LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 739, 11 February 1910, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

' Messrs. Dalgoty and Co., Ltd.. rooort having; hold their fortnightly stock sale at . Upper . Hutt yards .yesterday.■: Sheep came forward- fully up to advertised numbers. .Thoro was : a good attendance of 1 farmers, and prices obtained were quite up to recent quotations. The following prices were realised:—Sheep:; Full, with owes,, 6s. :9d., ,Bs. 7d„ 10s. 3d.;.aged ewes,; lis.';-.-woolly rape lambs, ,75.,.-75.. 6d.; shorn, rape lambs, ss. lid., 65.;-,. Bmall .woolly lambs,' 4s. 2d.; aged Romnoy rams, 10s. to 15s. There, was also, .a fair yarding of cattle, and we cleared 'all lots at the following prices :—Dairy t heifers, £5, £6 65., £7 55.; store cows, £3 105... £3 135., £3 14s. 6d.; ■ forward'steers, £5 125.,' £6; fat cows, £3 10s., £3 155.,.£4 7s. 6d.'; fifteen to eighteen-month steers, £2.125.; two-year •steers, £3; eighteen-month heifers, £2 55.; young bulls,,£l to £2 ss. "•'•..■

" Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Limited, report that, at their sale at, Palmorßton North,, held on- Thursday."-there' was a good yarding of sheep, anu a medium one of cattle. Sheep were in good demand, and, a. total-clearance was effected, witn the' exception;of one pen.' Prices realised wore;— Four and; five-year-old ewes, 10s.; aged owes, 4s. 9d., ss. 6d., to Bs. 7d.; lambs, 3s. ;3d„; ss. :7d., to 10s. Id.; fat owes,, 9s.j Shropshire rams; 155.: 'full-mouth Komncy rams, 305.. . Oattlo: Fat cows. £4 10s. to £4 '145.; store cows,'.£3 Is., to £3 3s. 64.;' bulls, 255. to £2; weaners, 20s. to 275. At their sale at Baumai, held, on Tuesday, February 8, there' was a very : good yarding.of shebp and .cattle. ShoeD were in Bood demand, and : in every case vendors received more than their-reserves. Rape' lambs,:'7s.,. 7s. 2d..' and 7s.- 6d.; small lambs, .4s. ,6d. to 4s. Hd.; two-tooth owes, 135.; 6d..tO'. 14s.- 4d.;- four,- six,'" and f.m. ewes,-:' 10s. Id.; aged ; rams, 9s. 3d. Cattle:' Two-year-old . steers, •-,. £3 .-. 10s.:• • ■ eighteenmonths .steers,: £2 Is.'-' to" £2 10s.; .weaners,' 17s. ■;; cows. in calf,. £2; 15s.'; forward cows, 355: to; £3. 165..' ..'.".. -.