LIVESTOCK MARKET

Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1934, Page 14

LIVESTOCK MARKET

FEILDING SALE PRICES.

STORE CATTLE IN DEMAND.

Feilding, Nov. 23.

There was a heavy yarding of station cattle for the weekly stock sale, over 1000 head being forward of fairly good quality generally. The sale proved the best for vendors for some, time; Buyers were present from Wanganui, Wairarapa, Hawke’s Bay and Main Trunk districts. and the market for all classes of male cattle was one of the best so far this year. Female lines, though prices were quite fair, were hardly up to late rates. A keen demand existed for yearlings, both steers and heifers, the market showing a considerable appreciation. Wairarapa buyers took all lines suitable for the chilled beef trade. Other sections of the sale showed no alteration on previous rates. In the fat cattle market no ox beef was offered, and best heifer beef, P.A., made. 20s per 1001 b. Store Cattle: P.A. four-year steers, £6 to £6 8s; 3-year, £4 15s, £5 7s to £5 18s; 2-year, £4 ss, £4 7s to £4 15s; yearling, £3 Is, £3 6s, £3 13s to £3 19s; Hereford 3-year steers, £4 15s to £5; yearling steers, £3 4s; mixed P.A. and Hereford 4-year steers, £6 6s; 3year mixed coloured steers, £5 ss; P..A. heifers, 2-year, £3 2s 6d, £3 13s to £3 19s; yearlings, £2 7s to £2 15s; Hereford cows and calves, £2 15s; Hereford cows, r.w. .P.A. bulls, £3 16s; fat and forward Hereford heifers, £4; P.A. cows, £2; w. P.A. cows, r.w. P.A. bulls, £3 11s; P. A. forward cows, £3 8s; forward mixed cows, £2 15s; mixed coloured cows and calves, £2 2s 6d; empty Hereford cows, £3 ss; yearling Jersey heifers, £1 Is to £2. Fat Cattle: Cows, P.A., heavy, prime, £4 15s to £5; Hereford, prime, £4 5s to £4 17s 6d; Jersey, heavy, prime, £3 7s 6d to £4 2s 6d; light, £2 12s 6d to £3; heifers, P.A. heavy prime, £6 10s; lighter, £4 7s 6d to £5. 17s 6d; vealers, 345.

Dairy springing heifers, forward, £3 7s 6d to £4 2s 6d; late calvers, £2 5s to £2 12s 6d; springing cows, £2 12s 6d to £2 15s; heifers in milk, £1 17s 6d to £3 ss; cows in milk, £2 2s 6d to £3 7s. Fat Sheep: Prime hoggets, 22s 3d to 24s 4d; light prime, 19s 9d to 20s 6d; prime wethers, 21s 6d to 22s 6d; prime ewes, heavy, 17s to 17s Id; light, 13s 6d to 15s Id.

Store Sheep: Two-tooth wethers, good, 20s; others, 12s 3d to 17s 2d; two-tooth ewes. 25s to 295; cull ewes, 9s 3d to 10s 6d; ewes and wethers, 20s lid; fourtooth wethers, 21s 2d;m.a. ewes, 17s to 20s.

VALUES AT CARTERTON.

PIGS IN STRONG DEMAND-

Masterton, Nov. 23.

Cattle made late rates at Wright, Stephenson and Co. Ltd.’s Cartelton sale to-day. There were only a few sheep offered, but these made par values. Pigs were in strong demand, realising very good prices. Sheep: Shorn maiden ewes, to 21s; woolly hoggets, 17s 6d to 22s 6d. Cattle: Springing heifers, to £3; heifers, just calved, to £2 7s 6d; yearling Jersey heifers, 37s 6d to £2; yearling Jersey heifers, small, 23s to 255; yearling Holstein to 37s 6d; fat cows, £2 15s to £3 4s; forward cows, 35s to £2 10s; store .cows, 21s to 265; fat heifers, £2 17s to £3. Pigs: Weaners, good, 16s, 17s, 17s 6d to 21s; weaners, small, 14s to 15s; slips, 23s 6d, 245, 25s 6d to 275; light porkers, 29s 6d to 325; porkers, 335, 345, 35s to £2 Is; baconers, £2 4s to £2 10s; sows to farrow, to £3.