FEILDING SALE.
SHEEP PRICES DECLINE. (Special to “Standard.”) FEILDING, March 1. Very fair yardings of sheep and cattle came forward at the Feilding sale to-day* but, due mainly to a lack of quality, prices for the former declined. Fat sheep prices slumped considerably, but nothing of an attractive nature ’ was on offer. Store cattle maintained late rates, as did a few head of dairy cattle. Prices up to 1 p.m. were as follow: Sheep.—Fat wethers, 25s 6d to 275; fat ewes, 18s 9d, 20s 6d, 20s 9d, 21s 6d, to 25s 6d; shorn fat lambs, 19s 6d, 22s 9d, 235. 3d, 24s 6d ; shorn fat twotooths, 22s 6d; woolly fat two tooths, 25s 9d; two tooth store ewes, 33s lOd. Cattle. —Weaner Shorthorn heifers, £2 10s; cows and calves, £8; springing cows, £10; yearling heifers, £3 ; fifteen month heifers, £3 15s; heifers, r.w.b., £3; eighteen-month steers, £5; store cows, £4 to £4 7s 6d.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 78, 1 March 1929, Page 7
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154FEILDING SALE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 78, 1 March 1929, Page 7
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