Feilding Stock Sale

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 225, 24 September 1935, Page 3

Feilding Stock Sale

Tlio Now Zealand Farmers’ Co-op. Distributing. Co., Ltd., report on tbo Foilding sale. Our offerings in both, sheep and cattlo were greatly in excess of advertised numbers. In fat sheep the quality , was slightly hotter than lato offerings, and prices improved by Is to Is 6d per head. The yarding of sheep comprised mostly hoggets with a few odd lots of ewes with lambs. The quality of the hoggets was for tlio most part medium, but values wero well maintained. A yarding of somo 800 run cattlo mostly of good quality met with fair demand. Prices wore, however, below those ruling at other centres. A heavy offering of beef camo forward. Prime lots showed a further appreciation in values, plain and unfinished sorts being at par with lato sales. In the dairy section cows and heifers at drop were in activo demand at lato rates. Quotations:—Fat sheep: Fat hoggets, I9s, 21s, 23s 2d, 24s Id; fat ewes (woolly), 16s 6d, 18s 2d, IDs, IDs Gd, 20s, 21s, 22s 7d (shorn), 14s Id, 15s, 16s 2d; fat wethers (woolly), 25s to 28s 7d. Fat cattle: Fat cows (P.A. and S.H.), £6 14s, £7, £7 10s, £8 ss, £0 18s; fat heifers, P.A., £6, £6 11s; fat cows (dairy sorts), £3, £3 15s, £4 ss, £5 10s, £6 17s Gd. Store sheep: Ewe hoggets, 22s Gd, 235, 24s 6d, 255, 26s 2d; w.f.w. hoggets, 16s, 18s 6d, IDs 3d, 21s, 23s 4d; b.f. hoggets 12s 6d to 16s lOd; ewes with lamb at foot, 25s Gd. Store cattle: P.A. bullocks, £6 ss, £6 7s 6d, £6 10s, £6 12s 6d; 2-yr. P.A. and Hor. steers, £4 17s, £5 ss, £5 11s; 2-yr. P.A. heifers, £4. Dairy, cattle: Springing heifers, £3 10s, £4 ss, £5 17s 6d, £6 15s: springing cows, £3, £3 10s, £4 ss, £5 ss.

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report on their Feilding sale held on Friday. An average entry of fat sheep came forward with competition not quite so keen, although prices remained practically unchanged. There was a small entry of store sheep, comprising about six pens of hoggets and some odds and ends. Good hoggets met. strong competition. A good yarding of run cattlo was penned and competition for quality lines was very sound, but vendors wero inclined to await' higher prices when the flush of feed sets i,n, and several of the larger, lines were passed in at auction. Beef cattle, in which few quality lines wero included, sold steadily at recent-rates. Dairy cattle met sound sale for the best quality heifers, tho top lots shewing quite an improvement. Wo quote: —Fat hoggets, 18s 6d, ISs 7d; fat ewes, IDs, 20s, 20s 4d; fat wethers, 19s; ewe hoggets, 26s lOd; heifers, r.w.b., £2 10s, £2 17s 6d, £3, £3 15s, £3 17s 6d, £4 5s to £5 ss; dairy cows, £4; 2-yr. Hereford steers, £4 16s; store cows, 20s, 28s 6d, 29s 6d, 30s, 31s, 365, 50s, 555; fat P.A. cows £6 10s, £7, £7 10s £7 16s, £7 17s 6d, £9 15s; fat bullocks, £5 10s; fat PA., heifers, £4 15s; fat Jersey cows, £3 7s 6d, £3 10s, £4, £4 7s 6d, £5 2s Gd; fat Jersey heifers, £7 20s.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report just medium yardiugs of sheep of all classes with heavy yardiugs of cattlo iu all departments at Friday’s sale. Tho demand for sheep and cattlo of all classes was sound throughout, dairy cattle showing quality and closo to profit selling exceptionally well. Sta-tion-bred cattlo sold well with values hardly up to rates ruling tkreo weeks ago, this no doubt being duo to the fact that tho growth of grass has had a setback over this period. Fat cattle, of which an averago yarding was submitted, were ou tho whole lacking in quality, consequently values were hardly ou a par with recent sales. Quotations:—Fat sheep: Fat hoggets, 18s lOd, IDs 73, 20s Id, 2Cs lOd, 21s 9d, 225, 22s Sd, 23s Bd, 255, 28s; fat ewes, 15s 7d, 16s 3d, 16s 6d, 17s 3d, 17s 9d, 18s, IDs, 20s, 20s 3d; fat wethers, 20s 6d, 21s Id, 21s 6d, 225, 22s 9d, 23s Id, 25s 3d, 265, 27s 3d. Store sheep: Wether hoggets, 21s, 21s lOd; ewe hoggets, 25s 3d; forward empty ewes, 10s 6d. Fat cattle: Hereford hoifers, £5 6s, £5 8s; fat cows, £2 10s, £3 ss, £3 15s, £4 2s Gd, £4 ss, £4 15s, £5 2s 6d, £5 10s, £6, £6 ss, £6 10s, £6 17s, £7 7s 6d, £7 15s; fat heifers £3 ss, £3 7s Gd, £4 2s 6d, £5, £7; runners, £2 Ds lOd. Store cattle: Empty Jersey heifers, ISs, 255, £2 10s; cows, 16s, 19s, 225, 245, 2os, 275, 30s, 335, 345, 365, 395, £2, £2 ss. Dairy cattle: Springing heifers, 30s, £2 7a 6d, £2 10s, £2 15s, £3, £3 2s 6d, £3 10s, £3 12s 6d, £3 15s, £3 17s Cd, £4, £4 ss, £4 10s, £5 12s 6d, £6, £6 12s 6d, £7, £7 ss, £8 10s; heifers, calved, £2 ss, £2 10s, £2 15s, £3, £3 12s 6d, £3 15s, £-4; springing cows, £2 2s 6d, £2 ss, £2 10s, £2 15s, £3, £3 ss, £3 17s 6d, £4.

