LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1307, 9 December 1911, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgoty and Co.. Ltd., report having bold their usual fortnightly sale at. Ekotahuna yesterday. There was n fair yarding of both sheep and caiilc which met with a dragging talc. However, the whole yarding was quitted privately. Four-tooth to full-mouth ewes and lambs, 17s. Ltd.; good wether hoggets, 14?., 14s oil.; good ewe hoggets, lis. 9d. to 12s. lid.; iworor sorts, 9s. 9d. to 10s.; mod 4tooth wether:-, 135.; 2-ycar steers. £2 155.. £3 5.3.. £3 lis., to £4 Bs.; empty heifers, £3 165.; cows and calves. £4 45.: yearlings £2 to £2 7s. Cd.; bulls, £3 10s. to £6 6s.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams. Ltd., re-port:-Ai Levin on Friday we had a good yarning or sheep and an exceptionally heavy yarding of cattle. Sheep sold fuliV at late rates, but cattle were inclined to {!>??• ! ] . < T' <;vor - we managed to quit the bulk of the entry at satisfactory prices. We quote:-l',wes anil lambs, good, 255. 9d.medium. 18s.: bogreis. 15=. 4,1. to 15=. Cd • empty ewes, K?.: fat ewes, 12s. 3d.; store owes ss. 3:1. to lis.: small hoggeis. 10s. 7d. (.aulo.-Four-ycar bullocks. £5 14s. to £6 35.; o-year liullockg. £S 9s. 6d.; 2-year steers. .« Bs. 6d.; yearling sW» t» ?" yearling empty heifers I'well bred). £2 17«" £2 13s to £2 18s. Cd.; dairy heifers. £7. las. «rt„ £3, £3 7s. Cd.. €■!. £4 45.. £4 Us., £4 165.; fat cow*. £5. £5 3s. 6d„ £5 4s„ £5 55,, £5 125., £5 12s. 6d., to £5 155.; forwird cows. £4 Is. to £4 10'.: stor c r.-iwe £2 10" [' £•!. 55.; weaners, 20s„ 255., 275. '6d.. 2-" 29*. M5.. 3-,s. 6d., to 365.; bulls, £2 10s. to £3 ss.

The liew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. report : —At our Levin sale yesterday wo had a fair yarding of caftlo. the sale was of a dragging nature throughout. We fold store bnUoeks to / IRs..; store cows, £3 10s. to £4; two-venr old steers, £3 10s. to £5 155.: dairy cow : s, to £6; wcaaer calves, up to 265.

The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile IjO.. Ltd. (Icildinjr branch) report, for the week ending December 8 as follows—At Apiti nn Tuesday only a small yardinsame forward. Medium mixed hoggets 135.; 15-month steers. 225. 6d. to £2 )'•= • 18-month empty heifers. £3 12=.; empty cows, £3 65.: springing heifers. £4. £5. to £5 55.; purebred Jersey bull. £8; bulls £2 10s. to £5. At Feilditre on Friday we bad a good entry of both sheep and entile. The demand for both was good, and we jffneiert. a eood clearance, and quote as follows;— Wether hoggets (small). ;(K 9rt ; ewes and lambs fail counted). 7s. 4d.; wool-lv.cwF-s, and lambs, 165.. 17s. Id.; others tn IBs. Id.: empty' ewes, lis.; shorn forward ewes, lis.; fatewes. 125.; Kolstein bcifers. £4; litore cows, £3 4s\; 2-vce.r steers £4 55.; forward empty rows, £-1 fc. to £4'95.: store cows. £3 55.; 2-year steers. £3 18=.: empty Ifoistein bcifers, £4 tn £5>25.; 21-

yn a r s j/>o rs , ,£5. j{ crr .f or( ] heifers (emptv) £4 ?«. 6(1.; store bullocks. £41Cs.: cm"tv com--. £5.15.=.: yoarlim- steers. 33k. 6d.': empty Shorthorn heifers, £3 7s. to £3 12".; hcifer3 in c«i!f, £5 3?.; Jursoy heifers, to £5 11s.; light sat cows, £5; fat cows, £6; yearling heifers, £2 9s.

NEWTON KING'S WEEKLY REPORT. At I'ahotu on Tuesday I had a innal! yarding but a good attendance of the public. Fifteen to 10-month heifers and steers met with good competition thronghoui yearling steers, 31s. to «s. 6d.: 15 to 18month do.. £2 7s. to £2 195.; 15 to 18-monih hcifer3, £2 6s. 6d. to £2 125.; emptv heifers, £3 Bs. "to £3 155.; store cows, £2 lc to £2 175.; forward, £3 13=. 6d. to £3 195.; fat cows, £4 15s. to £5; springing heifev: £5 155.; yearling S.H. bud, i 4; Ayrshire do., £4: Jersey do.. £4 (e. On Wednesday, at Wniwakaiho, I had n small yarding (no doubt being duo to the sale being- held on the off day). Mixer' yearlings, poor, 255.; 15 to 18-month piT''<> Jersey heifers, £3 6?.; 15 to 18-month heifers. £2 6s. to £2 18s. 6d; 15 to 18-icr. steers, £2 13s. 6d: to £2 18?.; 2-year c-mntv heifers. £4 Is.; springiiir; heifers, £6 125.; store cows, £2 9s. to £2 175.; forward cows. £4; fat. £4'l3s. 6d.; Jersey bull, £4 10s.; cow in calf, £4 ss.

At. O'tau oh the same day, owing to f" - rough weather, a few of tho lines advertised did not come forward, but notwithstanding this, I had a. good entry and a good attendance of the public. Bidding was ouist, but practically every line war, cleared at the folloTTbg prices:—ls to JSmonth steers. £2 'ss. to £2 175.: 15 to 18month heifers, £2 10s. to £2 165.: 2-vcnr steers, £3 7s. 6d. to £4 35.; bulls, £2 sg. to £4 103.; store cows, £Z 17s. (id. to £3 "«.; fat cows. £4 7s. 6d.; spripging heifers, £4-3-year hullochs, £5 7s. 6d.; hoggets, los.; fat wat!ier.«. 15s. 6d.

Dalgety *nnd Company, Ltd.. report ai .follows on th»ir Levin sale:—Wo had c very full yarding of both cheep and cat tie. which wc.ro-nfr-.red-to a fnU ntt<-ml.~>>-v oi buyers. Ridding wos spirited through out, and stock sold well up to late ratou We ottote: Sheen—Fat owes. lCs, Kd. to Ms 6d.; 4-t,or>t'i wether'". 12s. 6d.; 2-too*h wet': ors, lis. 9d.; Us. 7d. ; empty woolly ewe? 13s. 5(1.. to 14s. Cattle: Fa*. hn!locl:«. £1

10.5.: fat cows, £5 7s. 6d., £5 12s. 6d.: 2<-yoar r.toors. £4 7s. 6d., £4 Us. 6d : steers. £3 B=-: voarlipg steers. £2 1S». f fl £2 is«. f ( i. ; roar . linrr hoiforp. £3 to £3 7s. Mr wconcr heifer". 235. to 315.; weaner steers, ?,7s. in 2?5.; empty heifers, £2 VK 6d„ £3, £3 55.; springing heifers. £4 12s. 6c1.; cows in mill;, £4; springing rows. £6; forward cows, £4, £4 is.; bulls, £2. £2 55., £3 55., to £5 14s. Gd.