FEILDING STOCK MARKET.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 45, 22 January 1926, Page 5

FEILDING STOCK MARKET.

REPORT ON YESTERDAY’S SALE,

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

A small entry of sheep and a fair entry of cattle came forward at yesterday’s stock sale at Foilding. Store sheep sold well at rates on a par with last week’s prices. Rape lambs wore in good demand. There wero no on tries of fat sheep. Store sheep: Ewes, 6s 3d, 7s 3d, Bs, 11s 6d, 11s 9d 11s lOd, 14s 3d, 16s lid, 17s lid, 18s 4d, 19s 6d, 19s lOd; lambs, small w.f. 8s 6d, b.f. 11s 9d, 12s 9d, 15s, 16s lOd, 18s 4d, rape lambs 18s 4d, 19s 4d, ewe lambs 22s 2d ; wethers, 20s 3d, 20s 6d, 22s 6d, 235, 23s 4d. Store cattle: Cows, £1 Is, £1 10s, £1 11s, £1 12s, £2 2s 6d, £2 ss; empty heifers, £2 6s, £2 12s; 18montns steers, £3 13s, £4 12s; 3Jyr P.A. bullocks, £6 8s 6d; 2iyr P.A. steers, £6 7s 6d; 3yr Hereford steers, £6 8s 6d. Fat cattle: Good fat S.H. cows, £6 2s; S.H. heifers, £6 6s; f. and f. empty. 3yr S.H. heifers, £4 9s; Hereford bullocks, £7 7s 6d; S.H. cows, £6 2s; S.H. heifers £6 6s. Dairy cattle: Springing cows, £3 15s, £4, £5 2s 6d; springing heifers, £4, £4 15s. AUCTIONEERS’ REPORT, Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, report having a very fair yarding of sheep. There was a very good demand throughout the sale, good lines of rape lambs being specially sought after. We report a total clearance at the following prices: Light fat ewes 18s; 2-th wethers 20s 6d, 21s, 225, 22s 6d to 23s 4d; small 2-th wethers 18s, cull 2-th wethers 12s; good b.T. rape lambs 19s 4d, very fair b.f. rape lambs 17s 4d, medium shorn b.f. lambs 15s 9d, cull lambs 10s 9d to 11s sd; 2-th to 4yr ewes 21s, store ewes 6s 3d, 12s lOd to 14s 6d.

BACON INDUSTRY. SUGGESTION FOR IMPROVEMENTS. At the conclusion of an address on the bacon industry in Denmark by Mr C. Dahl, Danish Vice-Consul in New Zealand to a meeting yesterday of the Manawatu-Oroua branch of the New Zealand Pig Breeders’ Association discussion took plac'e on the most suitable type of pig for bacon purposes. Mr N. P. Nielsen expressed the view that the Tamworth-Berkshire pig made as good a quality of bacon as any other variety in the world. However, the industry in the Dominion would never progress to the stage it should until the value of co-opera-tion was fully realised, as had been stressed by Mr Dahl in his address. Dominion breeders, again, did not give proper attention to the feeding of pigs; frequently offal was their only food. Mr Dahl was accorded _ a hearty voto of thanks on the motion of Mr W. P. Bickers, the meeting then concluding. WOOL SALES IN LONDON. PRICES REPORTED FIRM. LONDON, Jan. 20. At the wool sales there was good competition for merinos at opening rates, / Other sorts were firm. New Zealand clips: Loch Fyne brought up to 18Jd per lb and averaged 16Jd; Morea 18id and 17Id. —A. and N.Z. cable. THE SYDNEY" SALES. SYDNEY, Jan. 21. At the wool sales, super fine merino sold at late rates. Good descriptions were par to 5 per cent, lower, and medium grades 5 per cent, below closing rates of last series. Faulty descriptions dropped 5 to 10 per cent., and greasy merino sold to 33d.—Press Association.

The third Wanganui wool sale of the season is set down for February 16.