LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1492, 15 July 1912, Page 7

LIVE STOCK SALES.

TVKLLINGTON HORSE SALE. The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., and Kedueed. report:Wo held our first horio sale at O'Brien's yards (Dixon Street), on Kuturdny last. when an offering ol 35 Clydesdale mares, flllice. geldings, vanners, 'and light harness horses came under the auctioneer's notice. Tho attendance was large, buyers being present from Levin, Waikannc. Johiuouville, Hint, and other districts, bo tides local contractors and carriers. Tho quality of the horsce, generally speakms. was good, and in some cases bordering on lirst-class. Consignments came forward from Feilding, Levin. Waikanae. flutt.and Paliiatua districts. These were only fairly well bid for, but notwithstanding a dullness in the market. a Tair nnraber of them changed hands at satisfactory prices, home clifty geldingn from the Feilding district, which attracted attention, were passed in at from f<6 to £48, these figures not being up to vendors' reserve. Good useful sort of draught geldings, fit for shafts and lorry work, were in good demand. We quote:—Good young draught mares, at from. £38 to £45: superior youne draught geldings, at from £35 to JKB; ordinary draught mares and geldings, at from £21 to £35; aged draughts, at from £9 to £12; good strong upstanding vanners. ai from £21 to £28; spring carters, from £15 to £20; hackney and harness hordes, at from £8 to £12; weedy and aged do.. £4 10s. to £7.

Messrs. Dalgety and Co.. Ltd. (Palmerston branch), report:—At our Fcildine i-ale on Fridny, we had a very good yarding of sheep practically the whole of whicl- changed liaude. Quotations:-Cull lambs, is.; small wether lambs, to 2s. 2d.; small ewe lambs, to 10s. Bd.; B.F. lambs, to 103. 6d.; small mixed lambs, 11s. 3d.;' medium wether lambs, to ,11s. 9d.; fair ewe Jambe. 133. 3d.; S.M.- owes, in lamb, 13s. 6d. to 15s. Hd.; empty ewes, to 10s. 2d.; light fat owes, to 13s. 6d.; good fojrs-ard ewee, 13s. to 13s. 2d.

Newton King's weekly stock report is as follows :-0n Monday, July 1, I held a clearing sale on account of Messrs. T. Winter and Sons. Beet young cows realised from £9 10s. to £13 10s.; second grade. £6 10s. to £8 15?.; backward and aged, £4 10s. to £6 6a.; some nice. 2J-yenr in-calf hoifers sold at £6 IDs. and £8 12s. 6d.; 2year Shorthorn bulls. £4 ss. to £S 2a 6d.: mixed weaners to yearlings, £2 Is.; empty 2C-months heifers, £3 11s.; three-quarter draught gelding, £30: gie mare, £'5 10?.: lons shatter gig, £17 15s. On Tuesday. July 2. I had a good attendance at the Bird lid., Stratford yards, for Mr. W. B. Aisch's clearing sale. Best cows, £8 is. to £10 10s-.; second grade. £5 15s. to £7 10s.; aged and .late, £4 to £5 10s.; in-calf heifers, £5 10s.; stack of hay, £30 10s. On the same day, in my liahotu yards, I had a very good entry of cattle. A nice line of 70 20-montha steers were yarded by Mr. P. tTilleox, and sold at £3 Ms. Other prices were :■—Mixed weavers, 7b. to £1 2s. 6d.; yearling hsifnrs, £2 7s. to £3 Is.; poor, £1 6s. 6d.; yearling steers, £1 9s. to £2; mixed yearlings, £1 9s. 6d. to £1 13?.; empty heifers, £3 fe.; 2-year bull?, £1 10s. to £Z ICa.; store cows. £2 ss. to £3 2s. 6d.: aged store cows, £1 2s. 6d. to £1 155.; dairy cows. £4 12s. 6d. to £8 55.: choice in-calf heifers, £9; good, £4 \bi. to £5 17s. (A.: small, £3 15s. to £4 ss. On the same day after the Kahotu enle, I offered Mr. F. phapinan's .Ka-hotii properties, which realised, for the homestead and 25 acres, £30 