WALLACETOWN STOCK SALE.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 295, 27 December 1910, Page 5

WALLACETOWN STOCK SALE.

Drop m Fat Cattle Prioes.

The principal feature of the sale was the heavy decline m fat cattle prices. The major part of the entry was well finished. It is difficult to satisfactorily account for the drop m values. Ox, beef realised up to 25s and cow and heifer beef from 20s to 22s 6d per 1001 b, as compared with 35s ruling six weeks ago.

Fat Cattle. — 116 yarded. Top price was secured by Mr L. Garden, Pahia, £13 10s, others £l 25s to £7 2s 6d, fat cows £6 12s 6d, £7, £8.

Store Cattle. — 246 head yarded. There was a perceptible decline m the value of well-grown forward cattle, but the prices of all young stuff were well maintained. Yearlings sold at £2 18s to £3 7s 6d, 2-year-olds £4 6s, forward bullocks £5 14s, dairy cows £4 10s to £8, bulls £4' los to .£7, heifers £6 2_ Gd,

Fat Sheep. — 600 penned, princi pally wethers. There were several pens of really prime butchers' lambs Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co sold a pen of 69 ewes and wethers (shorn) for 13s. '