STOCK SALES
PLEASANT POINT "The Press" Special Service TIMARU, July 18. Values showed a rising tendency for the 80 head of fat cattle yarded at the sale at Pleasant Point to-day. quality being from fair to good. Two races of fat sheep realised values on a par with those of two weeks ago. The demand for store sheep was the keenest experienced at Pleasant Point for quite a few sales, and with the demand remaining unsatisfied, values appreciated fully 3s a head. Values Fat Cattle.—Steers, best. £24 to £2B 7s 6d; medium, £2l to £23 17s 6d; light. £l6 to £2O. „ Heifers.—Extra good, £2O 12s 6d to £24 7s 6d; good. £l7 to £2O; medium. £l4 to £l6 17s 6d: light. £ll to £l3 17s 6d. Fat Cows.—Extra good. £l7 to £l9 2s 6d: good. £l4 to £l6 17s 6d; medium. £ll to £l3 17s 6d; light. £8 to £lO 17s 6d. Store Cattle.—Yearling steers, to £7; two-year-old steers. £lO 10s to £l2. Dairy Cattle.—Springing cows. £lO 10s to £l7; springing heifers, medium, to £9. Fat Sheep.—Wethers, best. 73s to 77s 6d; good, 66s to 725; medium, 60s to 655: light, 54s to 60s. Fat Ewes.—Best, 45s to 50s 4d; medium, 40s to 455; light, 36s to 39s lOd; inferior. 28s to 355. Store Sheep.—Wether hoggets. 32s to o6s 3d: ewe hoggets, in wool. 46s to 49s 3d: shorn ewe hoggets. 435: two-tooth wethers, to 495; four, six. and eight-tooth ewes, 48s to 535; failing-mouth ewes, to 29s 6U.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25859, 19 July 1949, Page 8
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