DAIRY CATTLE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10306, 15 January 1927, Page 2

DAIRY CATTLE

Dairy cattle realised prices as follows ril'heifer good, due in week, £0 IQs;’2 empty cows, fair condition, £2 15s; 1 spring heifer good (p) £4 ; 1 yearling heifer £2 ; 5 well-grown Jersey heifers, r.w.b., good condition £2 los ; 6 Jersey cross yearling, heifers in good order £2 7s 6d. ; „ 1Y tetaoitao e.ta etaoi etnoiivnu FAT CATTLE The entry of fat cattle was the largest for some weeks, most of the yarding showing dairy strain. Bidung was brisk throughout. A wellfinished young Shorthorn cow made .6 10s, and other cows sold up to £5, while a good vealer made £2 10s’ Prices were: 1 cow (p) £3 10s; 1 do., £6 10s; 2 do., £4 12s 6d; 2 do. (ji) £4 12s 6d; 1 heifer £3 ss; 1 cow £3 10s; 4 do., (p) £4 15s; 4 do. (p) £5; 4 do. (p) £4, 17s 6d; 3 do., £3 15s; 1 vealer £2 10s. FAT SHEEP A small gntry of fat sheep came forward, the total being 22. Blackfaced ewes’ made 17s; other ordinary owes 14s 3d; and lambs 15s 6d and 20s. ' * Prices were: 5 ewes 14s 3d; -5 lambs 295; V b.f. ewes 17s; 6 lambs 15s 6d. '

FEILDING YARDS. FEILDING, Jan. 14. At tlie Feiiding sale there was a small yarding of store sheep, principally lambs, ami a fair entry of fat sheep. The latter were in better demand and prices were up considerably cn last week. There was a very keen sale for all store sheep, lambs in particular selling at extreme rates. Shorn b.f. rape lambs made 17s Od, medium and small shorn ditto 12s 7d, 14s I.od, 15s lid, woolly rape lambs 19s, shorn Romney wether lambs 14s lOd, cull shorn iambs 9s 2d to 11s 3d, fullmouth ewes 7s to 11s 6d, m.a. ditto IDs 2d, 2-th ewes 225, small pen early shorn good condition 2-th wethers 22s 7d, small 2-tli wethers 17s to 18s. Fat Sheep.—Ewes 13s, 13s lOd to 11s Bd, wethers 21s lei, 20s lid to 24s 3d to 24s od, b.f. hoggets 29s Btl. There was a very small yarding of cattle and a poor, sale resulted. Good fat cows sold fairly well. Medium fat cows were not so keenly competed for. Only two pens of store cattle were yarded. Bough bullocks made £6 10s to £7 7s, 2-yr empty Hereford heifers £3 4s, good fat cows £0 17s (id to £7 ss, good fat Hereford cows £0 2s, medium fat cows £3 ss, £4 £4 10s. cows and calves £3 15s, ■C4 Is—P.A. BUTTER AND-CHEESE MARKETS. LONDON, Jan. 13. The butter market is quiet. New Zealand and Danish quotations are uncliaimed. Australian choicest salted is quoted at 166 s to 1725; unsalted 172 s to 1765. . _ Tim cheese market is slow, -'eu Zealand is quoted at 94s to 95s.—A. and N.Z.C.A.

BRADFORD TOPS MARKET. LONDON, Jan. 13. The Bradford market is firm and there is verv little business, though •a moderate inquiry exists from spinners. Quotations are unchanged— A. and N.Z.O.A

GREEK CURRANTS FOR BRITAIN (Received Jan. 14. 8.50 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 13. The terms of tlm A.nglo-Oreek commercial treaty published in Britain state the ininort duty on Greek currants shall not, exceed the present rate of two shillings a hundredweight. Greece agrees to leave available for exportation a quantity to be determined yearly, on the basis of the avermre export during the. preceding three years, plus a margin of 5 per cent, for a probable increase in consumption.—A .N.Z.C.i.