LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 798, 22 April 1910, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report:— At our Palmerston sale yesterday we had very good yardings of sheep and cattle, tho prices ruling being very satisfactory to buyers. Empty ewes, 6s. 9d., 7s. 4d., 75.; 9d.; small two-tooth ewes, to 10s. lid.; woolly, larabs, to 10s.'- Sd.j weaners, 38s. to 315.; calves, to 285.; empty heifers,. £2 Is.- 6d.; fat heifers, £4 Is. to £5 95.; two and a, half-year to three-year steers,-£4' ; 6s. to £4 195.; eighteen-months steers, to £3; three and a half-year bul-, locks, £6 35.; forward bullocks, to £7.-' ' Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report holding tieir fortnightly stock sale at the saleyardsi Seddon, this weoli. Thero was & good entry, the yarding consisting of about 21100 mixed sheep, 1 horse, 2 cows, and 4 pigs. There was. also a Rood attendance of buyers, but pricee for fats showed a fall owing to the export buyers not operating, this being due to the freezing works at Pioton closing down on Saturday until a Home boat arrives, and relieves them. The ilrm disposed of every- - thins under, tho hammer, with tho exception of 2 small pens. Prices ruled as follow:—Wethers, Bs. 10d., 9s. 3d.,'105. 10d., and Us.; f*t, 15s.;.ewes, fat, 75.'6 d., Bs., 9s. Id., 10s., Us.-91,-'and 125.; lambs, fat, 9s. 6d., 9s. Bd., to 10s. 6d.; lambs, Bs. 2d. to 9s. Id.; hack, £4 55.; cows: heifers, in profit, £5 2s. 6d.; heifer, 18 months, £2 7s. 6d.; pigs, 12s. to Us. 6d. . .

■Messrs. Abraham. and' Williams, Ltd., report S3 follows:—At OtaUi on Wednesday a good yarding of cattle met a ready 6alo at auction, and all escept one lot was sold, at satisfactory prices. The entry of sheep consisted chiefly of small lines of lambs, for which' thero was- domand, and. very few, were'sold. Quotations:— Pat lambs, 55.; store lambs, 55.-4 d.; cull lambs, 2s. 3d.; owes in lamb, mixed ages, ,9s. 3a.; fat cows, £4 Bs. 6d. to £4 155.; forward, cows, £3 ss. to £4 ,65.; springing cows, £5 ,to £5 65.; spring calving cows, £4 to £5 -10s.; cows in milk, £4 to £s;' yearling eteers, £2 55.; weaners, 20s. to 275. 6d. t0.325., to 355. Messrs. libraham andsWilliams; *litd., report on their.. Johnsonville sale, held on Wednesday, as follows:—We offered a Tery' prime yarding of sheep and cattle, which' sold; readily without any quotablo change. Best bullocks, "£8 175.--6d.j medium weight, £8 ss. to £8 7a. 6d.; lighter, £7 15s. to £fl 2s. 6d.; prime vealers, 365. to £2;' lighter,' Sis. to 335.;. prime heavy weathers, 16s. 10d. to 175.; good wethers, 15s. 9d. fj 16s'.;' plain, 135.; prime ewes, 13s. 6d. to Ms. Id.; good ewes; 12s. lid.- to 13s. 3d.; plain ewes, 12s. - 3d.; good- shorn: lambs, 9s. 10d. to 10s. 6d;; plain shorn, Bs. to 95.; good woolly lambs,-11s.-9d. to '125..'10 d.; plain,''9s. '6d. to 10s. 6d.; slips, Bs. 3d.

Messrs. 'Abraham and Williamß, Ltd., report that at their sale at Palmcrston North on Thursday, they offered an entry of 5000 sheep, consisting chiefly of aged owes. There was , a fair demand, and, with the exception of two pons, all lines changed 7 hands. Ah. average entry of cattle met with good competition, "and all lots wero sold. Quotations-.—Two and 4-tooth forward wethers, 13s. 4d.; two-tooth wethers, 125.; forward ewes (empty), Bs. 9d.; empty storo ewes, 6s. 6d. to Bs.; cull- empty ewes, 23. 6d. to 4s. 7d.; good four-tooth to f.m. ewes, in lamb, 10s. 6d. to Us. 5d.; s.m. ewes in lamb, Bs. to 95.; f.m., low condition ewes, in lamb, 6s. to 7s. 9d.; empty twotooth, halfbred Shropshire ewes, 10s.; small woolly lambs, 4s. lOfl.j shorn lamDß, 5s 6d. to ss. lid.; cull lambs, 3s. 2d. to la. Id.;, thrco-ycar forward bullocks, £6; empty forward cows; £3 125.; fat cows, £4 10s. to £4 12s. 6d.; good weaners, 275. 6d. to 335.; small weanors, 125.; springcalving heifers, £4 to £5; empty forward heifers. £3 10s.; springing heifers, £5 4s. 6d.; cows, in,milk, £4 to £5 ss.