LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1454, 31 May 1912, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report on tlwir ijolway sale as follows:— A medium entry of sheep met with good j competition, and realised satisfactory prices. Cattle came forward well up to advertised numbers, and, with the exception of a few small psns and one line of bullocks, wc had a good clearance. The. special entries offered on account of Mr. 11. T. Hume, Aolianga, and Messrs. Barton Bros.,' Mataikona, were all quitted at auction, prices throughout being good. Following is a list of prices realised. Cattle: Kmpty store cows, £2 18s. to £3 7s. 6d.; forward empty cows, £4 to £4 155.; account Mr. H. i. Hume—Forward speyed heifers and cows, £4 9s. 6d., £4 13s„ to £4 17s. (tho line of 130 averaging £4 12s. 3d.); four-year bullocks, £6 l'Os.; forward , bullocks, £6 15s. to £7 2s. 6d.; account- Messrs. Barton Bros., Mataikona—s6 Polled Angus empty* forward cows realised £5. Other. lin-:s of fat cows sold at up to £5. Sheep: Small lambs, to 75.; aged ewes, 6s. 6d. to Bs. 3d.; empty store ewes, 9s. Id. to 9s. 2d.

Messrs. Dalgety and Co. report of their Palmerston sale on May 30:—Very good entry of sheep and cattle, which were sold as follow:—Small mix?d lambs, Bs. 6d.; empty store ewes, 95.; forward empty ewes, Us. 9d.; mixed aged ewes, in lamb, to 9s. 9d.; forward wethers, to 14s. 2d. Cattle: Empty vows, £3 9s to £4; backward dairy cows. £4 10s, to £5: bulls, £2 10s.; forward cows, £4 175.; two to two and a half-year steers, £4 155.; three to thrse and a halfyear bullocks, £6 75.; grade Holstein dairy heifers, £7 2s. 6d.

Messrs. Dalgcty and Co., Ltd., report having held their usual stock sale at Ongaonga yesterday wtien they otfered 1000 sheep to a largo attendance ot the public. They realised the following prices:—Fat lambs. Us. 6d.. lis. lid., to 12s. 3d.; ewe lambs, 135.; mixed-sex lambs, lis. lid.; twotooth wethers, 13s. 7d.

Messrs. Dalgcty and Co., Ltd., Wellington, report as follows on their' usual fortnightly stock sale at the Upper Uutt yesterday: —We**had a good yarding of sheep, and a particularly large one of cattle, composed chiefly of dairy sorts, including a. choice line of cows and heifers from a Hawera client. Tllsse latter met with a good sale, but the supply of cat-tic was slightly in excos-s of the demand. All good sorts, however, met with spirited competition. The following priccs were realised:—Fat wethers, 14s. 10d.; fat lambs, 165.; f.f.m. to f.m. owes, in lamb, 10s. 4d. to 10s. fid.; two, four, and six-tooth ewes in lamb, lis.; low-con-ditioned ewes in lamb, 6s. 6d.; springing cows, £6 10s., £7 155., to £9;-springing heifers. £3 55., £6, £6 17s. 6d„ £7 15s„ to £11 55.; cows, in milk, £4, £5, £6, £7, £10 2s. 6d., £10 10s., to £11 12s. 6d.; heifers, in milk, £6 2s. 6d.. £7 15s„ £8 55., to £9 95.; cows, spring calvers, £4, £4 165.. £6 12s. 6d., £8 53., to £9; heifers, spring calvers, £5 ss. to £5 10s.; cows, with calves, £4 10s.; eight, cen-month h-;ifers, £2 ss. to £3 25.: store cows, £2 ss. to £2 10s.; fat cows, £6 10s.; cighteen-mont.il steers, £2 175.; mixed wcaners, £1 lCs.; eighteen-month bull, £2; twoyear bull, £3 10s.

