FARMERS' UNION CONFERENCE DATES.
Farmers' Uniou Conferences will be held this year as follow: ..-. ~i ■ . End of May.—Canterbury. Provincial Confer;i;" once., .-..•'.- ■,' '•. . Otago—Not yet notified. '. End of July.—Dominion Conference, at Wol- ■_. ■ lington. . .'. .- A biennial conference of agricultural societies will'bo; hold in Wellington this year, probably at the."end of June. „ ■.•':', : LIVE. STOCK^SALES. 'V v Messrs. Dalgety : 'and"Company'.'raport that at their Marton sale.yestorday'i.i.thore-was a fair' entry of stock,:'whi.chi'.£old'''as : .fdllbws:—Small lambs, ss. Gd. to Gs: '4d.ji medium lambs, 76. 4d.; 2-tooth wethers, :i.l's.' 4d.'t6'. lis'.-3d.; mixed age ewes in lanib.' 9s. j-fat and forward ewes,' 9s. 4d;; cull mixed 2-toothe, Ss. 9d.; springing heifers',, £i 17s. 6d. to 45:55. , .' ■. ■ Our Pahiatua correspondent roports'that, at the stock sales held there yesterday, there was a fairly full yarding of both cattle arid sheep, but there .was only a poor'attendance of buyers, and the sale dragged very much • at the commencement,'though it livened up. a little towards the ,oloso of the day. Practically all lines were .cleared at slightly easier rates than those ruling at the. previous sale. Sheep: Two arid four-tooth wethers, 10s. 6d. to' lis.; fullmouth ewes in lamb, 9s. 6d.; two-tooth ewes in lamb, 125.; cull ewes, 2s. 3d.; lambs, ss; Id. to Bs. Cattle: Three and a half-year steers, 925. j two and a half-year-steers, 755.; oighteonmonths steers, 505.; empty cows, 425.; weaners, lGs. to 20s. ... , .:.'•. : ' •.-■■"• ; Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Jobnsonville sale,; held yesterday as follows:—A good entry of prime. bullocks and sheep were well..up to' requirements, and sold at late rates. 'Best bullocks, -£S: '7s. 6d. to 48 155.; lighter, £S to £8 .ss'.';'- prime heavy wethers, 14s. '7d. (to 155.; extra prime wethers, 16s. 6d.; extra primo ewes, 13s. 7d.; plain, 9s. to 9s. Gd;; lambs, lis. to lis. 4d<
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 523, 2 June 1909, Page 10
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293FARMERS' UNION CONFERENCE DATES. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 523, 2 June 1909, Page 10
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