LIVESTOCK MARKETS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 254, 27 October 1938, Page 11

LIVESTOCK MARKETS

THE WANGANUI SALE NO CHANGE IN PRICES To a normal attendance, Freeman R. Jackson and Co. offered a moderate yarding in all sections at yesterday’s Wanganui stock sale. Prices were firm and at last week’s rates. There was good competition on several pens of two-year empty Jersey heifers, and all classes of store pigs. As there have not been the usual spring heavy yardings of pigs, competitioh each week has been particularly keen. Prices were as follows: — Sheep.—Fat woolly ewes, 19s sd, 23s 3d; heavy shorn ewes, 15s 6d; fat, 14s 3d, 15s; fat woolly hoggets, good, to 275; average, 22s 6d, 245; light, 17s Id, 21s 9d; woolly wether hoggets, 17s Bd, 18s; ewe hoggets, to 255; ewes and lambs all counted 12s 4d. Cattle.—Prime good coloured exdairy cows, £7 10s, £8 2s 6d; prime Jerseys, £5 10s, £7 7s 6d; light, £4 ss, £5 ss; 2-year Hereford steers, £6 13s; small, £5 11s; store cows, £2 13s, £3; poor, £l, £1 17s 6d; 2-year empty Jersey heifers, £5 6s, £6 2s; crossbred do., £2 10s, £3 10s; backward dairy cows, £4, £6 ss; aged bulls, £4, £4 15s; 2-year-olds, to £6 10s. Pigs.—Choppers, to £2 15s; baconers, £2 18s, £3 7s; light, £2 12s, £2 16s; average porkers, £2, £2 11s; light, 30s, 40s; big stores, to £2 4s; small, 265, 30s; good weaners, 255, 295; small, 20s, 23s 6d. Vealers.—Average vealers, £2, £3; poor, 295, 37s 6d; calves, 9s, 15s 6d.