Keen Demand for Dairy Stock
AT WEEKLY FEILDING SALE BEEF DEARER Sheep were in short supply at the weekly Beilding stock sale held yesterday when breeding ewes were firm at last week’s rates. In the fat pens a modest entry of hoggets sold on a quality basis, while ewes were on a par with late rates. Wethers were firmer. Beef registered aa improvement which wes encouraging to vendors, but store cattle, while slightly better, experienced a more or less disinterested market. Dairy stock met with a very keen inquiry, buyers concentrating upon spring heifers and close to profit cows. The following arc the quotations:
Fat sheep: Hoggets, 9s, 0s Od, 0s 10d, 10s 3d to Us 8d; ewes, 0s 3d, 0s lid, 7s Id, 7s Od, 7s lOd, 7s lid, Bs, 8s 2d, Ss Od. 8s Od, 8s lOd, Ss lid, 9s, 0s Od, 10s Od, 10s 9d to 10s lOd; wethers, 10s, ,11s 3d, 12s, 12s Id, .12s Od, 13s 0d to 15s 3d.
Bat cattle: Heifers, 325, £3 os, £3 18s to £1; bullocks, £5 10s to £5 l-’s; cows, 395, £3 4s, £3 ss, £3 10s, £3 18s to £4.
Store sheep: 4 and 5-year ewes r.w. rams, 10s 2d, 10s 3d to Us 10d; aged ewes do., 2s Od, 3s to 4s; 4-th to 4-yeai do., 13s Id; 4-ycar do. 13s; m.a. do., 7s 5d to 9s; mixed hoggets, os, 6s Od to Ss; ewe hoggets, Ss; b.f. hoggets, 0s Id to 0s Sd.
Dairy stock: Cows in milk, 30s to £3; heifers in milk, £3 os to£4 ss; springing cows, 20s, 355, £2 .10s, £u, £3 ss, £3 10s, £3 15s, £3 17s Od, £4, £4 ss, £4 10s, £4 15s, £5, £5 7s Od, £0 5s Od, £6 0s to £0 12s 6d; heifers r.w.b., £3 Is, £4, £4 10s, £ss 15s, £5 10s, £6 10s to £7. (Store cattle: heifers r.w.b., 27s to 375; yearling heifers, 32s 6d, 33s to ■lO s; yearling steers, 7s; cows, ss, 10s, 12s, 12s Od, 19s, 26s to 30s; empty heifers, 20s, 22s to 255; stccis, lis.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6918, 23 July 1932, Page 3
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350Keen Demand for Dairy Stock Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6918, 23 July 1932, Page 3
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