LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1085, 25 March 1911, Page 7

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held their weekly sale at EKctahuua yesterday. We offered a good yarding of both sheep and cattle to a fair attendance of buyers. Sheep of good iiuality sold well, but poorer sorts wero neglected, although vendors in most cases lowered their reserves. We eventually mado a clearance before the end of the day. We quote:—Sheep: Two-tooth wethers, 9s. 10d., Its. 3d., 10s. bt 1 .., to lis.; two-tooth ewes (poor), Bs., Bs. (id., to 9s. 5d.; better sorts, up to 12s. 5d.; aged ewes, 4s. 9d., ss. 4d„ (is. 7d„ to 9s. 10d.; small cull lambs, 4s. Cd„ 4s. Sd., to ss. 2d. Cattle: Fat and forward cows, £3 17s. to £4 55.; 15-month steers, £3 45.: weaners (mixed), 21s. to 235. 6d. Messrs. Ilalgety and Co., Ltd., report holding their stoik sale at Levin yesterday. Tiiev yarded 30S0 sheep, besides cattle. In spito of the dry weather sheep sold well, and the firm quitted (with the exception of about IC-3 lambs) everything under the hammer. The Government Stale Farm and Mr. J. R. M'Donald penned some very tine fat ewes and wethers, which were well competed for, and sold at prices ranging from 13s. to 15s. lid. Altogether there was a most successful sale. Quotations:-Fat wethers, 15s. lid., 14s. 2d.; fat ewes, 13s. 3d., 13s. 2d., 135., Us.; lambs, 6s. 6d., 6s. Id., ss. 4d„ 6s. Id.; cull lambs, 25.; two and four-tooth ewes, 9s. Bd., Bs. 6d.; four and five-year ewes, Bs. 6d., 7s. 3d., 6s. 3d.; six-tooth ewes, 10s. Id.; two and four-tooth wethers, 12s. Id. Rams, of which the firm yarded 200, sold at from 13s. to £s. Cattle: Store cows, £2 10s., £2 2s. 6d.; cows in milk, £3; weaners, 245. 6d„ 205.; two and a half-year steers, £4 18s. Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Dannevirke, report this week's sales as follows:— Monday: Fortnightly sale at Woodviile. We had a good entry of both sheep and cattle. There was a large attendance of buyers, and practically all slieep changed hands, but most of the cattle were turned out unsold. Two-tooth wethers readied lis. 6d.; four, six, and f.f.m. ewes, Bs. 6d. to 9s. 9d.; small two-tooth ewes, Bs.; cull two-tooth to f.m. ewes, 4s. 3d. to ss. 6d.; small shorn lambs, 3s. Id. to 55.; fat cows, £4 10s. to £5 125.; store cows, £3 10s.; weaners, 285.; bulls, 375. to 50s. Wednesday: Fortnightly sale at Makotuku. A heavy yarding of sheep, and a good entry of cattle were submitted to a small attendance of buyers. Competition for sheen was dull, but wc cleared all cattle. Pricca were as under ;-Small two-tooth wethers, 10s.; s.m. ewes, ss. 6d. to 65.; culls, Is. 7d. to 3s. Id.; fat cows, £4 is. to £4 lis.; dairy cows, £5 ss. to £5 10s.; cults, £1 2s. to £2 18s.; Jersey yearlings (good), £3 155.; mixed weaners, 275. The firm held their .weekly sale yesterday at the Dannevirke yards, when they offered nearly GOOO sheep and 100 cattle. Competition for good lines was keen, but poor lots met with a dragging market. Wo disposed of all our sheen, with tho exception of one pen. A line of 33 shorn ewo iambs realised 10s. 7d.; shorn wether lambs, Bs. lid.; other lines of.lambs, 2s. to 55., ss. Id., ','s. 5d., to Bs., 9d.; two and four-tooth ewes, 10s., Us. Id., to 12s. 3d.; fat ewes, Bs. to 95.; breeding ewes. 3s. to 10s. Gd.; two-tooth wethers, Us. Id.; four-tooth ltomney rams, £1 Is. to £3 3a.; six-tooth, £1 Is. Cattle met with fair competition. Fat cows, £3 Is. to £5 3s. Gd.; weaner steers, £2; mixed weaners, 155,; bull. £2 25.; yearling steers, £2 7s. