HIGHER SHEEP PRICES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20066, 12 October 1939, Page 14

HIGHER SHEEP PRICES

FRANKTON STOCK SALE The top price for ox beef at the Frank'on stock sale was £lB 15s, which was given for two extra heavy Holstein bullocks. There was a full yarding of both ox and cow beef, values for ox beef being generally easier than last week, but cow and heifer beef were firm at late rates. The yarding of sheep was small, but values advanced slightly on last week’s quotations. Top price for prime fat wethers was 38s. A small offering of store sheep also met with keen eompe'ition. Quotations: — Cattle. —Heavy prime bullocks, to £lB 15s; prime medium, £ls to £l6: prime lighter, £l4 to £l4 15s; wellfinished light-weights, £l3 to £l3 128 Cd; light, £l2 to £l2 15s; light Jerseycross bullocks, to £ll 7s 6d ; heavy prime cows, £l2 to £l3 9s; prime medium, £ll to £ll 15s; well-finished lighter weights, £lO to £lO 18s; light, to £9 10s; heavy prime heifers, £l2 10s to £l3 12s Gd; prime light, £ll to £ll 15s; light, to £9 15s. Sheep. Heavy prime woolly wethers, 33s to 365; medium, 30s to 32s Gd; light, 27s to 295; unfinished, 24s to 265; heavy woolly ewes, 23s to 245; medium, 20s to 22s 6d; light. 17s to 19s; heavy fat shorn wethers, 30s to 325; medium, 27s to 295; light, 23s to 265; unfinished, 20s to 22,s 9d ; heavy prime lambs, 32s to 375; prime medium 28s to 31s; medium, 26s to 27s Gd: light, 23s to 255; unfinished, 20s to 22s Gd.