FEILDING STOCK SALE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 8, 7 December 1935, Page 5

FEILDING STOCK SALE.

MARKET QUIET.

PRICES STEADY TO BACKWARD.

AVith the attendance small and the yarding below the average there was little animation about the weekly stock sale in Feeding Yesterday. Shearing operations kept many farmers away, and m addition to this agents rdport that paddock sales have been particularly heavy of late. Fat ewes and wethers registered a decline in price, * competition being very slack. Hoggets held at a fairly firm level, but these also did not meet with the usual bidding. In the store sheep pens many lines were passed in at auction, although sales were made later. Ewe and wether hoggets suffered a setback in price, the high values of recent sales being far from reached. Store cattle made the bc6t sales of the clay, forward sorts being in quite good demand, as were also some linos of Well grown station cattle. For fat stock, the sale conformed to the general trend and showed a downward indication. A few prime cows made good values but the offering generally was hard •to quit. The few head of dairy stock sold at nominal values. Detailed prices are as under: — . Fat sheep.—Shorn hoggets, 20s 3d, 20s 4d, 21s 3d, 235; woolly, 21s 3d, 23s fid, 25s 3d; b.f. 2-tooths, 20s 3d, 21s, 225, 22s Bd, 23s Id; wethers, 21s fid, 245, 26s 9d; ewes, 11s, 12s 6d, 12s lOd, 13s 4d, 13s Bd, 14s, 14s lOd, 15s, 15s sd, 16s 4d, 16s Bd. Store sheep.—Four and 6-tooth ewes, 225; wether hoggets, 16s 3d, 16s 6d, 17s 7d, 19s 3d, 19s 7d, 21s 3d; 2-th ewes, 27s 6d, 295; 2-th wethers, 17s sd, 19s 3d; ewe hoggets, 225, 22s 3d, 225-sd; b.f. hoggets, 20s 6d; ewes and lambs, 345; cull ewes, 5s 6d, 7s 6d, 9s, 10a 6d.

Store cattle. —Two-year Hereford steers, £4 13s 6d, £4 19s 6d, £5 ss; 2-yr P.A. steers, £5 9s, £5 13s 6d; 3-yr P.A. steers, £6 6s, £6 11s; vearling Jersey heifers, £1 15s, £2 ss, £2 11s, £2 13s, £2 19s to £3 11s; forward cows, £2 3s, £2 11s, £2 15s, £3 2s, £3 9s £3 14s to £4 !(*>; boner cows, £l, £1 7s fid, £1 12s 6d, £1 17s 6d, £2; empty forward heifers, £2 ss, £2 13s, £2 19s, £3 6s; yearling steers, £1 7s to £3 8s; cows and calves, £2 12s. £3 7s, £3 4s; P.A. cows and calves, £6 15s; 2-yr P.A. heifers, £4 lbs; potter bulls, £l, £1 18s, £3 ss, £3 15s to £3 17s 6d. Fat cattle. —Cows, £3 ss, £3 10s, £3 15s, £4 7s 6d, £4 12s 6d, £4 17s 6d, £5 2s 6d, £5 10s, £5 15s, £6, £6 7s ,6d, £6 10s, £7, £7 7s 6d, £7 17s 6d to £8 ss; heifers, £3 17s 6d to £4 15s. . n o ~ Dairy cattle. —Springing heifers, £2 2s 6d, £2 15s, £3 2s 6d, £3 17s 6d. .

AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Coy., Ltd., report a smaller yarding in all classes of stock at Foilding. Dairy cattle wore yarded in smaller numbers and met with a dragging sale. Fat sheep sold at rates, about a Is per head above last week s values. The store sheep _ yarded mainly comprised 2th wethens, which were easier in price, with enquiries limited. Two-tooth ewes and ewe hoggets were also easier in price. Best quality young run cattle sold quite well, but inferior sorts were dull. Quotations;—Store sheep-. Ewe hoggets, 225, 255, 295; 2th ewes, 265, 295; 2th wethers, 17s 5d to 19s; wether hoggets, 19s 7d to 20s 9d. Fat sheep: fat ewes, 13s, 13s 6d 14s 4d to 18s; fat hoggets, 225, 23s 6d to 255. Store cattle: Red Polled steers, £4 17s 6d; S.H. steers, £3 10s; store cows, 355, £2 £2 7s 6d to £2 14s; store heifers, £2 10s to £3. Dairy cows: Springing heifers, £2 10s, £3 to £4 10s. Fat cattle: Dairy sorts, £2 15s, £3 7s 6d, £4 to £5 2s 6d; fat heifers, £3 to £4 10s: fat P.A. cows, £6 to £6 15s; fat P.A. heifers, £6 15s; ylg bulls, 37s 6d to £2 15s; ylg heifers, £2 15s. Dalgety and Coy., Ltd., report an. average entry. Fat sheep were not yarded in heavy numbers, but fat hoggets and the few pens of wethers entered failed to maintain recent prices. Fat ewes, which were for the most part low quality, mot stronger competition and the sale was fully firm on last week’s rates. Store sheep, with only a few exceptions, were penned out of the wool. The sale in this section was inclined to bo dull, and vendors were not keen to meet the easing in price; several of the larger lines were passed at auction but were sold by private treaty. A full yarding of beef cattle were submitted, but only a few pens of finished run bred cattle were offered, the remainder of the offering being dairy sorts. The sale was inclined to he a little heavy, but there was a fair sale. A medium entry of store cattle sold quite well. \\ e quote:—Fat shorn owes, 13s Bd, 14e, 15s 6d, 16s 7d, 16e 8d; fat woolly hoggets, 22s 2d, 23s 6d; fat shorn hoggets, 20s 3d, 20s 4d, 21s 3d, 235; fat wethers, 19s, 23*; 2-th ewc», 27s 6d 295; 4 and 6-th ewes, 225; store ewes 5s fid, 7s, 9s, 10s 6d; wether hoggets, 17s 7d, ewe hoggets, 22s 3d; 2-th wethers, 19s 3d, 19s 6d. Fat cows, £6, £6 2s 6d, £6 7s 6d, £6 10s; fat Jersey steers, £5 7s 6d; fat Jersey cows, <£3 7h, £3 10s, £3 12s 6c|, £4, £4 L" 6d, £4 17s 6d £5 7s, £5 7s 6d; 2-vr Hereford steers, £4 19s 6d, £5 ss; 2-jr PA steers, £5 9s; ylg. Jersey heifers, 355; heifers, r.w.b., £2 2s 6d; store cows, 375, £ Abrahams and Williams, Ltd., report :- Small entries of stock wore submitted at yesterday’s fixture and the sale proceeded with a quiet tone prevailing in all sections. A light entry of fat sheep again came forward and hero the prices were practically on a par with last week’s rates, the .market for fat ewes, however showing a slight casing tendency. The quality of the store sheep section hardly measured up to average standard and as a consequence values were in accordance with quality. Tho yaiding here comprised mainly shorn 2-th wethers, with a few pens of shorn 2-th owes The sale for wethers was quiet, and prices were down on last week s sale, passFugs being frequent; 2-th owes were also du U of sale. Fat cattle were penned m moderate numbers, prime station-bied cow = selling at. values up to late rates while plain g and unfinished sorts were hard to Suit Dairy bred cows met with a film market throughout. A fair entry of store "attle was submitted to a small attendance of buyers and tho market lioro was not very tionv -FirshcT'Frt 23?1d- fat wether's, 20s 3d. 22s Bd, 245, 26s 9d • fat ewo= 12s fid, 14s lOd, 15s, 15s sd, 4tl. Store sheep: B.f. hoggets 20s 6d. Fat cattle: Hereford cows, o £7 , 7 s „ 6 , d 'J £3"16s £ £3 12 12s 6C 6d, C °£3 S isf, £4, £4 2s 6d, £4' 12s & £4 15s £4 17s 6d, £5. Woreßattle: £2 13s £2 15s, £2 19s, £3 8s; cows and calves, £2 12s, £3 7s Dairy cattle: Spg. heifers, £2 2s 6d, £3 2s 6d.