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—At Levin yesterday a good entry of sheep met with fair inquiry, and very few lines went- out unsold. A yarding of close on 500 head of cattle was also offered. Competition for all classes was keen, and all lots changed, hands at satisfactory prices. Quotations:—Forward bullocks, £6 12s. 6d.; thrco and a half-year bullocks, £6 os. 6d. to £6 65.; two and a half to three-year steers, £5 3s. 6d. to £5 Es. 6d.; two-year steers, £4 to £4 55.; two to two and a half-year steers, £4 12s. 6(1.; 18month steers, £3 65.; 18-month and twoyear steers, £3 155.; yearling steers, £2 ICa.; weaners, 16s. 6d. to 3Cs.; yearling heifers, £2 95.; low-conditioned yearling steers, 365.; fat cows, £5 ss. to £6 65.; forward cows, £3 ICs. to £4 7s. 6d.; store cows, 30s. to £2 10s.; bulls, £2 10s. to £5 5a.; springing heifers, £4 17s. 6d.; fat ewes, 123. to 13s.'; forward ewes, ICs. to lis. 3d.; four and five-year ltomney ewes, 9s. Ltd.; mixedaged ewes, 75.; two-tooth wethers, lis. 6d. to 125.: store lambs, ss. 9d. to 6s. 2d.; fat lambs, 10s. 6d. to. lis. 6d.; cull - lambs, 2s. 3d. to 2s. 6d.; cull ewes; 2s. 3d. . . Tho Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. (Feilding branch) report for the week ended March 25 as follows:— At liangiwahia, oa Wednesday, eliccp camc forward in good numbers, but few cattle came in. In consequence of tho continual dry weather the demand was slack, with the exception of young sheep. Quotations —Sheep: Two-tooth wethers, lis. 4d.; fat wethers, 145,; smalt two-tootli. ewes, Bs. 3d.; two-tooth ewes, 13s. Cattle: Weaner steers, 355.; two arid a half-year steers, £5 lis. At Feilding, on Friday, we had a heavy yarding of sheep, and a good entry of cattle. AU classes of stock were dull of sale, but we managed to quit practically the whole of tho yarding at prices in favour of buyers. We quote:—Sheep: Cull lambs, 3s. 3d. to 4s. Id:; storo lambs, 6s. 2d. to 75.; ewe lambs, Bs. 5d.; fat laml)3, 9s. 6d.; two-tooth ewes (small), 7s. 6d.; and others, ICs. 6d.; tfro-tooth wethers, 10s. 3d. Cattle: Yearling steers, 305.; 15-month steers. £2 Gs.; two-year steers, £4; two and a half-year steers, £5 Is. Mr. Newton King's weekly stock report is as follows:—At Waiwakaiho, on March 16, there was a full yarding, though competition was not so keen as at the previous sale. Weaner licifer3 made 275. to £2 Is.; weaner steers, 245. to 365.; weaner heifers, Jersey strain. £2 2s. 6d.; 15 to 18-montlis heifers, £2 165.; two to two and a lialfycar heifers, R.W.8., £3 9s. 6d. to £4 70. 6d.; springing heifers. £5 7s. sd. to £5 165.; two-year steers, £3 9s. 6d. to £3 15s. 6d.; store cows, £2 2s. to £3 55.; forward cows, £3 15s. to £4 17s. 6d.; fat cows, £5 6s. to £6 45.; bulls, £4 to £6. At tho Haymarkot., on Saturday, but few pigs were entered. Weaners brought up to lis.; stores, 17s. 6d. to 215.; small stores, 12s. 6d._ to 155.; a quantity of second-class timber sold at satisfactory prices. At Urcnui, on Monday, weaners made 16s. to 285.; weaner Jersey heifers, £2 Us.; 15-month heifers, £2 10s. 6d. to £2 155.; yearling to 18-month steers, £2 155.,- to £3 '55.; 18 to 20-niouth steers, £3 10s. 6d. to £3 155.; store cows, £2 17s. to £3 18s.; forward cows, £4 to £4 155.; fat cows, £5 Bs. to £5 lis.; three-year steers. £5 Is. to £5 55.: in-calf heifers. £4 55.; springing heifers, £4 ss. to £4 17s. Cd.; bulls. £2 13s. 6d. to £6 10s.: lambs, Gs. 2d. At Stratford, on Tuesday, there was a full yarding. Weaners made 23:;. 6d. to 335.; 15 to 18-month steers, £2 lis. to £3 Bs.; 15nionth keifem, £2 15s. to £3 Is.; store cows, £2 18s. to £3 18s. 6d.; forward cows, £4 ss. to £4 135.; fat cows, £4 17s. (3d. to £5 fis.; two-year steers, £3 17s. to £4 55.; bulls, £4 6s. to £7 7s. 6d. At Stony River, on Wednesday, weaners made 265. to 375. Ed.; small do., 15s. 6d. to 225. Gd.; 18-months steers, good quality, £3 13s. 6d.; store cows, £3 2s. 6d. to £3 145.; forward cows, £4 ss. to £4 165.; fat cows, £4 13s. to £5 55.: stag, £5; old workers, £5 2s. 6d.; bulls, £3 10s. to £7 7s. 6d.

BAM FAIR. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Timaru, March 2-1.. The entries for the annual ram fair on Wednesday total 1090, or 3CO more than last year, 'l'lio majority aro Carter Leicesters.