STOCK MARKETS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 245, 15 October 1937, Page 11

STOCK MARKETS

BULLS SALE Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report on their Bulls Sale held on Monday when fair entries of sheep, a full entry of pigs and beef cattle, a light yarding lot dairy cows, several pens of yearling heifers and a lull yarding of Jersey bulls came to hand. Competition in the sheep section was not overstrong, but we report good prices in other sections with a very satisfactory clearance, Jersey heifers, dairy cows and bulls being in active demand.

We quote the following prices: Fai hoggets, 27s 6d to 35s 6d; fat ewes, 30s; fat wethers, 37s 6d; weaner pigs, 9s 6d, 14s, 16s 6d; slips, 19s, 20s 6d, 22s 6d, 235, 23s 6d; stores, 255, 29s 6d, 31s, 325. Yearling Jersey heifers, £4 7s, £4 16s, £4 19s; heifers, r.w.b., £9 6s; dairy cows, £6, £6 ss, £7 10s, £7 15s, £8 ss; fat heifers, £4 ss, £5 10s to f" 15s; fat cows, £4 10s, £-1 15s, £5, £5 2s, £5 6s, £5 10s, £5 17s, £5 18s, £6, £6 ss, £6 10s, £6 12s to £7 7s; store cows, £2 10s; grade yearling Jersej bulls, £3 10s to £8; grade two-year Jersey bulls, £ll 10s; pedigree yearling Jersey bulls, Sgns. 10gns., llgns; three-year pedigree Jersey bulls, lOgns., 121gns., 17gns.; sundries at late rates.

RAETnn CATTLE FAIR Messrs. Freeman R. Jackson and Co., Ltd., report as follows on their annual spring cattle fair held at Raetihi on Tuesday last. To a large attendance, including many visitors from Waverley, Wanganui, Feilding, Taumarunui and all adjacent districts, we offered 1200 head of cattle and 400 hoggets. The bulk of the cattle offering comprised young steers and these met with ready sale at prices very firm on those ruling at recent down-country sales. The Morikau Station yearling steers came forward in good order and elicited their usual keen enquiry, the top pen of 100 realising £7 14s, with an average of £7 5s 4d for the whole entry of 178 on their account. Messrs. Glenn Bros., of Kakatahi, topped the bullock section with an average of £lO 14s 6d for their line of 79, the top pen of 62 being purchased by a Taihape client at £lO 17s 6d. In the female fattening section there was spirited competition, Mr. J. R. Hunter obtaining £7 for a pen of 40 P.A. cross cows and heifers and £6 4s for a pen of 37 S.H. his yearling P.A. steers making £6 17s’. Fat cattle of all descriptions were in demand, £l3 being paid for light fat bullocks and up to £ll 10s for cows and heifers. Hoggets barely sustained prices obtained at some of our local earlier sales but the quality was not good, up to 28s being paid for wether hoggets and 33s 3d for ewe hoggets. Altogether we report a very satisfactory sale at prices in vendors’ favour.