Messrs. Dalgety and. Company, Ltd. (Palmerston North), repbrt a smalt entry of stock at t-beir Huntervillc sale oil Tuesday, which sold as below:—Cull mixed lambs, 6s. 3d.; medium mixed lambs, 9s. to 9s. 6d.; fat and forward wethers, 14s. 4d.; weaner bulls, 235.: dairy cows, £5 to £6. They also report ha vine held a very succossful dairy sale on account of Mr. IV. Chowcn at his homestead, Tokotnaru, on Wednesday. The herd comprised 56 good sound young cows, and all met with keen competition. , Backward to 'threequarter cows, £4 15s. to £6 2s. 6d.: September culvers. £3 to £11; Aifeust calvers, £9 10s. to £11 10s.; cows in milk and close to calving, £11 to £12 15=.: aged trap gelding, •£5; aged draught gelding. £16 10s.: breeding .sows, 375. 6d. to £2; Berkshire boar, £2 12s. 6d. Sundries, etc., at current rates. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report-: At our I'almer.jton North sale held on Thursday, May 30, ivc had a fair yarding of sheep and a particularly heavy yarding of catt).?. All classes of stock met with keen demand, and we managed to quit the hulk of our entry at satisfactory prices. We qnote:-Shcep; Two and fourtooth owes in lamb. 16s. 6d.; six-tooth ewes. 175.; aged Lincoln ewes, in lamb, 125.; cull owes, in lamb, te. 9d.; lambs, 6s. 9d„ Bs. lid., to 12s. 7d.; wethers, 12s. 7d.: store ewes, 6s. Bd. Cattle: Heavy fat bullocks, £8 Bs. to £8 18s.; light ditto. £7 10s.; fouryear store bullocks, £6 14s. 6d.; three and a half-year bullocks, .£6 55.; two to two and a half-year stcei«, £4 55.. £4 lis., to £4 125.; twenty-months steers, £3 15s. 6d.: weaner steers, £2 Is.; fat heifers. £5 to £5 95.; fatcows, £4 15s„ £5, to £5 9s. 6(1.; forward cows! £4 to £4 10s.; store cows, £2 IDs. to £3 10s.; three-year heifers, in calf, £6 to £6 155.; springing cows, £5 to £6 10s.; twenty-months heifers, £2 10s. to £2 17s. 6d.; wcaners, £2 Is.: Jersey heifet'6, in calf, £4 17s. 6d.; veulcr.«, 265.

Mcfsts. Abraham and Williams. Ltd., report.—At Messrs. Stewart and Harris's sale on Wednesday there was a large attendance of buyers, including .several from outside the district. Mr. Stewart's herd were a verv choice lot. and something in the way of a record was obtained, the 21 cows averaging £10 ss. Cows ill mill;, from £10 to £17; cows, to calvc July and August, £5 10s.' to £10 155.; cows, to calvc September and Oi:to1v?r, £8 ss. t.o £12 10s.; lieifer.s, in calf, £o 15s. to £4.15.?.; eishtcen-inonth llolstcin hull. £4 12s. 6(1; sows in !>iji. £5 (n £5 2s. 6d.: store pics. 165.: youngr boars, 305.: bay mare, by Sir Talbot. £32. Oil account of Mr. R. I\. Harris:—Cows In milk. £7 to £10 1(K; cows, to calve in snrimr, £5 to £1(1; backward ml vers, £3 15s. to £4; heifers, in calf. £4- 4*. to £7,105.; bulls, 375. 6d. to £2 155.;" weaner heifers. 39k. A large assortment of poultry, lice requisites, furniture, and implements eold at EOod prices.

Messrs. .laracs Macintosh and Co. report ha-viiift held their usual weekly sole in the Waipoiia iMafiterton) yards on Wednesday, Jlnv 29. when thev offered a yarding well ol)iiv.-> the advertised numbers, especially in the cattle entry. There was n very email entry of sheep, which met with a ready sale, and the whole yarilinp was sold. Quotations are as fnllnw: - l.wcs, )05f> 6(1.: cull ewes. 6s. 9d.: two and a half-year st"er=, £5 65.; iwo-year steers. £4 5.5.; fat i'nws £5 75.; rows, in ealf (low <-i>it(liliort>, £3 ils.V £3 155.. £3 Us. 6d.. £S 165.. to £5: bulls. iJi -Steer calves, XI, 195.; rows, m milk. £5 ss. to £6 55.,- sprimrniK cwus. £7 lis. to £8 ss. AUCKLAND STOCK PRICKS. (By Telctrranh.-l'rc.ss Association.) Auckland, May 29. At the IVrslfield yards this week fat cattle were .varied in average numbers., and first Quality, improved in price, la-J C'

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