Stock Sales

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 64, 17 March 1936, Page 3

Stock Sales

FEILDING SALE The New Zealand Farmers Co-op-erative Co. Ltd. report on tlic Fcilding sale. A heavy yarding of both cattle and sheep came forward. 'l'hcro was a strong demand for station cattle and although several lines were passed in under the hammer they wore immediately disposed of privately. In the store sheep section the offering for the most part was of a very mixed class. The enquiry for good lambs was still firm, but the inferior lamb showed a decided drop of about Is Gd. per head. Fat ewes showed a slight improvement in value wffiile fat wethers and fat lambs sold at last week’s value. Fat cattle sold at lato rates. Quotations: Fat ewes, 15s Gd, lGs Gd, 17s 3d, ISs, ISs lid; fat wethers, 21s, 23s 3d, 25s Gd; fat lambs, 20s £1 Is, 225, 23s sd. Fat Cattle: Fat cows, £3, £3 10s, £1 ss, £4 15s, £5 7s Gd; fat heifers, £3, £3 los, £4 ss, £5 ss. Store Sheep: 2-th. ewes, 30s Gd, 32s Gd, 335, 34s 3d, 3Gs; 5-year ewes, 17s Gd, 18s, 19s 3d, 20s, 22s Gd, 24s 4d; 6-year ewes, 17s, ISs Gd, 19s 3d, 20s, 21s; B.F. lambs, 14s Gd, 15s, lGs Gd, 17s 3d, 18s Gd; w.f.w. lambs, 13s, 14s Gd, 15s 3d, lGs Gd, 17s Gd, 19s; ewe lambs 15s 3d, 17s Gd, ISs 9d, 20s 3d, 24s Gd. Store Cattle: Bullocks, £B, £S ss, £8 12s Gd, £S 15s, £9 ss; 2-year P.A. steers, £6 10s, £G 17s, £G ISs, £7; P.A. heifers, £5 4s, £5 10s. Dairy Cattle: spg. heifers, £4, £4 ss, £4 15s, £5; wnr. heifers, £2 ss, £2 12s Gd, £2 17s Gd, £3, £3 15s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. report a smaller yarding. Ewes were not in such keen demand as at recent sales, and prices generally wero slightly easier. Store lambs also showed an easing in price. .The run cattle market was also slightly easier. Fat lambs sold at a little above schedulo rates. Fat owes of good quality met with a keen demand at prices a little ahead of recent sales. A larger yarding of mainly indifferent quality rains met with a good enquiry especially for quality Southdowns and average sorts providing the prico was not too high. Some of tho prices realised aro as follows:—Fat ewes, 15 at 20s, 25 at 15s 9d, 5 at 16s; 5 fat wcaners at 21s 3d, 35 at 25s Id; fat lambs, 21 at 24s Gd, 54 at 22s Id, 37 at 23s 9d; Wr lambs, 57 at 14s Gd, 110 at 16s 3d, 121 at 17s; owe lambs, 57 at 21s Gd, 30 at 20s, 54 at 21s 10, b.f. lambs, 47 at 15s, 129 at 17s 9d, 101 at 18s Id; 5-yr. ewes, 300 at 18s,-300 at 19s 4d, 27G at 23s Id, ISO at 26s 10d, 100 24s Gd, 504 and 6-th. ewes at 20s; 200 4-yr. ewes, 265, 150 2-th. ewes, at 33s 3d; 1-shcar S.D. Rams, 3 gns. to 4gns; 1-shear Romney Rams, Ito 44 gns. Store cows, 35s Gd, £2 to £2 10s; fat bullocks, £9 2s to £lO 7s Gd; fat dairy cows, £4 to £5 17s Gd; fat P.A. cows, £6 5s to £G 17s Gd; fat dairy heifers, £4 10s to £5 15s; springing dairy cows, £4 7s Gd to £5 10s, dairy heifers, £3 17s Gd to £4 2s.

