Messrs Stevens and Gorton's Stock Report

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2, 17 June 1886, Page 2

Messrs Stevens and Gorton's Stock Report

We have thie month up to the present held four successful stock sales.' A small sale at Woodville on Ist, amd comparatively large sales at Palmerston, Bulls, and Awahun, on th« 3rd Bth, and 15th instants respectively. The attendances were good, and entries of both cattle and sheep satisfactory. At Palmerston, in spite of the bad weather, we sold a good many pens of cattle, and every pen of sheep excepting one. At Bulls the sale was particularly brisk for sheep, and we sold every sheep (over 1,750) yarded. It was, however, anil at first for cattle, but got more§*pirited as the sale went on, and we quitted most of the pens. At Awahuri it was just the reverse. The bidding' for cattle was spirited and we sold nearly all, for sheep not so lively, but We sold seven pens out of eleven. The following are our quotations : — ■ Woodville.— Three-year steers, £4 7/6: weaner steers, 20/- to 28/- ; ewes in lamb; 6/3 ; lambs, 4/6 ; two to six-tooth wethers, 7/-. • • Palmerston. -Fat cows, £3 17/6; 2J to 3-year steers, £3 17/6 ; 2»yr steers, £3 ; 18-months mixed, £2 7/6; milkers, £2 10/- to £5 5/- ; four and six-tooth wethers, { 8/- ; two tooth wethers, 5/9 ; fat ewes, 7/6 ; ewes in lamb, 6/9. . Bulls. — Two-and-a-half to three-year steers, £3 11/- to £3 13/-; eighteenmonths to two-year steers, £2 5/- to £2 15/- ; eighteen-months mixed, £2 7/- ; yearling steers, 35/- ; eighteen-months heifers, 30/- to 46/- ; cows, 30/- to 37/6 ; milkers, £5 5/- ; weaners, mixed, 28/- ; two to six-tooth wether? 8/6 to 8/7 ; ewes, in lamb, 6/1 to 8/6; dry ewes, 4/10; lambs shorn, 5/11 to 6/2; lambs, in wool, 6/1 to 7/- ; pigs, 10/- to 32/6 ; suckers, 3/6. Awahuri. — Fat cows, £3 15b; two to two-and-a-half-years steers, £2 19s; eighteen months to two-years steers, £2 15a; three-year steers, £3 10s ; eighte nmonths steers, £2 12s ; mixed yoarlin<?s, 338: eighteen-raonths, mixed, £2 6d, cows, 35s to 50s; milkers, £3 to £4 ; two and four-tooth wethers, 8s 7d; ewes in lamb, 7s 3d ; dry ewes, 4s 6d to 5s 4d ; lambs, 4s 4d to 4s 6d. Pigs— Boar, £3 ; sows, 22s 6d to 30s. Bulls, Juue *6, 1886,