FEILDING SALE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 11

FEILDING SALE

DECLINE IN PRICES L Per Press Association. ] FEILDING, Oct. 5. A sharp decline in fat sheep and fat cattle was a feature of the stock sal tOiday when heavy yardings were offered. Fat sheep were down probably 2s 6d a head on last week’s prices and many lines were passed in. The auctioneers had difficulty in quitting those sold. Prices were: Eat—B.f. hoggets 27s to 30s, specially prime 435, woolly hoggetts 35s to 395, ewes shorn 23s to 275, woolly 27s lOd. to 375, four-tooth ewes 33s 3d t 355, woolly wethers 36s 6d to 42s 9d. shorn wethers 29s 6d. Sto cs: Wether hoggetts 30s 5d to 365, a drop of about 2s a head. Ewe hoggetts 35s 5d to 44s 6d—about on a par with last week. Empty ewes 21s, ewes with 100'per cent lambs 455, others passed at 48s. There was a’ heavy yarding of dairy cows and fat, cattle the latter I cing .down £2 a head. Fat bullocks, wo and four year, £l2 8s to £l3 6s, others p.iffCid. at £l2 10s (not first qutjty), S.H. heifers £6 to £8 10s, 8. H. maiden heifers £l3 12s 6d. other heifers £5 15s to £6, cows £5 15s to £ll, steers £ll 18s Gd to £l2 10s, empty forward cows £6 to £7 15s, tuJocks £l3. Dairy stock: Heifers £l2 to £l4 15s, inferior £8 to £9 15s, cows (good quality) to £l3. inferior £8 to £lO, yearling P.B # Jersey Bulls 16, 194 and 22 guineas, two-year grade bulls £6 2s &!•, £9 5s and a lino of ten at £9. MARTON SALE Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report having yearded a medium entry of sheep and a good yarding of cattle and pigs came forward, all classes meeting with keen competition Quotations: Fat ewes 31s, 335, 34s to 35s Cd; fat hoggets 355; civc hoggets 35s 6d; two tooth ewes 38s; springing heifers £8 to £11; fat cows to £9 7s G 3; forward cows £3 10s. £3 15s to £4; weancr steers to £6 10s; yearling heifers £5 10s; wean er pigs 10s, J2s. 15s, 16s to 225; slips 265, 29s to 38s.