SHEEP PRICES IMPROVE

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6867, 23 March 1929, Page 3

SHEEP PRICES IMPROVE

FEILDING STOCK SALE. Prices for sheep at the Peilding sale yesterday hardened on late rates and a good sale resulted for all classes. The tone throughout was healthier than for the past two sales and operations were decidedly brisker. Cattle also experienced a slightly better market. Following arc the quotations: —• Pat sheep: Lambs, 19s lOd, 21s to 235; ewes, 21s 9d; wethers, 29s 3d to 30s. Fat cattle: Heifers, £6 10s, £7 15s, £.B 10s, £lO to £ll ss; cows, £3 15s, £6 10s, £7 2s Gd, £7 7s Gd. £7 12s Gd, £S 2s, £8 10s, £9 ISs to £lO 10s; vealer, £1 2s Gd to £4 ss; bullocks, £lO ss. •Store sheep: Wether lambs, I4s 9d, 15s Id, lGs 2d, 17s Id, 39s 4d, 20s Id to 21s; ewe lambs, 17s 7d, 20s 2d, 243 Id, 24s 4d, 24s 7d to 26s 9d; b.f. lambs, 14s, 14s 3d, ,17s to ISs; 2-th. ewes, 283 7d, 31s Sd, 31s 9d, 35s 2d, 30s 2d, 36s lOd, 3Ss 7d, 39s to 42s 6d; 4 and 5-yr. ewes, 23s 2d, 24s 7d, 25s Sd. 265, 27a lOd to 30s; 5 and 6-yr. ewes, 20s 9d; G-th. to 4yr. ewes, 2Ss 7d; 4-th., 6-th. and 4-yr. ewes, 255; 4-th. ewes, 27s 9d to 33s Sd; 2-th. wethers, 28s to 28s 7d; f. and f. ewes, 16s 6d to 19s; 4-yr. ewes, 27s 9d, 28s 3d to 2Ss 9d. Dairy cattle: Springing cows, £ll, £ll ss, £ll 15s to £l3 10s; springing heifers, £6 10s, £7 5s to £10; eows m milk, £6 10s, £7 ss, £7 15s, £S 10s, £lO, £ll to £l3; second culvers, £6, £S to £lO ss; heifer in milk, £7. Store cattle: Weancr heifers, 355, £2, £2 ,17s Gd, £3 17s, £4 2s, £4 5s to £4 9s; heifers, r.w.b., £5 2s Cd to £6 15s; 2-yr. steers, £7 11s to £8 11s; cows, £2 7s 6d, £3 2s Gd to £3 17s; cows, r.w.b., £5 17s Gd; empty heifers, £4 5s to £5 2s Gd.