JOHNSONVILLE SALE.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 118, 14 November 1929, Page 12

JOHNSONVILLE SALE.

Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co., Ltd., and Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on Johnsonville sale, held yesterday, as follows:—

To an average attendance of the public we submitted the usual yarding of all classes of stock. The cattle offered comprised mostly, medium-weight bullocks, with, a few pens of: heavier sorts. Prices again showed a drop as compared with last week's sale.. ' Sheep comprised mostly wethers, with an odd pen of ewes, practically the whole of the yarding being shorn sheep. We also offered a few pens of extra prime hoggets. Lambs were yarded in larger numbers than previously. Competition for sheep was good at late rates, while lambs met with a good demand at slightly reduced prices. We quote:—Extra heavy bullocks, £17, £17 ss, £18 ss; heavy bullocks, £14 10k, £15, £15 10s, £10 ss; medium cows, £8; medium heifers, £10; vealers, £1 16s, £1 19s, £2 18s, £3, £3 8s; heavy shorn wethers, 295, 29s 6d, 30s; medium shorn wethers, 275, 28s; heavy shorn young ewes, 24s to 255; heavy shorn ewes, 225, 22s 6d, 235; woolly hoggets, 28s, 295; shorn hoggets, 245, 24s 6d; spring lambs, 225/ 22s 6d, 245, 255, 25s 3d.