Commercial

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 November 1916, Page 3

Commercial

LJjJVIN STOCK SALES. The JS'ew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited report: At our usual weekly .stock sale held at Levin yards yesterday we submitted a small entry of sheep and a good yarding of cattle to a good attendance of buyers. Competition was brisk and we have to report a good sale. tations : Woolly hoggets 32s 4d to 365, woolly store ewes and wethers 3Gs 3d ; fat cows £10 7s, £'12 3s, £12 17s, £13 os; fat bulls £10, good store cows £8 10s to £0 2«; 3-year steers £9 12s to £12 lis; mixed yearlings (.inferior) £3 7s Gd; cows with calves £10 10s; small weaner calves 265; springing cows £7. Dalgetv and Co. Ltd. report having held their usual wedklyi stock sale atLevin on Tuesday when they submitted to a good attendance of buyers a full yarding of cattle and a medium yarding of sheep. Bidding throughout was keen and practically the whole yarding changed hands. The following is a summary of the prices obtained. •Sheep.—Medi'um woolly hoggets 33s 0x1; shorn hoggets 27s 3d to 21s 4d; shorn wethers to 375.

Cattle.—Fat rows £12 19s to £10; a nice Line of 30 fat and forward cows made £12 6s; store cows £8 10s to £8 5s- cow and calf £9 3s; dairy cows £10 5s to £13 10s; liuUs £5 to £10; 21-year steers £11 3s; 2-year steers £7 10s to £8 17s Gd; Ii and 2-year Shorthorn heifers £8 ss; yearling steers and heifers £3 7s 6d to £4 12s 6d. Messrs Abraham and Williams had a good entry of stock at their saleyards yesterday and a good sale resulted, stock not sold under the hammer were disposed of without difficulty afterwards. Sheop.—Fat maVden ewes and tat wethers 39s 2d ; shorn wethers 275. 26s i hoggets 26s 8d; 4-tooth wethers 29s 6d. Cattle.—Fat cows £9, £11, £1- 12s. £12 15s. £13. £13 2s fid, £15 7s; forward cows £9 Is. £9 17*. £9 15s. and for a Hue tnf 33)' £10 7s Gd ; springing heifers £8 7s Gd. £9 10s, £9 15s. £10. £11 5s £12 ss; vealers 31s 6d; empty heifers'£s 8s; 2-year heifers £6 17s Gdl; 3-year steers £13 10s; ÜB-m:ontks steers £6; 15-months steers £o 16s; 2-vear heifers £7 12s; 18-months heifers £5 2s, £5 Gs Gd, £5 lis. £5 15s, £6 14s 6d; hulls £8s 7s 6d to £10. Pigs.—'Weaners 12s Gd 1 , 20s 6d; stores 2os, 26s 6d; porkers 28s. 30s; heavr porkers 40s, 41s, 555; empty sow £2 15s.