FEILDING STOCK SALE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 304, 21 November 1936, Page 4

FEILDING STOCK SALE.

SMALL ENTRIES. AN EASIER TONE. Entries in nil departments at tho Feilding stock sale yesterday were smaller than those ot recent sales, and prices all round were slightly lower. Eat sheep were not in strong demand, and prices rocodod accordingly. The lop price in the store sheep pens was paid for some particularly line ewe hoggets, which made 45s 6d. Store cattle did not sell readily, and prices were much lower than estimated values. Dealers bought in several lines. 1 Several select lines, however, met with good competition and a lino of P.A. bullocks were sold for £9 17s 6(1, and Hereford steers for £8 17s 6d. There was a good demand for yearling Jersey heifers, which made up to £4 15s, while springing cows and heifers sold to good competition, the former up to £8 12s 6d and the latter to £6 17s. In tho fat cattle section, dairy bred Jersey cows mado prices up to £6 17s od and hoifers to £6 12s 6d. Quotations arc: Store cattle. —Cows, 325, 37s 6d, £3 13s, £3 13s 6d, £3 14s, £3 15s, £3 18s; Holstein do. £3 Is; Hereford steers, £5, £6 14s; £7,’ £8 2s, £8 9s, £8 17s 6d ; P.A. heifers, £6 10s, £6 14s; P.A. bullocks, £9 17s 6d; P.A. steers, £5, £6 18s; Jersey steers, £3 ss; P.A. bulls, £ls 15s. Fat cntle.—P.A. cows, £7, £7 15s £8 2s 6d; Shorthorn cows, £7, £7 10s; Shorthorn heifers, £8 17s 6d; heifers, £4 15s, £5 2s 6d, £5 7s 6d, £5 15s, £5 17s 6d, £6 12s 6d; cows, £4, £4 10s, £4 12s 6d, £4 15s, £4 17s 6d, £5 10s, £6, £6 2s 6d, £6 ss, £6 12s 6cl, £6 17s 6d; vealers, 255, 295, £2 4s, £2 14s, £2 17s 6d; runners, £4 7s ; Dairy cattle.—Yearling heifers, 31s, £2 17s, £3 10s, £3 14s, £4 3s, £4 7s, £4 15s; heifers r.w.b., £2 12s 6(1, £2 15s, £3 15s, £4, £4 10s, £4 15s, £6 10s, £6 17s; cows r.w.b., £4 15s, £7 10s, £8 12s 6d; Holstein bulls, £4, £5; ylg. Jersey bulls, 37s 6d, £3 ss. £4, £4 10s, £5 ss, £5 15s. Fat sheep.—Ewes, 15s, 17s 3d, 18s Id, 19s 7u, 20s sd; 4th, 18s 4d 26s Id, 26s Bd, 275, 295; b.f.’s, 275, 29s 6d. 32s 3d; wethers, 23s 3d, 24s 6d, 255, 265, 275, 28s, 32s 6d, 33s lOd; hoggets, 22s 7d, 23s Id, 23s 3d, 26s 6d t 275, 29s 9d, 325; lambs, 21s, 21s 6d. Store sheep.—2th wethers, 22s Bd, 235; 4th ewes, 28s 9d, 31s 8d; ewes and lambs, 13s 9d, 153, 18s Id; owo hoggets, 34s 2d to 45s 6d.