Pig Values Firm Despite Heavy Entry

Chronicle (Levin), 8 December 1948, Page 4

Pig Values Firm Despite Heavy Entry

In spite of a very large yarding of pigs at the Levin sale yesterday, the sale firmed as it progressed. Eat sheep were in slightly bettef demand than iast week as were fat , P.A. heif ers. The sale for ox b-eef j and fat P.A. • Cows was not very keen. "Fat ex-dairy cows sold on a [ par with recent* values. A line of , four and six-tooth wethers off the hills met with a ready . sale, ' teaching 37S. A smaller line of : two^tooth wethers- off sand coun- ! try made 32s 9d. Store pigs were still in keen demand. . A ver'y light , yatdidg of dairy and store stock met with a fair sale, While run . cattle yafded, P.A. cows and calves, empty P.A. cows and small, two-year. P.A. heifers^were keenly j sought after. * The following is a range of prices: • ! Fat sheep; Prirhe ewes, 27s 7d to 29s 7d; medium do., 24s 2d to 25s Td; prime wethers, 41s ld to .42s lOd; medium do., 39o 4d to 40s lld; lighter do., 36s lOd to 38s" lOd; extra prime lambs, 37s 7d to 39s lOd; prime do.; 35s 4d to 37s 4d; lighter do„ 33s lOd to 44s 7d; extra

prime hoggets, woolly, 49s 7d to 50s 4d; shorn do., 4ls 7dNto 43s 7d; prime hoggets, shorn, 39s -7d to 40s lOd; lighter do., 37s 4d to 37s lOd. Store sheep: Four and ,six-tooth wethers off shears, 37s; two-tooth. wethers, small, off shears, 32s 9d. Pigs: Prime baconers, £5 l'7s to £6 5s; medium do., £5 to £5 15s; prime porkers, £5 * 5s to £5 13s; medium do., £4 7s to £4 18s ; lighter do., £3 18s to £4 3s Store pigs.; Sow. and litter, £8 7s 6d; stores, £2 lls; slips, 37S to £2 3s; weanerS, 23s to 27s 6d. Fat cattle: Prime vealers, £9 17s 6d to £10 17s 6d; medium do., £7 7s 6d to £9 2S 6d; lighter do., £5 to £6 7s 6d; Jersey vealers," £13 17s 6d to £5 7s 6d; prime oxen. £22 2s 6d to £24 7s 6d; mediiim do., £21 7s 6d to £21 17s 6d; prime P.A. cows, £13 17s 6d to £14 17S 6d; medium do., £11 17s 6d to £12 12s 6d; fat ex-dairy heif ers, £6 17s 6d to £8 12s 6d; cows, tdps, £8 7s 6d to £8 17s 6d; medium do., £6 2s 6d to £7 2s 6d; lighter do., £4 12s 6d to £5 17s 6d. Dairy cattle; Springing heif ers, £11 10s to £13 10s; springing cows, £11 2s 6d to £12 15s; yearling heifers, tops, £9 10s; medium do., £7 2s 6d to £ 17s. Run cattle: Two-year-old P.A. heif ers, £8 15s; empty cows, £9 2s 6d to £10 5s; P.A. cows and calves, £11 7s 6d; p.A. bulls, £7 12s ,6d to £9 10s. ' ' •