Stock Market.
The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report: At Levin on Tuesday a good yarding of sh,eep and a small entry of cattle was penned. Bidding for sheep was spirited and all lines were sold undier tlie hammer. Quotations: Medium fat ewes and wethers, 31s 2d ; "mixed sheep, 21s 3d to 22s 7d; aged ewes and lambs, 245; shorn hoggets (good), 255; woolly hoggets (good) 255; medium woolly hoggets, 21s; small hoggets, 15s to 15s 8d; vealer, £5 3s; springing heifers, £9 15s to £10.
We conducted clearing' sale on account of Mr F. D. B. Ward, at tlie farm, Krmberl.ey road, Levin, on Saturday, the 24th inst. There was a large attendance of buyers. The herd consisted of mostly Jersey cross cows and met with iieen competition, the results proving l most- satisfactory to vendor. Quotations: Cows in full profit, £.13 ss, £13 10s, .£l4, £14 15s, £17, £17 10s, £17 15s, £18, £19, £19 10s, £21; August and September calvers, ,£l2 10s, £14, £15 10s, £17, £17 15s, £18 ss, £20 10s; November calvers, £10 10s, £11, £.11 15s; empty cows, £8 15s, £9 10s; ag»d horse, £4 10s: gig, £20 I.os, harness, £7 ; ligl)t spring dray, £15 ss: harness £4; dog, £2 7s fid: ducks, pair 9s; geese, pair 17s. Sundries and rates.
Messrs Abraham and "Williams, Ltd., report: At Levin on Tuesday. we yarded good entries of both dhcep andi cattle, the bulk of which met with, n keen demand and practically every lot •cbanled hands at .-atfefadjory priccri as under: Fat wethers, 35s 6d to £'2 5s : fat maiden ewes and wethers. £3; light t'nt owes, 2os to 30s ; fat hogged, 26« lOcl; ewes 'iin lamb. 20s to 28s; ewe Smgßcts, 345; fat cows, £10 2s 6dl, £11 7s. £11 12s Cd to £13 ; forward cows, £8 16; store cows, £4 to £4 17s 6d; 3 year empty heifers. £7 I's; empty lie.fVrs. £3, £3 8s to £3 15«: weaners !'x> 18s; springing cows, £8 15s, £9 15s, £10 to £10 15s to £13 10s; springing heifers, £6 15s. £8, £10 to £10 15s-; cows in milk, £5 10s toi £8 ss; p.b. yearling bulls S.H., 12<rns, 12ignis to 15 gns; P.B. 2-year S.H. bulls, 20gns. to 30gn store pigs. 27si, 35s to 37s 6d; porkers, £2 14s.' £2 16k, £3 3s. £4 to £4 ft*
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 31 August 1918, Page 3
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395Stock Market. Levin Daily Chronicle, 31 August 1918, Page 3
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