COMMERCIAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 6 August 1919, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

T Messrs Abraham 35136 Williams, Ltd., report ~a.t.Palmerston North on the 31st Ju-ly:——-We had a. fair yarding of both sheep and cattle. Most of the yarding ‘ changed hands at the following prices: Sheep.——-Mixed hoggets to 16/3, 01111 hoggets 5/: 7/6, to 9/, cull ewes 3/, ‘to 3/55 Cattle: Springing heifers £l2, £l2 5/, £l3, to £l4 2/G, springing cows £4 10/, £5 15/, to £6 17/(5, fat COWS to £9, forward cows £4 10/, £6, to £7 5/, yearling steers £2 2/6, to £2 15/. Messrs Abralianr and Williams, Ltd., report, at Feild"ing sale, on the Ist inst, that althotifglr it was a rough day, stock came in in excess of advertised numbers. -There was a large attendance of ‘buirers, and the whole of the y:u'ding was quitted at» the following prices:——Sheep: Fat ewes 31/ to 37/6, 2-tooth ewes i-n lamb to SD. rams to 33/, (5-tooth to 5-year ewes in lamb to rams 20/3;"33/G, to 34/, 2—tooth do. in lamb to Romney rams 37/6 to 38/1, empty ewes 15/ to 17/3. good hoggets 24/1, 24/4, 24/9, ‘to 29/1, woolly hog—} gets to 27/2, wether hoggets 2G/9- ‘

Cattle: Dairy cows (sprfiging) £7 10/, £B, £8 17/6, £9, £9 10/, £lO, £l3 10/, £ls 5/, to £l6 10/, forward cows £6, £7 8/, to £8 12/, store cows £3 8/, to £4, empty heifers £4 2/, £5: to £5 7/5, yearling heifers £2 4/, £2 17/, to ‘£3 10/, steers 25/, £2 'lO/ to £3.