Levin Stock Sale

Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 January 1914, Page 3

Levin Stock Sale

Yesterday's stock sales showed a marked improvement on the preceding ones. There was a heavy yarding of stock all classes, • and it a few miwites four when the last pen The sales were well ? bidding for ail sorts nfcVv ception of fats —was huge bullocks, expected a big price, were not suOjVC For i'at stock the demand seei/.ied a shade slack, and prices, if anything, eased oil' a little. The quiet, steady demand for nigs winch has held for months past underwent a change, and yesterday prices advanced. Witli pork •at such a price fanners are pos- -&} sibly realising that it is just a* well to feed a few pigs on what otherwise would be waste farm products. Those who have li«-»!<I on to pig breeding appear to be in for a prosperous time. So great Mas been the improvement in 'the market that Messrs Abraham and f Williams find it necessary to add to the number of pig pens.

AIiIiAHAM AXI) WILLIAMS, LIMITED.

Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report: At Levin on Friday we offered a good' yarding of all classes of stock, including an entry of over 100 pigs. Competition throughout was good, a, total clearance being made with the ,-heep and pigs,'and very few cattle went out unsold. Quotations :— Sheep. Fat .ewes, 15s lid, 10s (id, Uis Bd, l(is lid and 18s &l; lat and forward ewes, 14s 3d; fat lambs, 12s 2d to His (id; rape,, lambs (shorn), 10s: rape Jambs (woolly), 10s 3d to lis (id; store lambs, 8s to Us; 2-tooth ewes (small), 13,s (id; 2-tooth wethers, 14s fid to 15s 9d : forward wethers His l()d: store ewes, 7s to 1 (is Od; cull lambs, (is to (is lOd: cull 2tooth ewes, lis 2d.

Cattle.—Throe-year bullocks, L'f! ss: fat cows, £5 10s to £6 6s; LiS-..,: . !i empty heifers (is to t'o 1-is; .weaned heifers (good), ■'iss to £2; weauer steers, 20s to ':{is: mixed weaners, 18s to 255. An entry of 117 pigs met with 2'ood competition, and all sold under the hammer at the follow.in,v quotations: "i'orkers, -iOs to £2 J J (id: store pigs, 18s to 20s; slips. 15s to ITs; weaners, 0s tid to j-:-' Od; sows in nig-, £2 17s; chopper* £2.