BURNSIDE STOCK SALES

Evening Star, Issue 19791, 15 February 1928, Page 5

BURNSIDE STOCK SALES

DEAR SHEEP SALE. In most of tho sections at Burnside to-day prices realised were firm. Quality displayed, taken all round, was good. Fat Cattle.—The entry consisted of 230 head. There was mixed quality shown, with comparatively few pens of prime bullocks. For the most part the entry was made up of medium steers, fair to heavy cows, and a few heifers. The opening demand was a shade cheaper than last week’s rates. Prices; Prime heavy bullocks, £ls 10s to £l6 ss; prime, £l2 to £l3 IDs; best heifers, £8 5s to £9; medium, £7 to £S; best cows, £8 to £9 10s; medium, £6 Iss to £7 10s. Fat Sheep.—ln this section 1,200 were yarded. The proportion of heavy weathers was small, light wethers and ewes of mixed quality predominating. There was a good demand at the start for prime heavy wethers and ewes around 3s a head in advance of tho prices given at the last sale. The demand continued with but a slight decline until , well on to the close, when ewes recoded to half the opening rates. Light prime wethers remained unchanged. Prices: Extra heavy wethers, 38s Cd to 41s 6d; prime, 32s to 345; medium, 25s to 28s Gd: extra heavy ewes, 27s to 31s 6d; prime, 22s to 245; medium. 13s to 16s. Lambs.—9so were penned. Good mixed quality was in evidence, together with a few pennings of unfinished. At the outset the demand was brisk, the usual buyers operating. Sales were made at the best values of last week for all prime lambs. Grazier sorts were rather dull of sale. Prices: Best heavy lambs, 31s to 32s 3d; prime, 26s to 28s 3d; unfinished, 18s 6d to 20s 6d. Store Cattle.—A yarding of 250. There was a majority of mixed quality cows, along with some forty to fifty fair sorts of three-year-old and four-year-old steers, and a few pens of yearlings. A good demand saw values firm at late prices. Best grown steers realised from £9 to £10; mediums from £7 10s to £8 11s. i Good one-and-a-half-year-ok! steers brought up to £6 10s.

Piors.—l6l fats and fifty-nine stores. No improvement in the demand for fate can be recorded, and stores were selling at pnWa about on a par with those of last iveek.