THE STOCK MARKET.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1016, 19 November 1917, Page 6

THE STOCK MARKET.

Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report : At Palmerston North on the 15th just, we had a fairly good muster of both sheep and cattle. Tito market, was rather easier than of late, bill notwithstanding this a fair amount of business was transacted. Fallows brought £ll 10s to £ls. forward cows £9 6s to £lO Is, store cows £7 10s to £8 ss, dairy cows £lO to £l2. small springing heifers £7 5s to £9 ICs, yearling heifers £5 Hr. to £4 Is, yearling steers (bad colours) £4 5s to £4 12s. mix'd wcaners and yearlings £5 12s 6d, 2 and 3-year bulls £lO 15s to £lO ICs, 15-mouths hid 1 - £7 16s to £lO IDs, f.m. owes ami lambs 38.-'. mixed woolly hoggets and 2-tooth wethers 35 v . cull hoggets 18s 6d, cull ewes 9s 6d to 14s 6il.— At Ecilding on the 16th instant we had a fairly .good entry of sheep, while rather Kscattle than usual were penned. The market /or all classes of nock was easier aml very erratic Prices as follow- wer© obtained •for various lines. Fat wethers and ewes (woolly) 355, store wethers (woolly) 36s 3d. fat shore, ewes 30s 3d, ewes and lambs s.s' 3d to 38s 6d, shorn store ewes 19-; 5d to 25: 6d, woolly hoggets 29s 3d to 31s. do. (medium) 26s 3d to 2os 9d, cull do. 20s to 21 bd, fat Southdown hoggets 26s Id to 27s 7d. fat cows £l2 to £l4 15s, forward cows £3 15s to £9 10s, store ccws £7 5s to £7 12.1 6tl, good cows and calves £l2 to i! 4 ss, 18-mos empty heifers £6, yearling licit »>rs £4 8s 6d to £4 16 s.

Dalyety and Go., Ltd.. Palmerston North, report liaving a very good entry of sheep and a fair yarding of cattle at their I'eilding sale on Friday, the .6th instant. With the exception of two pens, all lines of sheep changed hands, but cattle wore hard to quit. Quotations: Sheep: Medium 2-th wethers 275, small 2-th wethers 23s lOd. mixed ago ewes and IMubs 54s lOd, light fat shorn owes 28s 2d, mixed hoggets 29s 7d, 31s 2d, 32s lid, 33s Id, 545, good wether hoggets 30s Bct, good ewo hoggets 38s Id. Guttle: Year]mft steers (bad colours) iJ4 to £6, empty "heifers £6 17s 6d, backward dairy heifer? £9, 24 and 3-yr steers £l2 17s 6d.

Levin's report:—Daring the past, week we held our usual yard sales at, Hulls and at At 13u 11s \vo had «ui exceptionally hoavv aiding of caillo, some 900 odd head of all classes being submitted. Sheep also came forward largely in excess of advertised numbers. Bidding at auction for sheep was good, and wo sold the whole yarding with (he exception of one pen at prices slightly higher than those ruling at other market,-. Bidding for cattle was did! and lifeless, and although wo .succeeded in quitting the bulk of the offering, vendors had in most cases to considerably reduce their reserves. At ]'oilding on Friday, a. very heavy yarding of sheep came forward. Bidding was patchy, and prices all round were slightly. easier. A inir yarding of cattle was submitted, and although buyers were nut keen to operate, most lint's were sold, prices, a.s at Bulls, being somewhat, easier. At Bulls: S.U. bulb BO 10s, Holstein bull £6 10s. yearling Jersey bull £2, springing cows £l2. empty cows £0 to £9 10s, cows and calves £8 15s, £lO ss, £ll, store cows £8 to £8 10s, fat cows £lO, £lO 10s, £ll, £l2 10s, £l3 2s Gd. licjfcrs in milk £8 15s, springing heifers £9 15s, £9 17s uj, £lO. enip'ty heifers £7 10s. £9 7s (>d. yearling heifers £3 5s £4 15s. £5 2s sd. £5 10s, £6 10s, yearling S.ll. heifers £1 12s. £8 5.-. yearling steers £3 10s £5 14s (xl. £O, £8 15s. 18-month steers £8 12s, £9: on account Mr A. 11. Kllery. ewes and lambs £2 7>. forward ewe s 24s 6d: on account, Mrs A’Conrt, fat wethers 51s 7d, 52s ,*>d; on account I!. Jlaneiau. fat ewes 32s 3d; on account B. A. and \V. Bromley, shorn mixed 2-lootli- 26h ; on account t‘. K. Vile, fat eaves 35-. At Keildiiig: I’.II. Holstein bull 15gns p.b. Jersey bull £8 15s. yearling Jersey bull £6 10>. cows in milk £l2 6s, springing cows £ll. £l3 10.-, forward cows £8 10s, £lO. £lO 7.- 6d. Mon' cows £6 10s, fat, cows. £lO 17s 6d, £l2 10s, £l3 ss, 2-year B.li. heifers £B, 15-immths heifers £5 10s. £5 15s. £6 6>. heifers. :r.w.b. £B, £9. yearling heifers £4 Is, empty forward heifers £6 IC-.. £o 10s. fat heifers £9 ss, forward stem's £ll 15-. £l4. 3-year Hereford steers £ls 7s. 18-months -teers, £6 13s 6d, yearling steers £4. £4 Is. £5 5-. wea.net- £2. Sheep: On oeconni W. A. Bailey, mixed 2-tooth- 24s 2d. 29s 4d; on account 11. <l. Ilat'lH'f) mixed 2-tooths 28s; mi account W. J. Shannon. 2-tooth ewes_ 26s 7d, 29a Id : l on account, B. Thomas, mixed woolly hoggets 31s 9d: on account S. JJefferies, fat hoggets 27s 90; on account Pearce Bros, fat. ewas 33-. 4d. 33s fid: on account Mc.Uullian Bros., owes and lambs 37s 9d; on account K. I’. C. Swaimon, ewes end lambs £2 2s 4d; on account Mockeu Bros., wether hoggets 35.- ICd. ewe hoggets 365. mixed hoggets 29s 3d; on account bred Brice. woolK;"hoggets 31s Bd, woolly l,l;l <-k face hoggets 275: on account I Uugims. mixed (loggds 26- 6d,