MARKET REPORTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14976, 23 April 1909, Page 3

MARKET REPORTS.

OXFORD. A special sale of fat and show sheep was hold at Oxford yesterday. The entry comprised about GOO lambs, 180 wethers, and three small lots of owes. Lambs made 12s 9d to 15s, wethers 13s tjd to 16s Bd, ewes 8s 5d to 11s. . GERALDINE. At the fortnightly sale at the Geraldine Yards on Wednesday about /000 sheep were yarded. There was a, large attendance of buyers, and prices showed an upward tendency, hat and torward lambs were irt goou demand, and there was a good sale for rams, or which fully 100 were on offer. Sales of fat lambs were as follows-91\ at !)s 7<l, 60 at 9s Bd, 133 at 9s 10d 38 at 11s 7d 61 at 12s, 40 at 12s 2d, 37 at 12s 3d 68 at 12s 3d, 207 at 12s 6d, 250 at. 123 ( Jd 51 at 12s lOd. 52 at 13s. 45 at, 2d 98 at 13s 43, 34 at 13s Bd, 200 ■t 13s 6d, 86 at 13s 7d, 140 at 13s 7d, ?G0 at 13s 9d, 40 at 13s lOd. 29 at 13s }ld 7 at 14s, 334 at 14s, 195 at 14s Bd. *'at owes realised 6s to 9s Hd, fat wethers 9s Gd to IBs fat and forward lambs 12s, store lambs 8s 7d to 12s 4d two-tooth wethers 9s 9d, two-tooth ewes 15s 9d, two, four and six-tooth ewes 12s 7d, sound-mouth ewes 13s 3d, 'failing-mouth ewes 10s 7(1, English Leicester rams ig to 2gs. There was a small entry of cattle, only about 1-, he/id beiuji yarded, Springing heifers

made £3, fat heifers £4 15s. Pigs realised the following prices :— Slips 14s, oorkors 30s.