LITTLE RIVER STOCK SALES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13375, 17 March 1909, Page 8

LITTLE RIVER STOCK SALES.

Messrs Pyne and Co. held their monthly stock sale at Little River yesterday, when they submitted an entry of about 4000 sheep and a few pens of cattle. There was a large attendance, and a fair business was transacted. Tlie entry consisted of ewes of various ages, lambs, nnd a few pens of wethers. For young ewes of a good class there* was a fairly good demand, but lamlis, aged and full-mouthed ewes, were not easily •sold unless at prices considerably lower than were ruling a month or six weeks since. The late dry weather and its effect upon the rape and turnip crops o: course accounts for this, but with twenty-four hours' rains the trend of values would again return to something like the level of early February rates, at least for breeding ev.es and forward wethers. The following prices were obtained : —Two-tooth ewes (good)

10s. tkl to medium 1 Is tkl te 15s Cd. j *t.iir,i-moi::h cues 10s to lis. full and I failing: t'*s to Ss Cd. very forward lanihs lis 0-.I to 1-s 3d. others Ids to 10* lid, I ciilio Os l*! to Ss; cattle at full cur-

rent market rates Messrs 11. Matron and Co. held their monthly sale at Little River yesterday. T';ei-t* was an entry of _W'J sheep. -Ibo ilea.l oi cattle, which met a good clearance. Tlie principal sales, are as lollov.s:— -Account .Mr J. H. Menzios, 200 two-tooth ev,i\s at los ;Mr W. G. Steven*.. •_'(>( l lotir-vear-old ewes 10s 6d to lis: Mr S. Mid-lev. -JOO tive-vear-old ewes 7s r-d :Mr A. Huuhm-en. 300 v.-eth'-rs lis -Id: Mr N. A. Menzios, 170 wetlu-rs lis -id: Mr L. Brittmeyer. ISO land's 10s: Mr N. A. Monzies, Ail) lands Ss lOd : Mr G .Jones. 180 lambs 10s 'Ai: Mr W. l'aton. 31 English Leicester rams from i?_s to 3gs: !:it h, iters from Ci _s Od to LT Ms. steers up to lO'.s, two-and-a-half-year steers i'-l 17s l-i to Co 10s. two-and-a-h.ilf-year heiiers .-'_' 17s 01 to £."3 ,"*s. eighteen-month tip to £,'_ lis, yearb'tigs te) .'Si's t'*d.