LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1494, 17 July 1912, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES.

lles=rs. Dalgcty and Co. report:—At our Jlarton sale .yesterday a goad entry, of stosk met with, a ready ■ sale. Store ewes said up to Bs. 5d.: small lambs, to 9s. 2d.; ■empty ewes to lOu. Bd.: s.m. ewes, in lamb. 13s. lOd. I-j Ks. 7d.: cull two-tooth cw-3, in lamb, 12s. Jd.; f.f.m. cwos. in lamb to Southcbwn rains, to lf-s. 7d.: medium twotooth ewes, in lamb. 15s. lOd. to 16s. 3d.; young owe?, in lamb. 16s. 3d.; small twotooth wetlivs. 15s. 8(1 ; mixed wconers, 3f.i. 6d.; cightecn-mcntb:i s>:ccrs. £3 135.; dairy cows, to £6 £3.;' dairy heifers, to £6 12S. ' . ; Jtessrs. Dalgety ami Co., Ltd., report on their Waikanae stock sale held yesterday a« follows-.-Owing to the very wet weather, stock did not-'turn up to advertised numbers, and, coiKcnuently. we had a small yarding, only one pen of sheep turning up. Four-year ewes, in lamb, 155.: fat cows. £6 to £6) 10s.; springing cows, to £7; eighteen-months steers, to £3 !os. The New Zealand Loan and -Mercantile Agcncv Company report :—At- our Waikanae sale yesterday we offered a fairly large entry of both sheep and cattle to a full attendance. of buyer.-. The sale opened well, and practically the whale of our yarding changed hands by auction at high,'lv satisfactory figures. Hoggets and wcth- ' e'rs were in demand, and sold well at prices if anything in advance of late rates. Forward'ewes, to 135.; cull ewes, to 6s. 4d.: hoggets, to Us.;, two-tooth store wethers, to l<e. 9d.; dairy heifers (springers), from £8 to £8 155.; yearling heifers, to £2 165.: yea.rling steers, to £2 136. 6d.; dairy cows, from.£6 to £8.- . Messrs. Williams and Kettle, Ltd), report having held their fortnightly sale at Woodville on Monday, when a very small entry of both uhcc'p and cattle was yarded. Fat ewes (light), 12s. 6d.; ewes in lamb, 16s. 6d. to 18s. 10d.: woolly hoggets, lis-. Id.; thrccvcar heifers in calf. £6 55.; empty cows, from £2 15s. to £4 10s.