LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 906, 27 August 1910, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

. Messrs. Dalgety and Co. report:—At our. Dannevirkc sale yesterday we had a yarding of over 1600 hoggets, a few ewes, and a (air entry of cattle. There was a good attendance of buyers, and, with the exception of one pen of hoggets, wo cleared all. tho sheep and .• the majority of the cattle, prices for.-hoggets showing an advaneo on last sale's Quotations. Woolly mixed-sex hoggets sold.at 13a. 3d.; shorn, mixed, small to medium, 9s. 4d. to 10s. 9d.; cull CWC3 in lamb, 6s. Id.'; springing cows, £s'to £6 10s.; cows-hi calf, £3 17s. 6d.; cows in milk, £3 165.; cows with calves, £4145. ; store cows, £2 15s. to £3 3s. Messrs. Dalgoty.and Co. report:—At our Palmerstou: Eaie yesterday a small entry of sheep and a fair entry of cattle camo forward. All met with good demand.' Young owes in lamb, ißs.; mixed.hoggets, 13s. Id.; backward ' dairy heifers, £3 155., £4 Is., £4 125., £4 17s. to £5; forward springing- heifers; to £7; dairy cows, to £7 55.; two-year-old steers, to £4' Us. Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report for the week ending August 27 as follows:—At Feilding ,011 Friday we had a good entry of hoggets, for "which, there was a ready sale, VVq quote :~Shc«p: Small mixed hoggets, lfe Bd. to Us. 2d.; medium mixed hoggets, 13s. 'led.; wether hoggets, 13s. 9d. to Uα.; ewo hoggets, Us. to 15s. 3d.; fat ewes, 15s. Cattlo: Small yearling steers, £2 35.; forward cows. £3 14s. . ■ Mr. 11. Ernest Leighton reports that, at his stock sale held in the Butt yards on Wednesday, springing heifers sold at £5 2s. 6d. per head. Horses were in better demand, and realised the following prices: £14, £11, others from £7 to.£s. Weaning pigs, Bs. 6d. Poultry was keenly competed for. Harness and sundries brought satisfactory prices. : Mr. Newton King's weekly slock report is as follows:—At the Hayinarkot l on Satr urday a fair number, of pigs were penned. .Weancrs mado ss. to 7s. £d.; small steers, 95.. to 125.; do., forward, 13s. to 155.; pork<.Tß. 23a.; d.f. Duncan plough, £13; superior, drill. £15. At Douglas on Monday mixed yearlings made £2 Ba. to £2 12s. 6d.; yearling heifers, £2 ss. to £2 165.; empty heifers, £3 155.; eighteen months to two-year steers, £3 10s. 6d. to £3 18s.; store cows £2 3h to £3 ss. 6d.; forward cows, £3 15s to £4 2.=. 6d.; fat cows. £6; fat heifer £5springing heifers, £4 17b. 6d. to £5 17s. Gα : dairy cows, £4 12s. 611. tu £1, bulb Jt'3tosßrts' 10e. to 12s. 6d. ; f.m. ev.-e s , Bs. to Uβ. 2d. At Orcnui on the same day mixed Meaner* madb 29a.; yearling heifers, £2 2s. to £2 14s. 6d.; yoarlms steers, £2 13s. to £2 lGs. 6d.; empty heifors, £J 10s. to £4store cows, £3 to £3 145.; fat cows, £5 6s : dairy cows, up to £6 155.; springing heifers, £4 10s. to £5 10s.; two-yci.r steei" £4. At Stratford on Tuesday there was a fair yarding of cattle, with good demand. Mixed yearlings mado £2 2s. 6d to

£3 125.; yearling heifers, £3 7s. to £3 175.; in-calf heifers, £3 10s. to £3 16s. 6<1.; store cows, £2 11s. to £5 135.; forward cows, £4 6a. ; fat cows, £5 Bs. to £5 12s. 6d.; twoyear steers, £4 25.; three-year bullocks, £5; bulls, £2 7s. 6d. to £3. There was a big yarding ot springing hellers,, with a good attendance of buyers, Bidding was Itoen throughout, and excellent prices wore realised. Springing heifers, closo up, made £6 10s. to £5,105.; later, £4 10s. to £6; pedigree Jersey heifer, 13 guineas to 17J guineas; cow, 21 guineas; dairy cows, early calvors, £6 lCs. to £8 10s.; later do., £5 10s. to £6. At Stony liiver on Wednesday mixed weauers made 355. 6d.; yearling steers, £2 ss. 6d. to £2 155.; yearling heifera, £2. 6s. 6d. to £2 15a.; store cows, £3 2s. to £3 Ms.; fat cow, £5 155.; fat heifer, £4 11s. 6d.; springing heifers, £4 4s. to, £6.