STEVENS & GORTON'S STOCK REPORT.
We held a large and very satisfactory stock sale at Bulls yesterday. The class of stock offered was very good, both in caltie and sheep, the breeding ewes particularly so. We offered nearly 400 head of cattle and over 4500 sheep, and quitted the majority of the lots under the hammer to spirited bidding, eventually selling all excepting 3 pens of cattle aud 3 of sheep. The prices realised were as follows : — Cattle.- 2f to 3- year steers, £3 2s 6d to £3 12a Cd ; fat cows, 43 16s to £4 5s ; forward cows, £3 10s ; yearling and 18---months steer.*, 37s 6d to £2; weaners, 17>. Sheep.— Forward wethers, 9s 3d to 10s Id ; young breeding ewes, 7s to 8s lid ; store sheep, 5s 6d to 6s lOd ; lambs iv wool, 3s 9d to 5s 3d; lambs (shorn), good! 5s 9d ; Lincoln rams, 15s bd ; Romney rams, £1 Is.
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 118, 21 March 1885, Page 2
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153STEVENS & GORTON'S STOCK REPORT. Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 118, 21 March 1885, Page 2
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