LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1443, 18 May 1912, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgety nnil Company, Limited, report on their Upper Ifiitt stock sale, held on Thursday, an follows:—We submitted a very full yarding of both sliccp | and cattle to a large attendance of buyers. amongst whom were representatives from the Wairarapa and Ma.ua\vatu. Competition for sheep was very keen, and all lines changed hands, with the exception of 30 aged ewes. Several pons of fats were offered, and brought full market rates. Tile olforing of cattle was composed mostly of dairy stock, and anything in full milk or olose to drop was well sought after. A line of cows in milk and springing heifers from a Hawen.% client 6old well, tho cows bringing lip to £11 2a. 6d„ and tho heifers up to £8. Young cattle wore also in good demand. We quote.— Sheep: F. 51. ewo3 in lamb. lis. 3d.; fat. and forward wotliers, 145.; light fat wethers, 13s. lid. to 145.; light fat ewes. 12s. Bd.: fat and forward lambs, 9s. 3d.; small woolly lambs, 7s. 3(1.; cull lambs. 4s. Cattle: Cows, just come to proiit, £8 17s. 6d. to £11 2s. 6d.; cows in milk, £5 to £7; cows, close to calving. £7 7s. 6(1. to £9 17s. I 6(1.: sprinc calvers, £5 to £7 Is.; heifers. in«t rolved. £7 10s. to £8 17s. 6(1.; springing heifers. £5 to £8: 18-inontli heifers, £.! 7s. 6d.; yearling heifers, £2 3s. 6d.; small mixed woaners, 12s. fid. to 205.: fat cows. £5 25.; ston cows. £3: bulls. £1 15?. to £2. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.. Ltd.. Teport for t.lio woeli; nndod Friday May 17, no follows :-Ai FclMljik ou Friday wo had a good yardum ax bow

sheep and catlle, which sold at full rulii!" rate- H'e <|iiot jCull ewes, in lauili. ?.-"<d„ 7s. 5(1.. Vs. til.; empty we.«. 7.-. 6t1.; other ewes, to 8». 2d.; I'.etter ditto, to 95.; owe.-, in lamb 1(? Soutbilown I in-, 13s. 9d.; wetlier lambs, to 10.-.: store cows. £3; emptv Jersey cows, £3 165.; empty hlion horn cows. .£3 17s. 6d ; , £4 to £4 Is.; iisht, fat cow. £4: Isfttov ditto, £'! 18s.; 20-monih steers, £3 Ms. 6d.; 20-month heifers, £3 125.; two-year steers, to £3 17s. 6(1.; fill heifers £4 16=.; light, fat heifers, £4 7s. 6d. to £4 15-- light fat cows. £5; backward culvers, £3 16=.: forward calvcrs. to £5; springing cows, ,£9.

Messrs. Dalgot.v and Company, Limited, report 011 their fortnightly sale at M|lV?rs Hoad, Dannevirke, us follows -We 'ifivrca a verv fair ontrv of >heep and a {»ntrv" of cattle than uMial. to a good attendance of buyers. She?p were in good deiinuul. particularly for sounn-moutli, empty forward-condition ewes, also young brooding ewe.*. We quote as fo»iow?:—rat owes, from \l>. to 13s. 9d. for extr-a heavyweights; m'jdium-weights. 9s. 6d. to iOs. 9d.; fat wether.-, from 13:-'. 6d. Jo l d «. 5d.; forward store, ewes, 9s. Id. io 10s. 3d.: store wethers. Us. 6d. to lis. 6d ; shorn hornets, 7s. Id. to 6s. 3d.; mixed woolly ho"gets, 9s. 9d. to lis. 5(!.; aged empty ewes. 2s. 7d. to ss. 3d.: v. line of young breeding owes made 14s. Cattle: Vat rows, medium-weights <no heavy oflenn?), to £4 5s to £5: forward store cows, £-• 3s. to £i 155.; cows in calf. £4 7s. 6d. to £6: mixed weaners, 30s. to 455.; heifers, late ealvers, £3 10s. to £4 ss,

