LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 June 1938, Page 4

LIVE STOCK MARKET.

YESTERDAY’S LEVIN SALE. The unpleasant weather which prevailed for the stock sale at the Levin yards yesterday had very little effect upon the market.' There was the usual attendance of buyers and, while sheep values were a shade easier, a sharp rise in pork prices was registered, Avith late rates fully maintained in all other sections.

j Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., I report having offered good yardings of I.sheep ami cattle and a medium entry of pigs, and sales were recorded at the folloAviug prices : Pigs: Slips, 14s fid, 16s, ISs (id; stores, 20s, 22s 6d, 235, 245. light pork, 355, 37s (id, £2; medium do., £2 ss, £2 .1 Os; heavy do. £2 16s, £2 18s, £3 Is, £3 ss; chopper, 32s (id. ,Sheep: Fat owes, 13s (id, 15s, 17s l()d; fat hoggets, ISs 4d, 19s, 22s 3d; extra prime heavy hoggets, 265, 28s (id; Romney Avether hoggets, 16s; b.f. hoggets, ]4s; aged eAves, Ss (3d. Cattle : Light fat cows, £4 10s; medium do., £5 10s, £5 15s, £6 3s, £6 10s; heavy do., £6 15s, £‘7, £7 17s Gd; voalers, 355, £2 2s (id, £2 ss, £2 l()s; runners, £3, £3 17s (id, £4 10s to £5 10s; store cows, 355, Dairy Stock : Springing heifers, £6, £6 3s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Coy., Ltd., advise haA’ing completed sales at the following prices: Pigs : Light pork, 245, 27s 6d, 32s to. 40s; heavy, £2 os, £2 10s to £2 17sr baconers, £3, £3 7s (id to £3 13s; stores :3s, 15s (id, 17s 6d to 245. Sheep : Light fat cavgs, 14s; medium to heavy, 17s (id. Cattle : Fat coavs, light. £3 10s, £l, £4 12s 6d; medium to heavy, £3, £3 10s, £6 to £0 10s; runners, £3 3s, £3 7s 6d to £3 10s; vealers, 18s, 37s to £2; store coavs, £1 17s Gd, £2 2s 6d, £2 12s 6d to £2 17s; weaner heifers, £2 17s 6d to £3 2s 6d.

Dairy Stock : Springing cows, £B, £8 15s to £10; heifers, £4 15s t# £s.