STOCK MARKET.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3170, 22 April 1909, Page 5

STOCK MARKET.

Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report as follows on their fortnightly sale at their Masterton yards, yesterday:—We submitted a very good yarding of all classes of stock. Considering the slackness of the mutton and lamb market, farmers and graziers found that they must stock up with a good class of sheep, hence the fair demand for stock to-day. We quote: —Forward condition woolly lambs, 7» 9d to 8s and 8s 6d; black face lambs, 7s Id to 7s 3d; 2-tooth wethers, 9s lOd to 10s 2d; fat and forward ewes, 8s 9d to 9s lOd; fat and forward wethers, 10s 5d to 10s lOd; f.m. ewes in lamb, 6s Id (low condition); forward condition, 9s 3d to 10s 4d. Cattle: Cows and calves, £2 ss; heifers, £2 3s to £2 8s; 2*year steers, £2 3s to £2 16s; yearling steers, 34s to 38s; yearling heifers, 26s to 325. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report on their fortnightly sale yesterday as i follows:—We had a fair average yarding in sireep. In wethers we submitted some extra good, these making a high rate. In ewes the class were mostly culls and prices realised were correspondingly low. In lambs sales for all strong sorts were few, but faulty lots were hard to quit.' The entries in cattle were small, and sales about o*n a par with last markets. A line of extra good 2 and 4-tooth wethers sold at lis 4d, smallar sorts 10s; aged ewes in lamb from fis; best shorn lambs, 7s 6d; woolly, 8s 8d; small, 5s to 6s; forward cows and heifers, 40s to 555; slip pigs, lis 6d.