LEVIN STOCK SALE.

Shannon News, 24 March 1922, Page 3

LEVIN STOCK SALE.

Heavy rain prior to the stock sale in Levin on Tuesday, deterred farmers from yarding up stock they had intended to otter, and only a lew lines were submitted. The prices realised can therefore hardly be taken as an indication t. f the condition of the stock na.'ket. Under normal conditions it is probable that some reflection would have been observed in the prices for l'ats of the recent- rise of a farthing a pound in the freezing companies’ schedule rates for mutton. Some ewes, medium fat, met with fair demand and changed hands at 15/, while a. pen of lambs reached 18/. A pen of shorn fat lambs off the hills and looking on the Tough side were passed in at 16/6. The cattle offering was small, and bidding was much as usual, though there appeared to be some little, brightening in the price for fats, a line of fat cows reaching £3 15/. The pig yarding was very depleted, and an appreciable decline was shown in the prices for the weaners and stores.

Pigs.—'Weaners 4/6, 6/, !)/ to 11/6, stores 16/ to 19/, porkers 39/ to £2 5/, baconers to £3 7/. Sheep.—S.M. breeding ewes 12/6 to 13/, fat lambs 18/, medium fat ewes 15/. Cattle.—Weaner heifers £2 7/6 to £4 2/6, 2-year steers £2 2/, fat cows £2 12/6 to £3 15/, springing cows £l2, winter calvers £B. ,