STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21876, 11 August 1934, Page 7

STOCK SALES

QUOTATIONS AT FEILDING FAT CATTLE DEMAND [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION'] FEILDING, Friday Prices for fat wethers and ewes remained at recent rates, but were easier for fat hoggets and also for ewes in lamb. The dairy cattle market suffered somewhat from a glut of springing heifers. There was a good sale of fat cattle and a fair one of store cattle, with a good demand for run cattle. Quotations are:

Fat Sheep.—Primest hoggets, 245; prime, 21s Gd; good average, 18s Gd to 19s Id; inferior, 18a 3d; primest ewes, 26s to 2Gs 3d; prime, 2-ls to 25s 9d; good, 22s to 23s 2d; fat maiden ewes, 27a sd; primest heavy wethers, 27s lOd; prime, 24s to 25b Id; good, 22s 9d to 235. Store Sheep.—TEwe hoggets, best duality. 2Gs to 2Gs Id; good, 21s 9d to 23s lOd; fair, 19s 9d; inferior, 15s 3d; wether hoggets, good condition, 18s lOd; fair, 17s 3d; backward condition, 14s; ewes in lamb, twotooth, good line, 30s 4d; fair, 26a 4d; four, six-tooth to four-year, 29s 3d; four and five-year, 23s 9d; four-year,, 26s lOd; mixed ages, 19s 3d.

Dairy Cattle.—Springing heifers, good Quality, to £3 17s 6d; fair, to £3 7s 6d; others, from £2 10a; heifers in milk, to 40s; springing cows, very good, £4 to £5; others, £3 2s 6d to £3 17s Gd.

Fat Cattle.—Prime Red Poll bullocks, £S 2s Gd; lighter, £G 15s; other bullocks, £6 ss; prime heavy cows, £5 7s 6d to £5 17s Gd; prime (food, £4 to £4 lis; right sorts, £2 7s to £3 lGs; primest heavy heifers, £5 to' £5 lis; prime, good weight, £4 5s to £4 17s Gd; light, from £2 11b; runners. £4 17s Gd.

Store Cattle.—Yearling heifers, 10s to 28s; wearier heifers, to 295; heifers, running with bulls, 293 to 435; store cows, 10s to 30s; Red Poll cows, good condition, £2 103 to £3 7s Gd; Hereford cows, £2 lis to £3 17s Gd; Polled Angus cows £2 17s Gd; heifers, 88s; steers, £3 9s; bullocks, £4 10s.

WHAKATANE YARDINGS The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports on the Btock sale held on Thursday. The company's portion of the yarding comprised a number of cows and heifers from several small farmers who have given up dairying, but no good-quality heifers were offered. Following is the range of prices realised: — Jersey cows, August calvera, £3 s!s 6d to £5; Jersey heifers, cloße to profit, £3 10s to £4 17s 6d; Shorthorn heifers,' close to profit, £2 15s to £3; best fat cowb and bcifers, £4 10s to £6; fat Jersey cows, £2 10s to £4 6s; forward cowb, £2 7s to £3 lis. Dalgety and Company, Limited, reports having held the fortnightly stock sale at Whakatane saleyards on Thursday, when a full yarding came forward. There was a good attendance of buyers, and a total clearance was effected, prices being firm for all classes of stock, beef showing an advance on previous sales. Quotations are:— Wethers, to 2Gs; fat ewes, to 20s; fat heifers, £4 to £4 10s; fat cow?, £2 19b to £3 2s; stores, Hereford cows, to 375; two and a-half to three-year steers, to £2 15s; boner cows, 10s to 15s; well-grown Jersey heifers, close to profit, £5 5s to £5 12s 6d; forward Jersey heifers, £4 10s to £5; backward heifers, £3 5s to £4; sound dairy cows, £3 5s to £4 10s.

DAIRY CATTLE AT FRANKTON Dalgety and Company. Limited, reports having held the weekly dairy sale at Frankton saleyards on Wednesday. There was a large yarding and a good attendance. For really well-grown good quality heifers there was good competition, but medium and lowconditioned heifers realised only moderate prices. Good quality '/well-grown heifers, £4 15s to £6 10s; medium heifers, SB to £4; low-conditioned and backward, £2 to £3; cows, £3 to £5 10s; inferior, 30s to £2 10s. MATAWHERO VALUES [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] GISBORNE, Friday The yarding of sheep at the Matawhero stock sale to-day was small. Values for fat sheep were a little lower than last week, while store sheep appeared much ahput the same as last week except that, hoggets were firmer. Pigs: The entry of 50 purebred Berkshire sows in pig and in good condition made £3 19s to £4 3s; store pigs, choice lengthy White weaners, up to 16s; medium stores, ]7s 6d: medium slips, 10s 6d to 12s: good White slips, 19s: half-size stores, 20s to 225. Beef: There was a small yarding of cattle. Cows sold from £3 to £3 15s; unfinished Jersey, 255. Fat sheep: One or two pens made up to recant values, but nevertheless tho market was slack and values easier. Ewes ranged from Ms to 19s 3d: second grade, 9s Id to lis 3d. Store sheep: Only 1215 were yarded, consisting of various odd lots, on which it was difficult to gauge the trend of the market. Hoggets wee firmor. Shorn hoggets, to 17s 7d; few picked inlamb ewes, 21 s; ewes, with 100 per cent Southdown lambs, ?.5s 2d. CANTERBURY MARKETS QUIET TONE PREVAILS [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION 1 CHRISTCHURCH, Friday The market is extremely quiet, and is expected to remain so until after Grand National week. Potatoes remain unaltered at £3 10s, f.0.b., sacks included, for prompt and August delivery, the price on truck being £2 10s. There is no demand from the North Island. This week's boat for the North will not leave Lyttelton until tomorrow night. Thero is practically no interest in the oats market. Little threshed oats are in the province, farmers leaving their crops in stack awaiting a. favourable turn of either the oats or chaff market, or tho necessity of having to use the oats on the There has been less feeding of chaff to stock this winter, which will compensate for the very much reduced estimate of the crop from 5,132,000 bushels last season to 3,242,000 bushels. Values on trucks for A Gartons are Is 9d, and B's Is 6d. Chaff is quoted at £2 10s on trucks. Peas remain firm at 4s 3d to 4s 4d on trucks. Small seeds are unaltered.