Stock Markets

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 34, 9 August 1893, Page 2

Stock Markets

The United Farmers' Alliance report : At the Birmingham sale yesterday, owing to the inclement state of the weather, many of the lines adrertised did not come forward. The attendance was good, and what stock did pat in an appearance brought fair prices. We qnote :— Spring, iog heiters, £4 18* ; 2£<.year steers, £4 ss ; milch cows, £5 10s to £5 17s 6d. Old ewes, in lamb, 9s 3d ; small cull hoggets, 3s sd. Gorton and Son report;— The very wet weather this month has materially affected our stock sales at Sanson, Hunterville, and Bulls, preventing stock coming forward as adyertised. We sold several lines at Sanson, all that came forward at Hunterville, and all the sheep at Bulls, but only 1800 out of the 3000 advertised were yarded. Our quotations for the different sales are: — Cattle. — Sanson— 3-year mixed, £3 10s ; heifers, springing, L 5 to L 5 10s ; milkers, L 5 to L 6 ; cows in calf, L 4 5s to L4 lßs ; year heifers, 355. Hunterville 18 montn mixed, L 2 16s ; weaners, 20s. Bulls— 2-year heifers, L 2 15s 6d ; milkers L 7 to L 7 2s 6d. Sheep. — Sanson— 2-tooth ewes in lamb, 13s 6d ; ewes in lamb, Us to 10s 3d • mixed hoggets, 8s 9d to 9s. Hunterville —Ewes in lamb, Cs 9d. Bulls— Woolly hoggets, 9s lid ; shorn, Gs 9d to 8s 7d • 2-tooth, wethers, lls; forward wethers' 12s 7d ; fat ewes, 12s. ' At our stock sules now we always commence on the sheep, and find it a great advantage, enabling purchaser* these short daya to get away.