Wanganui Stock quotations.
MESSRS BARNS AND HIGGIE'S STOCK SALE REPORT. J~y Onr usual fortnightly sale at Campbell- . town yards on Wednesday, the 17tk instant, drew a large attendance, and xre .' are glad to be able to report a capital sale, with brisk bidding from the corn- - menenment, many of the lines keenly '• competed for, ana" every ' line' of oattle . offered being sold under ..the hammer, ■• There is an unmistakable, itoproyement m the demand for cattle, and a, alight advance iv values of all classes for both at this sale and the one previous. Prices shewed aq upward tendency, and were m. favor of veqdors. The unsettled state ; of the weather of late has retarded shearing operations, and consequently sheep are coming forward m limited quantities. We turned out one pen of ewes and lambs unsold. All the other entries were disposed of at auction at. good prices. Fat cows, £3 15s to £4 lls ; good forward bullooks, £5 4s to £5 15s ; 3-yr-old store bullocks, £4 6d ; 2^-yr-old store v bullocks, £3 ; 18-month and . 2-yr-old steei^ £2 8s j 18-month • steers, £2fj yearlings, 25s to 3.0s ; store cows, £2 8a to £2 14s ; milkers, £2. Is to £6, s • Sheep, — Fat sheep, (shorn,!, 10s lOd to Us ; lipht weights, 8s 6d j store ewes, 7s to 7s 7d. Pigs,—Weanars, 10 3d to 15s ; fat porkers, £2,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 19, 20 December 1884, Page 2
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226Wanganui Stock quotations. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 19, 20 December 1884, Page 2
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