Stock Sales

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 40, 17 February 1938, Page 3

Stock Sales

BULLS SALE. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report having held a most successful salo at Bulls on Monday, 14th inst., when tliero was an entry of over 3000 sheep which included two pens of outstanding 2-tooth ewes. There was a large attendance of the public, and wo report practically a total clearance at prices satisfactory to vendors. The top price for 2-tooth was 35/3 for a line on account Mr G. W. McKenzie; and another line of good 2-tooth ewes account Mrs F. de Burgh realised 35/-. There was a largo entry of pigs and a satisfactory sale resulted. Only eight head of fat cows were yarded, and these sold under keen competition, prices being 10/- in advance of previous sale. We quote:—

Fat lambs, 18/6, 20/9, 22/6, 25/-j b.f. lambs, 8/6, 12/10, 13/3, 15/-; w.f. wether lambs, 9/7, 11/-, 12/10, 15/-; ewe lambs, 13/-; 2-th wethers, 17/3; 2-th ewes, 28/-, 35/-, 35/3; guaranteed 5-year ewes, 22/-, 22/4; breeding ewes, 12/1, 15/10, 16/-; B.D. rams, lgn. to 3Sgns. Fat cows £4 2s Gd, £5, £5 ss, £5 17s Gd, £6. Weaner pigs, 9/-, 10/-, 11/-, 13/, 14/, 15/-; slips, 17/- 18/6; stores, ?7/6, 30/-, 31/-, 33/-; porkers, £2 6s; sows and litters, £2 ss, £2 17s 6d, £3 ss, £3 10s. MARTON SALE. The N.Z. Farmers 7 Co-op. Distributing Co., Ltd., report a medium yarding of sheep to a good attendance of buyers. The market for ewes was hardly as firm as at our previous sale. Mi Lethbridge's 2-th wethers realised from 22/S to 23/-. We quote prices as follows: Forward b.f. lambs, 15/1; smaller do. 12/6; medium 2-th ewes, 27/-; 6-th to 4-year ewes, 27/6; 2s and 4-th ewes, 30/-; 2-th wethers, good, 22/8 to 23/-; aged S.D. rams, good, Kgns. to 1-jgns.; weaner pigs, 10/- to 12/6; fat cows ex dairy, £4. WOODVILLE SALE. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., repprt on their Woodville sale held yesterday as under: — We submitted a yarding of some 6700 head of sheep comprised principally of 4 and 5-year ewes with several pens of outstanding 2-th. Ewes on account local breeders, and have to report a satisfactory salo throughout with an excellent clearance under the hammer.

Several pens of lambs suitable for crop also sol d rapidly at fully up to late rates.

Quotations: — Four-year ewes, 25/-, 25/G, 26/6, 27/-,

27/6 to 28/-; 5-fear owes, guaranteed ages, 23/-, 24/-, 24/6, 25/-, to 25/6; mixed aged ewes, 20/-, 21/-, 22/6 to 24/-; 6-year ewes, IS/-, IS/0, 19/-, 20/, to 22/3; failing mouthed ewes, 13/-, 14/-, 15/-, 16/- to 17/6; 4 aud G-tooth ewes, 24/6, 25/- to 26/9; 2-tooth ewes, 30/-, 31/-, 31/6, 32/-, 33/- to 36/6; woolly b.f. lambs, 15/-, 16-, 16/6, 17/-, to 18/3; shorn wether lambs (good condition), 15/-, 16/-, 17/- to 17/3.