LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1007, 23 December 1910, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. • Dalgety. and -Ltd. (Dannevirke branch), report sales'.held .this week as ,T- fo - , 0 ' WoodviUe Stock' Sale, -fto had a. shall entry of sheep, but a good entry of catfie. -TfoootU wethers sola .'at - lis. 7d.; fat and forward cows. 10s. to £4-lOsV;-'srnal} -yearling steers, £l. X6s.j email-steers, and hcifer3, £1 7*. ; fid.-;, empty heiferg;:-£S Is. 6d. Tuesday: Special clearing sale at JTatrunau, on account of Sir. Gj- 'H. • Kerr.—Thero ' was a large and representative attendance of buyer?, and about 1800 sheep and lambs, besides cattle, hor&es, implements, etc., ail • \°f-which sold at satisfactory prices. ' TheBbeep chiefly comprised cwea and lambs which , were- of uneven ouality and size 'These sold, all combined, from ss. 5d 6s. ; 2, 4, and 6-tooth owcq, 125,; forward empty. ewes, 9s. Id.; aged ewes, 6s. M.; /fat ewes, ,135.; Eoniney rams, 255,; dairy cows', £4 10s. to £6; cows and calves 155.; bull; £5;. ; trap hor--e, £16; hack, £7;' yearling colt, £5; wool press, £9; sinele furrovr.'plough, : £2 45.; spring cart, £13; disc' harrow, £8 55.; .mower asd tiller, £4 10s; Wednesday: We held our initial sale at' tho new Makotuku 'Yards, where wo aro associated wilh '.the N.Z. Loan Co., I/td., and the Ha-wkc's Bay Farmers, Lr-a.. An exceptionally heavy entry of both 6heep and cattle was submitted-to buyers from Waikato, Taranaki. and other—tins, unu the sale throughout was of a most successful 1 and encouraging nature. ' The yaTds are. situaWd opposite the Jlakotuku Railway Station,' and arc verv fiubsxantiai and commodious. It w.?r srt:i-.mncnd- that, in view of tho larro enin-s, it has'been' decided to hold there sales fortnightly during the summer months, the next being on January 11. Prices realised at-.tho sale tvero «s follow:—Two-tooth wethers, lis. 7d. to lis. Bd.; ema!! 2-tonth wethers. Bs.-Sd.: mived sex 2-tooths,- lt«. 6d.: fat owes, lis. 4d.:, in. milk, £3 7s. 6d. to £5 55.; cows in calf. fiZ 10s. 6d. to £5 7s. 6.d; emnty cows. £2 15?. -to £3 !«.; fat enws. £5 ?.s.; f'ows ar.d calves. £3 11s. 6d. to £4 17s. fid.; bulls, £3 to £4 2s. 6d.:' heifers, in calf, £4 2s. 6d. ; heifers and calves; £3 15q.j empty heifers, £3. Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report:— At the Palmenston sale yesterday there was a good yarding of sheep and cattle, which met a ready sale. - Store ewes sold I .at 6s. 4d.: small mixed 2-tooths, Bs. 9d. to I 9s. 3d.; and forward empty ewes, 10s.' 2d. ' to. lis. lid.' Fit lambs brought 12s. 3d.: 1 fat ewes, 13s. 3d.; and woolly ewes and 1 lambs. 17s. Cattle: Weaner steers real- ' iscd 285.: yearling steers. £2 6s. 6d.; empty cows, £3, 18g. 6d.: cows and calves,, £4 2g., '£4 ss. to £4 lie.; and light fat.cows, £4 15s. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—At our Palmerston North'sale yesterday tlieTo were good entries of an classes of stock, and they met with spirited competition, and very few lots went out unsold. Quotations Fat ewes (light), 12s. 2d. and lis. 4d.; 4 'and 6-toofh store .wethers, 12s. 10d.; store ewes, Bs. to' 9s. 6d.; 'ewc3 and lambs (all counted),' 9s.'; Gtoro ewes and wethers, 10s. 6d. A line of 325 rape lambs made 9s. 6d. Fat cows told at £5 9s. to £6 10s.; forward cows, £3 12s. 6d. to £4 55.; yearling heifeti?. £2 18s. to .£3.115.: 18-monthr, Jersey heifers, £6; 54 3-year: bullocks: realised £6; 129 18-months .steers,-£3 10s.; 64.yearling steers, £2 18s.: 72 18-mor.ths well-bred empty heiferG, £3 65.:. wcaners were quitted at- 20s. 6d. to £2 65.: and store cows,' at £2 10s. to £3 17s.- 6d. ' ' Tlio Kew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency po.,- Ltd., report, as follows :—At Palmerston North yesterday we had a ' good entry of. sheep and a' small entry' of . cattle./ Sheep showed an' advancc in

price. We practically effected a clearance, and quote Mixed 2-tooth (small), 10s. lid. to lis.; 2-tooth wether?, 12s. 3d.; 2-tooth owes, 13s. lid.: empty woolly ewee, 13s <d.; tat wethers, 13s. 7d.; fat ewes, 13s. ■!d.; mixed woolly hoggets. 165.; cvrcs.awl lambs, £1. Store cows sold at £3 ss. to S3 95.; forward co'ws, £4 56.; fat cows (light), £4 13s. to f4 165.; speyod cowa £4 125.; -cows in calf, £4 Zs. iu £n h.' ; cows in milk, £5 12s. 6d.; springing cows £5 10s.; mixed wcaners,. 255.; others, 38s. 6d. Hulls brought' £3 to £3 15s.