Wanganui Stock Quotations.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 139, 22 November 1884, Page 2

Wanganui Stock Quotations.

BARNS AND HIGGLE S STOCK SAIiE REPORT. ;.:-■■'::

Our usual fortnightly sale at Campbelltown yards pa the 19th Instant was well attended. A, fair amount of. stock came forward, though the yards' were not so fall as usual. About 260 head of cattle and 250 sheep made up the sale. Very little ; alteration m pricejs have taken place since our last sals. Of cattle we may say that male stock in-good condition and good store cows command fair rates, but young stock m low condition is hard to place. Too high figure* were fixed on most of the beef entered, but fair prices were obtained for all: fat stock sold. Most of the cattle were. sold at or after the sale, except three pens' of fat co ws, which were reserved tod high. All the sheep were sold under the; hammer.. : ■-•. !.- ' rl'.l' Cattle.— Fat bullocks, £6 to £6! i7a Gil ; fat cows, £4 15s to ■£5 6s ;, good forward bullocks, £5 ; 3-yr steers,; low condition, £3 3s ; store cows, £% 7s ;.2yr heifers, 34s ; yearlings, and ; weariera, mixed, 19s ; weaners, 15s. r ' :v , i!; ■ Sheep.— Fat sheep, 14s 2d ; ftt'shora sheep, 10s 9d|; woolly hoggets, 8s 9d to 11s sd. \ •:- : ■ • ; ■ :: v i :.::.:/;; t Pigs. — Well bred suckers and weaners, 8a 9d ; good porkers, 225, 2& t "an4' ; $6B. il . No. business, done m horses. ...