LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 599, 30 August 1909, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES.

■ Messrs. Dalgoty and Co., .■Uβ., report as, fol-lows:-At Wanganui on .-August 25 a good ontry, slightly in. excess, of advertised numbers, came foWrd, 1250 -sheep ana 350 cattle being varded.-. TJicra was a good .attendance, and Rood competition at slightly easier values, a total clearance, with the exception of two or three small pens of cattle, being effected under the hammer. At Wavcrlcy on August 27 a modium yarding of 300 sheep, and 150 cattle dime forward. With the exception of one or two smell pens of cattle, we had a goad clearance. We yarded tho first line'of owes and lambs offered this season, , a lino of 140 mixed aged Lincoln ewes, ■ with Lincoln lambs, comins forward, and-, realising 20b.- Quotations:— Forward wethers, 11s. Id.; mixed aged .store ■wethers, 11s.; smalb, woolly hoggcta, 10s. 6d.; medium mixed hoggets,.9s. 7d.; small mixed hoggets, 7s. 6d. to Bs. 2d.; aged ewes in lamb (backward),; Bs. 10d.; four-year-forward- bullocks, £4 193- 6-year do., £6 Is.; 3-year forward bullocks, £4 175.; 3-year store do., £4 65.; good two-year steers, £3-4s. to £3 10s.; medium do., £2145. >6d. to £2 195.; 18-months to 2-year steers, £2 Bs. 6d. (passed); light fat cows, £4 10s.; speyed cows, £3 Is.; 3-year speyed heifers, ,£2 16s. 6d.j β-monthospoyed heifers, £2 3s. 6d.; store cows, £2-95.; cows in milk, £3'ss, .to £4 155.; cull cows, £1 55.; store heifers,. £2 13s. 6d.; springing heifers, £4 10s.; medium do., £3 ,45.; mixed weancrs, £1 125.: bull, £2. 6s. 6d.;, stOB, £3; sa. Waverley: Mixed-aged Lincoln ewes in lamb; 20s • good Lincoln ewe lioggets, 13s. 7d.;. cull ewes, 2s. 6d.; fat cows, £4 ss. to .£4 .19s.' 6d.; springing cows, £4 ss. to £4 12s. 6d.j springing heifers, £4 H. to £5 95.; backward heifers. £2 17o.; 3-year steers, £4 11s. 6d.j 2-to 2J-year steors, £3 to-.£3 11s. to £3 12s. 6d.j 18-months steers, £2 ICs.;" -wcaner pigs, ss. to 15s. Messrs. Abraham and Williams,. Limited, report:—At' - 'our.-- Shannon . sale ■on .-, Friday, we had a fair yarding of eheep and a ■ good yarding. of. ca.ttlo. Stock of all descriptions sold well at auction, and practically every line changed hands. Quotations: Forward wethers,! 12s. 10d.; hoggets, 9s. 3d.; fat crossbred sheep, 13s. 6d.; ewes :nnd limbs 14s. 6d.; 18-monthe to '2-ycar steers, £3 75.; 18-monthe steers, £2 7s. 6d. to £3; heife.rs, in calf, £3 125.; springing cows, £3 15s. to £4 os. to £5 2s. 6d., to £6 12a. 6d.; empty heifere, 335. 6d. to £2; yearlings, mixed, 295. 6d.; bulls, £2 7s. 6d. At our opening pig sale, we yarded 120 head, tlieso principally comprising porkers and stores. All sorts sold well, particularly stores, and we sold practically the whole of our entry. Porkers made 28s. to 30s. to 335. 6d. to. 355. to 365., eoual to > about sd. per lb.; stores, from IBs. 6d. to 225. 6d. to'24s.; slips, 15s. 6d. W 19s. 6d. ...