LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1439, 14 May 1912, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Mr. Newton King's weekly stock report is as follows?—On Thursday, May 2, I had a jartre attendance at Mr. W alter Chatterton's clearing' sale on the Kent Road. Bidding for -all dairy cattle was ' very ksen, prices obtained boing very satisfactory, as follow:—-Early ea-lvers, from-£5 163. to £8 155.: old and late calvers, £4 to £4 7s. Co.; empty> £2 10s.; Jersey eighteen-months bull, £2 7s. 6d.; twenty-months in-calf heifer' £3 - 17s. 6d.; weanor heifer calves. £1 18s.; ma-re, £13; on account of other vendors: Twenty-months Holstein heifers. £4 Is to £4 2s. 6d.; forward cows, £4 2s. On Saturday. May 4, X held my monthly horse fair at Stratford, submitting just on 90 horses Competition for unbroken horses was keen, every ons. being sold at the hammer. Good hacks and harness horses also met good competition, and. sold well. Inferior sorts were dull of sale—no inquiry. Unbroken half-draughts. £12 ss. to £la lis. 6d.: lighter sorts, £4 15s. to £9; broken draughts, £25 to £30; half-draughts, £20 to £26 10s.; upstanding hacks, £12 10s. to £17 10s.; harness horses, £10 -to £15 10s.: hacks, £4 to £8 10s.; wseds. 20s. to 50s. My Eahotu yards on Tuesday were well filled with cattle, tho maionty being weancrs and cows. Bidding at the start was slack, but improved during the sale, practically everything being cleared during tho pay. A nice linn of twenty-months well-done Jer-sev-Holstcin in-calf heifers realised, after spirited competition, £6; other prices mi\ed weanors to yearlings, best, £1 7s. 6d to £1 14s ; poor, 14s. t.o £1 2s. 6d.; heifers coloured, P £l 16s to £2 12s ; others, '£1 to £1 95.; steers, best, £1 6s; to £1 14s. 6d • poor. 6s. 6d. to 155.; eighteen-months steer*/£2 15s. to £3 Is-; oightsen-mouths incalf heifers, small, £2 15s. to £3 Is.; ornpty .twenty-months heifers, £3 Os. 6_d. .0 £3 ss. cnriTi£?ine licifcrs, small, <£4 Zs. 6q. to £<4 10?.; store cows, £2 3s. -to £3 7s. 6cL; forward cows. £4 to £4 75.; fat. cows. £4 165.; ril'H £1 to £1 155.; baconer piss, £2 12=. fd. During the week I have sold privately at tho following rat;s:—ln-calf twenty-months heifer £3 10s to £4 10s.: two and a-holf-year In-calf heifers, £5 ss. to emnty twenty-months heifers. £3 6=. 6d. to £3 coloured weaners to yearling heifer*, £2 16"!". twenty-months steers, small. £3: two and a half-ysar steers, £11 12|. 6c1.; bulls. «• lambs, 75., 6s. 6d.. 6s. 3d.. 65.,-Es.; dairy cows £8 10s.; fat bullocks. £9; store threerear bullocks, £5 10b.; two-tooth wethers, 1?- 3d to 12-. 6d.; four-tooth withers los. fid'- fat cows, £5 to £5 12s. 6d:-; forward rSw< £3 17s 6d. to £4 2s. 6d.; store cows, £2 15* to £3 55.; fat wethers. 15s. 6d. At the Haymnrket on Saturday t had a fair -ntrv Pig': Weaners, good. 6s. 6d. to 95., others, is. to 55.; slips. 10s. to 135.: stores, 19s! to £1 Bs. 6d.: 1 rubber-tyred gig, £20; express horses, £20.