STOCK MARKET.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 25 June 1928, Page 6

STOCK MARKET.

IN WAIMATE DISTRICT. THE WEEK KEXIEWED. Aged ewes were about the t sheep offering, so that business the sheep market has been coii*b practically to them. There s strong demand for good sol mouthed ewes or younger sheep.l as none tire offering part of the 4 mand is transferred to the 1 ewes which are in supply. A few ewe hoggets are on I market, and are offering at from! to 3'2 but .business is slot buyers are afraid of a high dn rate. Wethers in forward condid are finding buyers at from 32;35/-, but the supply is limited 8 ers generally have abundant h and exoeet . remunerative prices the season advances. There are not many sherpi lambs for freezing about now, I the Studholme sale on llelned should sec all available al® sold. Sales during the week nff’ 150 half-bred ewes up to fotfr" old, not guaranteed sound, * 80 f.m. /'-bred ewes in good* l dition 21/-; 80 f.m. -bred etc poorer condition, 18/0: hill •" lambs which had been on some time, 18 -; fairly la*? 1 of fat ami forward hill 35'-; :;-bred two-year-old *' 37/-. The cattle market is quirt 1 only transaction of any note ing the week was a line ’I months to 2A-year-old steers good store condition, which s*> £7 per head. The animals ’ mostly Shorthorn crosses.

CANTERBURY FAT STOCK PRICES. The following are prices for fat stock, lor th l ' killing:— Woolly lambs. first 361bs 12.1 d; 37 to 421 - Hi . 421bs Hid; second quality 1 • Wethers, first quality W , B]d, 49/56 lbs Bd. 57 64W* 65/721bs 6(d; over 721b= « ’ ond quality 6Jd. Ewes, under 481bs s|d, 57/641bs sid. *’•* 1 over 721bs 4Jd