LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 795, 19 April 1910, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Freeman E. Jackson and Op. furnish dotails of stock sales as follow:—On April 13, at our Wanganui 6ale we had a yarding of 420 head of cattle, 6460 sheep, and 186 pigs. Tho attendance was nood, most of tho cattle sold well. Sheep wero inclined to bo somewhat-easier; However, ae quitted ail the yarding eiccpt a pen of owes and a line of wethers.■: Hue sold at lato rates. On April 15, at our Waverley sale wo yarded 2uOO sheep and 4SO cattle. Although the weather wa3 very ■boisterous, wo had a largo attendance of buyers.- Tho bulk'of tho cattle were sold ueiore the day closed at' satisfactory nricea. ' All tho sheep yarded sold. Good lambs, and wothers maintained lato values, but aged owes, wore somewhat harder to .quit.. Wα quote:-At lVasganni: Forwardwethers, 13s. 54. to 14s. Id.; two-and fourtooth wothers, 13b. to 13s. 6d.; two-tooth wethers, 12b. Id.; two-tooth cwc3, 12s. 9(1. to 135.; light forward wethers, 14s. 4d.; shorn lambs (good), Bs. to 10s. 6d.; small lambs, ss. 3d. to ss. 6d.; medium lambs, 6s. 6d.; fat woolly lambs, 12g.; full-mouth eweß in lamb (good), 9s. 6d. to 9s. 10d.; full-mouth ewea (medium), 7s. 6d. to Bs. 6d.; full-moutli ewes, 4s.'to 6s. 6d.; empty forward' ewes, ■ 9s. Bd.; fat ewes, 10s. to 12a.. 6d.; Komney rams, 2*gns.; aged rams, 10s. to 205.; Lincoln rams, six-tooth (good), l}gas. Oattlo: Fat heifers, £5 25.; fat cows,' £4 11s. to £4 17s. 6d.; fat bullocks, £7 155.; forward bulloclis, £7 35.; tlirce-ycar £5 10s.; tut and forward heifers, £4 to £4 10s.; weaners, 255. to 355.; others, 205.; eighteenmonth - steers, £2 19s. 6d. to £3 25.; empty cows, £3 to £3 55.; fifteen-month heifers, £2 Us. 64.; cows and calves, £4 55.; small weaners, 12s. to 14s. 6d.; bulls, £3 to £3 165.; dairy cows, £4 to , £4 17s. 6d. Pigs: Bows, 303. to £2; heavy porkers. 245. to 255. 6d.; good porkers, 225. to 235. 6d.; medium do., 19s. to ■ 215.; stores, Uβ. to 15.!.; weaners, 7s. to 10s. At TVaverlcy: Three to three and a'.half-year steers, £4 ss. to 34 12s. 6d.; two and a half-year steers, £3 165.; tiro-year steers, Si to £3 65.; weaners, £1 2s. 6d. to 265.; twelve to flftoen-month steers, £2 10s.; cows. £3 7s. 6d. to £3 12b. 6d.; forward cows, £4 to £4 55.; springing cows, £3 17s. 6d. to £6; young heifers in calf, £2 175.; sprineinK heifers, £4 10s. to £5; others, £4; fresh two and a half-year heifers, £3 135.; mixed young cattle, 355. to £2 175.; bulls, £3 to £3 10s.; fat and forward wethcre (good), 14s. 6d.; store wethers, 12s. 6d. to 13s. 6d. ; threc-quart«r-bred wethers. 10a. 6d.; small do., 65.; bush wethers (rough), Bs. to 9s. 4d.; empty ewes, Bs. 2d. to £s. 6d.; store ewoa, 4s. to 65.; four-tooth ewes (small), 0:1. Id.; Bood ewes in lamb. 9s. 6d.; uood lambs, Bs. to 9s. Id.; medium lambs, 60. 4ii. to 6a. Bd.; aged- shcop, 3s. 6d, Flea; ,'Storca, 7b. 6d.