LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1098, 10 April 1911, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalscty and Co. rojtorti-At our Wavcrlcy sale last wosk we had -a iaiv yarding of cattle and a small yardiii? of sheep, and wo have to report a (lull sale. Buyers for cattle were but high reserves hampered business, anil, with the exception of weaners, the bull: of tlie yarding went out unsold. Quotations: Forward ewes, 9s. 7d.; cull ewes. Js. 7d.; backward wether;, 1C?. 'Id.; empty cow?, £2 as.; 3-year steers, .£3 11?.; weaners, 125., £1, XI Is.; weaner heifers, £1 165.; gelding, £3 2-i. 6d.

Messrs. Dalgcty and Co., Ltd., l'almcrstoa North, renort: At our usual weekly stile at Fcildinc on Friday, v;e had :i. Rood yardhsg of both sheep nud cattle. For good owes tho demand was keen, but all low-condition-ed sheep and lambs were hard to quit. Young cattle of all classes met a ready Kale, but, the various lines of bullocks offered failed to change hand!-. Quotation* Aged cull ewes, 25., 2s. 1!: , ... to 3s. Id.; lowcondition mixed-age owes, to 4s. 7(1.; small mixed lambs, 4s. sd. to 55.; medium ewo lambs, to 7s. lGd.: light fat ewes, to 12s. lid.; light fat wethers, to 15s. Id. Cattle: Cull weaner steers, 13s. 6rt.; weaner heifers, 16 295. 6d.; Jersey cross weaner heifers, tr> 395.; fifteen-months heifers, small, £2 12s. 6c!.; store cows, to £3 Bs. 6d.; yearling Blccrs, £2 25.; fifteen to eighteen-rnonths steers, to £3 lCs.; eighteen to twenty-months Ilcrofiird-crnes steers, £4 Bs.; springing heifers, to £6 &. 6(1.; springing cows, to £5 ss.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—At Shannon on Friday we had small yardings of sheep and cattle. Wo made a. total clearance at tho following prices:— Two-tooth ewes (small), 95.; fat ewes, 12s. 2d.; cull ewes, 2s. Bd.; woolly lambs, 75.; shorn lambs, 3s. 2d., 4s. 6d., 6a. 9d., 6s. 10d.fat cows, £5 12s. 6(1.; store cows, £2 So. 6d. to £2 13s. 6d.; forward cows, £3 45.; dairy cows, £4 2s. 6d. to £5; yearling heifers, 365.; slips, ICe.