Commercial

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 September 1915, Page 3

Commercial

LEVIN SIXJCK SALE. There was a good yarding of sheep at Messrs Abraham and ■Willia.nis's stock sale yesterday, and fat shojp brought high prices: fab ewes selling up to 32s 2d, ttnd fat wellicns up to 39s 10d The number of cattle entered was fair but consisted principally of young female stock (or which the -le■mand was slack. There was a complete absence oi fat cattle. Forward cows realized from £5 Us to £5 Us. The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report having held their usual stock sale ;>.; Levin, on Wednesday, when they offered a small entry of .sheep and a good yarding of cattle. Competition was good, and practically the whole of onr entries changed hands at satisfactory prices:—We quote: 2 and 4-tooth store wethers 2(is od, small mixed sex hoggets 13s lOd, forward heifers £-1 15s; springing heifers £5 1-1* to £7 0s heifers in milk £». dairy cows to £7 *; yearling bulls £2 10s to £4; mixed woaners 18s; store pigs 14s to 22s Gd.

Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held their weekly Levin sale on Wednesday when they offered a fair yarding of sheep and good on try of cattle. Tlu- sale -wan attended by u good number of tlic public, and all elates of stock offered met with good competition, and by tVio close of blie sale Wti had a total clearance with the exception of a few store cows. Quotations:—Fat ewre brought a record price of £'2 2s 2cl; tab hoggets 235; ordinary store hoggefs 17s 3d; yearling heifers '275. 27e <kl to £2; fat heifers up to C 7 l 2s; Forward hullot-ks 'o £12 ?«; voalors to C 3 2s; store cows ,G3, £1 18s fid to £•"> 5s <3d : springing heifers .C 3 & t» .C-l Ms; empty hoifere £3 Is