Burnside

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 152, 23 March 1939, Page 14

Burnside

By Telegraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN, March 22. The bulk of the entry of 244 fat eattie at the Burnside stock sale today consisted of medium weights, only an odd pen of heavy sorts being forward. All prime eattie were in good demand and mad'-, from 20/- to 25/- a head more than at recent sales. Good cows and heifers shared in the improvement. Extra prime heavy bullocks made to £lB/12/6, prime £l3/5/- to £l4/17/6, medium £lO/17/6 to £ll/17/6, and light from £B/2/6.; prime heavy cows and to £lO/7/6, prime £B/2/6 to £9/7/6, medium £5/12/6 to £6/17/6, and light down to £4. ■ In the fat sheep pens 1420 animals came forward. Prime butchers’ wethers were a trifle firmer, all other sorts selling at’ unchanged values. Prime heavy wethers made to 28/-, prime 22/6 to 24/3, medium 18/6 to 20/6, light down to 16/-; prime heavy ewes to 16/-, prime 12/9 to 14/-, medium 9/6 to 10/6, and light from 7/6. About 650 fat lambs were offered, a small proportion of heavy butchers’ descripi’ons being keenly contested. Suitable eorts went to exporters. Prime heavy lambs made to 27/-, prime 21/- to 22/6, medium 17/6 to 19/-, and light from 15/6. Porkers were in short supply in the fat pig section. They brought £2/15/- to £3/10/-. Baconers made £3/15/- to £4 10/-.