Feilding Stock Sale

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 43, 21 February 1938, Page 12

Feilding Stock Sale

SMALL YARDING ON SATURDAY The weekly livestock sale at Feilding, held on Saturday, attracted a small entry of fat and store sheep, store and dairy cattle. Heavy rain fell throughout the sale and the business done was very small. For the quality of the entry values were firm. Quotations were as follows: — Fat sheep: 2-th woolly ewes, 28s; b.f. 2-ths, 24s to 275; wethers, 26s 6d. Store sheep: Wether lambs, 10s 6d, 13s lOd to 17s; woolly ewe lambs, 15s 6d; 2-th ewes, 26s lOd; aged breeding ewes/ 9s 5d to ,12s 9d. Store cattle: Cows. £3 16s to £3 17s; empty heifers, £2 17s 6d. Dairy cattle: Spg. cows, £6 17s 6d; wnr heifers, £2 10s. ASHHURST SALE Dalgety and Company Limited, report a full yarding at the Ashhurst sale on the .16th instant of all classes of sheep and a small entry of cattle. There was a keen demand for all the stock offered, and we report a hundred per cent clearance at very satisfactory prices. Quotations: — Weaner pigs, 16s, woolly b.f. lambs, 11s 3d to 18s 6d; shorn w.f. wether lambs, 9s 9d to 18s sd; cull ewe lambs, 13s; b.f. wethers, 22s 3d; 2th wethers, 19s to 225; 2 and 4th wethers,*22s lOd; 5 yr. ewes, 20s 3d, 23s 6d; 2th ewes, 26s 3d to 345; fat lambs, 21s; fattening ewes, 11s to 13s 6d; cull ewes, 5s to 5s 6d; lsli. S.D. rams, 2£ to 4 gns.; fat cows ex dairy, £4 to £6 15s; store cows, £3 2s 6d to £3 17s 6d; bulls, £3 7s 6d to So 10s. HUNTERVILLE SALE The New Zealand Farmers ’ Co-op Distributing Co. Ltd., report an entry of 3900 sheep at the above sale on Thursday. There was an excellent attendance and the yarding comprised principally breeding ewes with a fair sprinkling of lambs. The ewe market was inclined to be easier, but lambs were considerably firmer than our previous sale and met firm competition ' right throughout. We passed several pens of ewes, but sold all our entry of lambs under the hammer. There was also a good entry of Tams which met only a fair market. Quotations: —2th ewes, good, to 32s 6d; good medium ditto, 27s to 295; best 5 yr. ewes to 265; good m.a. ewes, 21s 6d to 23s 6d; lower conditioned sorts, 15s 3d to 19s 4d; aged ewes, fair condition, 13s 9d to 14s 2d; forward ewes, 12s 6d; good w.f. lambs to 16s 2d; medium ditto, 13s 8d to 14s 6d; forward b.f. lambs, 17s 3d; medium ditto, 12s

6d; small to 7s 3d; small w.f. lambs Ss to 9s Id; tail end lots to 7s Id; good m.s. woolly lambs, 18s 6d; medium ewe lambs, 13s to 15s; small to 10s Sd; 1-shear S.D. rams 3 gns; aged ditto 1 gn to 21 gns; 3-shear Rom. ditto, 2 gns; aged rams % gn upwards. OBJECTOR. Warden: “What! It’s against your religion to break rocks?” Prisoner: “Yes. What the Lord has joined together let no man putasunder. SO THAT’S IT? Mistress: “You know, I suspect that my husband Ims a love affair with his typist. ’ ’ Maid: ‘“Oh, I don’t believe it. You are only saying it to make me jealous.”