LIVE STOCK SALES,

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1550, 20 September 1912, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES,

Messrs. Abraham and Williams,. Ltd., report :-rAt Shannon on . Wednesday we had an extra large yarding of sheep and a good entry of cattle. There was a large attendance df buyers, and a most success-ful-sale resulted. The § whole yarding' of sheep, with -the exception of one small pen, 1 changed hands at price??, in most cases, in favour of vendors. The majority of the cattle also sold well/ and,, amongst others, we sold' a line of 15 springing heifers.at £8. A full yarding of pigs sold at good prices. Good woolly hoggets, 165.: medium woolly 'hoggots, 13s. lid.;, mixed hogget?, 14s. 9d.; blackfaced hoggete (owe). 13s. lid.: mixed hoggets, 105.'.2 d., ICs, 4d. to 10s. 6d.store wethers, 16s. lid.;, small wethers, 12s.'lid.; store ewes, 45.. 6d. to fe. 4d.; ewes in - lamb, 10a. 9d.;2 to 21year "steers, £4 45.; 15-month stears, £3 ,Is. 6d.; fat .cows, £6 Is. to £7; cows ip calf, £4 10s. to £-5 Is.; empty heifers,-£6; springing- grade Jersey heifers, £8; store coweO £3 7s. 6d. to £3 165.; store pigs, '7s. 6d., 11&., 13s. 9d., 155., 18s. 3d. . . : '

*; Messrs. James Macintosh and Co. report 'having hold their weekly salo in thoir Masterton (Waipoua) yards, on Wednesday. when they olFered a yarding well above advertised numbers. Tlie sheep entry was practically all hoegets, which met with very- keen - competition, and the whole yarding was sold. The cattle entry was keenly competed for, and practically the yarding was sold under- the hammer. Sheep: Woolly Romney-Linooln mixed sex hoggets,'lss; to 175.;. woolly, ewe hoggets. 16s.^5d.;.•medium woolly R.L. hoggets, 13s. Id., 145."2d/to 14s,' 6d.; cull Woolly hoggets, Ik. 4d.: woolly B.F. hoggets,, good, 13 9d.; medium, 12s. 3d. to 12s. 4d.;. shorn R.L. hoggets. 14s. 2d. to 14s. 4d.; medium, 12s. 4d. to 125.-10 d.; culls, 125.; small 2-tooth wethers, 15s. 9d.; forward empty ewes-, lie. Id., 12s; 4d., to 13s. 6d.; ewes and lambs, 17s. 4d.' : ' Cattle: Springing cows., £5 10s., £7 103. to £8 10s.; fat cows, .£5 Bs.' to £6; fat hoiferis, £5 ss. to £5 10s.; cows in milk, £3 10s. to £4; 3-year steers, £6 25.; 4-year bullocks,-. £7. 25.; springing heifers, £4 Bs. 6d.: 2-year empty .heifers, £4 Is. to £4 55.; yearling heifers good), £3 12s. ,6d.;_ yearlingis, £2; weaher pigs. 10s. 3d. to 13s.'3d. Zealand Loan and •Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.,. and -Reduced! (Palmen-Jton branch) rcport:~At Raumai". on Tuesday, we had.-a heavy yarding of both sheep an#, .cattle, and have to report a total clearance —every 1 pen belling freely under the himmer. Shceo: Inferior hoggets, Bs. Bd. and 9s/ 6d. to 95. ; Bd.; hoggets (small), 125.. 12s. 2d., 12s. 3d.; good mixed hoggets, 14<>. 9d. to 16s; 5d.; forward ewes, lis. Id. Cattle: Yearling steers, £2 195.; yearling heifers. £3 103.; 2-year, empty heifers, £4 2s. fid. to £4 45.; stOTe cowe; £2 ss. to £3 123.: forward cows, £4 to, £4 63.; cows- in calf. £4 to £4 10s.; springing cows, £6 to £6 10s.; .springing; heifer?, £5,t0 £7. 10s.; .yearling bull, £2 ss. "to. £2, lis.; 3-year bulls, £3 17s. 6d. to £4.

Messrs. Dolgety and Co., Ltd., report as follows on their. fortnightly sale at Upper Hntt:—We had a good yarding of cattle, and t.hese met. with a. keen competition. Practically everything went out of the yards sold; Yearlin? heifers. £3 Is. to £3 ?<s.; yearling steers. £2 15s. to £3 25.; springing heifer?. £4 17s. fid. to £5 55.: springing cows, £3 155.; £4 17s. 6d., £6 12s. 6d.. £6 155., £7; cows in milk. £4 17s. 6d. to £7 153.: store cows, to £3 12s. 6d.; bulls, to £4 15s.