LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1037, 28 January 1911, Page 13

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgety". and Co., Ltd.. (Danne-.. virke branch), "report ■on -their week's sales as follows:—Monday: Wooeiville stock sale: Wo ou'ercd a. fair yarding of both sheep and cattle to a. largo attendance of buyers. Bidding: for .'sheen .was •. dull,.'„but with ono exception v;c managed < to clear all lines.- Shorn, wether rape lambs sold at Bs. 3d.; woolly mixed-sex lambs/ Bs.; culls, 3s. id.;- aged ewes, 55.; two and a half-year steers, £4 Ida.; 18-month steers, £3 95.; 18-month heifers, £3. Tuesday: Dannevirko wool, skin, and hide sale:'As previously reported. . Wednesday:. Makotuku stock sale:. Our entries for both sheep and cattle exceeded the advertised numbers. Bidding.' for 'sheep I was" dull, 1 excepting for good young ewes, but. few lines were "passed In and, with the exeep--tion of ono'pen, we made a.'complete clearance before tho end of the day. Prices were as follow:—Two-tooth ewes, good sorts, 12s. to 12s. 9d.; forward empty ewes, 6s. 6d.; cull ewes, 35.; two-tooth ewes and wethers, small; 9s. 3d.: woolly lambs, 65.; Bomney rams; 225.; Lincoln.rams,. 10s. 6d. to 165.; good-springing cows,-£6; others, £3 10s. to £3 165.; good springing heifers, £6; cows in calf,' £3.35.. to £3„175.."6d.'; storo cows, £1 2s. to £2 175.; heifers in calf, £2 16s. to £3 65.; bull, £3; small weaners, ,13s. 6d.; others, 16s. Thursday: We held .a special clearing sale of. dairy stock, etc., at Makotuku on account of Mr. Eric Ericksen, when we submitted 64 cows, 13 heifers, and 40 head of young cattle,. besides horses, drays, dogs, cans, etc. There was a. very large attendance of buyers from all parts of the district, and biddins throughout was ■ keen, and every lot offered : found a purchaser. account of the very dry season, the stock was not in very good condition, but notwithstanding this, and the fact that the milking season is almost over, prices ruled as high as £10 155., and the whole line of 64 cows made the satisfactory average of £5 13s. s 18-month' heifers sold at £4 Is.; weaner heifers, 325. 6d.; weaner .teers. 325.; bnlls, £3 7s. 6d. to £3 175.; trap horses, £10 to £19: mj-res and foale. £8 10s. to £11; hacks, £4 10s. to £8 155.; cattle dogs, £3 to £4 95.; porker pigs, JOs.; cans, harness, drays, etc.; at - satisfactory prices. . ' '

Messrs. Dalgety' and Co. report :-At our Pending sale yesterday there was a very heavy entry of sheep. Owing to theory weather demand, was slow, and prices ;M round were easier except tor best rape lambs. Cull lambs, 3s„ "3s. 5d.; wether lambs, ss. 5d., 6s. 5d., 75.; small ewe lambs, 6a.; small mixed two-tooths,, Bs. 2d.; fullmouth ewes,. 7s.' 2d.; sound-mouth ewes, 10s.; two-tooth ewes, small, JCs. 7d„ lis. ML, to 12s. Id.-,' medium, 125.;-6d.f to 13s-3d.. better sorts, 13s. Bd. to 145., 6d.; forward wethers, 13s. ' 2d:; medium ■ four: and sixtooth ewes, 10s., 9d.. . .;

