THE MARKETS.

Wairarapa Age, 31 May 1928, Page 7

THE MARKETS.

MASTERTON SALE The Nev; Zealand Farmers’ Co-op-erative Distributing Co., Ltd., report on their Masterton sale as follows: We had a good yarding of sheep and a few pens of cattle. Competition for all.lines was animated, values exceeding vendors’ expectations, every pen offered being sold at auction at the following prices: On account Messrs H. H. and S. Mawley, 332 mixed aged ewes, r.w. S.D. ram, £1 16s; 46 do, 33s 6d; account other vendors, aged ewes r.w. S.D. ram, 26s 4d; prime fat lambs, 33s 7d; small b.f. lambs, 22s 8d: w.f. Jambs, 23s Id to 26s lid; forward wethers, 325, 32s 2d to 33s 7d; fat ewes, 27s Id; store ewes, 19s to 19s 7d; fat cows, £8 7s; store cows, £3 to £4 11s; 1 steer, £3 6s; calves, £2 2s, £2 8s to £2 10s. * Dalgety and Co., report on the Masterton sale ste follows: A small entry of sheep was submitted to a large attendance of buyers. Competition was on a par with recent sales, a clearance being effected at the following prices: f.m. ewes, r.w. S.D. rams, 26s 98 to 30s 9d; b.f. lantos, 22s 3d to 18s; small 2-tooth wethers, 27s lOd. The Wairarapa Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association Ltd., stock department, report as follows: A good yarding of breeding ewes and fat sheep came forward, and met with keen competition from a large attendance of buyers. The special lines adv°rtised on account of Mr. W. A. .. Downes of P.B. Romney ewes in lamb to Romney ram, made 37s and a line of fat weth’ers on aeeount of Mr 8. Mawley, Ditton, 39s 6d. The following list, indicates values: 80 m.a. P.B. Romney ewes in lamb to Romney ram, 3.75; 23 prime fat wethers, £2 2s; 138 fat wethers, account S. Mawley, “ Ditton, ” 39s ’ 6d; on account other vendors, 63 fat ewes, 31s 6d; 9 prime fat lambs £2 7s; 5 wethers, 355; 93 empty 2-th to 5year ewes, 26s 7d; 7 do, 28s Id; 42 woolly wether lambs, 25s 6d; 40 shorn do, 20s; 35 woolly ewe lambs, 255; 5 P.B. ewe do, 25s 4d; 15 Romney ram lambs, 20s'-3d; 132 w.f. woolly wether lambs, 22s 8d; 3 ewes, 225; .1 lamb Ils 6d; 10 m.s. lambs, 20s 7d; 2 Jersey cows in milk, £7; 1 cow in milk, £6; 2 springing cows, £7 10s; 1 do, £6 CLEARING SALE The W.F.C.A. Ltd., stock department, report having held a most successful clearing sale of dairy sto< k’ at Hamua on account of Mr F. O’Dea; The herd comprising 36 cows, met with particularly keen competition, buyers being present from all parts of the district. The bulk of the herd were July and August calvers’, the best of which sold up to £lB, others' making £l4, £l5, £l6 to. £l7 10s, making the satisfactory average of £l2 14s per head. This included three -hreequarter cows and one aged November calver. Other prices were: Rising twoyear Jersey cross heifers, spring calvers, £ll 7s 6d; later do, £7; pedigree Jersey bull, £l3 15s; harness -mare, £24 15s; milking plant, £7O; a quantity of farm implements and sundries sold at late rates. The sale was considered the best held in the district for many years.