The Price of Stock.

Manawatu Herald, 13 September 1902, Page 2

The Price of Stock.

ADVANCE IN PORK. The cattle submitted at the Johnsonville sale were of much lighter quality ‘ban those that went under the hammer at last week’s sale, consequently none of the- sensational figures of previous sales were forthcoming to-day. Still, on the whole, prices for fat cattle were high. Altogether, about 76 head of

cattle we*© yarded. Prices ranged JSB 2s°6d to £ll 7s 6d, the figure being top price for the clay, for one pen of fat bullocks. There were several sales at from £9 2s 6d to £ll 10s. Heifers brought some of the best prices of the day, judged by the standard of weight, fetching prices from £lO 5a to £lO 12s 6d, averaging about 30s per owt. Mr Webb, the Sydney buyer, was preseat, but was not a buyer, the stock offering not being weighty enough for his market. There were only a few pigs on sale, and they fetched top prices, going as high as 6d per lb. The lowest price paid was 34a per head. Another pen brought 34a 6d and a third 39».—Post.