LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 890, 9 August 1910, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

* Messrs. Dalgety and Company report:—' We held a sale of dairy cows on account of Messrs. J.,and W. Hurra-y at Tercliunga, Dannevirke, yesterday. There.was a good attendance of buyers, and keen competition. Altogether, 49 cows were offered, all', selling.,- -.Prices 'ranged-.; from, £6- to-£lO 155.; the line (excludine two unsound ani-mals)-averaging over £9.per head. ■ Ifr.. Freeman -B. Jackson's stock, report, date August 8, is as follows:—On. August 2 we..had a.special, sale at TVaverley of dairy. cows and heifers,, some 2CD , head being offered. • All - classes close td calving elicited' Keen, bidding,'.the majority of the. cows ■ being sold at '-auction. Some, nice lines of -heifers , were offered. Anything close.'sold readily, but backward sorts had 'rib'/inquiry. :"'.iW.e. report.-.on the whole a successful. sale.V 'On "August 3, at our Wanganui 'stock' sale,, we yarded 400 head of-'cattle, 3800 sheep; 'and;<)s-.pigs.. .More, stock than advertised came forward. We had a .-good.....attendance.sof, buyers,. ! and bidding •■ was-.brisk. 'throughout; ■ A keen demand for good hoggets, but backward ones harder to ,'o.uit.-.' We sold all the sheep,' with the exception of a couple of Dens of medium hoggets, at full, market values. A brisk demand for cattle, and everything sold except'a; line of backward; .heifers and. a few odd lots'.of late calving;dairy cows.'- Pigs sold ■aflfetovrates. , . . On'August' .on accourii'-of'-'ilr. p.. Allcock, at Sprinevale, wo held a clearing sale of draught horeos, drays, harness, etc. The attendance was good and bidding spirited, everything. selling well. The draught horses,' onv the whole, were a good .lot;' •and 'price's- varicd«from '£20 to £52 '10s. "DfayS, HaVhess,: and] u<dal*"siindries .• made' ifull'-valueiCi" On at- our- Waverley sale, we yarded 120 cattle and 2500 sheep, besides sundries. ■ Bidding was not so keen' as last 'sale. Although several none , were passed at auction we quitted practically everything "before the- day closed. Several pens of nicc-'Lincoln breeding ewes offered on account of P. Bourke's estate, made from 16s. to 255. Zd. A small yarding of cattle found ready pur. chasers. Wo quote:—'At Waverley cow sile: Best- cows, £8 10s. to £8 17s. 6d.; food cows', £7 ss. to £8; medium cows, £6 "& £6 155.; fair cows, £4-10s. to £5 155.; late "cilvers.'iJ 'lOsV'to l£4;i heifers (good), £5 15s. to £6 55.; others, , - £4 10s. to £5 ss. At Wanganui sale: Good fat cowb, £6 10s.; medium do., £4 10s. to £5 55.; fresh threeyear bullocks,, £6 7s. 6d.;. light fat bullocks, £7. 155.; steers,' £3 10s.' 6d.; two to two and a half-year steers; £4 65.; two and a half-year steers. £4 145.; 18months steers, £3 35.; yearling, steers, £2 ,6s.' to £2!' 12s.;'."ijtore,.co\v|..i£3 13s; 6d. to' -.-G3" 15r. ,6d.;i-otherß,- £2r,19ei>.18-montbs steers and heifers, £3 Is.; mixed yearlings, £2 Bs. 6d.; mixed weaners, 245. to 305.; .Hoi-, stein yearling heifers, £2 11s.; 15-months dairy heifers, £2; empty two-year, heifers, £2 195.; springing hoif.ers. £4 12s. 6d. to £5; backward do., £3 Bs.; springing cows ("ood), £7 10s. to £8; medium do., £5 15s. to £6 17s. 6d.; others. £4 to £5: bulls, £2 10s. to £3 12s. ■ Sd.; good woolly hoggets. 14s. 7d.; medium do., 11s. .7d.; good mixed hoggets, 12s: BtU ■ to : 12s. 9d.; good wether do., 3s. 2d.; good ewo do., 13s. 7d.; medium mixed hoggots, 11s. 4d.- to 11s. 5d.; small do., ss. • 3d. to ss. Gd.; full m. owes 'in lamb, lid.;' Lincoln ewes in-lamb,-7s.r two, four, .six, and full do., 15s. 3d.; two and four-tooth ewes in lamb (smalll, 14s. Zd.; two-tooth do. (small), 13a. 7(1.; Borancy ewes in lamb., 175.; fat wethers, 175.; asted ewes in lamb, Bs. 6d. to 9s.;'store wethers, 14s. lid. to 15s. Bd.-; others, 14.".; fat ewos, 15s. Zd. Pign: Heavy norkers, 375. to £2; good porkors, 30s. to 335.; medium do., 265. 6d. to 275.; others, 235.; stores. 16s. 6d. to 205.; sows, 395. to £2 Is. At Mr. 'D. Allcock's sale: Grey gelding, syrs.. Ben.. £52 10s.: grey Paddy, £39; grby gelding Jimmy. £30; b. m. Kate, '£32- b. m.- Blossom, £38;. b. m; ItoEic, 9yrs., ;£3s;"b--'g.'ri!ot, ngc,d, £20 cli.ig, Nugget, aEed,--£l4;-Baldie, £20;- Gleß, syra., £33

153.: !). c. tforth-East, £20: oil. g. Dick, aged, £17 10s.; ch. g., aged, Nusget, .£lO 10a.; drays. £6 to £S 2s. 6(1.; bradley, £10; harness, £2 to £3; trap, horse, and tyarjicss, £32; shed, £10 55.; sundries sold well. At IVaverley: Two-year heifers, .£& Bs.; light tat cows, £4 165.; store cows, £3 35.; two-year "steers, £3 IBs. 6d.; 12 to 15months steers, £2 17s. to £2 18s.; springing heifers, £4 10s,; mixed cattle, 285.; two-tooth wethers (poor), 12s. 6d.; twotooth ewes in , lamb, Ms.;, f-m. ewes in lamb, 9s. 6d. to 12s. 3d.; others, 7s. to Bs. "6d.; wethers, 14s. 6d.; two, four, ■ six. • and full 'ewes feood), 14s.''6d. to 15s. 3d.; fat and forward ewes, 13s. 2d.; mixed hoggets, 10s. 3d. to 12s. Id.; small do., 6s. to 7s. Id.; Bourke ewes,. four-tooth, 255. 6d.; Bourkc ewes, four and six and full, 19s. 10d.; Bourlte ewes, two, four, six. and full, 205.; Bourke mixed-aged , ewes, 16s.