Commercial

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 June 1915, Page 3

Commercial

— LEVIN STOCK SALE. Messrs Dalgety 'and Company. Limited, report having held their usual weekly sale in their Levin yards on Wednesday, when they offered a good yarding of both sheep and cattle to a fair attendance of the public. Competition .was very keen throughout the sale for all classes of sheep, but cattle met with rather a dragging sale. We disposed of all lines of sheep (with the exception of one pen) and a good many lines of cattle. Sheep.—Wether hoggets 12s 7d, 13s 2d; lambs 9s (3d. lis (3d; empty ewes to 10s (3d; full-mouth ewes in lamb 15s 7d; fat wethers 24s od, 265, Jsos; fat ewes 23s 3d; two-tooth wethers ltfe lOd. Cattle.—Weaner steers 16s to 20s; yearling heifers 39s 6d; store cows £5 10s; springing heifers £3 176 6d; potters 31s, 33s (id to £2. WELLINGTON MARKET. (Messrs Laery and Co., Ltd., Allenstreet, report wholesale prices as follow : Fowl wheat prime 7s 7d, medium 6s 9d; fowl barley 6s; Cape Ibarley 6s Gd; feed peas, prime 6s 6d, good Gs; Prussian blue peas 8s 63; maize 6s 6d to 6s 9d; chaff, oat-sheaf £9 15s to £10; hay £7 to £8 10s; flour, in sacks £18; oatmeal £24; bran £9 10s; pollard £11; rice pollard $8 106; onions 5s 6d to 6s ewt; potatoes, white skinned table £7 to £8; Derwents £8 10s; bacon, all best factory, sides 9£d; bains 9id ; rolls 10Jd; shoulders 7i<l; cheese .factory medium 9}d; superphosphates £5 ss; bonedust, mixed £5 16s; linseed meal, £1.9 10s ; linseed nuts £14; linseed ground cake £14 a ton. ■SBSBMBSBb