STOCK REPORTS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XVII, Issue 67, 20 March 1905, Page 5

STOCK REPORTS.

ana Williams, "'titdL, ref v -port :— Sales, syice last week's report, £j i&ave been heltfatlieVin, Cbyltonj Shatfr non, Palmerston North, and a private II Bal^<^ account of Messrs McHardy ■ ; . Bros. Quotations at Palmerston North 7 - —Sheep : 4 and 6-th ewes 17s 2d, sound - ' mouth ewes 16s Id to 16s 6d, f .tn. ewes *■•■ 14s 2d, aged ewes 10s to 12s, cull ewes r 5S 3d ■ to. 7ft ■ Gd; 2-th wethers 16s; 2-th y vewes 16s 9d^fat wethers 17s 6d, small ; :2-th ewes, 14b la; woolly lambs 9s Id, • shorn lambs Bs. ' ■ a Cattle : Eat cow* £& to £4 ss, forward m -cows. M to' £8 tOs, light fat bullocks '£ .4$ 2s, good weaners 265, others 17s 6d, »r2yr steers JB3 12s.> ■•■; .:■, /V .■' - Abraham and Williams, Ltd. (Danne-•F-Tirke)ii report: • ;. . Sales tiojp the fortnight comprise a -clearing' sale on Wednesday, the 15th \ inst^ at 'Mr Buskin's^ MangatdroMley, and our local fortnightly sale Friday. k : £$. the; former there was a large at- • :tendanc«, outside buyers being prominent. .The sale was' conducted in pourv .ing rain. Nevertheless, high prices* :: ruled for the sheep, the bulk of the eyves ' being purchased, by -a South Island .buyer for 'shipment.^Sundries' and Jfuri niture sold well; -but no 'business -was done in cattle. , ;>« ; '$;' At Dannevirke 'sheep: came forward largely in excess of advertised numbers, <6ver 4000 being ; $*rded.' There Was : a" entry of cattle. SBieejp-^^TJie: dJe^ ? mand still continues good 'for ;ybung sheep/and lambs, a^id on vFridayilate ■■ - lvalues were; firmly maintained. Aged cqHjjy, ,£nd sold at a slight decrease ; on late rulings. ; ; V..^ : - : ; --■''■ ■"•' -v ; -/ '- ; (Gattlemet "with consequent limited business. '■>" ; v Wequote: — '->•--.. . ;•' ■ -r ; V"* J- ■'■ , ' BuskiU's sale— 4 and 6-toothewes 18s; odj; 18s 9d, 2-tooth ewes 18s, fm. ewes 165 ..5 d to * 16s 9d;4ambs lls Id, On ac^ €ount <y£ other vendors —Ewes and wethers 15s Id to 16s. 6d, f.m. ewes 15s .3d, lambs 8s 2d to 9s. ".••■ Dannevirke— 2 and 4- tooth wethers 15s 9d,2-tooth wethers 14s 8d to 14s 9d, ewes 14s 4d, 15s, 15s 6d; fatewes 15s to 15« 6d, f.m. ewes Bs, 10s 7d, 12s ; lambs 10s 6d to 10s 9d, Lincoln and English, Leicester rams ign to 2igns. Fat 18-mos cattle £2 1 6s, £2 6s ■€&, £2 10s; IS-mos i cattle 355, weaners ■.; >225_6d.; ; 'V>.-^- :;! ''v: ri . : . } . : - '\r::., '