FEILDING STOCK SALE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 251, 21 September 1929, Page 5

FEILDING STOCK SALE.

DEMAND QUIET. (Special to “Standard.”) FEILDING, Sept. -21. For practically all lines the demand was quiet at yesterday’s stock sale at Fcilding, and little change was shown oyer late rates. Fat owes showed a decline in value, but the quality for the most part was lacking, any good sorts making high values. The store sheep pens contained nothing of outstanding value, and all linos sold within easy reach of buyers. Dairy cattle were rather ragged in quality and pricos fluctuated accordingly, and some of the store material showed signs of having come through a hard winter. Fat cattle were not up to last week’s standard of quality, but some good lines made high values. Detailed prices are as follow: — Fat Sheep:—Hoggets: I9s 3d, 225, 23s 6d, 27s 6d, 28s, 32s 6d (extra prime) ; maiden shorn hoggets, 28s, 28s 6d; owc3, 225, 23s 6d, 24s 6d, 26s Bd, 275, 27s 9d, 28s 2d, 28s 9d, 32s 7d; wethers, 28s 6d, 33s 3d, 36s Id, 395. Storo Sheep.—Ewes and lambs: 35s lid; in lamb ewes, 303 4d; b.f. hoggets, 13s, 14s 2d, 15s Id, 17s 7d, 19s 2d, 20s, 20s 4d, 22s 7d, 22s 9d; wether hoggets, 24s 7d, 25s 6d; m.s. hoggets, 15s Id, 17s 7d, 20s 3d, 235; ewe hoggets, 25s 7d. Dairy Cattle. —Springing heifers. —£7, £7 7s 6d, £8 ss, £8 10s, £9 ss, £lO 10s, £ll, £ll 10s, £l2 10s, £l3 10s, £l4, £l4 ss; heifers, calved, £4 10s, £6 7s 6d, £B, £9 10s, £l2 10s; cows, calved, £4 10s, £9 ss, £10; springing cows, £6 10s, £7 2s 6d, £B, £8 10s, £9 17s 6d, £lO 10s, £ll, £ll 7s 6d, £l2 10s. Store Cattle, —Run cows: £2 10s. £3, £3 12s 6d, £4, £4 10s, £5; cows and calves, £3 7s; yearling heifers, Holstein, £5; Jersey £6 ss. Fat Cattle.—Cows, £7 15s, £9 10s, £lO 17s 6d, £ll, £l2 ss, £l2 17s 6d, £l4; heifers, £ 12s 6d, £l4; bullocks, £l3 17s 6d, £l6 Is, £l7 7s 6d. AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having a fair yarding of fat and store sheep and a good entry of cattle. Fat sheep were a good deal easier than at the prewous week’s sale, and stores met with a good demand. There was fairly keen competition for dairy heifers and again a keen demand for fat cattle. Quotations: Fat hoggets, 22s to 235; fat owes, 22s 6d, 26s Id, 27s 3d, 28s 9d; fat shorn ewes, 20s, 21s; b.f. hoggets, 19s 3d, 20s, to 22s 9d; cull b.f. hoggets, 14s 2d; 2-tooth wethers, 29s sd. [Springing heifers, £7 15s, £9 ss, £lO, £lO ss, £los 15s, £ll 10s, £l2 10s, £l3, £l3 10s to £l4; springing cows, £8 10s, £9 15s, £lO 10s; Jersey yearling heifers, £5, £5 19s, to £6 15s; cows and calves, £3 ss; empty cows, £3 15s to £4; forward cows, £4 10s to £5; fat cows, £7 15s, £B, £8 10s, £9. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:— The fat pens were well filled and the prices were inclined to be easier than those ruling at late sales. A moderate entry only of store sheep came forward and they wore colnpeted for less freely than was expected. We had a good yarding of cattle, the fat pens being again well filled, and met with good competition. The store pens were also well filled, chiefly with yearling and 2year old steers. Bidding was inclined to bo dragging under the hammer and several of these pens changed hands privately. Wo had quite good entry of dairy cattle for this time of the year and bidding was spirited for anything showing quality. We have to report a total clearance in this section. Our quotations are:—Fat wethers, to 36s Id; fat ewes, light, 22s to 235; fat ewes, medium to heavy, 27s Id, 28s 2d, 28s 6d, 28s 9d, 31s 3d to 325; fat b.f. hoggets, 225, 28s to 32s 6d; wether hoggets, 25s 6d; b f hoggets, 20s 4d; small ewe hoggets, 15s sd, fat bullocks' to £l3; fat heifers, light, £8 12s 6d to £lO 17s; fat cows anil heifers, £l2 10s to £l4; fat cows, light, £7 ss, £7 12s 6d to £8 12s 6d; fat cows, medium to heavy, £ll, £l2, £l2 10s, £l3 to £l4; P.A. bullocks