LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1361, 12 February 1912, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES.

The Now Zealand bo.au and Mercantile! Agency Co., Ltd. (l-'eilding branch) rejoins for the v,e:k ending February 10 as follow:—At llaugiwahia on Tuesday we hart a g'lod yarding or bot.'i sheep am! cattle, ami oil tines sold at Cull rates. Small mixed lambs, -15. 5d., 4s. link. -Is. lid.: medium stare lambs. 6s. 11(1.. "s.; rape lambs. Bs. 6d.; mixed aged ewe-, 9s. 4d.; small twotooth ewes, lis. 3d. io 12s. 3d.: good twotoot !i ewes. Ms. 3d.; two-tooth wethers (small), lis. 3d. to 12s. 3d.; good two-tojUl wethers, 12s. 9(1. to 13s. 3d.: mixed weaners. .-"1 £-.; good wcaner steers, 3"5.. 375.. 395.: good weaner heifers, £2 35.; eighteenmonth heifers, £2 16-. to £3 13s. Gd.; oight-?cn-month steers, £2 165., £3 35., £3 45.; three-vear steers, £5 9s. 6d.: forward bullocks,'£7 Is.; fat cows, £4 10s. to £5 Is. At Veilrlmg on Friday we had a coon entrv of sheep, which, however, met with an imlillercnl sale. Cattle, were yarded in good numbers and sold freely. Sl-.-ro ewes, 4s. 6d.; si ore lambs. ss. lid.; small t'.votooth wethers. 9s. 9d.; two-tooth ewes, lis. lid.: good s.m. ewes, 12s. Cattle: Wcaner steers, 375.; weancr heifers, £2; fiftccnnionth mixed cattle. £3 55.; cows and calve?, £4 Ss. 6d.; empty heifers, £3 25.; cniplv caws, £2 lbs. to £3 !C:-\; eighteenmonth steers £5 25.; yearling steers. £2 is.; small ditto, £1 155.; yearling heifers. £2 In.: two and a half-year heifers. £5 35.; fifteen-months, steers, £3 9s. 6d.; forward emptv cows, £4; springing heifers, £4; heifers in calf, £5 155.; two and a halfyear heifers in calf, £4; bulls, up to £3.

Jicssrs. A. 11. Atkinson and Co., Ltd., Fending, report having held their usual sale on Friday, on premises immediately behind those destroyed by fire on Tuesday, and pending re-ercction of premi'sc-, will continue tlie bu-iness there. Pens were fdled with a good lot of well-bred pigs. Prices were a shade easier for young and st'M'e sorts, bi poultry old birds were not in much demand. A fiirly large entry v;cve all sold at quotations. A number of plum-? and appies were sent, in for sale, also new season's onions, which rea.lifeil Bs. to 10s. cwt. Thov Bs. GH.. 10s. 6d., lis. to 12s. j slips. «s., 15s. bi., lGs. 6(1., 176. 6d.: stores, 2Cs.. 2'.5.: porkers. 245. 6(1., 275. 6d.. 23=. Io 36?. Poultry: Hens. 25., 2s. 3d., 2s. Gd., 2s. 9d., 35.; roosters, 2s. to 2s. 6<1.; cockerels, U„ is. 3d., Is. Gel.; chicks, 6d.; duck-.-. <X 3d. (all at ncr pair). D— ■:. to 11°. M. Produce: Potatoes, 4s. to 4s. 6d. cv,-t.; plutvs, Is. 3d.. 1«. 9d. to 2s. frt. per c:-se; cauliflowers, 2d.; new onions, Id. to Ud.; apples, 3a. per small box.