LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 905, 26 August 1910, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

.;; Messrs..' Dalgcty - and - , Company, report :—• At our'.Wanganui salo-this-weekiwo yard-. ed'.4oo sheep and.26o catlle,.<,and'.wc have, to report.a'.,good..demand..for all classes. Several lines of two-year-steers were yarded, and elicited good competition. Quotations: Light.fat ewesj. 14sr; light wethers, 17s. 6d.; empty ewes,- ; 10s. - fid.; small hoggets, 7s. to 95.; store .wetherß, 145.; cull ewes. 63.; light fat cows, £4, £4 10s., to £4 19s. 6d.; two and a;half,to three-year steers;, £5 ss.'; two-year'steers,' £3 18s., £4, to £4 10s.; 18.months':steers, ,£3 135.; mixed s.teers,- £3 135.; mixed; yearlings," £3 45.; woaner 'steers. £2,'-lis. to; £3; two-year heifers, in calf, -£3 155., £3 165., to £4 os. 6d.; springing heifers,- £4; £4 10s., £5. to : £5 55.; dairy. cOws, £4;. £4 10s., to £6 10s.; •Jersey-bull, £11 lis.; : old bulla, £3 15s. to '£Slss. 6d. ■.-•'.-. . ~..-. ..-

'.Messrs. Abraham • and., Williams, Ltd.; report:—At our, .Palmerston,; North sale held yesterday we had a small yarding of sheep,' and a. heavy; yarding.' of cattle. Sheep were ,in good demand, and every nan was sold at auction. ,-'. We quote:— Mixed hoggets, 10s. 6d., 10s. 7d., to Us. 3d.; ewes, with lambs, lis.'. 10d... The yarding of cattle consisted mostly • of springing heifers and cows, and some good pens of weancrs. There -was,'a keen demand.rfor all, classes, and we.:havei to;,.report..aWtotal clearance ■'.-ith' , !the',- , excepti'on-'. of'"-a.'-few pens. .Woquote:'—Fat' cbws;''' £4 ■liv' M:' £5 7s. 6d.', to £6 155.; store cows, £2 65.. £3, £3 lis., £3 155.,~ to £4 2s. 6d.; springing heifers, £3 7s. 6d.,'£5; 2s. 6d., to £5 10s.; springing cows, £4 to£7 2s. 60.; weancrs, 295., 385.; bulls, £2 to £3 Us.; 15-months 6tcers, £2 15s. Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency- Company, Ltd., report :—At Palmerston yesterday wo had a moderate entry, of cattle, •;but no sheep, came forward. Cattle consisted' mostly of small lots, and changed hands at late rates. . We quote:— Yearling ■ heifers, £5 12a.; store cows, £2. ,15s. to £3 Us.; forward cows, £3 16s. to £4 55.;. light'fat, heifers, £4.195.; cowsiincalf,, £4 to £10; springing cows,.£6 to £8. ,