LIVESTOCK MARKET

Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1934, Page 11

LIVESTOCK MARKET

DULL SALE AT FEILDING. LITTLE INTEREST BY BUYERS. Feilding, Nov. 29. There was a small yarding with lack of keenness on the part of purchasers at the stock sale, which was held a day earlier on account of the races to-mor-row. Fat sheep barely reached export prices, and store sheep met a very dragging sale. Store cattle were mostly passed in, vendors’ reserves proving higher than the values offering, while fat cattle were easier, a dull sale resulting. ( Fat sheep: Prime wethers, 19s to 19s 2d; prime hoggets, 22s to 235; prime ewes, 13$ lid to 15s; medium, 12s to 13s. Store sheep: Ewes with Jambs, 255; four-tooth wethers, ISs lOd; two-tooth wethers, 17s to 21s 4d; two-tooth' ewes, 265; fourtooth. to five-year ewes, 17s; cull ewes, 9s ■ 6d to 10s. Store cattle: Empty three-year P.A. and Hereford cross heifers, £4 2s; empty 'three-year. P.A. heifers, £4 2s; heifers and calves, £3 2s 6d; yearling Jersey heifers,' 28s to 325; yearling bulls, 255; boner cdw s > 11 s to 22s 6d. Fat cattle: Light prime heifers, £2 10s, £2 19s to £3 15s; heavy prime heifers, all dairy breeds,' £4' 2s 6d to £4 ss; light cows, £2 2s 6d to £3; heavy dairy-bred cows, £3 to £4 17s 6d; bullocks, P.A., light prime, £7 Us; vealers.. 335. to 38s 6d; dairy springing cows, £2 17s 6d; springing heifers, £2 to £4. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. made the following sales: Fat ewes, 12s 6d, 13s to 14s; twotooth wethers, 19s, 20s, 21s to 21s 4d; store ewes, 10s 10d, Us 6d to 15s 3d; medium two-tooth ewes, 235, 24s 6d to 25s 6d; fat cows, run-bred, £5 ss, £5 to £4 10s; fat dairy cows, £3, £3 5s to £4 ss; yearling P.A. heifers, to £2 Ils.

PAHIATUA CATTLE PRICES. Pahiatua, Nov. 29. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.' Ltd. offered a moderate yarding of cattie at the weekly Pahiatua stock sale. Prices were as follow: 47 P.A. cows, £3 Us; bullocks. £5 13s and £5 15s; two-year steers, £4 10s; three-year steers, £5 Us; yearling steers, £2 16s; 30 two-year steers, £4 11s; 9 fat heifers, £5 10s; P.A. heifers, 38s to £2 5s; -yearling P.A. steers, to £3 ss; fat dairy cows, £3. Dalgety and Co. Ltd. offered 300 head of station cattle at the sale. Prices were on a par with recent sales, and a total clearance was effected with the exception of two pens. Prices were: 20 one and two-year P.A. steers, £3 9s; 47 empty P.A. cows, £3 11s; 30 one and two-year P.A. steers, £3 4s; two-year steers, £5 9s; 17 one-year P.A. heifers, £2 6s; cull one-year steers, £2 7s; 17 dne-year P.A, steers, £3; P-A- steers, £4 6s; small one-year P.A. steers, £2 6s; fat cows, £2 10s, £2 12s 6d, £2 7s; forward cows, £1 16s to £2; springing cows, '£l 19s, £2 12s, £3 10s.