LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1389, 15 March 1912, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., Palmerston, report: —At Palmerston North on Thursday a moderate entry of sheep and cattle came forward. Sheep sold well, and the bulk of the cattle yarded found buyers at late rates. Wo quote: Store owes, 6?. Id. to 6s. w.; s.m. ewes, 7s. 7d. to Bs. Bd.; cattle, wcaners, 305.; good weaner steers, £2 45.; store cows, £3, 7s. 6d.; forward cows, £4 3s. to £4 55.; fat cows, £5 Is. Messrs. Dalgcty and Company, Ltd. (Palmerston), report as follows:—At Palmerston sals yesterday there was a good yarding of sheep and cattle. There was a, good inquiry for sheep, but several pens of cattle were turned out unsold. ■ (Quotations: Mixed ngsd ewes, 6s. 4d. to 6s. 6d.; s.m. and t.m. ewes, 9s. 4d. to 10s.: mixed shorn lambs, to Bs. 2d.; woollv lambs. Bs. 9d.; four and fivc■vear ewes, lis. to lis. 6d.; six-tooth and four-year ewes, 13s. 3d. to Ks. 2d.; heavy fat wethers, 13s. 3d.; two-tooth ewes, 155.: six-tooth ewes, to 12s'. 6il. Cattle: Two-year w«ll-bP2d heifers, £3 155.; yearling steers, £2 155.; store cows, £3 2s. 6d. to £3 165.; fat and forward heifers, £4 12s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report:—At Yv'estfield yards (Auckland) stock sale on Thursday last, dairy and store stock were yarded in average numbers, and sold at fully late rates. Best cows and heifers for dairy, close to profit, sold from £7 to £9 65., others £4 2s. 6d. to £6 10s.; empty cows, £i 155.; calves, 20s. to 375. 6d. On Friday at Wcstiield yards we held our racond sheep fair of the season, and owing to the very wet weather the advertised number did not come forward. There was a largo attendance, and prices were 2s. to 3s. higher than the previous sale.' Two-tooth ewes sold at from 14s. 3d. to 16s. 9d.; a pen of Lincoln two-tooth ewes realised 20s. each; four to six-tooth ewes. 13s. to 15s. 6d.; fresh full-mouth owes, 10s. to 12s. 9d.: aged and cull ewes, ss. to Bs.; lambs, 3s. 3d. to Bs. 3d.; Lincoln rams, £1 Is. to £5 55.; Itomney, 12 guineas to 42 guineas; English Leicester, £1 Is. to £3 35.; Border Leicoster, £1 Is. to 23 guineas; Shropshire rams, £1 Is. to 23 guineas. At Pukckohe yards on Tuesday there was a full yarding of cattlo of all classes, which sold at fully late rates. Best dairy cow 3 and heifers sold at from £7 10s. to £9 55.; others, £4 to £6 12s. 6d.; three to three and a halfyear old steers sold at from £5 17s. 6d. to £6 18s.: two to three-year-old steers, £4 to £5 10s.; yearlings, £2 13s. to £3 12s. 6d.; good steer calvss, £2 ss. to £2 10;.; others, 20s. to 385.; empty cows, £2 15s. to £4; heifers, £2 10s. to £3 155.; bulls, £3 to £8; beef, at fully Westfiold rates. At Westfield yards on Wednesday fat cattle wero yarded in good numbers and competition was good throughout. Best ox b;ef sold at 275. per 1001b.; others, 245. to 265.; cows and heifsrs, 19s. to 235. ner 1001b.; steers sold at from £7 ss. to £13; cows and heifers,' £4 2s. 6d. to £8 IDs. Pat calves were penned in average numbers, and sold at la.te values. Heavy v.2D]crs sold to £3 125.; medium weights, £2 ss. to £2 145.; lighter. 20s; to 3fc.; smaller, and fresh dropped, 3s. to 12.?. 6d. each. Sheep wore yarded in average sunply. Best wethers sold at from 16s. to 20s. 3d.; others, 12s. 9d. to 17s; 6d.; heavy ewes, to 18s.; others, lis-. 6d. to 15s. 3d.; lambs, best,'to Ks.; others, Bs. 9d. to 10s. 6d: Pigs came for-' ward in larger numbers than usual, and again sold at high rates. Baconers sold at from £2 18s. to £3 7s. 6d.; large porkers, £2 10s. to £2 j03.; porkers, 15s. to £2. 55.; slips, 20s. to 355.; wcaners, 10s. 6d. to 12s. 6d. At the Albert yards on Friday last horses came forward in usual numbers, and sold at late rates. Medium draughts. £18 to £27 10s.; light harness horsss, £8 to £14: hanks. £5 to £12 10s.; ponies, £2 to £7 10s.; harness, £5 15s. per set; cart, £8 10s. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held their usual weekly fat stock sale at IVcstfield on Wednesday, March 13. A moderate yarding of prime b3ef 'sold fully up to last week's rates, at equal to 255. to 265. per 1001b.; medium, 225. to 245.; inferior. 205.; cow and heifer, 225. to 235. Veal: A fair yarding, which sold at top prices. Heavy vealcrs, £2 10s. to £3 155.; suckers, to 95.: small, from 4s. Muttcn: A moderate yarding; prices advanced Is. to Is. 6d. per head. Heavy prime wethers, 18s. to 21s. 9d.; medium wethers, 16s. to 17s. 6d.; unfinished. 13s. 6d. to 15s. od.: heavy ewes, 17s. to 195.; medium, 12s. to 15s. Lamb: A small yarding, and prices continue very firm. Prime heavy woolly, 13s. to 15s. 6d.; light, Bs. 6d. to 10s.; shorn, to 13s. 6d. Pork: A fair yarding Choice porkers sold at equal to 6d. per lb.; heavy, at equal to sd. per lb. Messrs. Abraham and Williams report that at their Ma.rtinborough Eale yesterday they had a heavy yarding of sheep, upwards of two thousand being yarded, together with 50 head of bullocks. It was a successful salo, PTactirally everything being dispose* o( before the close. Prices: Two and four-tooth wethers, 13s. 2d.; cull two-tooth wethers, 10s. 3d.; two-tooth ewe?, 12s. Bd.; cull four and six-tooth ewos, 10s. 3d.; four and five-year ewes, lis.; sounds mouth owes, 9s. 3d.; f.m. ewos. Bs. Id. to 9s. 3d.; three and four-year bullocks. £5 ss. to £6; two-tooth Southdown rams, 2 to ZJ guineas. , /