BURNSIDE STOCK SALE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 60, 5 December 1918, Page 8

BURNSIDE STOCK SALE

By^Telegraph—Press Association.. • Dunedin, December 4. At Burnside 2fiO fat cattle were yarded, including a considerable number of extra prime bullocks. The balance consisted of medium to good eteers and heifers. The entry exceeded requirements and prices declined 10s. to 20s. per head. Extra prime bullocks, £2'i 12s. Gd.; prime, ,£23 to ,£25; medium, 10s. to £21 10s.;

I light, £16 to ,£lB 55.; extra prime cows and heifars, £il 2s. (id.; prime, ■£!& 10s. to JS18; mediiini, £U 10s. to Jils 15s. j light .iiitl inferior, .£lO to .£l2 15s. The ■sheep iiumbeved- UK. principally shorn. The quality was good. Tlio sale opened at prices a'Uout equal to late rates, but towards tlio end prices receded about Is. per head. Extra primo woolly wethers, 635. 6d.'; prime, 525. Cd. to 565.; medium, i"< to 505.; light, 40s. to «s. fid.; prime woollv ewes, -J-2s. .to fi)s.; medium, 38s. to -ll's.; light, 335. to :ifis.; prime shorn wethers 3!)s. to ■ Ms.; .medium, 355. to 375 • light, 30s. to 335. 0(1.; prime shorn owes 38s. to 10s. 3d.; medium, 30s. to 355.;' light, 2!)s. The number of. lambs peiit'ied°was 1110. The entry exceeded retirements, find' prices dropped 2s. per head. Extra prime, 325. 3d.; prime. 2,5. ■to 295.; medium, 255. to 265. b<l.; light, <">s 6d to 'Ms. 3d. There was a medium eii'trv of pigs, and the demand was excellent, except for light porkers, which do not bring prices relatively as high as Die heavier sorts. Stores were very hard to placo at a considerable i eduction in values. .