LEVIN STOCK SALE.

Shannon News, 17 March 1922, Page 3

LEVIN STOCK SALE.

j An average yarding of sheep, ! though one which looked small after 1 the exceptional yarding.? of last month, I was put forward to a good attendance of prospective buyers at the stdek sate held in Levin on Tuesday. Generally prices were easier. For a few pens oi plume fats prices were well maintain-

ed, hut most of the offering was not up to the usual standard. 01 £4 sheep offered by one company under the hammer, 300 were passed in. One pen or extra good wethers made 26/

an exceptional line; and another pen I oi iat iambs from the Development | Farm reached 24/0. Of store sheep

' there was a very poor offering, which i met with little demand. At one point | it was refreshing to find spirited competition, and this-was for a pen of

six two-tooth Southdown rams that.

i went eventually lor B ; {gs to the manaI ger of the Weraroa Development Farm, j Among a. poor yarding of store cattle

there was the usual listless bidding,

and some very fine pens ol' iat bullocks were a drug on the market, being passed in well beneath the venucus’ reserves. In the- pig section there was a good offering of excellent quality, and the prices reached indicate that the pig market is recovering

from the bump it sustained a couple of months back. The range of prices, was as under:— Pigs.—Weaners 10/ to 18/, stores £ 1 to 25/, porkers £2 4/ to- £3 10/, baeon-

ers £3 13/. Sheep.—Light iat lambs 14., store lambs 7/ to 14/, lat lambs 17/ to 24/9, tat ewes 12/ to 16/, fat welliers 18/, 10/6 to 26/, cull lambs 2/ to- 5/.

Cattle, —Jersey weaner heil'e/s £2 15/,

18-months lieii'ers r.w.b. £4, £1 10/ to £6, store cows 18/ to 25/, light l'at cows 30/ to 50/, winter calvers £5, £9 5/ to £1.5 5/.