STEVENS AND GORTON'S REPORT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 116, 24 April 1883, Page 3

STEVENS AND GORTON'S REPORT.

At our Bale, held at Bulls on the 17th instant, there were about 150 head of cattle and 4500 sheep yarded, which sold at the following prices';— Milch cows, from £2 10s to £4 ss ; 18* months steers and heiferp, £1 17s 6d to £2 10s ; weaners, from £1 to £1 ss. Sheep— Good breeding ewes, 10s ; medium, from 6s 9d to 8s ; inferior, from 5s to 6s 3d. Pigs—Good porkers, from 10s to 29s ; smal 1 , from Ba.6*d to 6s. Horses — Hacks, from £2 10s to . At the Killeymoon sale, held at the horns-stead, on account of Messrs Hammond Bros., there were about 350 head of cattle and 1550 sheep yarded, besides a number of draught and saddle horses, pigs, &c., 3000 buphels wheat, 1200 bushels oats, and a large number of farming implements. The weather was fine, the attendance of buyers large, and the bidding spitited. With the exception of the grain, nearly, every lot sold, and at the following prices :— 2-year-old heifers, £2 15s ;. 2£nyear steers; £4 2s 6d ; fat cows, £4 Jss ; weaners, £1 12s ; store cows, £2 5s ; quiet milch cows, from £3 to £5 Is 3 ; mixed £1 17s 6d to. £2; Icows and calves, from £2 15s to £3 ss. | Sheep-- Fat wethers, from 12s 6d to 13s 3d j fat ewes, from 11b to lls 6d j Btore wethers, 6s 4d ; store ewes, from 7s 3d i to 7s 6d. Pigs— Bacon pigs, from 228 to 29s ; porkers, from 10s to' 13s ; small, from 5s to 6s. HorsesDraught colts, medium, from £11 to £13 15s; hacks, from £5 to £12. the whole of the farm implements, including Samuelson's mowers, McCormick's reapers and binders, Cambridge roller, drays, and 'tip-carts, &c, sold at satisfactory prices.