LIVESTOCK MARKETS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 5, 6 January 1940, Page 3

LIVESTOCK MARKETS

THE I EILDING SALE I Ter Press Association.J FEILDING, Jan. 5. Fot the first stock sale of the new year there were small jardings all round. There was a good market for fat sheep and fat wethers. Prime made 22s 8d to 235, good lbs 9d Io 2D; fat b.f.'s, prime, 21s 10d to 22s 7d, good to 21s 6d; fat ewes, prime, to 21s *Jd, good 17s to 20s. Stores.—Wether lambs, good condition, 17s 8d to 18s Id; two-tooth ewes, 20s; two-tooth wethers, 14s to 16s. Dairy Cattle. Cows in miik, £8 10s; heifers in milk, £8 2s 6d. Stere Cows.- P.A. sleets, two and [three-year, £7 19s; Hereford steers, I£4 10s; Jersey cows to £3 15s. ' Fat Cattle.--P.A. heifeu lo £8 10s; cows to £8; ex dairy heife/s to £6; vealers to £4; runners to £6 10s. Hl NTERVILLE SALE The New' Zealand Farmers’ Coop. Distributing Co., Ltd., report on the first sale for 1940 as follows: We yarded 1600 sheep, consisting almost entirely of lambs. Competition was not animated although we sold every pen except a small one of 40 2-tooth ewes, which passed at 275. There was a fairly good attendance and the top price for woolly b.f. lambs, on account of Lyall Lambert, w r as 16s 4d and the same vendor realised 15s 8d for a pen of 84 good w.f.w. Jambs. Quotations: Good woolly b.f. lambs, 13s 3d to 16s 4d; good w.f.w. lambs. 15s 8d; medium w.f.w'. lambs, 8s 4d to Ils 6d; small ewe lambs, 10s 8d to 11s; small wether lambs, 2s to 5s 9d.