10s. per aero to Mr. Vincent Tyrrell. The .other farm of 49 acres was bought by Mr. l>. Willcox at £19 per aero. The dairy cows on account of the same vendor sold at from £9 to £11 10s.; for best others, £6 15s. to £7 ICe.; yearliss ileifers, £2 Jj. od. On Wednesday, July s. in conjunction, with Messrs. Gillies and Kaldcr, of llawctra, I auctioned Mr. P. J. Johnston's pedigree and grade Uolstoin cows at the V7aihi Farm. Pedigree cows realised from 24 to 69gus.; pedigree yearling hoifers, 161 to 30gns.; pedigree heifer calves, 17 to 18 giis.; pedigree bulls. 45 to Sifens.; pedigree bull calves, 11 to 37gns.; grade floktcin cows, £13 to £24 35.. averaging over £15 10s. for the line; grade yearling bails, £4 10s. to £11 10s.; grade yrarliug heifers. £6 to £12 126. On Thursday. .Inly 4. I held a very successful sale on account of Mr. K■ Kclliber, on the Toko lioad, which included somo nice grade Jerseys, thc-:-.e averaging over £9 ss. Prices realised were:—For best duality young cows. £10 10s. to £14 10s.; cood, aged oOwh. £7 It:- , , to £9 10s.; second grade. £3 10s. to £6 5>.: 2-year bull, £3 17s. 6d.; very choice 2-year in-calf Jcray .tt,cifers, £9 ss. to £11; small lino of well done Jersey yearling heifers. £4 65.; Shorthorn yearlings. £2 125.; dogcart, £25; half-draught marc, £18; drn.v, £10; 2-year colt, £13 10s.; dogcart harness, £7. At Waiwakaiho Yards, on I'riday, July 6, there was a. p;ood entry of all classes, with fair competition throughout. Uood store cows were best in demand. A herd of dairy cowis, from Messrs. Hill and Kitchie. of the Upper Carringtou Koud, were yarded. There were mostly late cnlvers, mid some were carrying a lot of age. Prices realised were from £6 ss. to £8 ss. for best, and £4 12s. 6d. to £o 12s. 6d. for others. Very aged cows from £2 lα. 6d. to £3 12s. 6(1. In the store cattle yards, prices obtained were:—Yearling heifers, £1' 15s. 1 to' £2 15s. 6d.; yearling steers, bad coloured, 10s. to £1 9s. 6d.; empty Jersey 20-month heifers, £4 14s. to £4 16=.; grades, £3 11=. 6d.; in-calf two-yenr heifers, £4 ss. to £6 65., according to quality; guaranteed cows. £4 7s. 6d. to £6 155.; others, aged, £2 12?. 6d. to £3 155.; two-year steors, very good. £3 165.; bulla, £3 Is.; aged store cows, £1 13s. 6d. to £2 Bs. 6d.; store cows, £2 14s. to £3 10s.; fat heifers, £4 17s. Gd.: two, four, and six-tooth ewes, iiy lamb, 15s. sd. At Toko Yards, on Monday. I had only a small yarding, which realised as follows :— Mixed yearlings, £1 16s. to £1 17s. 6d.; small, £1 Is.; 18-month steers, £3: yearling bnlls, £1 175.; 20-month in-calf heifers, good, £5 55.; small, £3 195.: dairy cowi=, £10 55.; empty 20-month in-caJf heifers, £3 12s. 6d.; good forward cows. £4 155.; two and fourtooth wethers, 16a. 3d. At Urenui Yards, on the same day, I had a fair entry, with a. good demand throughout, at the following rates :-7-Yearliiiß heifers, best, £2 17s. to £3 75.; others, £2 2s. to £245. 6d.; yearling stCDTS, £1 16s. to £2 Bs.; bad-coloured. 16a.. to £1 75.; mixed yearling?, £1 6s. to £2 95.; empty 20-month Jersey heifers. £4 to £4 165.; good grades, £3 4s. to £3 155.; in-calf two-year heifers, £4 155.; in-calf three-year lieifere, £7 2s. 6d.; dairy cows. £6 10s. to £8 155.; two-and a. half-year steors, poor. £3 18s.: two-year steers, £2 18s. 6d. to £3 Ks. 6d.; bulls, from £2 sa. to £5 10s.; store cows, £2 2s. 6d. to £3 11s.; forward cowa. £4 11s.; fat heifers, £4 10s. to £5 10s.; fat bullocks, £7 11s.;■ four-tooth wethers, 165.; hoggets, Ba. 6d. to 9s. Gd.; culls, poor, 4s. At my fortnightly