forward, £l3; P.A. and Hereford cross 2-year steers, £8 to £8 12s 6d; rough steers (in.a.), £7 Is; yearling steers (small), £4 12s 6d to £5 7s 6d; weancr P.A. heifers (small), £3 4s; weaner P.A. heifers (medium), £5 7s 6d; 2-year empty Jersey heifers, £7 ss; yearling Jersey heifers, £4, £4 5s to £4 17s: forward cows, £4, £4 10s, £4 15s, £5 to £5 ss; storo cows, 37s 6d to 455; springing heifers, £7 7s *6d, £7 10s, £8 10s, £8 17s, £9. £9 ss, £9 15s, £lO 10s, £lO 15s, £l2 ss, £l2 10s to £l2 15s. Daily cows, £7, £9, £9 ss, £lO, £lO 10s, £ll to £ll 7s 6d. DAIRY PRODUCE. Dalgety and Coy., Ltd., have received the following market advice from their head office, London, under date of the 19th instant: —Butter: Market firm at present prices. Danish, 192 sto 194 s (184 s —); N.Z. finest salted, 176 s to 180 s (174 sto 178 s); Australian finest unsalted, 172 s to 178 s (163 s to 1725); salted, 170 s to 174 s (168 s to 1725); g.a.q., 164 s to 168 s (160 s to 1645). Cheese: Market extremely dull. New Zealand white, 92s to 93s (92s to 935); coloured, 93s to 94s (93s to 955); spot price for Canadian white, 92s to 94s (91s to 935); coloured, 92s to 94s (92s to 945); c.i.f. price for Canadian. 93s to 94s (92s to —). Last week’s quotations are shown in parentheses. FROZEN MEAT. Dalgety and Coy., Ltd., report under dale London, 19th September, 1929: Lamb:' N.Z. prime Canterbury, 28/361bs, Bjd; North Island, B£d; Canterbury 36/42, 7 7-8 d; North Island, 7 3-4 d; Canterbury, second quality, 7 5-8 d; North Island, 7 5-8 d; Canterbury, 42/50, 7 7-8 d; North Island, 7 3-4 d; second quality, under 30lbs id premium. Market tending upwards; demand better. Mutton: N.Z. priino Canterbury, 48/561bs, 6id; North Island, 6d; Canterbury, 56/64, 6d; North Island, 5 5-8 d; Canterbury, 64/72, s^d; North Island, Canterbury owes, 48/64, 4id; North Island, 4id. lUarket unchanged; demand better. Beef: Argentine chilled hinds, 7d; fores, 4!d; Australian ox, hinds, prime, sjd. Pork: English porkers, 80/RX)lbs, lOd; N.Z. porkers, 80/100, Bid; 100/120 3d. Market nominal; demand limited. PUREBRED SIRES. AMERICAN CONTENTION. Only 25 per cent, of the bulls at the head of dairy herds in the United States are purebred, yet thousands of purebred bull calves are slaughtered for veal every year because there is no demand for them as breeders. Undoubtedly some of the calves are inferior and ought to be slaughtered, says W. E. Wintermeyer, dairy husbandman of the United States Department of Agriculture, but most of them are far superior to the grade and scrub sires that are now being used in many dairv herds. Many dairymen with small and medium-sized herds, which often contain poor cows, say they cannot afford to own a purebred dairy bull because of the high original cost. In reality, savs Mr Wintermeyer, these men can least afford to own an inferior bull. In a publication -issued by the Bureau of Dairv Industry, “Purebred Dairy Sires,” Mr Wintermeyer quotes figures obtained from the records of dairy herd improvement associations in all parts of the United States that show how rapidly a good dairy sire can increase the production of a herd of average cows. Cows in these herds having an average yearly production of 46951 b. of milk and 1791 b. of butterfat a year and mated to purebred sires, produced daughters that average 76071 b. of milk and 3001 b. of butterfat, a gain in one generation of 29121 b of milk and 1211 b. of butter-fat a cow. This increase in butter-fat production at 2s a lb. is worth about £l2. Allowing about 25 per cent, for the extra feed required for the higher production, the value of the net gain a daughter due to the purebred sire would be about £9. A purebred bull would need to sire only a few such daughters to pay for himself, and the yearly income would be increased bv an amount equal to £9 multiplied by the number of his producing daughters.