Mr. Newton King's weekly report is as followsOn Friday, May 10, at my Waiwakaiho yards, I had a fair entry and a good attendance. Lidding throughout was good, every line except a few tad-coloured steers being cleared during the day at the following rates:—Lambs, 95.; Jersey weaner to yearling heifers, £2 19s. 6d.; giades, £1 ss. to £1 jog.; weancr steers, £1 2s. to £1 7s. 6d.* bad colours, ss. to 14s. 6d.; 20month steers, £3 Os. fad. to £3 55.; 20-month empty heifers, £3 3s. to £3 65.; 20-month incalf heifers, £3 IBs. fid. to £4 8.?. 6d.; old' cows, £1 3s. 6d. to £2 35.; store cows, £2 15*. to £3 75.; bulls, £3; dairy cows. £5 10a. On Monday, May 13, I had only a. fair yarding oi Urunui, with dull competition 1 throughout. Mixed weaners, £1 155.; poor and bad-coloured, 13s. to i£s.; 15-month steers, £2 ss. to £2 9s. 6(1.; 20*montii steers, good, £3 10s.: two and half to thrcu-ysar steers, £4 3?. to £5 35.; fat bullocks. £8 75.; forward bullocks. £C 75.; bulls, £2 ss. to £2 12s. 6d.; store cows, £2 15s. to £3 7s. 6d.; old cows. £1 12s. 6d. to £2 45.: forward cows, £4 to £4 155.; fat cows, £5 4s. to £5 10s.; 20-month in-wxlf heifers, £3 155.: three-year in-calf heifers, £5 to £6 35.; mixed ewes, lis. to 12s. Bd.; poor, 65.; lambs, 7s. 6d. to Bs. Bd.; fctore wethers, lis. lOd. to 14s. At Toko, on tlra sainn day, empty 20-month heifers realised. £3 55.; mixed weaners, 14s. to £1 ss. 6d.; weaner steers, £1 4s. to £1 95.; weaner heifers, £1 6s. to £1 10s.; store cows, £2 to £3 95.; forward cows, £4 14s. At Stratford, oil Tuesday, May 14, I had a vary heavy entry, all yards and pens being well filled. Store cows did not meet with as sood inquiry as at late sales, although prices obtained were about the same. Good weaner to yearling heifers met with good competition, as also did fat and forward Prices obtained were:—Mixed weaners, bad colours, 10s. 6d. to £1 2s. fid.; grade Jersey heifers, good, £2 to £2 lis.; grades, £1 is. to £1 135.; 20-month empty haifers, £2 19s. to £3 55.; 20-month steers, £3 lis.;" 20-inonths in-ealf heifers, £3 14s. to £4 7s. 6d.; store cows, £2 14s. 6d. to £3 155.; old cows. £1 to £2 2s. 6d.: forward oows, £4 lo £4 65.; fat cows, £6, £5 355., £5 145., £5 13s. 6d„ £5 35., £4 155., £4 10s., dairy cows, guaranteed, £5 to £6; two and a half-year steers, £4 to £4 7s. 6d.; Hol-st-ein weaner bulls, £1 Bs. to £1 10s.; 18month roan bull, £2 2s. 6d.; small lambs, '.3. Bd. to ss. Id.; store ewes, 9s. 5d.; s.in. ewes, 4s. Id. In my Stony Kivsr yards, on Wednesday, there was only a small yarding, the mapority being good store and forward cows, which were dull of sale. Weaner heifers, from £1 Is. to £L-los. 6d.; steers, 17s'. 6d. to £1 17s. 6d., according to quality; empty 20-month heifers, £3 3s. 6d.; springing heifers, £6; 20-iuonth steers, £3; 20-month in-calf heifers, good, £4 135.; store cows, £2 3s. to £3 9s. 6d.; forward cows, £3 4s. 6d. to £3 13s. 6(1.; fat cows, £4 2s. to £4 55.; dairy cows, guaranteed, £3 15,5. to £5 155.; lambs, 7s. 6d.; store pigs. 15s. During the week I have sold privately some big lines of cattle and including a number of dairy herds. Mixed weaners, £1 ss. to £1 17s. 6d.; weaner steers, £1 IBs.; 20-iuonth steers, £3 35.-'6 d. to £3 lis.; 20-month emniy heifers, £3 7s. 6d., £3 3s. 6d., £3 35., £3 25., and £3; twoyear in-calf h.Mfers, £4 10s.; three-year inealf heifer.?, £6 10s., £6. £5 10s., and £5; forward cows, £4 10s.; fat cows, £5 to £5

2s. 6d.; cow and calves, £4 10s.; springing heifers, £6 17?. 6d., £6 10s., £6; fas bullocks, £9 and £8 55.; forward bullocks, £7, £6 65.; store bullocks, £5 10s., £5 75.; two and a half-year steers, £4 lis. and £4 10s., £4 Bs., £4 55., £4 3s. 6i1.; mare, £16; gelding, £17; store welhers, 135.; lambs, Bs. 10d., Bs. 6d., 7s. 9d., 7s. £d.. 6s. 6d., 65.; dairy lic-rds. £12, £9 10s.. .£9 ss„ £9. £8 155., £8 10s., £8 as., £7 155.. £7 10s. . Messrs. .Tames Mncinosh ,nml Co. report having held a. very successful clearing silo on Account of Mr. John Hart, at his farm. Onaki (which has lately Iwen sold) when tliev oil'ored all his live and dead stock, which met with good competition. Twotooth to f.m. ewes, in lamb to Southdown rams, 15s. Id.; ompty store ew-is, 6s. id. to Bs. lid.; fat lambs, to lis. 10d.; 6malt woolly lambs, 6s. 6d.; wethers, 135.; fat ewes, 13s. 4d.; one good cow in profit, £10; I bay gelding, "Nugget," £32; brown gelding, "Darkio." £15 10s.; bay gelding, "Billy," .£2l iCs., brown mare, "Brownie," £15; Cambridge roller, £19; binder,'.£l4; 11. and Ci. plough, £15 10s.; cultivator. £9 10s. Other implements and sundries sold were up to t'icariiig sale raieß.