KEEN CARTERTON BIDDING;

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 16, 18 July 1936, Page 6

KEEN CARTERTON BIDDING;

Wright, Stephenson, and Co., Ltd., report that bidding was keen throughout the Carterton sale yesterday. The company, submitted a good yarding of sheep, cattle, and pigs, effecting a total clearance at the. following prices:— - : • Sheep.—Fat wethers, 29s to 30s; fat ewes, 23s to 245; fat hoggets, to 22s 4d; forward ewes, to 18s Id; store ewes, IDs to 16s-3d; woolly ewe hoggets, to 29s 9d; woolly wether hoggets, to 20s; small hoggets, to 13s. . '■■.... Cattle.—Jersey heifers in milk, to £6 12s 6d; Ayrshire heifers, just calved, to £6 7s 6d; springing Ayrshire heifers, to £6 ss; springing Jersey heifers, £3 to £4 10s; springing cows, G.S., £4 5s to £5 7s 6d; Jersey cows, on drop, to £6; Jersey; heifer calves, £3 4s to £3 8s; fat cows, £3 10s to £4 ss; forward cows, £2 to £3 ss;. store cows, 30s to 37s 6d;. vealers, to £4; cows and calves, to £3 12s. Pigs.—Good weaners, 16s to 17s 6d; medium weaners. 13s to. 15s 6d; small weaners, 10s to 12s 6d; slips, 18s to 20s 6d; light porkers, 26s 6d; porkers, 39s 6d to 41s; sows to farrow, £3 10s to £5 ss; sows with litters, to £6; P.B. Canadian Berkshire boar, to £3..

Wright, Stephenson, and Co., Ltd., held their annual springing heifer sale on.behalf of Messrs. Moore' Bros., at the Carterton yards, qir Thursday,■when the heifers came forward in, good condition. There was a large and representative attendance of buyers from the Hutt, JohnsonVille, .-■ and Lower; Valley districts. Bidding was brisk throughout and prices" were on a high level/ the top figure being £8 15s, while several made over £7 10s. Only d few backward heifers sold at under £6. The whole line of over 70: heifers were sold under the hammer, the average figure being £6 12s.