LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1025, 14 January 1911, Page 13

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Kccsrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held their fortnightly Ealo at. tho Upper ilutt yards tliis wosk. A very good yarding of cattle came forward, tout the entry for sheep was small. Jiiddiug ior the latter wasaull, priceu oti'ered not coming up to owners' values, but all classes 01 cattle were Keenly, competed for, and practically a total clearance was made at the lollowing priccsi— Cows, close to profit, £7 it's, to £9 65.; springing cows, £4 7s. 6d. to £7 55.; heifers in milk, £4 17e.; springing heifers, £5 to £6 10?.; heifers; to calvo winter, £4 155.; two-year dairy heifers, in calf, £6 ss-. to £3 19s. and £o 53,; fat cows, £4 195.; storo cows, £1 186. to £3 165.; twelve to cighteen-months steers, : £2 16s. 6d.;-year-ling steers and heifers, £2 to £2 135.; weaners, 2-te. to 315.; calves, 153.; bulls* £'& lus. to £6 ss.

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report:—At our • Palmerston Jiorth sale, held on Thursday, only & small entry came forward. Tho attendance was also small, and bidding was not at all brisk. Our principal sales were:—Weanej:.h3ifcrs, £3; yearling lieifens, £3 Is.; yearling steer 6, £3 Is.; dairy heifers, in-calf, to £4 16s. 6d.

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held their fortnightly sale at Eketar. huna yesterday. The report states:—Entries camo in up to advertised numbers. Wo yarded two pens of sheep, which Gold at prices satisfactory to vendors. Cattle' did not sell -well, and, in most casas, vendors had to lower their reserves. Wc quote:—F.m. ewes, Us. 6d. to 125.; two and four-tooth ewes,- to 13s. 5d.; spring .hei' fors, to £4 IDs.; weauer calves, to-3Gs.; twoyear Gteers, £5 to £5 55.; empty cows, *£3 to £4 55.; eighteen-months heifers, to £3 10s.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—Our opening sale at Eketahuna after the holidays was held ths week, when a full yarding of cattle and a good entry of sheep was submitted by the associated auctioneers. Business at auction was animated, practically the whole of the yarding changing hands at satisfactory price 3. Three-year bullocks, £5 2s. to £5 ICg.; fouryear empty heifers, £4; two-year empty heifers, £3 10s.; storo cows, £3 35., £3 55., £3 155., to £3 18s. 6d., according to condition ; springing heifers, £4 10s.; two-year heifers in calf, £3 155.; mixed yearlings, £2 125.; weaners,' 315.; two-tooth wethers, lis. to lis. lid.; empty ewes, Bs. Bd. to ss, 4d.

■ Messrs. Dalgety and Co. report-:—At our waverlcy sale yesterday we hail a smalt yarding of sheep, and a fair yarding of cattle, and we have to report a keen sale and a total clearance. A good lino of two to two and a half-year steers from Rimunui Station, Upper Waitotara, sold particularly well. Wo quote:—ilised lambs, Bs. <d.; aged wethers, lis. 6d.j f.rn. ewes, Bs. 4d.; forward bullocks, £7; two to two and a/half-year steers, £5 95.; two-year do., £4 18s.; dairy cows, to £5 12s. 6d,; store cows, £3 Bs.; mixed weaners, £1 l<s.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency-Company, Limited, report for the week ending January 14 as follows:—At Kangiwahia on Tuesday we had a good entry of sheep. These, however, met with a dragging sale, and owners had to. reduce their reserves to allow business to be done. We quote:—Cull lambs, 2g. 3d., 2s. 6d., to 3s. 9d.;- cull ewes, ss. 6d. to ss. Bd.; others, to 7s. 9d.; shorn lambs, 7s. 6d.; twotooth ewes, 13s. 6d. At Feilding on Friday we had a very good yarding of both sheep and cattle, and, with the exception of one pen of sheep, wo have to report a total clearance of both classes. We quoto:— iCull lambs,' 2s. 6d.; medium-lambs, ss. fid. to Gs. lOd.; good rape lambs, Bs. to' Bs. 4d.; woolly lambs, 95.; store ewes, ss. 3d.; forward empty ewee, 9s. to 9s. 4d.; fat ewes, 12s. 3d.; two-tooth ewes, 12s. 9d.; mixed weaners, 345.; eighteen-months steers, £2 lbs. to £2 175.; two-year steers (small), £3 Bs. to £3 lis.; Jersey heifers in calf (small), £3 175.;. Jersey cows in calf, £5 17s. 6d.; cows in milk, £3 7s. 6d.; fatcows, £5 to £5 Is.; forward empty cows, £3' 10s.; cows and calves, £3 18s. to £5 25.; twoyear steers, £4 13s'.;'fat heifers, £6 17s. 6d.; bulls, to £3 ss.

4 Mr. Newton King's weekly*'stock report is as follows:—At tho Hay'market on Saturday but few pigs wove penned, though good prices were realised. Stores made' 15s. 6d.- to 21s. 6(1.; small do., 12s. to 13s. 6d. Ponies sold from £3 10s. to £6 15s. At Urcnui on . Mondayyearling to fifteenmonths heifers'made £2 .17s. 6d.; fifteenmonths (steers, £3 4s. Cd.; fifteen to eighth oen-mouths do., .£3' Bs.' to' £3 : lis.; two-year do., £4 65.; in-calf heifers, £4 10s.; fat and forward cows, £4 10s. to £4 165.; fifteen to eighteen-months well-bred Jersey heifers, £6 10s.; fat ewes, lis. 7d. At Douglas on the same day there was a small yarding. Store cows .made £3 17s. to £4 2u. .Cd.; forward cows, £4 4s. 6d. to £4 145.; fat cows. £5 2s. 6d.; fat ewes, 10s. id.; two and four-tooth wethers, 135.; two-tooth do., email, Us. 9d. At Stratford on Tuesday there was a fair yarding; the demand for all classes of stock was keen, and practically everything sold at the hammer at prices slightly in advance of closing rates lact year. Weaners made 30s. 6d.; fifteen to eighteen-months heifers,' R.W.E., £3 IC6. to £3 18s.; fifteen-months Bteers, £3 65.; store cows, £3 3s. to £4 forward cows, £4 Bs. to £4 135.; fat do., £4 16s. to £5 1c3. : ; two and a half-year steers, well grown, £5 14a;. 6d.; three-year do.. £6 45.• three and a half-year do., £6 145.; cows and calves, £3 lis. to £5 25.; springing heifers, £5; bulls, £3 2s. 6d. to £4 3s. At Stony River on Wednesday there was a good yarding. Bidding was brisk, and most lines sold at tho hammer at the following prices Weaners, 375. .63.; yearling stoers, £2 6s. - 6d.; fifteen to. eightaenmonths do., £3 7s. to £3 Bs.; two-year steers. £4 7s. 6d.;' eighteen-months. heifers. £4 to £4 Is.: store cows, £3 18s. to £4 2s. 6d.: forward do., £4 lis. to £4 155.: fat cowp. £4 19s. to £5 165.; dairy rows.-£4 5s to £5 2s. 6d.; bulls, 17s. to .£5 10s.. •'