LEVIN STOCK MARKET.

Shannon News, 5 March 1926, Page 2

LEVIN STOCK MARKET.

GENERAL ALL THROUGH Though the yarding of sheep wafe good, quality was inferior at the saleyards on Tuesday, and in sympathy with other recent sales, old ewes were difficult to quit, most of the other lines, however, selling at late rates. A good line of 2-tooth ewes brought 28s apiece. The yarded cattle were also of an inferior grade, consequently being dull of, sale. Vendors of pigs found their offerings difficult to sell, their prices showing a decline on recent rates. Pigs.--'Weaners 10s, good stores 15s to £l, light porkers 22s to 30s, good ditto 34s to £2, light haconers £2 16s, baeoners £3 5s to £4. Sheep.—2-tooth wethers £1 to 225, woolly lambs 13s 6d to 15s, shorn lambs 12s 10d, small lambs 5s 6d to 10s, aged ewes 7s 6d to 14s 6d, cull ewes 3s 6d to ss, 2-tooth S.D. rams 71 guineas. Cattle.—Light fat cows £3 17s 6d, vealers £2, bulls 35s to £2 xOs. JOHNSON VILLE SALK. Messrs. Abraham and Williams Ltd. and Wright, Stephenson and Co. Ltd., report on their Johnsonville sale, yesterday:— A medium yardiug' of bullocks and sheep came l forward. Vealers and lambs were yarded in excessi of advertised numbers.' All classes of stock sold freely, the demand being keener than has been the case .in the last few sales. Wo quote:— Best bullocks: £l2 15s, £l3, £l3 7s 6d to £l3 17s fid; light: £9 to £lO 6s; best vealers: 375, 395, £2, £2 Is. £2 7s, £2 £2 12s 6d £2 14s to £3 12s fid. Wethers: 265, 26s fid, 28s; ewes: 17s, 225. 22s Id to 22s 3d; lambs: 18s fid,'l9s, 2?ss, 235, 24s 3d. 25s to 265; light, 13s.