COMMERCIAL.

Western Star, 1 April 1920, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

WALLAOTOWN STOCK SALE, Harvest operations and the necessary work of the late autumn, no doubt influenced the yarding at the Wallacetown yards on Tuesday, little stock being offered. There was a small attendance of buyers. Fat Cattle. —Medium quality predominated in the fat pens, only a few head of prime bullocks being auctioned. The sale opened with prices on a par with recent sales, but a> hardening was noticeable as the salei progressed, and a few well-finished bullocks offered by Mr A. L. Gerrard met with a good demand, the top price being £22 5/- for a good steer. Prices at auction, for bullocks were as, follow; —Prime medium weights, £l7 ’ 7/6 to £22 5/-; good mediums, £l4 to £l6 10/-; light and unfinished, £lO to £l3 15/-. There was a fair yard" iug of cow and heifer beef, and the demand for prime quality was good.! Prime cows ranged from £l2 to £ls 5/-; light and unfinished, £8 15/- to £ll 7/6; heifers sold at from £9 5/toi £l2. Store Cattle. —The store, yairding, was small and prices except (for calves remained about the same as the previous sale. Two and a-half year steers soldi at-' £8 11/-; two-year-heifers, £0 10/-; yearlings up to £3; calves, 30/-; while dairy cow's ranged up to £l2. Fat Sheep.—The closing of the work for Easter prohibited freezing buyers from operating freely, apd prices showed a : decline on 'the previous sale. The top price obtained was 44/5 for a good line of withers sold on account of Mr H, S. Irving, but for the other lines offered bidding was slow and business hard to effect. Prime wethers sold at, 44/5, lighter classes from .34/9 to 36/-. The quality off the ewes penned was not high, the majority requiring finishing. Prime ewes realised 31/- to 33/3, light and unfinished, 25/- to 29/1. A fe\y: pens of fat lambs were offered, but only one pen was sold at auction, being knocked down at 24/3. / Store Sheep.—The prices for store sheep maintained the same level as those ruling at recent sales, the demand being chiefly for good forward lambs and sappy ewes, but tlier s was little of this class offered. The rest of the sale dragged and little business was effected at auction.