Stock Values Remain Firm At Levin

Chronicle (Levin), 12 October 1949, Page 4

Stock Values Remain Firm At Levin

At the Levin sale yesterday a moderate yarding in all sections resulted in a good sale for beef, porkers, baconers and fat hoggets, while values for fat wethers and ewes receded slightly on last jyeek's sale. A small entry of dairy cattle met with a moderate demand. Store pigs were again keeny sought. Quotations are: — Fat sheep: Shorn ewes, 29s ld to 29s lOd; woolly do., 42s 4cl to 42s lOd; shorn wethers, 45s 4d to 46s lOd; prime shorn black-faced hoggets, 45s ld to 48s ld; prime wooily "do., 46s 4d to 49s 4d; prime woolly white faced do., 52s 4d to 53s 4d. . Store sheep: Five-year ewes with lambs at foot, 31s. Pigs; Prime porkers, £4 18s to £5 13s; medium do., £4 ls to £4 13s; prime baconers, £6 to £6 18s; medium do., £5 14s to £5 19s. Dairy cattle: Heifers close to profit, £13 10s, £14 10s, £15 10s to £17; bulls, pedigree yearling Jersey, £11 10s 6d, £12 12s to £17 10s 6d, yearling Ayrshire do., £6 to £8. Fat cattle: Prime vealers, £9 17s 6d to £11 12s 6d; prime runners£12 17s 6d to £13 12s 6d; prime heavy ox, £26 15s to £28 2s 6'd; light do., £21 10s to £22 17s 6d;, prime medium weight heifers, £15 17s 6d to £17 12s 6d; heavy do., to £20 2s 6d; prime cows, £i5 12s 6d to £16 17s 6d; medium do., £13 12s 6d to £14 12s 6d; prime exdairy cows, £8 2s 6d to £11 2s 6d; medium do., £6 12s 6d to £7 17s 6d.