Ashburton Stock Market.
About 2,J)00 mixe.l c.lmaes of sheep and 60 head of on.ttlo comprised the total entry at the Tinwald Yards to-'.liy. The attendance was a good aveiage one, but bidding was unusually sbek in practically every department, with the exception of butchers' live? of sheep. The store shenp entry consisted chiefly of brerafliug ewes with lambs, and witfi the exception of one line the whole o? rhe entry was passed in at public andioD, whilopvicps bid were slightly under those ruling at the last sale. The fat sheep yarded were of good quality nnd laic rates were well m -intainad. Crossbred ewe mut ton sold at the rate of S.jd to 3J<J per lb, nnd crossbred wether murton a shade better. B-iof sold at from 20s to 22s 6d per 1C01b.3. The following arc prices :—
CattuK. - Sores —15 to IS months' old sorts £1 lf?F, £2 10s, JC3 10s to €1 2s M ; yearlings £ I 7a fid ; dry cows (aged) 203; dairy cows &l 5?, £2 15s, £3 ss, M 10s, £i 15s to £"->, bull £2. Fat Pens—Steers JJ7 7s6d, m 17s «tl, to £8 10s; heifers £X Ms, 12s 6d, £7 ss, .£7 12s 6d to £8 ss.
Shrep—fat pans—Cro'sbre I ewe? (shorn) 14a (3d, 153 3d. lGs, 16* 3d, 17s 3d. 18s 3d, 18s sd; do, in woo', 12* 6d, 15s 6d, 16s; crossbred wethers 17s, 17s 9d, 18s; hoggets ♦J9s 7d; lambs t2s; merino ewes 12s'. Stire pens — crossbred ewes with lambs (all counted) 12s 3d, 123 6d, 12a 7d 12s lOd, to 14s; shorn do, 7s 6d; hoggets (shorn) 14s 9d to lfi.i 7d; merino hwea and latnbs (all counted) Bs, 10? 3d. The latter line included a few erossbreds.
Ashburton Stock Market.
Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxii, Issue 6434, 29 November 1904, Page 3
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