The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report a smaller yarding of both fat and store sheep at Feilding on Friday, A largo entry of run cattle camo forward, but prices were slightly easier than last week. Good well-bred young cattle met with a keen demand at an increased rate. Run steers were a shade easier than at previous sales. Good run fat cattle sold at about late rates, but a good entry of fat dairy cattlo did not meet last -week's high levels. There -was a heavy yarding of dairy cattle, lower conditioned stock being more or less neglected, but good conditioned sorts eloso to calving sold freely. Springing cow's and heifers, as well as boner cattle, sold freely. Fat sheep sold on a par with late rates, the stores showing a slight decrease, the quality offered being lower than at recent sales. Some of the prices realised were as follows:—Fat hoggets, 15 at 22s 3d, 45 at 20s, 56 at 235, 17 at 25s 3d; fat wethers, 40 at 26s lOd, 32 at 25s 9d, 71 at 275; fat ewes, shorn, 54 at 15s, 16 at 15s 7d, 23 at 16s, 5 at 16s 3d, 62 at 15s Sd; woolly fat ewes, 5 at ISs 6d, 65 at 18s 9d, 32 at 19s 4d, 17 at 19s 7d; ewe hoggets, 64 at 24s 9d, 32 at 255, 123 at 26s 2d, 94 at 25s Gd; b.f. hoggets, 17 at 16s, 43 at 17s, 57 at 16» 2d; w.f. wether hoggets, 76 at 20s 9d, 44 at 21s lOd; 35 at 225, 43 at 22s 3d, 79 ewes with lambs, 23s 6d; 10 bullocks at £6 3s Gd, 18 bullocks at £4 10s, 25 coloured steers at £4 11s; 11 steers at £5 ss, 12 steers at £4 17s 6d, 5 2-yr. heifers at £3 16s, 10 empty cows and heifers at £3 2s, 22 P.A. cows at £3 9s, 17 empty P.A. cows at £4, 9 cows and heifers at £4; fat dairy heifers, £4 3s to £4 ss; fat cows, £2 17s 6d, £3, £3 ss, £4, £4 7s Gd, £4 10s, £4 14s, £5 to

£6 2s Gd; springing heifers, £3 12s 6d, £3 17s Gd, £4, £4. 7s 6d to £4 10s; springing cows, £3 to £3 10s; store cows, £2 to £3; honors, 17s, 19s, 235, 27s Gd to 37s 6d.