FAT STOCK MARKET.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 August 1919, Page 2

FAT STOCK MARKET.

PRICES RECEDE. Pl‘lCo:< for beef at Wedllesday’s Westfleld fat stock sales were lower. by 2s per hundred pounds than last. weekls rates. - MCSSI's Buckland and Sons again had 11 large yarding, the total being 357 head. .Whi.le the quality as a whole was not up to last Week’s standard, there were several lots of very good cattle. Choice ox sold'up :.n £3 3/ per 100 lb, prime from £2 18/ to £3 2/, plain and rough beef 110 £2 147, cows and heifers £2 5,’ to £2 16/. Steers ranged in price from £l4 to £2B 15/, and <'ox\~ from £8 to £2l 5/. ‘ Messrs Bucklancl and Sons rep.»-tell an extra large yarding of calves, fat and young ones coming forward in extra large IIIIIYIbE3I‘S. Runners were slightly easier in price. All other classes remained abrut the name as last week’s rates. The New Zeaiand Loan x‘=‘nulJ3ll.V penned beef in scarcely average numbcrs. Conipetitir-11 was not so K 9911, prices being slightly easiez. Choice ox sold up to £3 4/ pet: 100113, prime from £2 18/ to £3 2/, rough and inferior from £2 10s to £2 16/, and cow and heifer beef from £2 12/ to £2 17/. No extra heavy cattle Were yarded. Steers sold from £l6 to £24 17/6, cows and heifers from £9 10/ to £l6 5/_