Cattle: Yearling Jersey heifers, 26/- to £2 4/-; Shorthorn heifers, 37/6. Fat cattle met with a good demand. Fat heavy cows, £4 15/- to £4 17/6; lighter, £2 2/6 to £3 3/-; fat steers, £5 7/6; fat heifers. £2 2/6 to £2 19/-; fat bullocks, £5 10/-.