Late Burnside Stock Report.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7, 20 February 1908, Page 17

Late Burnside Stock Report.

F.at Cattle.— l 69 forward, about half of which were -good 'quality 'bullocks. Prices were about 10s per head higher than at fast sale. Best - bullocks, £9 '-'ss- to £10 15s ; extra, up to £11 -12s 6d ; medium, £\% 10s to £9 5s ; inferior, £6 15s to £7 15s. Sheep.— ls7B penned. Prices were slightly better than those ruling last week. Best ■ wethers, 18is"6d to 20s j extra, up to 23s 3d ; good, 17s to 18s ■; medium' 14s 6d to 16s ; best ewes, 16s 9d to 18s ; extra, up to 20s ; good, 13s 6d to 15s ; medium., 11s to 13\\. There were about 400 store sheep forward, fifty of which were sold -at 12s 3d, twenty at 9s 3d, the balance being passed in. Lamte.— A fair yarding of 1209. Prices were on a par with those of last week Sest lambs, 14s 6d to l'6s 6d ; extra, up to 17s 6d ; medium, 12k 6d-to 14s • • light, 10s 9d to 12s. Pigs. — A fair yarding. Prices for stores and porkers were slightly easier, but suckers and slips- were •firmer. Suckers, 13s 6d to 15s ; "slips, 17s to 20®; stores 23s to 27s 6d ; porkers, 33s to 38s ; light baconers' -42s to. 455 ( ; heavy do, 48s to 55s ; choppers, top to 645.