LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 715, 14 January 1910, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgety arid Company, Ltd., re* port- that, at their Palmerston sale.yes'terday. a small entry of stock \camo forward, the demand for which' was not Keen. Ewes with small percentage of lambs (all counted), 6s.'; fat and forward ewec.- Ss. 3d.; medium wi?slly lambs.- ?s.; backward springing heifers, £4.55.;: springing heifers, £5.55. to £6i • 'Messrs.. Dalgety and Co., Ltd.,-report as' follows:—At. our Hunterv;ille ssale on Tuesmedium yarding of stock came forward, cattle meeting a ready sale. Quotations:' Yearling steers/ £2 12s; 6d.; • fifteen to. eighteen-monthe. steers, £3 ;55., £5 • 63.; -two and. a half-year steers,.. £4 Os. 6d.; two and a . half arid' three-year steers., £4 155.; store.cows, £3.25."6 d. " Messrs.- Dalgety and Co., Ltd.. report:— At our. Taihape/sale, on Wednesday,- we. had a-.very igood yarding of both sheep and cattle. . ' Although the /demand.-;for sheep was not particularly keen; we man-aged.-to \Quit nearly the. whole of our entry at satisfactory prices. Cattle - were, eagerly competed for, .-and all lots were sole? at auction. . Quotations:—Small mised two-tooths, Bs. 5, small two-tooth wethers. Ba. 10d.; good two-tooth wethers, to 10s. Id.; fat - and' forward wethers, 10a. 4d.; . fat wethers, lis. 2d.; mixed-age ewes, ..for fattening purposes,' 75.; .two-tooth ewes, fair quality, 135.; to/ 13s. Id.; four, . six, and f.f.m. -ewes,-12s;; . small mixed yearlings, '335.; store cows, £3; forward cows, £3 45.; eighteen-montha and two-year steers,. £3 lis.;- two and •; a half-year steers, £4 7s. 6d. to £4 10s,; three-year steers, £5. ' , Messrs.. Dalgety ; and , Co;', Ltd., report having-held their rfortnightly sale at theirUpper ,Hutt. Yards yesterday. . Stock came :forward :upvto advertised numbers, .and filled, tho yards to overflowing. 'A -'nrac.tically'complete clciaranco ,-of stock yarded.: was' made, at prices very, satisfactory to- . vendors. / Sheep:: Forward wethers, 10b.; fat. ewes, 6s. 10d.; good forward ; lambs, 75./ld. to Bs.; 6d.; small/woolly lariibs." ss. Id.; aged brceding'/cu'cs.-fis. Id. .t0..7p., 3d.:) cull lambs, 3s;\7d. v Cattle, of which' over 300/ head were yarded, .sold as ' follow:— Forward two and a half and' three-year steers, r £3 10s., £4 ss;, £4 10s.,'and-£4 lis'.;' eighteen-month to two-year steers, £2 13s. to • £2. 195.; good wcaners, 255.; fat and forward cowar £3 12s. and £3 12s. 63.; store empty cows, £1 10s., to< £2 17s/.6d.;. . dairy • cows, from. £3 ss. to-/£6; young bulls,. £2 Is., £2.55., £3 55., and £4; ased bulls, ;£2 9s. ' '• v Messrs. Abraham . and Williams/ Ltd/, report 1 oil' their<Palmerston' sale, held^yes-' terday, aa follows: —We ofFered a good yarding of-,both sheep and cattle. Sheep .were very, dull :6f sale,- and were practically'all passed .in under the hammer. We; managed,, howover, to quit privately. Cattle, met-with ,very brisk sale. and. ;'we:havevto. report;. a'. ; total/clearance. We offered several : very' nice;.' lines, of fat he if ers' -0 n" account' of Mr.-' C. 'B; ;! Tattel*aall, : Kairanga, which made from £4 3s. ! 6d. to. £5 .Js. A lino of forward bullocks,', on account of the same vendor, realised ; £6 25., and 'a truck of fat.-bullocks, £7. I We':. auote~~Sheep: Two-tooth :; forward wethers, ; 9s. 6d.; : fat ewes, 9a.: forward I bullocks,- £6 2b.',' lisht' fat 'bullocks.. £7;. steers ,'frbm v £4' ,7s. 6d; to £4 12s.> 6d. heifers," £5 Is., ; £5 os. 6d;, to" £4 3g.' fid.; . fat' cows, £4 '195.; Ayrshire I .heifers: in calf, £3';. weaners,,* £l.'to £1 3s.' 6d.; - springing/ heifers,, £3- -165.; store cows, • I 30s. to £3 ,13s.'; bulls, £1 to ; £2 2s. 6d.; 1 cows in milk, . £3-to'£4. . 1

.Messrs./ Abraham : arid WiUiams. Ltd., .report 'as.follo.wß:—At .Waikanac, on Wednesday, 'we' yarded ZOCO sheep of various descriptions,, our' yards being taxed to the utmost. /.-Buyers'were' represented in largo numbers, .and .we have' to : report a most ■successful sale. We' 6old the .whole yarding except one lino of aged ewes and onb line of wstliers, at very satisfactory Drices. We had a, small yarding of cattle, which met with'- a,-ready sale:,-.- Wc tiuoic:—Cull woolly;.lambs, :4s. to '4s. 2d.; small 1 Bhorn lambs,-' Ss.; woolly rapo lambs, 75. : 9d.; shorn ■ rape lairibs, ,7s. Id.; four-year breeding .'ovres,' 10s. lOd.: two-tooth' owes. 10s. 9d. to: 125.. to, 12s:; Bd.; - sforo - owes,' Bs.: fat ewes; :10s.;: 6d.'; fat .wethers, lis. MS. ■ to' ; 12fc'. 3d;; ' forward [Withers, 10s. to 10s. Sd.': to'.lOs. 6d.: two-tooth wethers.- 95.: ' mixed vreaners,'2Bs. 6d.; .three-year steers,-£4 Ss. to' £4-. iOs; 6d.; two-year steers. £3 10s.;' eigbteen-months 1 steers,' '£2-12s. 6d.; "cows arid calves, -'£2.155.:: heifers: in calf. = £2 7s. to: £3;: yearling '.bull,' ,21s:; ; aged, bull, iSS..