sale in the Stratford Yards, on Tuesday, July 9, I had a fair entry in my store cattle-yards, with a good and representative attendance. Bidding throughout was good for most lines, very few cattle going liome. Yearlings heifers, from £2 15s, to £3 2s. for best; others, £1 14s. to. £2 fe.: yearling steers, £1 14s. 6d. to £2 9s. 6d.; mixed yenrtings, £1 6s. to £2 Is.; empty 20month heifers, in demand, £310s. to £3 165.; in-calf two-year heifers. £4 to £4 7s. 6d.; 20juonth stDors, £3 10s. to £3 133.; two and a half-year steers, £4 12s 6d.; bulls, £2 11s. to £3 18s. 6d.; guaranteed dairy cows, £5 17s. 6d. to £8; store cows, £2 16s. to £3 6s. 6d.; fat cows. £5 Is. I had a. very heavy yarding o! dairy oows and heifers in the Stratford dairy yards, and, notwithstanding the wretched weather, a very good attendance of buyers. Bidding wns very good for best duality cattle, but a good number of second grade and late cows were offered. On account of Mr. 0. Keightley, best cows, £9 ss. to £14 55.: others, £7 to £9; a"ed, £5 10s. On account of Mr. A. E. Stocldey, from £6 15a. to £9 55.: others, £5 103. to £6; poor and a«ed, £3 ss. to £3 17k. 6d. On account of Mr. T. Bullock, £6 < 10s. to £9 65.; others. £4 15s. to £5 15b.; «god and empty, , £3 2s. 6d. to £4 ss. On account of Mr. C. S. Gatton—ln-calf twovoav Jersey heifers, £5 ss. to £7 10s.; small. £3 16s. 6d. to £4 55.; hulls, £4 155.; choice Jen?3y nino-month beifi-rs, £3 Us. 6d. On account of Jtr. J. W. ilarding-Ohoieo Jer-Fcy-liolstcin rising three-year heifers realise,! from £7 15s. to £11: grade. £6 to £7 5?.; mull. £5 10s. to £5 17s. 6d. On account of other vendors—Heifers, from £6 ss. to £7 155.; cows, £5 7s. 6d. to £9 se. Tn my Stony River yards on Wednesday I had a fulU yardin; of ujl classes, nni a cood attendance of buyers, ltiddins was .best for dairy cattle and hoifers. but prncIkally everything was cleared during the day at the following rates:—Yoiirline heifers, from £1 15s. to £2 17s. 6d.; yearling steers, £2 2s. to £2 5*.; poor, 18. S. 6d.; raised yearlings, £2 2s. to £2 55.; empty heifers, small, £2 165.; bulls, .£2 10s. to £6: store cows. £3 2. 6d. to £3 12s. M.: aged cow?, £1 2p. 6d! to £1 165.; forward cows. £4 lo £4 Bs.: dairy heifon-, best. £5 6s. to £7 10a.; email. £4 os. 6d. to £4 18s.; dairy cows, choice. £7 15s. to £!0; others. £4 2.5. 6d. to £4 15s. Private talos.-Sinco my last report I have had n. very stronc inquiry for aM elates, and have made some very good sales n.t advanced pricw. 1 quote:—Yearling 'Steers, best, £2, 7s. 6d. to £2 125.; small, £1 10s.; yearling heifers. Jerseys, £3 7s. Cd.; mixed wesncrs, £1 95.; mixed yearlings, £2 15.; 20monttes steers. £3 163.: 20-months empty heifers, £3 lCs. to £4: V> to 3-year steers. £4 145., £4 155.. £5 2s. 6d.; 2-year in-cnlf heifers (very choice line of Jerseys). £10 55.. £8 55.. £8, £7: troDtl. £5; ill-year backward heifers, £5 55.: 3-year in-calf grade heifors, £6 to £6 12s. 6d.: store cows. £2 15a. j forward, cows. £4 12s. 6d.; fat. cows, from £5 10s. to £6 fev. Holeteiu grade bull. £11 113.: Jersey bulls, f6 to £9; a led dairv t«yp. £5 10s. to £6: dairy hords (m demand), oboice Holstcin Hue or <15. £13 lJs.j others. .£lO 10».. £9 10s.. £9 2». 611.. £9. fS 145., £8 IK. £8 103.. £8 5?., £8 2.?. 6d.. £0: fat and forward ewee, 14.-., 2 and 4-tooth owes. 15s. to 165.; mixed ewwt and wethers, lit. 6d.: r.f.m. and 1.111. ewes. 10s. to 125.; 2 and 4-tooMi wctheM. 14s. 6rf. t'> 165. frl.: poor. 11s.i hoggets, from 9s. Cd. to Its. Id. for good, and a very nice linu at 12?. 3d.