STOCK SALES

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 113, 9 November 1933, Page 14

STOCK SALES

JOHNSONVILLE PRICES

Wright, Stephenson, and Company, Ltd., and Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on Johnsonville sale held yesterday as follows:—To a full attendance of buyers we submitted an average yarding of cattle and a smaller yarding than usual of sheep. Lambs came forward in larger numbers than usual. Cattle met with a fair demand at auction at prices easier by 5s to 7s Od pel- head. No. vealeis or runners Wfcre yarded. There was a poor demand for wethers at last week's rates. Owing to a short yarding of ewes prices were slightly firmer. Lambs and hoggets met with a keen sale. We quote:—Prime extra heavy bullocks, £8 10s Cd, £§ 7s Gd, £8; prime heavy bullocks, £7 15s, £7 1.25, £7 10s, £7 ss, £7; heavy bullocks, £6 11s, £6 10s: extra-prime heavy cows and heifers, £5 10s, £5 ss, £5; pi;ime heavy cows and heifers, £4 17s, £4 15s, £4 12s, £4 10s; prime extra heavy wether.^, shorn 23s od, 23s Cd, 22s Cd. woolly 27s 3d; prime heavy wethers, 2ls lid, 21s 9d, 21s 6d, 21s 3d, 21s; prime extra heavy ewes, shorn, 17s Sd, 17s, 16s lid, 16s lOd; prime heavy ewes, ICs 6d, 16s 3d, 16s 2d, 16s, los 6d; heavy hoggets, woolly 24s 6d, 245, 23s sd, 23s Id, shorn 21s sd; light hoggets, shorn, 16s; heavy spring lambs, 22s Bd, 22s 6d, 20s 9d, 20s 3d, 19s lOd; medium spring lambs, 17s Sd,/ 17s 3d, 17s 2d, 17s Id; light spring lambs, 14s 9d, 12s 7d. MASTERTON QUOTATIONS. The New Zealand Fanners' Co-opera-tive Distributing Co., Ltd., offered a yarding of 100 fat sheep,.- 75 dairy cattle, and 35 pigs at the Masterton sale yesterday. Fat sheep were in short supply and sold well, dairy cattle sold at late rates, while weaner pigs were short of requirements and made the best prices of the season. Sheep: Light fat wethers, 18s 6d to 19s 9d; heavy fat ewes, 14s to 14s 7d; prime Southdown . ewes, 1&; shorn Southdown hoggets, 16s lOd; fat woolly hoggets, 21s; spring lambs, 19s. Cattle': Pedigree Jersey cow, in milk, Bgs; springing cows, £2 7s 6d to £3; springing1 heifers, £3; heifers in milk, £2 to £2 10s; two-year empty Jersey heifers, £1 11s to £2 3s; yearling Jersey heifers, £1 2s, £1 10s, to £1 18s; forward dairy cross heifers, £2 2s to £2 8s; forward store cows, £1 4s; aged Jersey bulls, sgs; yearling Jersey bulls, '2.t0 3 gs. Bigs: Porkers, 27s to 325; weaners, 18s, 20s, to 21s; very small weaners, 14s to 15s 6d. • ■