Late Burnside Stock Report

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 17, 30 April 1908, Page 19

Late Burnside Stock Report

Cattle.— 263 head forward. Prices were about the same as last week, and ruled fox good from £7 2s 6il to £8 ss. Sheep.— Owing to the' high prices ruling at the lastsale there was a large yarding of 3695. The yarding, consisted of a good proportion , of ewes and some pens of fair wethers. The prices for wethers showed a drop" of Is and of ewes 2s per head compared with last weekPrime wethers, 19s to 22s ; extra, 23s 9-d ; medium, 16s to 18s 6d ; inferior, 13s ; best ewes, 13s to 15te 6d ; extra, 22s' 6d ; medium, 11s to 12s 6d ,\ 'inferior'; 10s 6d. Lambs.— ls4,9 penned. Prices were firm a t X about last week's rates. Prime lambs, 17s to 18s 6d ; "extra, 19s*; medium, 15s to 10s Gd ; light' and 'infer or, 9s 6d to 14s. Pigs.— l2o, penned. Suckers and. slips were in good supply, and prices" eased somewhat. Suck&rs,' 9s to 11s ; slips, 14S to 18s ; stores, 21s to 25s ; porkers, 38's to 4^ ; lighl baconers, 47s to 53s ; heavy do, 55s to 59s ; choppers, up to 625.