LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 666, 17 November 1909, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES.

A Messrs. 'Dalgety and Company - Ltd., reDort — At Wangaaui yesterday we /.yarded 400 Sin ?>?■? L„°'l i? >, 1S nB of sheep. On account of the. sale being held .on an off. day the 'attend ance was smaller, than usual. ' Competition was dull,- and prices :msler. V/'e proportion of the yarding,'however. Small mixed hoggets, 12s, Id.; cull, rams, 4s. 6d to 69,1 forward bullocks, £5 13s. 6d.'- store X (bad colours),.. £4 '■ Ms.';yearling /steers - £2 Ba two*ear,Ysteer f , £3; 'spring ■ward do., j£3 35.;. light.fat .cows/ £4' 4s. to £4 •&irforw«<l cows, '£3 -:19a. -./storo-cows', £2 9s to |f;»|;^^llnng;cows,: £3 ; £4 8, bulls! ■ Messrs. Abraham - and Williams, Limited ro. port on salelt held yesterday as- follows t-rWa offered a heavy .yarding romorißinE eco;.saOTfi,'ea.toini«, and 55 cattle. Aich

sold readily at late rates. Best bullock mado' from £9, to £9 55.; lighter, £8 15s. to-£8 17s. 6d.; fat cows,-medium quality, £5; lighter, £3 1/s. : 6d.; medium 'duality.' woolly wethers, 18s. 6d;; good. Bhorn wethers, 145.; medium, 13s. to 13s. Bd.; , prime . ewes, 12s. ,7d. to 12a. Ud.; gaod butchers' owes, 12s. 3d.; plain light, sorts, 10s. td.;-prime lambs, 12s. to 125.-. 4d;,-, lighter, 10s. to lis. lOd. . .- Messrs. • Dalgety and' ;Companv,/-iitd.i'-. report as follows:—At our Marton sale yesterday there was: a fair entry of sheep and cattle. ,1 Shorn calls owes, 55.; fat shown owes, 10s. 2d.; old ewes,' small percentage' lambs, lis. Id.; fat 1 and forward woolly ewes, 125.; sound-mouth ewes, with lambs, 17s. 10d.; empty cows, 505.; forward cows, £3; forward heifers, £5 55.; backward springing hoifers,. £4 53.; empty heifers, £3; 20-moiiths steers, £3 os. 6d. to £3 55.; two-year steers, £4. > *. '. ■ : The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., reporting • on their monthly sale at Ponparoa on November 12, state that prices realised'• wero as follow:—Hoggets, (mostly wethers), up to Us.;-empty 18-inonth heifers, up to .£2 155.; IS-month steers, £i 25.; two-year steers, £3 17s. 6d.; two-year ■ empty, heifers, £2 18s. 6d.; springing heifers,: £2-10s.' to £3 65.; store cows, 50s. to 605.; bulls, £3 os. 6d. Concerning, tho..Pahiatna stock sales yester,day the New. Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report a good entry. Empty ewes, 12s. 6d. to 12s. Bd.; hoggets, mixed sexes, 13s. 6d. to 145.; wethers,. 155.; 20-months steers, 475. 6d.; two-year steers, 845.; two-year* empty heifers, 51s. to 525. 6d.; yearling heifers, 375.; dairy heifers,'at profit; 60s. to 100s.'; storo.cows, -435. to 508.; nulls, 50s. to 80s. ' ' Messrs. Dalgely and Company, selling at Pahiatua yestorday, disposed of their entry at the following prices;— Ewes, with lambs, 16s. to 18s. 7d.; two-tooth shorn wethers, Bs. Vd.; empty-ewee, 9s. 3d,; woolly hoggets, 14a. Id.; good two-year steers, 725. 6d.; two. and a half to three-year steers, 87s. . .-.