Feilding Lire Stock Sale

Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 210, 4 September 1943, Page 2

Feilding Lire Stock Sale

MUTTON AND BEEF DEMAND FIRM STORE HOGGETS SELL ACTIVELY Prime maiden ewe mutton changed hands at the Feilding live stock sale yesterday fit 50s, the highest price for mutton realised for many months. Other good pens of maiden ewes made 41s and 41s lOd, while the heavy prime wethers in short supply made from 40s to 43s lOd. The offering of 2000 head of fat sheep changed hands under good competition with outside buyers operating freely. One pen of 120 fat hoggets changed hands at 29s Id. In the beef section, the short supply of station cattle plus a firm enquiry saw the price per 100 lbs. move up again. Store hoggets met with a good sale with an active enquiry for the short offering. In other sections prices remained steady. Fat Sheep Two thousand head of fat sheep made up of 1000 ewes, GOO hoggets and 400 wethers, were yarded. The quality was very mixed and the first of the shorn lines made their appearance. The market was steady and firm for all prime meaty sorts, there being no variation on late rates. The sales were:—Fat wethers: 3 at 43s 7d; 29 at 32s lOd; 16 at 35s lOd, 16 at 39s lOd; 42 at 35s Id; 40 at 36s lOd; 42 at 21s 9d; 4 at 39s lOd; 11 at 40s; 27 at 28s 7d; 26 at 30s 7d; 42 at 28s 4d; 13 at 43s lud; 2 at 42s lOd; fat hoggets; 2 at 25s 4d; 9 at 26s lOd; 4 at 30s ll#i; 120 at 29s Id; 7 at 26s lOd; 70 at 26s 7d; 12 at 27s lOd; 7 at S7s lOd; 6 at 29s Id; 16 at 2us Id; 21 at 19s lOd; 32 at 21s lOd; 13 at 23s 4d; 13 at 29s Id; 0 at 29s lOd; 25 at 25s 4d; 14 at 23s 4d; 28 at 24s 7d; 15 at 21s id; 14 at 18s 10d; 37 at 23s 4d; 15 at 23s Id; 37 at 23s 4d; 34 at 23s lOd; 42 at 23s lOd; 24 at 31s Id; fat ewes: 27 at 32s 7d; 2 at 36s lOd, 17 at 30s 4d; 16 at 30s 4d; 49 at 30s 4d; 15 at 29s lOd; 17 at vOs lOd; 32 at 31s lOd; 12 at 28s 4d; 14 at 29s 7d; 14 at 26s Id; 7 at 235; 3 at 30s 4d; IS at 32s Id; 55 at 32s 3d; 21 at 26s lOd; 24 at 30s lOd; 24 at 28s lOd; 15 at 29s lOd; 23 at 23s Id; 9 at 30s lOd; 5 at 31s 7d; 25 at 27s 7d; 36 at 32s 7d; 32 at 30s 4d; 23 at 30s 4d; 19 at 30s 4d; 18 at 27s 4d; 6 at 31b Id; 24 at 30s 4d; 18 at 26s 7d; 15 at 245; 34 at 28a Id; 40 at 28s lud; 10 at 24s 4d; 27 at 30s 7d; 16 at 24s 7d; 23 at 27s 4d; 16 at 29s 4d; 27 at 31s 4d; 12 at 30s lOd; 24 (shorn) at 20s; 25 at 30s Id; 19 at 27s Jod; 21 at 32s 4d; 22 at 29s lOd; 21 at 30s Id; 20 at 31s 10d; U at 28s 4d; 5 at 32s 4d; 15 at 31s Id; maiden ewes: 29s lOd, 31s Id. 31s lOd, 32s lOd to 41s, 41s lOd to 60s; blackface wethers: 35s 4d, 35s lOd, 38s lOd to 39s Id. Store Sheep Business in the store sheep section was brisk with an active enquiry for the limited offering of hoggets and store wethers. Realisations were:—Wether hoggets: 127 at 19s 3d; 74 at 225; 16 at 24s 3d; 5 at 25s 3d; 80 at 17s 6d; 37 at 20s 6d; 16 at 15s 6d; ewe hoggets: 94 at 325; 50 at 20s; 54 at 295; 137 at 13s 4d; 116 at 25s 6d; blackface hoggets: 9 at 13s 6d; wethers: 283 2 and 4-th at 29s 2d; ewes and lambs: 48 at 13s Gd all counted. Fat Cattle If anything the offering of beef found the market somewhat firmer • than last week. The quality was not so strong and most of the limited station cattle were hardly finished and some actually on the iight side. However, this did not deter nuyers who competed freely and the rate per 100 lbs. advanced to over 40s. The realisations included the following:—s AA. bullocks, well grown but unfinished, £l4 2s 6d; AA. cows, £l2 17s 6d to £l4 2s 6d; AA. heifers, £7 17s Od, £8 7s 6d, £9 7s 6d to £l4 2s 6d; light Hereford heifers, £8 7s 6d; ex-dairy cows and heifers, £6 2s 6d, £6 7s 6d, £6 17s 6d, £7 17s 6d, £8 2s 6d to £8 7s Cd; cowa and calves, £4 2s 6d. Station Cattle A very omau ottering of station cattle commanded the interest of a small attendance of buyers and the following sales were made uuder the hammer:— 9 bullocks at £lO 19s; 17 empty AA. cows at £6 7s Gd; 10 do. at £4 2s; 15 3-yr. heifers, £6 10s; 29 2-yr. AA. heifers ut £5 11s. Store Cattle A small offering ol ex-dairy cows ana a few empty heifers found a ready murket at lato rates with the following price; realised:—l2s 6d, 16s, £2, £2 7s 6d, £_ 17s 6d, £3, £3 ss, £3 10s, £3 17s Gd empty heifers, £3 10s to £4 Cs. Dairy Cattle There was no quotaoio change in prices offering for good quality dairy cattle which sold as followa:—Springing heifers: £5 15s, £G loa, £6 17s 6d, £7, £7 ss, £B, £8 ss, £9, £!) ss, £9 15s to £10; springing cows: £5 10s, £6, £7, £7 ss. £B, £8 10s, £9, £9 10s, £lO ss, £lO 10s to £lO 15s; cows in milk: £8 15s to £lO 10s; yearling Jersey heifers: £2 12s 6d, £4 15s to £5.