LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 646, 25 October 1909, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgoty'and Company, Limited, report; having held their-' fortnightly slock salo at--tho Upper Hutt on Friday, when'a medium yarding of ooth shcop and cattle .camo forward.:. Corapetition was good,, .and pro/jtioaliy. the ; .wholo varding was sold, at '.satisfactory, pricyri ias '{follow:—Sheep: Mixed-aged' ewes, with ' about-': 100 per 1 cent, lambs, 16a.; medium hoggets, Ho.; fat: and forward wethers,' 15s. Cattlo:. Tho yardmg mostly comprised of inferior a.ort6. " Springing heifers, £3 6s. i cows, calvos atfoot,' JE2' 10s;. to £4; forward cows, £3 lCs.; threo-ycar stcors,' bad colours, £3 55.; and two-year steers, £3;' bulls, £1- 15s: to' £2'lis.; mixed yearlings, >'£! 16s. Horses: Hacks, £5 :2b. 6d. -to £7 12s. 6d.;'. five-year mare, with gig, £12. "Pigs:. Bcrkshir.i. boar, £1' 10s.;. sow. in pig, £4 lb.',' Sundries: Alpha separator, £4 125. : 6d.; .ohurn, ; Jsl -,;123.;: ducks, 25.. 6d. each;.sheep dog. £2 75.; other sundries,sold well. :■ .; .•'...,; ... ;::. Messrs. Abraham and .Williams,"'Limited, 're-' port ac- follows.—At Shannon,, on Friday, we had a small yarding of sheep and a good yard., ing of cattle. 'AH ■ classes, 6old well,; and :.we, sold tho whole yarding, bar three pons of steers. Hosgets, 13s. 4d.; fat ewes, 15s. to Ms.;, two-year ■ heifers, £2 7s. 6d. .tol£2 12a. 6d.: two-yrar steers, £2 195.; voarling steers, 305.. to 385.: empty eown;'> £2 125.-6 d. to £3 fs.;'Bpringing'hcifers, '£5 95.,-.6 d. to £5 10s.; dairy cows, £4 10s. Wo also, yarded 150 pigs of various-descriptions. Porkers-wore rather easier, but stores' sold fnlly iip to recent 'quotations..-, Porkers,-265. 6d„ 28b. 6d.,-305., a2s.. 6d„ 345.. 6d.,'or. equal to 4d. nor lb.; good stores; 225. 6d. to 235. 6d. to 255. 6d.; Blips. -15s. to 17s. 6d.: weancrs, 133.; choppers, £3 7s. 00. < .