STOCK SALE REPORTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19208, 10 January 1925, Page 8

STOCK SALE REPORTS

TAIHAPE SALE. Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report as under: — At our Taihape sale on January 7, there were a fair number of cattle yarded which sold as follows: Cows and calves, inferior quality £3 6s; 2yr. steers £4 ss; 3yr. steers £6 6s; 2yr. empty heifers £3 19s to £4. 10s

HUNTERVILLE SALE. Messrs Dalgety and Co. Ltd., .Palmerston North, report having a small entry of sheep and a fair yarding of cattle at their Huntervillc sale on Tuesday 6th. instant which sold as follow: Fat Hereford heifers, £8 12s; fat Hereford cows, £7 12s 6d; store cows, £3 2s 6d; heavy Hereford bulls. £7 12s 6d to £8 17s 6d; medium Hereford bulls. £6 to £6 10s; Jersey bulls, £3 12s 6d to £4 2 S 6d; ylg. Jersey heifers, £2; ylg. Jersey bulls, £2. JOHNSONVILLE SALE. Messrs. Abraham and Williams Ltd., and Wright, Stephenson and Co. Ltd. report on their Johnsonville sale, held yesterday as follows; There was a good yarding of beef and a heavy penning of sheep. Good prices were maintained right through the sale We quote as follows;—Wethers, 39s 3d. £2, £2 0s Bd, £2 4s 10d, to £2 10s 6d; ewes, 295. 31s 6d, 32s 6d. 33s 6d to 345; lambs, 295. 31s 6d. 32s 6d. 33s 6d to 355; bullocks, £l3 10s, £l3 15s, £l4. £l4 15s. £l4 ]'>s to £l5; cows, £4 15s, £5 17s (id to £6 10s; vealdrs, 295, £2 3s, £2 10, £3. £3 5s to £3 11s. HUNTERVILLE AND MANGAWEKA SALES. The N.Z. Farmers’ Co-op. Distributing Co.. Ltd., report on their first sales held in the New Year as follows: — At Huntervillc on Tuesday we had a varding of 500 sheep and 80 head of cattle and 20 P’gs- The enquiry for all classes of stock was good, althougn as far as rape lambs were concerned the general opinion was that it was a week or two too early, as the bulk of the rape crops are barely ready. We quote:—4 and 5-year ewes to 30s 2d; 2 and 4-tooth wethers, 32s lOd; medium lambs, small, 12s 7d. A nice pen of wether lambs was passed at 23s 7d. Fat cows, £5 7s 6d to £6 15s; fat heifers, light, £4 17s 6d; forward cows, £3 10s, £3 15s to £4 ss; bulls, £3 15s to £5; 3-year-old bullocks, £6 9s; rough bullocks to £5 12s 6d; 18-uith. empty heifer-;. £2 to £2 ss; weaner pigs, Ils to 16 s.

At Mangaweka on Thursday we had a yarding of 450 sheep and 120 head of 'cattle. The enquiry for sheep was not as brisk as anticipated. Cattle soid fairly well. We quote:—Bost wether lambs to 20s Id; b.f. rape lambs to 20s; 15-mth. Hereford heifers, £3 ss: 18-mth. do., £3 17s fid to £4; 15mth. dairy heifers, 395. FEILDING SALE FAT CATTLE ON PAR WITH LAST SALE STORE SHEEP AND LAMBS ADVANCE. (Per Press Association) FEILDING, Jan. 9. For the first Feilding stock sale of the new year a fair yarding of sheep eame forward. Fats were practically on a par with th P closing sales of last year. All store sheep and lambs sold at prices in advance of closing I rates in 1924. Cattle sold well under free competition at prices on a par with December sale. Fat lambs, i 265, 275, 27s 10d. 325. 33s Id; ewes, 28s, >2Bs Gd. 295. 30s Scl; wethers, 425; b.f., 275, 30s, 30s 6d, 335. Stores. —S.D. rams, £3 12s 6d: cull lambs, 10s; b.f. lambs (shorn), 21s 4d, 21s 7 cl; w.f. ditto. 19s fid, 20s, 20s Bd. 22s 9d. 23s 4d; store ewes, 19s lid, 24s fid, 27s Id. 27s 3d; wethers, 25s 9d, 27s 3d, 32s fid; w.f. ewe lambs, 245; ditto wether, 19s 6d. 235; ditto woolly lambs, 25s 8d; four and six-tooth and four-year ewes 31s Gd (passed). Cattle.—Store bullocks, £6 6s; 2Jyear steers (mixed, colours), £5; eighteen months heifers. £3 Is; two and a-half year Hereford steers (p), £6 15s; two-year empty heifers (Hereford). £3 15s: forward empty Hereford heifers, £4 19s; cows and calves, £3 18s; fat cows, £fi 10s. £7 15s, £8 ss, £9 15s; fat heifers, £5 ss, £5 10s; fat steers, £8 ss. £9 ss; fat Hereford heifers, £6 7s; forward conditioned bullocks, (p). £9 ss; year P.A, steers (p), £G; forward tows, £4 ss.