LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 669, 20 November 1909, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

-I'Mossrs. Dalgoty and Co., Ltd., report as follows:—At out Fcilding aalo yesterday thoro was only a small entry of sheep and cattle. • Principal sales.—Shorn two-tooth owes, .15a. Id.; ewe hoggets, 16a. 10d.; empty heifers, £2 95.-, two and a half-year steers, £3 155.: three-year steers, £S 12s. ■•;■., ■ - " Messrs. Dalgcty and Co., Ltd., report having held their fortnightly sale at Ekctahuna yesterday, when both sheep and cattlo camo' in over advertised'numbers. Sheep in most.caßcs did not sell too freely under the hammer, but the firm disposed oi most of their entries before thd day closed. Cattle sold well-at lato~rates. Quotations:-Sheep: Fat ewes,.-. 16s. 3d.; owes and lambs, 15s. to 18s. 3d.; empty forward ewes, 12s. 7d. Cattlo: Three-year steers, £5; two and a half-year steers;- £3 10s. to £3 17s. 6d.; forward empty cows, £2 10s. to £3 25.; yearling heifers, 395.; dairy, cows,-£2 to £7 55.; bulle, up to £3. - - . ■'.' . : i The weekly stock report of the Feilding branch of- the. Now Zealand Loan, and Mercantile Agency Company is as follows:—At Kimbolton on Tuesday only a small yarding came forward. Quotations: Mijod yearlings, 30s. to 315.; bulls, to £3.75. 6d.: weaner . pies, lls.. 155., to 16a.; horses, £4; dairy cows. £5; springing heifers, .£3 103.- cows in milk, to £5; springing heifers, to £3 10a. At Foilding on Friday a medium entry of sheep mot with a good sale. Very few cattle were yarded, and tho demand was quiet, very' few buyers being present.- We quote:— Two-tooth wethers, 9s. 3d.; four-tooth wethers, '108. Id. to Us. 3d.; fat owes, Us. 9d.; store ewes, 7s. 10d.;■ aged.ewes, with lambs, 10s. 3d.; weaner heifers,-315.; dairy cows, £3 2s. 6d-to £4 7s. 6d.; • store cows, 325. 6d.; yearling bulls, 325. 6d.; three-year'bulls, ; £3. 7»..6d. ..• .■' ■' ■•- Mr. Newton. King's weekly etock report is as follows:r-At Douglas on. Monday , there was a fnll yarding of cattle, with a good 'attendance of buyers. . Bidding was brisk, and practically everything 'sold ■at the hammer. . Mixed. yearlings made 335. 6d. to -38s. 6d.; .yearling eteers, 345. to 435.; '. yearling heifers, 375. 6d.; fifteenmonth ■ steers, ■£2 Bs.; 18-month heifers,. £2 95.; two-year empty heifers, £2 18s. 6d. to £3 12s. 6d.j store cows, £2 10s. to £3;' forward do., £3 3s. 6d. to £4 35.; fat. cows, £5; fat heifers, £4. 14s. 6d,; two-year mixed, £2 175.; 'three to four-year bullocks, £5 10s.; springing heifers, £4 to £5; bulls, £2 to £5 4s. 6d. At-Stratford on Tuesday yearling steers made 38s. 6d. to 455.; yearling heifers, 375. 6d. to, 445.; two-year empty heifers, £2 13s; to £3; store cows, £2 10s. to £3 55.; , forward do., £3 7s. .to £3 155.; fat cows, £4 6s. to £5'45.; fat heifers, £4. 75.; two-year steers. £3 to £3 7s. 6d.; three and a half to-four-year bullocks, £5 ss. to £5 155.; bulls, £3 to £4 2s. 6d.'■ At .the. springing heifor - sale on-, tho ■ same'day, heifers close to profit and.good quality made £6 to £7 ss'.; ordinary sorts, £4 to £5 7s. 6d.; springing cow 3, £5 ss. to £7 12s. 6d.; backward do., £3 ss.'to £4 7s. 6d.; pedigree Jersey bull, 16 guineas. l '.•■-■.' - ,■■..'■ ]■;■'■