RECORD PRICE PAID FOR FAT WETHERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27523, 18 October 1950, Page 4

RECORD PRICE PAID FOR FAT WETHERS

PA INVERCARGILL. Oct. 17. Fat wethers brought a South Island record price of £6 Is today at the stock sale at McNab, near Gore.

market, but during the early stages recent rates were maintained. Over the last two races, however, the demand fell away and passings were frequent. Prime quality heavy-weight bullocks made up to £4O 10s; good quality handyweights, £32 to £35; medium-weights, £25 to £29; light-weights, £l9 to £22. Best quality heifers brought up to £25; medium-weight, £2O to £23; light-weight, £l7 to £l9. Prime heavy cows brought up to £22; good quality young cows, £l7 to £l9; medium, £l3 to £l6; unfinished, £7 to £9.

The entry of store sheep consisted mainly of ewes and lambs with a few pens of shorn wethers. Best ewes and lambs sold to 525; other good .sorts made from 46s to 50s; and poorer were down to 345. Shorn wethers sold from 48s 6d to 55s 6d.

The store cattle yarding was the biggest handled at Lorneville since last November, totalling 876 head. The market was firm on recent sales. Best well-conditioned steers sold to £26; other good sorts, £l9 to £22 10s; smaller and poorer bred, £9 15s to £ls. Best yearling steers, sold to £l2 ss; other, £7 to £lO. Good yearling heifers made from £7 10s to £8 15s; medium sorts. £5 to £6 10s; indifferently bred, down to £3. Good empty cows sold from £8 10s to £11; others, from £6 5s to £7 10s; poorer sorts down to £3. In the dairy section best guaranteed sorts made to £22, others £lB to £2l; mediums, £lO 10s to £l4 10s; late cal vers, £5 10s to £9.

Waiareka Stock Sale

Special to the Daily Times OAMARU, Oct. 17

Prices for fat sheep showed a further easing over those of last week at today’s Waiareka sale. There was a small yarding. wethers drooping back from Is 6d to 2s a head, and ewes, from 2s to 3s a head. There was a medium yarding of fat cattle, prices remaining firm on latfrates. Small yardings of store cattle and store sheep met with a steady demand. Ouotations:—

Fat Cattle.—Bullocks: Prime medium, £26 12s 6d to £29 17s 6d: light. £2l 7s 6d to £25 7s 6d. Heifers; Prime heavy. £26 2s Rd to £32 7= 6d; medium, £2l 17s 6d to £24 2s 6d: lieht. £l6 12s 6d to £l7 12s 6d. Cows: Prime young, to £25 17s 6d; nrimo. £ls 17s 6d to £l9 17s 6d; light. £9 12s 6d to £l4 17s 6d. Cow with rumvr at foot, £23 7s 6d Store Cattle.—Pen of yearling steers, £7 17s 6d: pen of yearling heifers, £6; two-year-old steers, £l3 ss: two-year-old heUers £lO ss. Fat Sheer*.—Wethers: Shorn prime. 56s 9d to 59s 9d; medium. 50s to 555; light, 48s to 49= 3d. Ewes: Fat, 28s 3d to 33s 9d Store Sheep.—Failing mouthed ewes in wool with lambs at foot, 40s to 41s 3d; pen of wether hoetrets. 765; pen of medium ewe hoggets. 755; shorn hoegets. 455; pen of shorn ewe hoggets. 47s 6d