FEILDING STOCK SALE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 4

FEILDING STOCK SALE.

-— (By. -Icleg-raph'.— rros's' Association.") ' '~■'?{%:- V ' r ''l^ii'DijirG, v Friday.: ~. 'eliarpxdecline prices of ■ fat • sheep .and fat .cattle .was, a feature of the stock sale-.-,to-day, when, heavy yardings - wrereyoitere.il:- ißates for fat sheep were ■ ! , 'doi^n i iir6'bffibly*2/6 on last week's prices, j"(mtl7.inany; lines"iwere; .'passed^in. ' Br jc.ee'were: , o«:-.j|-nW ~-<.\ '--•>.£.''£: ■ \-Fa.t sheep, -blackface hoggets,' 27/ to 30/; specially'prime, 43/; ■ woolly "hoggets, ; 35/. to ' 39/,; '{ ew.es,, shorn,, 23/,, t0.27/; woolly ewes, -27/10 to 37/; four-tooth ewes, 33/3. to-35/; Woolly wqthers,, 30/6 to 42/9;.-shorn .wethers, 29/ Ci: Stores/, wither -Jioggets, 30/5 to 36/; ewe hoggets, 35/5 to 44/6; empty ewes/21/; ewes with'iOO per cent lambs, 45/. There was a heavy yarding of fat •cattle arid rates wer'6'. down £2 a head. SVifc "bullocks,.-two/a"ridr,"£pur.. years, made £12-8/.-to-i;i3:6/;-Slioi-thorri heifers, £6 ': t'o'£B 10/;Shbrtl.ipm'niaicleii Heifers, ,£l3 . 32/0; other heifers,- £5■ 55/ to £6; cows, ... £5-15/ to "to £12 10/; year-. lirig.'eteers , ,'- -£(i-l/y empty 'forward cows, •.■-£*to £7-la/-"bullocks, £13.'-Dairy stock, hei|ers,.;£r2..to.£l4'lo/;-.inferior, .£8 to .£0 , *15/; •yood cou'e, £13; -inferior, ( £10; . yearlings,.. Jersey' •bulls,.. IDlSgs.-.and 23gs; ,t)VO-yc;ii-"grade-build," £(i 2/0 to ,£9 5/.. ■