LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1296, 27 November 1911, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dalgetv aud Co.. Ltd.. report of their week's s'alco as follows :-Wcduosday, 22nd, we held our usual llakolukn saje. when wo offered only «■ small yarding of bath sheep and caltle. all liu<\s beiny disposed of under the hammer. Prices were:, 4to Month wethers, 12s. 6d.: fat ewes and wethers, 125.: yearling bulls. £>: red hull, £l-18s.; empty, cows, £2 ss. to .« He.: heifers. £1; springing heifers. £2 25.: heifer and calf, £i; yearling steers, £2 15s. 6d. "On.Friday, 24th inst.. we held our fortnightly Dannevirke fale, when wo offered a, big yjxrding of cattle and sheep. The attendance of buyers was above the average. The inclemency of the weather had .it's effect oji bidding, but most of our offerings were quitted atsaticfactory prices. We report as follow:—Sheep—Ewes and lambs, lis. 7d. to 155.; mixed woolly hoggets, 13s. 9d. lo 13s. llld.; fat, ewes and wethers, 12s. Bd.; empty woolly ewe?, lis. 3d. to'l2s. 7d.: ram, 3s. 6d. Cattle: Holsteiu bull. £3 I*.; Ayrshire hull. £2 lis.; fat bullock?, £7 Its.; store bullocks, £4 17s-. 6i1.: brimllo bulls. £2 17s. 6d. to £3 25.; empty heifers, £2 16s. to £3 10s.; ycar.ling steers, £2 lis. 6d. to £<!: fat cows, £5 to £5 2s. 6c1.; store cows, £3 75.; heifers with calf. £3 25.: spriupiug heifers. £3 ss. to £3 10s.; empty heifers, £3; Hereford steers, £4; H-ra'onths' steers, £3 18s. 6rt.; yearling steers, £2 55.; springing cow, £2 Kis. to £4 Bs.; empty cows. £3 to £4; porkers, 165.; breeding sows, is.; weaner pigs, IDs. to lis. ■ •'■

At our Fcibliug sale on Friday, 24tU instant,-owing-to very rough weather, a number of advertised lines of sheep did not come forward, hut. a small entry met a really good sale. A large yarding of 'cattle sold readily, and with tho. exception of one small pen all lots changed hands: —Empty Woolly even, lis. "d.; black-faced hoggets, 135.; good ewe hoggets,' to 165.; extra, good ewe hoggets, to l-7s. 6d.; mixed age ewes, with lambs, 19s. to 19s. 7d. On account, .of Mr. W. Clark, Uongotea; Purebred Lincoln- ewe hoggets,- 3 guineas; purebred' Lincoln ewes, with lambs,' 3 :guU neas, 3J guineas. Cattle: Mixed weaners. 235. 6d.; small., yearling heifers, £2 lis.; -small yearling steers, £2 14s. 6d.; yearling 'steers, £3; 15-mpuths heifers, £3 35., £3 4s. 6d., £3 Us..'to £3 125.;. bad-r.oloured 2'year steers. £3 is. to £3 14s. 6d.; 2-vear steers, to £4 10s.; light, fat cows, £5 10s.; 3-year steers, £5' 17s. 6d.

FEILDIXG MARKET. REPORT. .'. A.H. Atkinson and Go., Ltd., report- a brisk market on Friday, in all lines, all forward stores sold at full.' values, ■ wealierif woro easier, but no' particularly good lots were offering.. A .good .'lot of -poultry. ,camc in, and made the best of prices: This season's ducks were keenly inquired for. Green vegetables" are' still in'limited supply. Freshly-dug. new potatoes wanted. TTe quote :—Suckers, 6s. to 6s. tA.; weaners and slips, 75., B.=. (d., 9»., 10s., to 125.; light stores, 16s. 6d„ 175., 18s., 195.; good weights, 273. 6d. to 30s. 6d.; porkers, to 345.; gig, £11 55.; dray, £1 l£s.; turkeys (per pair), 12s: to 165.; ducks, 45.. to 4s. 9d'; ducklings, 4s. 9d.; young cockerels, 4s. 3d.; roosters, to 65.; hens, 4s. 3d., 4s. 6d., '■}. 9d., 55.: ss. 6d.; geese. ss. to s*. 3d.; sitting- hens, 55.; bran, '5s.■ 6d. sack; wheat, 4s.' 4d. a bushel;-old potatoes, 6s. to 7s. sock.; .seed, 35.; new, 9s. per 10011).; rhubarb, 4d. bundle; spring onions. 9d.; cabbage, 3s. 6d. sack; tinned honey, 4d. per lb.; homo cured bacon,-'ld".; hame, lOd. per lb. ■ • -