LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 648, 27 October 1909, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Abraham and>.Williams, Ltd.,-.report-on their Johnsonvillo sale, held yesterday,, as follows:—A heavy entry of-isheep and-:n medjun*. one of bullocks came forward and sold rapidly..Best bullocks. £8 ISs.' 6d.- to £8 17s. 6t1.; lighter,-; £7 155., equal to 225. per hundred lb.; primo heavy woolly wethors, £1 os.-6d.; prime • woolly, wethers, 18s. 6d.; primo show wethers.-.IBs. 7d;: medium, 125.; primo shorn ewes. 11s.' 7d.; plain, iOs. Id. A heavy yardinc of lambs realised -as follows:—Prime, 11s. to lie.- 4d.; good, 10a. 6d. .to 10s. 10d.; lighter, 10a. '• -...■;■; . • < . Concerning their Pahiatua sale yesterday. Messrs. Abraham' and Williams report .a..fair yarding of sheep and cattle. Sheep mot with Rood inquiry.. VF.m. ewes and lambs, 16s. -3d.: 2 and 4-tooth wethers, 15a. lid.: fat- shorn wethers. 13s. 6d.; mixed hoEEets, 13s. 6d. to Us. .«.; 18 to 24-month steers, 61s. to 735. 6d.: yearling steers, 525.; dairy cows, close to profit. 'ICOs. to 1275. (id.-; backward heifers, 625. 6d. to 675. 6d.; light fat, heifers. 705.; empty heifers. 595.; yearling heifers, 375. 6d.; bulls, 50s. to 107s. (3d. . ■ ' . : . '■ At Fahiatna yesterday, tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.'had-a fair yard-, ing of sheep and a good yardinE of cattle, land prices were well,maintained. Four and bi'x, f.ra. ewes, with lambs. 153. 9d.; mixed- hogßOts, 13a. 6d.; B.m. ewes, empty. 11s. i 2,' 4, and 6-tooth owes, emnty, 13a. 4d. to 13s. 10d.; .dairy cowb, 955. to 1325. 6d.; poorer sorts, 705., to 80s.; dairy heifers, 975. to 110s.; bulls, 455., 605., 725. 6d. to '1203. ... ' .-• -- ' ■ • Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., renort on their Masterton cattle fair, held this'week,, as follows:—A' yarding of: upwards of one thou-' sand head of;cattle was.submitted tola very' large attendance of ' buyers.' Tho< bullocks offored, both as regards quality and condition,were aa good' as anything in this class that has been offered in the Wairarapa for some years past. and. all lota met with keen competition, notably the offetinpr on account, of llossrs. H. Morrison Guy, .0. Williams, ■A. ■J. Btone-Wie~. ,and Dr. Andrew. The sale opened with brisk bidding, and animated competition for all classes was sustained to the end.' With tho eiception of the younger cattle, .of .;which the Quality of tho offorine was only medium, .and did not command the high prices anticipated, we have to report an almost total clearance, at prices which niuat be onsidcred eminently satisfactory to the vendors.:. Quotations:"—Cattle: Fat and.very forward bullocks, £7 ss. to"£7 75.; wellforward bullocks, £6:135; to £6 .18s.;, others, according to condition, £6 Is., £5 18a.,"£5 145., £5 12s. down to £5 10s.; 3-year-old.stecrsi £5 4s. to' £5 14a.; 2-year-old steers', ■ i>2, IBs*.-up-:to £4 6s, according to duality; .yearling' stecroi £2 3s. to £2 11s.; fat cows, £4 to £5 Bs.; forward empty cows, £2 15s. to £3 Us.; cowa with.'small percentage of calves, good quality, but in low condition, £3 6s. 6d.; empty heifers, £2- 6s. to £3 55.: yearling heifers, 30a. to £2 6s. :■ bulls, ; £1 to £5 ss. Sheen: Ewes, butchers' fats,'Uβ 4d. to 145.: ewes, .with small percentage of-..lambs, 15s. sa. (By . Tclcgrapti-Press 'Association.) •■" ■•■..■.•■ Stratford,' October 26. ; A saloof pedmreo.Jersey cattle was held hero to-day by Mr. Newton Kins. ■ The demand was keen, and prices good; tho top figure recbrded being realised for-.a three-year-oli'bull named Telephone, by Uncle iToby-llonopola, which was sold on account of Mr. A- Buchanan. . Palmerston North, to Mr. W: Bishop, Waitni, for 43 guineas: two yearling bulls, by Telephone, 19J and 17 guineas, cow, Bella 11, by Eoyal ialso on Hγ. Buchanan's account), 31jji guineas; cow, Carnation, by Carnation Fox-Olomehtino, 25 guineas. Yearling heifera realised up to 251 guineas, and calves 81 guineas.'