Active Enquiry For Station Cattle At Feilding Sale

Wanganui Chronicle, 27 November 1948, Page 6

Active Enquiry For Station Cattle At Feilding Sale

PALMERSTON N„ Last Night (PA) ’ —A very active inquiry for station cattle was a noteworthy feature of the livestock sale at Feilding, when, influenced by an abundance of feed, graziers were anxious to take what was offering, even though quality was lacking. The stock offered represented a good deal of leftovers, smallish cattle that had not made any appeal at earlier sales.

Fat sheep maintained late rates but was in very short supply, and store sheep were also yarded in small numbers. The shortest offering of fat sheep of the season greeted a handful of operators. The yarding totalled 169 and prices approximated round about last week’s rates, wethers selling to 39s lOd, hoggets to 41s 7d, and ewes to 28s lOd. Ewes with lamb? at foot in small pens made up most of the entries in the store sheep section, which included two pens of 2-th wethers and one pen of 2-th ewes. The ewes and lambs were of good quality and the best price was 375, all counted.

While values for ewes and wethers were a shade easier on late quotations, this week’s scramble for station cattle on the East Coast, where the feed position obliged buyers to operate with little restraint, was reflected in trading on pens containing some 1200 head, which, despite the absence of much quality, were mostly disposed of under the hammer. Apart from one pen of grown cattle in good order few pens of female cattle and some of younger steers, the cattle were far Horn being really good. The bulk of the yarding comprised small, rather stunted cattle and some of three-year steers little better than really good yearlings. However, this absence of quality did not deter buyers who had feed and needed cattle. The first pen comprised 20 3yr. A.A. steers, fresh enough but small, being traded for £l4 6s. Run cows in forward order sold at £ll 11s, and a pen of 50 3yr. mixed coloured heifers, small and variable in condition, passed in at £ll. As selling moved on competition strengthened as buyers found themselves obliged to operate. A small offering of fat ca 4 ‘le included mostly female station cattle as well as four Hereford bul’ocks in medium order. Bullocks realised £2l 7s 6d: station cows £l3 7s 6d, and six A.A- heifers £l4 2s 6(1; ex-dairy heifers made £9 7s 6d, and cows sold from £8 to £8 15s.