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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10589, 21 March 1912, Page 3

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dOILNSONYILLK STOCK SaLJ/. (By Telegraph— Special to blip A;;* 1 ..) JOHNSON'VJLLK, Last Night Messrs AbriiJuun and Williams, Ltd., report on their Johnson ville salt) as follows: —Pn'mo sheep and cattle camo forward in usual numbers. There was a good demand for all stock at recent prices, and a good clearance was made. Prime heavy bullocks, £') 12s Gd to £LO 2s Gd; lighter, £8 17s fid to £9 ss; plain, £8 10s to £8 12', 6(1; voakrs, £1 to CI. 6s; prim" .heavy \v:'i<hors, 17s Id to 17s Gci , lir.'dium wethers, 15s to Los 7d ; prime ewes 1-fs 3d to 1-1 s lOd ; medium e--\os. j'.'s to 12s Gd; prime lambs, J2s (id to 12s lid; good lambs. Us to Us lOd , plain 10s to 10s 3d.

MASTivRTON WOOL AND SKIX SALES. Messrs Balgety ai:d Co., Ltd., report having held their usual monthly wool and skin sale yesterday, when they offered a fair entry of wool, skins and hides. The attendance of 'buyers was not quite up to the average. We quote: —Crossbred wool, 7d ; 'bellies and pieces, 3Jd to Ikl; seedy lambs, 3id; dead wool, 7-Jd. Tallow, 20s; rough fat. los. Crossbred sheepskins, up to Oijd; lambs skins, to Gid ; hogget -skins, from Id to lid: calf skins, from o-i-d to S-Jd ; bull hides, od; cow hides, Gijd.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report as follous.— Our usual periodical sale was held yesterday, and good catalogues were submitted to a good attendance of buyers. Owing to the unsettled state of the London marketprices showed a slight drop from last sale prices. Hides, however, were higher, by id to Id. We quote:-- , Wool: Crossbred, Gd to 73d; lambs, ' 6§d to 71d; dead, 6d to 6£d; bellies and pieces, -Ud to oid ; locks, 33d to ; 4d. Skins: Crossbred, 6 C I to 63d; lambs, Ud to 6id; short to i-wool, 4d to Hides: Cow, 6d to 6^d; cow, cut, s.id to 53d ; calf, good, 9d to 9gd; calf, damaged, Gd to 83d. i

Messrs Levin and Co., Ltd., report: —We held our monthly sale to-day, when wo offered 20 hales of wool, 1200 i sheepskins, 70 hides and a quantity | of horsehair, tallow and rabbitskins. , There was the usual attendance of j buyers, and the prices bid for all , kinds cf produce were well up to current market values. * We quote: — Wool: Fine crossbred, 7£d to 8d; | medium and coarso crossbred, 7d to ; 7i-d; dead wool, 7d to 7£d; lambs, 6-Jd 1 to 7sd; locks and pieces, 3d to s£d. ( Sheepskins : Fine crossbred, 7d to 7id ; , medium and coarse crossbred, 6d to 63d; lambs skins, Gd to 6id; dead, 4id to od. Horsehair, Is 7£d per 'b. Tallow: Casks, £26; tins, £22 to £22 ss. Hides: Ox and cow, ojd to 6d; . calf, best, 9d to 9d, medium, 7£d to B|d, inferior, 5d to 7£d. Our next sale will be held on Ist May.

The Wairarapa Fanners' Co-opera-tive Association, Ltd., report as follows: —We held our monthly isafle of wool, sheepskins, and hides yesterday, when we offered to a representative attendance of huyers 10 bales of wool, 50 bags of wool, about 1000 sheepskins and pelts, and a quantity of hides and calfskins. Wool: Fleece, 7d to BJd-; laraibs, 7d to 7|d; fleece log stained, 6£d; dead, s§d to 7d; pieces, 4id to s£d; lambs, crutehings, s£d ; looks and pieces, 4sd; black, sgd; locks, 3|d. Sheepskins: Crossbred, "6|d; dead, 41-d to'Sid; broken,, 4Jd; hoggets, 4|d to shorts, 3d to 41d; lambs, sfd; black, pelts, 3d to 4d ; crossbred damp, each,. ss; shorts damp, each, 2s 3d. Hides: Ox, good, 53d; bull, 53d; cow, slippy, 4Jd to 5Jd; horse hides, 9s 6d each ; calf, 8§tl; calf, slippy, 6-id; calf, cut, 7d; cut and slippy, sgd; yearlings, 3d to 7|d. ■Our next Kilo will be held on Wednes-day,-May Ist, 1912. J MASTERTON STOCK SALE. Messrs James Macintosh and Co. report having held their usual weekly sale in their Waipoua yards yesterdiy, when they offered a yarding of sheep and cattle as advertised, which met with very keen competition throughout, although a line of 4-tooth ewes went out unsold. The cattle entry met with good competition throughout;, and we can report a clearance at i.ocl prices. Quotations are as follow : Fat ewes, 12s; forward ewes, 9u to 10s Id ; 2-tooth wethers, 12s Id ; f .m. ewes, 7s to 7s Id; woolly lambs, 7s 7d to 8s

I 3d ; Shropshire rams, £2 2s ; yearling heifers, £3; 3-year heifers, in calf, £5 8s Gel; tveaner heifers, £2 ss; slip pigs, 10s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report as follows on the Masterton stock sale at Solway yesterday:—Our entries in sheep included all classes of ewes, a few wethers, and all grades in Jambs. We were unable to make a clearance, owing to the inferior quality of several lines. Breeding ewes, sound and good conditioned, made 9s Gd to 12s; 2tooth ewes, according to class, 10s to 12s; medium ewes, 7s to 8s; besb woolly lambs, 9s; shorn, 5s Gd to Gs; culls, 4s. A pen of good-conditioner] small wethers made 12s. A few odd rams changed hands. Southdowns, 1 to 1-Jgns. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—We had a heavy yardbig of sheep and a moderate one of cattle, and have to report a successful sale, everything being disposed of with tho exception of two pens of sheep. Quotations: —2-tooth ewes, 9s lid to i'3s 9d, according to quality and condition ; 4- .and 6-tooth ewes, 13s 7d; medium lambs, 7s 3d; cull lambs,,ss id; 2-tooth Lincoln rams, £2 to £2 2s ; forward heifers, £4 ss; fat heifers, light, £4 10s; fat cows, light, £3 18s; forward cows, £3 13s to £3 15s.