LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1470, 19 June 1912, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

.', Messrs- Dalgety and Co.. Ltd., report on their V aikaiiae cale, held yesterday, as follows:-Wc had a, successful sale of all classes of stock for this season of Hie year, and report' a clearance at' the following, prices:—Good woolly lambs, to Hi. 6d.; small ditto, 7s. Id., Bs. 7d., to 9s 9d • forward wethers, to 16s. Cattle: Dairy cow=, £6 10s., £7 6s. 6d.. £7 10s., to £7 '2s. 6d.; yearling steers, to £i 10s.

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Ltd re--port having held sales at Wanganui' oil June 13 and at Waverlcy on June 15 Th" report statcs:-At Wanganui we yarded 3950 sheep and 100 cattle, all classes niectin" with a, ready sale, fresh.wethers and lambs being in particularly c ood demand. At tt averley we yarded 1809 sheep, and a fewhead of cattle. A total clearance of sheep ivas effected under the hammer, and the cattle met, with a, satisfactory demand. -U ttanganui: Four-tooth wethers. 14s. 6d. to 15s. W. ; forward ewes, 11s. 9d.; store ewes 9s. 3d.; f.m; ewes, in lamb, 10s. 3d... 125., 135.; lambs, 93. 7d., 10s. lid. to 11s. 3d.; small do., 83. 4d.; fat cows, light, £5 165.; forward heifere, £4 165.; eighteen-months stejrs, £3 155.; two-year heifers. £2 145.; wcaners, JBI 7s. 6d.; dairy cows, to £4 16s. At Wav crley: Two. four, six-tooth and f.f.m. ewes, in lamb, 13s. 6d.; f.m. ewes, in lamb (eood). 13s. Sd.; mixed ewes, in lamb, 9?. lCd. to 10s.; fat wethers. 15s. 10d.; two, four, and six-tooth wether.?, 14s. to 14s. 4d.; lambs, 10s. lid. to 11s.; cull do., 3s. 2d. ; store cows, £3; forward heifers, £4 4s.

. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held their weekly stock sale at Waipnkurau yesterday, when they offered 2700 sheep to a largo , attendance of the public. Fat sheep \vere not so keenly competed for, and, consequently, there was a. dvop in fat ewes and wethers. Store sheep sold well up to late rates. Bate ewes, 13s. ild to 155.; fat wethers, 17s. to 195.; storo shorn lambs, 85. to 12s. 6d.; cull owes, in lamb, Bs. 2d:; cull two-tooth wethers. 11s. 2d.; cull two-tooth ewes, lCs. 5d.; two-tooth store wethers, 15s. 9d.: four-year ewes, in lamb, one ear-mark, 16s.

Messrs. Dalgcty and Company, Ltd. (Palmerston North branch) report having held' a clearing sale on account of Mr. J. M'Donell. on his property. Pern Fiats, Marton, ou Monday, when there was a large attendance: of buyers, who showed keen competition for all classes lot stock, implements, and sundries. All classes of stock were looking exceptionally well, and realised the following prices :-Shoep: Small ewo hoggets. 10s.; evre hoggets. 13s. 4d.; f.f.m. ewes, 111 lamb to i-mithdown rams. 16s. 3d.; eix-tnoth owe*, in lamb to Southdown rams, 18». 3d.; tvro-tooth' ewes, in ■lamb to Southdown rams. Me. Id. Cattle-Fiftecn-mom'hs steers, £2 155.; eighteen to twenty-months steers. £5 16-s.; ycarlin* to fifteen-months heifers-. £2 16s. "to £3 2= ■ empty heifers, £4: dairy cows. £7 55., £8 10s,, -£10, £11, £12 155.. to £17. Horses: Unbroken three-year draught gelding. £31; draught geldings, broken to all work, .£2l 10s. to £37; ditto marcs, to £30 155.; polo ponies, to £20. Sundries :• A large quant.itv of implements in good repair and household furniture realised full market rates. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report a good yarding of sheep and cattle at Marton on Tuesday. A clearance was made at highly satisfactory price 3 under the hammer. Sheep: Fat ewes, 13s. 3d. to 14s. 5d.; fat wethers, to 175.; ewes, in lamb, mixed ages, 13e. to 155.; two-tooth ewes, in lamb, 165.; ewe latshs, 12s. 4d. to 14s. 9d. ; wether lnmbs, !os. 2d. to 13?. 2d.: mixed lambs, early shorn. 12s. lid. and 135.; others, 10s.; empty ewes. 7e. sd. to 7s. 7d.; good, 11s. 7d.; two-tooth wethers. 15s. 2d. and 165.; culls, 14s. Cattle: Wcaners, 325. to 525.: twenty-months cattle, 755.; dairy cows £7 17s. 6d.

The Xew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Aeciicv Co. report:-At our Waik.in.ie sale yesterday we offered a. fair yardiii" of sheep and cattle to a full atteuditu.'c of buyers. Under the hnimner and privately afterwards we disposed of the whole of our entry at satisfactory prices. We f.old fat forward wethers ta 15s. 9d.; empty store ewes, to 95.; wcaucr heifers 'Ilolstein-Jcr. pey cross!, to £3 35.; weaner siecv- and heifers, to 205.; dairy cows, £5 to £6.

• The New Zealand Loan onrt Mercantile Agency .Co.. litrt. (Valmorston branch), Veporfc on thojr Hlinitangi sale on Monday as follows:—We hail a Rood yarding o'f both sheep and cattle. There wa« a smaller attendance, than usual, and bidding at auction was slack. Wo were, however, successful in placing the bulk of the yarding, and have to report a, satisfactory clearance. Sheep: Forward ewes. 12s. 6d.; woolly lamlis. 9s, to 10s. 6i1.; medium shorn lambs, Bs. 3d.: cull lambs. 4s. CnttleWcanors (siiiull), 20s. to 22?. 6d.: others. 2Cs. to £2; boifers. in calf, £5 19s. to £6 lE*.: store cows, £2 10s.: forward cows, £3 2s. 6d. to £3 155.; cows, in calf, £4 17s. 6d. to £5 2s. 6d.; yomii; dairy cow?, .£7 55.; bulls, £2 10s.

Messrs. Williams and Kettle report holding their fortnightly sale nt Woodville on June 17, when they offered n. .email ynrdins of sheen a.nd cattle to the usual attendance. All oki.i.-es of stock met with n tlr.i?Einpr sale, but we unnnsrert to miit most of pur yardins privately aft»r tlv stlo at. satisfactory price.;. whiiJt ruled n> follo-r.-: -Store cow;. £3 6«. to'«: -,voan?r ;tr»r.-. £1 to Us. od.; sprinKins heifer.", ti f6 10?.: fat <™ea, to 15e. 6d,; ialxcd-=ox licgstu, to l<e. 94,