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report on the Feilding sale held on Friday last, when a full yarding of sheep came forward, all sections being well represented, which met an exceedingly strong tone, particularly for breeding ewes. These lines showing quality were keenly competed for, while tho few less attractive lines, which usually form tho majority of the offerings at this season, were taken readily at good prices in relation to their quality. The market for fat sheep, as with fat cattle, barely maintained the prices of the previous week. Store cattle sold with a firm tone, there being a large entry, principally grown bullocks; prior to this yardings have been exceedingly light in this section. Quotations: —Fat ewes, 15s lOd, 16s, 16s Id, 16s 9d, 17s Id; fat b.f. 2-ths., 22s 2d, 22s 6d; fat wethers, 21s 9d; 4year ewes, 28s; 5-year ewes, 23s 9d; 2th. ewes, 30s, 31s 6d, 35s 6d; 2 and 4th. ewes, 27s 6d, 28s 6d; woolly w.f. lambs, 12s 9d; shorn w.f. lambs, 13s 9d; shorn b.f. lambs, 12s 6d, 12s 9d, 16s 3d, 17s; 1-shear S.D. rams, 2 to sgns; 1-shear Romney rams, Signs. Heifers, r.w.b., £5 ss, £5 7s 6d; ylg. Jersey heifers, 365; P.A. cows and calves, £6; 20-month P.A. steers, £0; 4 and syi". bullocks, £9; fat heifers, £5 15s, £7; fat P.A. cows, £6 7s 6d; fat Jersey bullocks, £6; fat Jersey heifers, £4 10s, £5, £5 2s 6d; fat Rod Polled cows, £5 7s 6d.

Messrs Abraham and Williams Ltd., report another large yarding of sheep and cattle at last Friday’s Feilding sale. Some splendid lines of ewes of all ages were submitted and for these the inquiry was exceptionally keen, it being quite apparent that there are still a number of farmers who have not so far filled their requirements. Good reliable lines of hill ewes sold well up to values realised at the ewe fair. There was also a g6od yarding of both black-face and Romney wether lambs, and hero again the market was surprisingly strong for forward sorts, this being partly duo to tho fact of weather conditions being in favour of fattening. Tho store cattle section was. represented with just average quality, consequently the sale in this department was not of a buoyant nature. Just a fair sale resulted for beef, tho market if anything showing an casing tendency. Quotations: —4-ycar ewes: Account * 31. Sutton, Kimbolton, 30s 3d; account Jas. Smith, Paraparaumu, 28s Cd. 5year owes: Account R. V. Robertson, I’ongaroa, 26s Id; account Jas. Smith, ISs 7d; account E. MacDonald, Ashliurst, ISs 9d. G-year ewes: Account

R. Y. Robertson, 20s; account J. Robertson, Aokautere, 18s 9d; account S. Sherrard, Makino, 18s. 2-tooth ewes: Account 11. Sutton, 34s 3d; account Williams and Kettle, Ltd., Dannevirke, 325, 34s Cd to 355; account Jas. Smith, 375. 4-tooth ewes: Account Jas. Smith, 335. 4 and 6-tooth ewes: Account H. Sutton, 34s Gd. G-tootb ewes: Account Jas. Smith, 33s 6d.

Woolly b.f. lambs: Account R. MacDonald, 20s 2d to 20s 3d; account E. Kerrigan, Ashhurst, 16s 3d to 17s, Romney weancr lambs: Account IL Sutton, 17s 9d; account J. Northcott, Rewa, 17s 4d; account G. J. Gerke, Kimbolton, 17s Gd. Ewo lambs: Account H. Sutton, 2Gs; account A. F. Waldin, Colyton, 22s 7d to 245. S.D. rams: 21gns, 3gns, 4gns, 4Jgns, sgns, Signs, to 6gns, according to quality. Fat cows: Polled Angus, £7 17s 6d; Polled Angus heifers, £6 to £6 2s 6d; fat dairy-bred cows, £3, £3 ss, £3 7s Gd, £3 10s, £3 12s Gd, £3 15s, £4, £4 ss, £4 10s to £4 15s; empty Jersey cows, 30s, 355, £2, £2 2s Gd, £2 7s Gd to £2 10s; weaner Jersey heifers, 355, 37s Gd to £2. MARTON SALE Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report a yarding of 2500 mixed sheep at the Marton sale with the demand for all classes sound at values on a part with recent sales. Quotations: —4 and 5-year ewes, 17s, 17s Gd, 18s to 21s Gd; aged ewes for fattening purposes, 8s Gd, 9s, 9s 9d, 10s, 10s Gd to 12s 9d; 2-tooth ewes, 295, 29s 9d to 31s; ewe lambs, -20 s 6d, 21s to 23s Id; woolly b.f. lambs, 14s, 15s Gd, 16s 9d to 17s 3d; Romney wether lambs, 13s 6d, 14s, 15s 9d, 16s Gd to 18s; small mixed-sex lambs, 8s Gd to 12s 9d; weaner pigs, 7s Gd, 10s, 10s Gd to 11s; store pigs, 15s, 17s to 20s; porkers, £2, £2 2s Gd to £2 ss.