Commercial

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 November 1916, Page 3

Commercial

(LEV 7 IX STOCK SALE. The .New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Li mited, report: At our usual weekly stock sale held at 'Levin yards on Tuesday we submitted a good entry of sheep and a heavy yarding of cattle to a large attendance of- buyers. The sale was good throughout. and we have to report pradbic-ally a total clearance. A pen of extraprime fat ewes (shorn) offered on account of the Weraroa Experimental Farm, 'realized 35s 4d. Other sales were made hs follows-Mixed; age ewes wi'th lambs at foot 40s; good store ewes 3-ls sd; medium hoggets 30s Gd to 30s 9d ; fat heifers £10 2s fid. £10 10s, £13 8s; fat cows £11 ss. £12 ss; -forward condition cows £8 15s, £9 9s, £9 17s; store cows £7 10s, £8 3s; cows with calves £9 19s to £11; 2i year steers £9 '17s; yearling steers £0 lfis, £6 19s; yearling hefcfers £5 10s. £0 12s Cd, £5 los; 2-year empty heifers £6 10s; springing heifers £G to £10 19s; 12-roonths bulls £0 4s. £0 10s; gotod store pigs 27s 6d to 34s 6d; fat porkers 41s to 445.

A'NTs'UAIL CATTLE FA IR

Messrs Abraham and Williams held their annual cfvttlo fair at their Levin yarck yesterday when an entry of 1200 head was sold at good prices. Buyers were iprescnt from the Wairarapa, Woodville district. I'almeiston North and AVangaturi. Before the cattle were sold the sheep wero offered 1 and realized the following prices:—Fat shorn ewes 29s 4d; woolly fait ewes 3/s. 38s 9dr, woolly fat wethers £2 16s, £2 3s 6d, £2 7s; shorn wethers 31s 6d.

Cattle.—Fat bullocks £18, £18 10s, £10; heavy fat cows £11 17s 6d, £12 18s, £14 lis to £15 18s 6d; fat cows <£9/7s 6d, £10 10s, £10 12s 6d; light tot cows £10 156, £11, £11,25, £11 12s Cd to £12; vealers 31s. 395, 425, to 58s; forward bullocks £11 lis 6d, £14 16s, £15, £15 ss; 3-year steers (fresh condition) £12 3s, £12 15s. £13 3s. £13 ss, £13 8s; low cond'tion 3-year steers JBII ss, £11 10s, £12. £12 7e 6d; 2year steers £8, £8 12s 6d. £8 '17s Cd. £9 7s; 15 and 18-month steers £6 19s Gd, £7 Is; yearling and 15-months (steers £5 Is, £5 lis,, £5 17s; 15 and 18-months heifers £5 (is, £5 15s. £6 Is; 2-year heifers £6 10s 6d, £6 17s 6d, £7 ; forward empty cows £8 16s, £8 19s, £9 10s. £9 12s to £10: store cows £7 lis. £7 15s, £7 '18s. £8 to £8 4s; empty heifers £7 ss, £7 10s to £9 7s bd; well-bred Shorthorn bulls £21. £25 to £30.

There was an entry of 100 pigs. They Bold at : wcnncrs '10s. 13s, 15s. 15s Oct; stores 17s f>d, 19s, 20s. 225; porkers 40s 50s, 50s 6d.