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held their fortnightly,.sale at Eketahuna yesterday. The • report states:— We had an. extra heavy yarding of sheep, chiefly ewes and lambs, but have to report a very dull sale. Bidding at. auc r tion dragged, throughout, and vendors In most cases had to lower their, reserves,, but we were successful in disposing of a number of lines privately before the day ended. Cattle.were yarded in fair numbers, but the quality was not up to-the usual standard, v :and ..consegueatly _ prices were not as' good, as at late sales. We quot«;—Sheen: Best woolly rape - lambs, 75.. 7s. 4d., 7s. 6d., 7s. 10d.,.,85., t0.,85. 3d.; cull lambs. 3s. to 4s. 3d; mixed.aged ewes, 7s 9d. to 9s. ii.':,- poorer, sorts,. 3s. 10d: to. 6s. -9d.-j shorn'lambs, ss: 7d. to. Bs. Id. Cattle: Yearling steers, 35a. to £2 12s. 6d.; forward-cows, £3,'£3 165.,'. to £3..195..'6 d.; cows in calf, to £4; weaners (mixed), 215.; 27a. 6d., 315:,"t0-355.. r "*," ' - '• ."•

Messrs.' Dalgety land .Company report":—. At our Dannevirko stock 'sale' yesterday 1 a large entry of sheep and oatUo was submitted to buyers from'the ■ Waikato, Taranaki, and elsewhere. Although we • experienced 1 :a~ good' rain - on Thursday night there was not ..sufficient!,to...restore Song-; dence in the-raarketf-and'prices .for-sheep were .no higher,,.than .last, week,,.lambs': showing a. further decline..' There, was" a -good demand for'cattle, but- owners' ideas of values did hot coincide with those of graziers,;and very few sales were effected:— Good four, and six-tooth • wethers reached 12s. 3d. to 12s. Ed.; two-tooth, with a few four.and six-tooth, Us.:to Us. 3d.; others, 9s. Bd.; light fat ewes, .10s.,fid.;.fat' and, forward ewes,.7a,.-10d. to Bs. Ud.;.cnll ewes,' 45.; good sto'ro ; shorn laihbs; ss. to ss. Ed.; 18-months Polled 'Angus steers, £3 16s. 6d.; store cows' and calvos, £2 10s.; Polled Angus cullsi"£4 15s. to £5 7s. 6d.; weaner pigs, 10s. toUls.: porkers, 19s. 6d.; 53 Polled Angus cows and calves, £4 12s. 6d. : .

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report as 'follows:—At our Palmerston North sale,: held this week, a, good yarding of stock came .forward.,, Owing to continued drj',..weather-prices were easier all round. However, we disposed of the bulk of our entry'.'at the following ■ prices:— Sheep: Empty'.ewes, " Bs. 6d.; two-tooth wethers, 12s! 7d..- -Cattle:-Weaner steers,245. to 30s.;''ditt'o heifers,"27s.-'6d.,.:'325.:6d.', to 375. 6d.; empty cows,,:£3 25.. 6d„ £3 10s., to £3 125.;. forward-;cows...to.';£4 Bs,'6d.; two and a„half-year,.steers,,£4 15s.;.three, to three-and a half-year-bullocks, £5 9s. to £6 135...,;. :, ..v...'... '.'" -.' '!.".":.

Thb New Zealand Loan and Mercantils Agency Company, Limited,, week ending January 28 as.follows':—At Kimbolton on Tuesday a. fair yarding'of good quality.'sheep wero penned, and.we have'to report, a good sale.-We quote:— Woolly fat lambs,. 13s. 6d.: rape-lambs, Bs. 6d.; medium lambs, 6s. 4d., .-7s.- 2d.,,75. Id.; small do., 4s. 7d.; four, and five-year ewes, 9s. 8d J tp''l}s'.V.,*s'mall,'twp r fo;oth wethers, 10s. US.; f.m. Southdown-rams, £2to £2 7s. '6d.;' mixed weaners, '31s.- At Kangiwahia on Wednesday a good yarding of sheep and a 6mall entry of cattle wero penned. Competition for sheep. was poor, but cattle : sold well. Two-tooth wethers, lis.' 9d., Us. 10d., 12s. 2d.;-rape lambs,'Bs. 4d.; small lambs,.'3s., 6d. .to ss. _6d.; four and five-year (ewes,! -95.; weaner steers (g00d),'355.; twenty-months stefers, £3 155.; two and a half-year-steers,. £4 10s.-; empty cows, to £4. At ■ Feilding on Friday we had a fair yarding of sheep and. a good yarding of, cattle, and effected a clearance. Cull ewes, 2s. 3d.; cull ewes, 4s. 6d.; f.m. ewes, to 7s. 9d.; wether lambs, to 6s. lOd.; two-tooth ewes (small), IDs. 10d.; mixed-age ewes, to 12s. 6d.; forward .woolly lambs, to 125..,3 d.; weaner steers (small), 235.;-weancr heifers; 325: : 6 d. to'3ss:i two-year steers, £3 10s.; eriipty"heifers, £4 7s. 6d.; cow.3, £3 Us.; cows in-milk, £7; bulla, £3'to-£3 55.. .' ,-" "

