LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 868, 14 July 1910, Page 7

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report.— At our Hastings sole yesterday good entries of sheep aud cattle were placed befoie the buyers, who attended iu large numbers, despite the heavy rain which continued all day. Beef and store cattle were easier, as compared with prices realised lately. Sheop gold well, anything with wool on going off readily. Fat bullocks, £3 10s.; fat cowi?, £5 10s.; four-year-old bullocks, from .€6 10s.; two and a. half-year steers, £4 55.; cow;; in calf, •£3 Is.; empty heifers, £3 lCs.; fat ewes, from 12s. 6d. to 155.; ewes in lamb, 9s. lid. to Bs.; woolly mixed hoggets, lis.; shorn mixed hoggets, from 7s. 9d. Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report:— At our Wanganui sale yesterday we yarded SCO cattle and 1500 sheep. Cattle were briskly competed for, and we have to report a total clearance, with the exception of several dairy cows. Sheep were dull under the hammer, but we effected a good clearance he/ore the close of the day. Vi r e Quote:—Fat cows, £5 Vs.; forward do,, £4; forward three-year bullocks, £6 2s. 6d. to £6 10s.; three-year steers, £5 55.; two aud a half-year to three*year steers, £4 Bs. to £4 IQr.; 18 to 20-month steers, £3 125.; yearling steers, £3 7s. 6d.; cows and calves, £4 12s. 6d.; 15-month heifers, £2 175.; weaner heifers, hand-fed, £2 ss. 6d.; springing heifers, JJ4 ss. to £5; dairy cows. £4 10s., £5, £6, £6 10s., to £8. Messrs. Dalgety aud G'o„ Ltd., report having held their fortnightly sale in the Waipawa- yards at Masterton yesterday, when they offered a. good yarding of both cattle aud sheep, which came forward well above advertised numbers. Unfortunately, the rough weather interfered a great deal with the attendance of buyers, but competition was keen, and tho firm report a total clearance of all sheep yarded. The cattle yarded were not of the class that are bid for in these yards, aud, therefore, sales were rather slack. However, the best part of the yarding changed handr, well up to market raUs. Quotations:—Fat owes, up to 145.; fat wethers, to 16s. 2d.; forward wethers, 14s. Bd.; f.m. ewes in lamb, lis. 6d.; poorer sorts, ss. 7d. to ss. IQd.; two-tooth ewes in lamb to English Leicester rams, 14s. 10d.; two-year-old steers, £3 17s. 6d.j store cows, £2 10s. to £3 35.; empty heifers, £3 135.; springing cows, £5 2s. 6d. to £5 lis. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on. their Johusonville sale this week as followsWe ottered a heavy yarding of prime bullocks and sheep, which sold at late quotations. Prime heavy bullocks, £10 to £10 2s. 6d.; medium bullocks, £9 10s. to £9 155.; light, £8 12s. 6d.; heavy vealers, £2 18s. 6(1. to £3; light, £1 to 255.; good wethers, 19s. 9d.; prime heavy mves, 18s". 6d. to 19.5.; medium ewes, 15s. Id. to 15s. 6(1.; woolly lambs, 12s. 3d. to 13s. 9d.; shorn, 11?. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their sale in the Farmers' Association yards at Pahiatua, on July 12, as follows:—We again submitted a heavy yarding of sheep, comprising, mostly hoggets and good breeding ewes, for which wo had very good competition, and wo made practically a total clearance. The yarding of cattle was also good, and the entry was all sold at good prices. . Quotations:—Young breeding ewes, 13s. Id. to sound-mouth ewes in lamb, 9s. 7d, to lis. 6d.; full-mouth ewes, 6s. 6d. to 7s. 3d.; empty ewes, 7s. 3d. to 10s. Id.; store owes, £4 is. to £6 35.; good mixed hoggets, 10s. Id. to 12s. 3d,; medium hoggets, Bs. lOd. to 10s.; small hoggets, 6s. to 7s. 7d.; mixed sheep, 10s. 6d. to 12s. 5d.; dairy cows, £5 ss. to £6; empty cows, £2 13s. to £3 12s. 6d.; fat h<?'*fcrs, £4 17s. 6(1.; mixed weancrs, 315.; bulls, £2 ss. to £2 Bs. (Ry Telegraph.—Press Association.) Chrlstchurch, July 13. At Addington there were moderate entries for stock aud a small attendance on account of wet weather. Store sheep were without change. Fat lam)>s were dull of sale, and fat sheep, except prime wethers and ewes, were easier. Jieef was in keen demand. Store cattle were difficult to dispose of, but dairy cows were again in demand. Pigs sold a.t late rates, except porkers, which were" rather firmer.

There were only four lines of store sheep offered, of which three were wethers. They sold at last week's rates, 79 wethers selling at 14s. Id., 57 at 13s. lis., and 267 at 12s. 6d., and a small lot of hoggets were taken at 10s. 6d. There were only about 600 fat lambs penned, and mostly of moderate and inferior quality. There were only two export buyers operating, and the limited competition caused the sale to be dull, though there was little change in prices, the range being lis. 6d. to 17s. 2d. Tkerc was a fair entry of fat sheep, and, as little business was done for export, competition was almost entirely confined to the butchers. As the supply was ample, prices for anything but prime wethers and ewes were. easier, especially towards the close of tho sale. The range of prices was.—Prime wethers, 17s. '6d. to 235. 6d.; lighter, 14s. to 175.; extra prime ewes, to 21s. lid.; prime, 15s. to 195.; aged and light, lis. 9d. to 14s. 6d.; merino wethers, 7s. to 10s. 7(1. Tho yarding of fat cattle totalled 281, and the. quality was again of a good to very prime quality. There was a keen demand at the previous week's rates. Steers made .£7 2s. 6d. to £10 17s. 6d.; extra, to £13; heifers, £5 10s. to £8 2s. 6d.; extra, to.£lo 155.,- cows. £5 to £8 165.; extra, £9 17s. 6d.; coual to 19s. to 245. for ordinary to prime, and to 265. per ICO lb. for extra prime. Vent calves made ss. 6d. to £2 17s. 6d. A few pens of store cattle met with a dragging sale, two-year steers making £3 lis. 6d„ and dry cows £2 Bs. to £3 ss. Dairy cows sold well at £3 10s. to £9 7s. 6d. l There was a small entry of pigs, and late rates were maintained, porkers selling rather better. Choppers sold up to £3 7s. 6d.; medium baconcrs, 40s. to 465., equal lo 4d. per lb.; large norkers, 325. to 385., and smaller, 255. to 3Zs., equal to 'id. to 43d. per lb.; medium stores, Us. to 18s., and small, 6d. to 13s.