STOCK MARKET.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3146, 25 March 1909, Page 6

STOCK MARKET.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report as follows on their fortnightly stock sale at Masterton, yesterday:—We again submitted a full yarding in sheep, the catalogue embracing all classes. Tho bulk of the entries were good ewes with a fair proportion of wethers. A small entry of lambs. Bidding for all this class' was fairly brisk, but all aged ar:d faulty ewes met with a very poor reception, only selling at . practically boiling down prices. In fats we offered a pen each of exceptionally good Down cross- wethers and lambs, both lots topping the present market. In I rams we sold upwards of 40, being principally Lincolns. Prices were low, but the season is late for offer- ! ing rams. In cattle we made a I clearance. The catalogue included some nice pe,;s in steers and forward heifers. In sheep we opened with the Wainuiomapa ewes, 535, which made 12s Lod, other ewes 12s lis 9d, lis, 10s 9d, 10s 6s, 10s. two-tooth ewes lis to 13s 3d, culled ewes 4s to 6s, best wethers lis 30d, others 10s Sd, fat wethers (very prime) 12 6d, fat lambs (prime) lis sd, lambs 7s to Bs, Lincoln rams 1J to 2gns, Leicesters Hgns, Downs 1 to 3gns, fat cows £4 4s, fat and forward heifers £3 10s, store cows and heifers 355, 21 year steers £3 18s 6d, .18 month steers 555, yearling heifers 235, weaner pigs 8s 6d. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report as follows on their fortnightly sale at th°ir Masterton yards yesterday: — We had a large yarding of sheep and a satisfactory entry of cattle. Five thousand sheep came under the hammer, and comprised in this number were two really good lines of breeding ewes, one of 1,300 and another line of Aohonga bred ewes of 1,900, which sold st satisfactory prices. In sympathy with the drop in the fat market, dry sheep were not so eagerly sought afirs, but as vendors seemed to have made up their mini to accent low prices at the end of the sale we succeed in practically quitting our whole entry. We quote as follows:—Sheep.—Good 4 year old Romr.ey-Lincohi cross ewes sold up to 13s Id, lighter woolled 4 year "Id ewes sold up to I2s 7d. 2th and 4th ewes to 13s 7d,'4-tooth to f.f.m. ewes (small) 10s 3d to 12s Id, f.m. ewes (medium) 8s 6d to 9.s 7d, 2-tooth wethers 9s to* 10a, 2 and 4-tooth wethers 10s 2d to lis, 2-tooth ewes and wethers (mixed) 10s 3d. Not a great number of lambs came forward, but what we did have were eagerly