FEILDING STOCK SALE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 254, 23 September 1933, Page 8

FEILDING STOCK SALE.

AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS. The New Zealand Farmers’ Co-op. Distributing Co., Ltd., report on the Feildmg sale: Prices for fat hoggets were fully maintained. The demand for fat ewes and wethers was weak and values declined Is to Is 6d. Very few cuttle were yarded. Dairy stock were in better demand, and prices firmed slightly. Quotations : Eat hoggets, shorn, 14s id to 16s Id; i'at woolly hoggets, 18s to 19s; fat owes, prime heavy, 19s to 19s 6d; others 17s 4d to 18s; lighter 16s to 16s 6d; shorn, 13s to 13s lOd; lighter, 12s to 12s 6d; shorn ewe hoggets, 16s 9d; mixed sex hoggets, 16s. 6d; light fat bullocks, £6 14s; fat cows, £3 to £5; store cows, Ms to 345; springing heifers, best £6 to £6 10s; others, £4 12s 6d to £5 2s 6d; back; ward heifers, £2 15s to £4; springing cows £5 12s 6d to £6; later calYers, £2 10s to £3 15s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Coy., Ltd., Palmerston North, report: At our Feilding sale on Friday wc bad a small entry of sheep and a moderate yarding of cattle. Fat sheep wore than last week, and prices for dairy stock improved. Quotations: Fat ewes, good, 18s 6d- heavy S.D. owes, 20s 6d; ewes and lambs, all counted, 11s 6d; owe hoggets, 20s; fat heifers, £4 10s; fat cows, £5 17s 6d- store cows, 21s to 335; springing heifers best, £5 10s to £6 ss; good, £4 10s to £5 ss; small, £3 to £4; springing cows good, £3 15 s to £4 17s 6d; inferior, £2 to £3; dairy bulls, £4 ss. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Feilding sale as under:—A heavy yarding of lat sheep, especially in the ewe section, came forward, it being quite evident from the outset that values would not bold their own in comparison with last week. Store sheep came forward in small numbers and in this section we report a keen sale, values in all cases showing a hardening tendency. Cattle: A fair yarding of these came to hand and in all sections the piarket had a firming tendency with practically a total clearance. Quotations: —Fat sheep: Fat hoggets, 14s, 17s 3d, 18s, 19s, 203 3d, 22s 2d, 22s sd; fat wethers, 16s 3d, 19s 6d, 235, 23s sd, 245: fat ewes, 13s 2d, 14s Id, 15s, 16s, 16s 3d, 17s 3d, 17s lOd, 18s, 22s 67. Storo sheep: Ewe hoggets to 25s 3d; wether hoggets. 16s; b.f. hoggets, 16s Id. Fat cattle: Fat Shorthorn bullocks, £7 19s, £8 ss; fat P.A. bullocks, £7 15s, £8 ss; fat P.A. cows, £3 11s, £4 Is, £4 7s to £5 19s; fat P.A. heifers, £5 19s; fat Hereford heifers, £3 4s, £3 18s, £4, £4 2s: fat heifers, dairy bred, £2 7s, to £3; fat Jersey cows, £1 17s 6d, £2, £2 13s, £3, £3 2s 6d, £3 4s. Storo cattle: Ylg. P.A. steers,’ £3; 4-yr. P.A. steers, £4 3s; weanor Jersey heifers, £1 13s, £2 2s, £2 13s; potter cbws, 275, 295, 30s, 355, 365; empty heifers, 355, 38s, £2 2s. Dairy cattle : Springing heifers £3, £3 10s, £3 15s, £3 17s 6d, £4, £4 ss, £4 10s, £4 12s 6d, £5 12s 6d, £5 17s 6d, £6 ss; heifers in milk, £2 10s, £2 12s 6d, £3, £3 ss; springing cows, £2 2s 6d, £3 ss, £4. £4 2s 6d, £4 ss; cows in milk, £1 7 s 6d, £2 10s; pedigree yearling Jersey bulls,, £4 4s; 2-yr. Jersey bulls, £4 12s 6d.