Mr. Kewton King's weekly stock report is as' follows;—At tho Haymarket on Saturday a fair number of pigs wero penned, though prices realised were slightly lower than the previous week. Porkers sold for 28s. to 295.; Etores, 18s. to 21s:;'6mall stores, 12s. to 15s.r weaners, 7s: 'to 10s.- 6d. "At. Urenui, oh Monday,- stock, came forward in excess of- advertised numbers, and practically everything was sold at the. hammer. Fifteen-months heifers made £3 2s. to £3 55.; 18-months heifers, £3 13s. 6d. to £3 165.; 15 to 18-months Holstein heifers (empty), £4 10s.; two-year heifers, E.W.8.,' £4 ss. 6d.' to.£4' 10s.;.empty heifers,, forward, £4 10s. to '£4 18s.; store cows, £3 9s. to £4; forward cows, £4 3s.to £4165. 6d.; fat cows, £5 to £5 95.; fat heifers, £4 18s.; .18to 20-mbnths steersi £3 6s. to £3 17s. 6d.; two to two and a half-year' steers, £4 125." 6d. to £4 17s. 6d.;-bulls, £3 3s. to £3 155.; two-tooth ewes, 16s. Bd. - At Stratford, on Tuesday, there was a good yarding, with keen demand; especially for grown cattle, of which a- large number were penned, including a line of 280 grown bullocks, all of which sold at the hammer. Weaners made 20s. to 225.; yearling to 15-mohths heifers, £2 13s. to £3 Is.; 18-months heifers, E.W.8., £3 13s. 6d. to £3 -18s. 6d.; two to two and a half-year, heifers, £4 10s. 6d.; 15-months steers, £3 4s. to £3 55.; twoyear steers, £4 10s.; .three-year, steers, £5 to £5' 145.; three and a half-year bullocks, £6 7s. to £6 165.; storo cows. £3 2s. to-£3 18s. 6d.; forward cows, £4 15s. to £5 45.; fat cows, £5 10s. to £6 135.; forward heifers (empty). £4 165.; bulls, £2 6s. to £4 Bs. 6d. At- Stony River; on there was a good entry, tho yards being taxed to their utmost. The qualtiy of the cattle was above the average,-and bidding was keen throughout, most.lines changing hands at tho following prices :—Weaners. 265. to 325.; yearling to 15-months, £3 to £3 10s.; 15-months heifers,.£3 ,3s. to £3 135.; 18-months to two-yoar heifers,- 'E.W.8., £4 Is. to £4 10s. (, store cows. £3 10s. 6d. to £4 Is.; forward cows, £4 35...6 d. to £4 195.; fat cows, £5 4s. to £5 125.; 18-months steers, £3 13s. 6d.; two-year steers. £4 7s. to £4 8s; two and a.half-year steers. £5; two and a half to - three-year steers, £5 12s. 6d.; pair working bullocks, aged, £12 10s.; bul's, £2 10s. to £6; woolly lambs, 9s: 10d. '