LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1265, 21 October 1911, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dateety and Co., Ltd. (Palmerston North branch) report on!v a small yardtng of stock at their Palmersfcon North snle yesterday. This was owing to rourh weather. Store cows. £2 125.; empty heifers. £3 lis.; two-year steers, bod colour. £3 55.: low-conditioned two-year steers, £3 lis.; three-vcar steers, £5 10s.; bulls, £5 ss. to £5 15s. Mosars. Abraham and William?. Ltd., report:—At their wcokly sale at Levin >«?*• torday a pood entTy of both sheep and cattle met with a good demand, very little going out unsold. The demand for fat sheep and ewes and lambs was particularly keen. Small ho?gets. 9s. 9d.; medium hoggets, lis. to 13". 3d.: goad hoggets, I<f. 2d:; fat wethers, 195., sd. to 21s. Id.; fat ewea, 17p.. 8(i; shorn fat ewes, 12s. 9d.; store wethers, 15?. 3d.; mixed two-tooths, 12s. 2d.; fat and forward wethers, 18s-. 6d.; empty ewes, lis. 6d. to 12?.; ewes and lambs, 225.; fat bullocks. £9 15s. 6d.; fat cows. £5 145.. £5 14s. 6d., £6 55., to £7 Bs.: yearling heifers, £2 45., £2 12s. 6d. to £3 is.; weaners, 18s. Cd.; empty cows, £3 to £3 la.j'.sprincing heifers, £5 2s. 6d. to £5 7s. 6d.; two-yenx steers. £4 12s. 6d.: twoyear heifers, £3 195.; bulls, £4 12s. 6d. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report for the week ending yesterday as follows:—At Rangiwahia., on Tuesday, a fair yardin? of sheep came forward but very few cattle wero yarded. In consequence of the improvement of feed in the district, tlio do mand for sheen was gocd. Mired hogprets (small), mixed hoggets (srocd), 13s. 6d. and 14a. Id.; two, four, and six-tooth wethor?, 16s. Bd.; vomer heifers. 365.; heifers, in milk. £5. At Feildiag yesterday we had a small entry of sheep, and effected a , clearance. Wc had an unnstiaily heavy entry of cattle, a.nd practically effected a clearance. A line of 63 two-year steers, from "Peep-o'-Day," made £4, and a similar lino of 59'mn.de £3 18s. Lambs 'small), lCs.; ewes, with lambs at foot, 13s. 3d.; fat ewes, 17s. 3d.; eigftteen-months Jersey heifers, £3 18s. 6d.; others. £3 to £3 155.; ling heifers, £3; lighter-conditioned, £2 165.; two-year steers, £3 18s. to £4; forward cows. £5 65.; backward ditto. £3 65.; store bullocks, £5 ISs.; fat cows, £5 155.; lighter ditto. £5 2e. 6d.; springing cows, £5 10s.; store cows, £2 155.; cows with oalves at foot, £4 17s. 6d.; empty hei* fers, £4 53.; Jorecy heifers, in calf. £4 lis.; springing cows, £5 55.; cows in milk, £4; backward oowb in call, £4 7s. 6d.s yearling steers, £2 10s.; cow a.nd llolstein calf, £4 7s. 6d.; other cows, with calves at foot. £4 55.; mixed yearlings (small), 255.; fif-teen-months steors, £2 95.; springing cow?, £3 55.; empty heifers, £2 Bs. 6d.j store cows, 395.; fresh young empty cows, £2 IDs.