LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1092, 3 April 1911, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Jlr. Xewton King tends the following weekly report :-On Friday. llarch 24. . I held a clearing sale on the' Carrington Eoad, on account-of Mr.- F. Sehodrowski. when there was a fair attendanco of buyers. The dairy stock were mostly- heifers in calf and springing; a -few having calved, and satisfactory price's were realised. AVeaners mads H6s. to 295.: in-calf heifers. £3 sa. to £4 25.: springing heifers, £4 12-3. 6d. to £5 75.. 6d.;. springing cows, £4 to £5; heifers, calved, £3 to £3 155.; bulls. £2 to ,£3 >12s: 6d:; lambs, 95.; mower, £8 10s.: rake, £4'; jack, £5 2s. 6d.; chain harrows. £i- 1C?.; dray,- £5;: sundries sold well. At the Haymarket on Saturday there was a fair yarding of pigs. Weancrs made 's. to 65.; stores, 15s. to 183. 6d.; do., small. 10s. 6d. to 145.; porkers, 255. At Rahotu' on Tuesday there, was a. good yarding, with a good, attendance of buyers. All classes were in good demand, practically ■ cvorything being sold at the. hammer. VVeaners made 235. to 585.; yearling to 15months heifers, £2 6a. 6d.; store cows, £3 to £3 17s. 6d.; forward cows. £4' 63.' to £4 175.; fat cows, £5 to £5 18s.; bulls, £2 ss. to £4 12s. 6d. At Waiwakaiho or>.. Thursday there was .a full yarding. Weanere made. 14s. to 58s. 6d.; wcaner Jersey heifer. £3 55.; yearling to 15-months heifers, £2 15s. 6d. to £2 193.; yearling stEors, £2 It".: 18-months steers, £3 Is.; heifers, £2 15s. 6d. to £2.193.; yearling steers, £2 11s.: 18months stee-rs, £1 Is.; store cows, £2 Is. to £3 155.; forward cows, £4 to £4 165.: fat COW 6, £5; in-calf heifers, £3 17s. £d. to £4 25.; springing heifers, £5 17s. 6d. to £7 7s. 6d.; springing cows, up to £9 155.; working bullocks, £8 55.; bulls, £3 IC3. to £5 IC-3.: f.m. ewes, 6s. 3d.; cull ewes'.■ 2s. sd. to 3s. 7d.; lambs, 7s. 4d. to 9s. Id.- ' Messrs. A. H. Atkinson and Co., Ltd., of Feilding, sold on Friday their usual lines, of which there were large entries. Piss made bettor values owing, to some- outside competition—no porkers or- grown sorts offering. We made a considerable turnover in pats, barley, and wheat, at prices as quoted. Fruit is still coming forward, in quantities, with exception of peaches,. of. which wo had no offering. Quotations:—Poultry: Hens (at. per pain. 25., 3s. 3d., 3s. 6d.. 45.; cockerels, is. 6d.. Is. 3d., 25., 2s. 3d., \ts. 6d., 23., 3s. 6d.; ducks. 3s, 3s. ?d., to. 6d.: turkeys, 11s. 3d.. Us.. 6d. Pigs: Weanere, Is., 6d., 2s. 3d., 35., 55., 55. 6d.; slips. 33. 6d.. ss. 9d., 63. 6d.: Stores, 9s. 6d., 10s. 3d.'; aged hacks, Mi. to 225. 6d. ; potatoes, pis 4s. bag, table Bs. to 9s. 6d.; barley ■ 3s. 6d. to 45.; wheat, 40. 4d. to 4s. 6d. busliel; bran, fa. to-Es.'6d. bag; pollard, 125.; quinces. Is. 6d. bag; tomatoes, 2s. 6d. to 33. 6d. caw; apples. 3s. to <s. 6d.; onions, 7s. to Bs. cwt.; ■ piokline. 95.; pumpkins, Is.' 6d.; factory bacon, 7d.; hams, 9d.. per lb. Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd.- (Palmcrston North) report,:—At our I'eilding sale held on Friday we had a very fair yarding of both cattlo and sheep, all of which sold readily under the hammer at prices highly satisfactory to vendors. Quotations:—Aged ewes, to 4s. 3d.; mixed aged ewes, to 7s. 3d.; sound-mouth ewes, to.Bs. 4d.; f.f.m. and , sound-mouth ewes in good order, to 10s. Id.; 2-tooth wethers, to Vis.; ewe lambs, good class, 9s. Ca-ttle: Smn.ll weiroor heifers,'to 195.; weaner heifers, 235. 6d.; 3Cs., to £2 for a line of Jersey crose; forward cows, to £4 9s. ■ .