LORNEVILLE SALE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26628, 26 November 1947, Page 7

LORNEVILLE SALE

increase in yardings p A INVERCARGILL. Nov. 25. Yardings in most sections at Lorneville showed an increase, and prices were adversely affected, cattle being easier by ud to £2 a head and sheep by up to 2s 5 a head. There was a full yarding o. fat sheep of good quality, which included a b'igger percentage of wethers. The sale opened several shillings easier, proved gradually to be about 2s a head lighter at the last pen. Best-quality • shorn wethers made 57s tn sis- good-quality medium-weights, 53s to 55s Gd' lighter weights, 47s to 50s; small and unfinished, 40s to 445; medium-weight woolly wethers, 54s to 58s; unfinished sorts 50s to 52s 6d; woolly maiden ewes, to 58s 6d; medium quality, 48s to 525. aged woolly ewes, 33s to 37s 6d; shorn maiden ewes, 43s to 465; lighter weights, 37s to 41s; good-quality butchers’ ewes, 26s to 30s; aged and overweight sorts, 20s *°There was an extra large yarding of good-quality bullocks in the fat cattle section, best-quality heavy-weights making £26 10s to £29 7s 6d; good mediumweights, £22 to £24 10s; lighter sorts, £l9 to £2O 10s; good-quality mediumweight cows, to £2O 10s; medium quality, £l4 10s to £l6; lighter, £ll 10s to £l3, medium-weight heifers, to £2l 10s, lighter £l4 10s to £l6; smaller. £l2 to £l3 10s.