STORE SHEEP

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 11045, 20 February 1933, Page 1

STORE SHEEP

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency ' Company, Limited, Hamilton, reports that at is weekly Frankton store sheep sale on Wednesday store lambs came forward in heavy'numbers, while good breeding ewes Were scare in supply. / Competition throughout for lambs was very brisk, the whole yarding changing hands at prices slightly firmer than recent ruling rates." A feature of the sale was the keen competition for inferior to medium quality store lambs. Aged ewes met with the usual competition. Good quality well-grown store lambs made 7s 9d to 8s 4d: good store lambs, (5s 5d to 7s 6d; medium, 6s to 6a 6d; poorer conditioned, 5s 4d to 5s lit}: inferior, 4s 7d to 5s 3d.; medium fullmouth ewes, up to 7s 2d., : The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports that at its weekly store sheep sale In the Frankton saleyards on Wednesday only a medium 'yarding of sheep came forward, comprising mostly lambs, which again found; a ready sale, and rates remained firm. Values were:—Medium woolly wether lambs, 8s 4d to 8s 8d; woolly ewe lambs, 9s Id to 9s 6d; mixed sex lambs, 7s 6di to Ss 2d; black-’ faced lambs, 7s 8d to 8s 4d; smaller lambs, 5s 6d to 6s i9d; cull lambs,, 3s to 4s 4d; 5-year breeding ewes, 8s to 9s 2d;' two-tooth wethers, 11s; Southdown rams, Ign. to s 2gns,