LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1585, 31 October 1912, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Mci-sns. Dalgcty and Co.. Ltd., report:— At our Wanganui sale yesterday wc yarded 1100 shscp, principally hotels, and iGO cattle. There wc"? practically no demand for sheep, but the bulk of the cattle were quitted under the hammer. 3*ixcd hoggets, 13s. 9d.; fat cows. £6 6d. to £7 Bs. 6d.s two-year steers. £4 7«. 6d. to £4 12.?. 6d.; two and a half-year steers, £5; yearling heifers, £3 7s. sd. to £3 13s. 6d.; store cows. £4 17s. to £5 25.; dairy cowg, medium, £5 2s. to £5 Us.; goon do., £7 £s. to £7 106.; cows and calves, £5 2s. > bulls, £3 175., to £4 16s. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Johnsonvillc sale, held yesterday, as follows:—A good yarding of bullocks and prime sheep came forward. Bullocks met a rathc-r dragging sale, but shesp sold well at late rates. Prime heavy bullocks, £11 lfo. to £11 17is. 6d.; prime bullocks. £10 15s. to £11 55.; lighter, £10 .to J £10 7s, Gd.; vcalers, 265. to 375. 6d.; extra' prime shorn wethers, 193. 6d. to £1; primo woolly, wethers, 265. 3d.; extra prime heavy cwc6, 25>5.; prime ewee, 245. 4d.; prime shorn ewes, 16s. 9d.: prime laml>s, 14s. 9d. to 15s. 3d.; lighter, 13s. fid. to 14s. Id.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd.. report:—At Otaki. on Tuesday, wc had large yarding* of both sheep and rattle, which wc offered to a large attendance. We have to report a most successful cab, with tlis exception of two pens of fat bullocks, the whole yarding changed hands. Cattle were slightly easier than recent* quotation' s , but vendors were propared to sell. Sheep, ill most cafes, eold in excess of vendors' reserves. Ewes aud lambs. 12i. Sd. to 255.; fat wcthcro, 2!t-. to 255./ mixed fat sheep, 19s. 7d.; shorn fat wethers, 17s. 9d.; shorn two-tooth wether?. 13*. 7d.; shorn two and four-tooth ewe?. 17««. 9d.; ehnrn two«to2th wethers, 13?. 7d.; shorn two and four-tooth ewes, 155.; two and a half-year steer--, £5 35.; twoyear stsors, £•? 2s. 6d. to £4 155.; 18-month steers, £3 65.; springing heifen-, £5 10s. to £6; empty heifers, £3; fn t cows, £6 175.; springing ccv.tf, £'j 15s. to £6 Its.; vealers, 30s.

Me?fir/?. .Tames Macintosh aud Co. report having held their initial spring rattle sale in their (Waipou-'O sale on Tuesday, when they offered a-.yarding well above advertised-numbers. The feature of tho salo was the entry of 218 head of Polled Angus, .Shorthorn, and Hereford bullocks, on account of Mr. James Kennedy, of Tikitapu. These had a good pal? at well above late rates. For the other lines of cattlc competition war? keen, prnct.ioally the whole yarding being "sold. Four-year Hereford bullocks, £9; three and four-year Hereford bullocks, £3 2s. 6d.; three and four-year Shorthorn steers, £8 Is.: forward P.A. bullocks. £8 10s.; threeyear P.A.. stCDrs, £7 If?.: four-yenr bullocks, £8 2s. 6d.; fat heifers, £7 £e.; fat cows, £7; three-year empty heifers, £4 Is.; 18-month etesrs, £3 14s. 6d.; 18-month heifers, £3 155.: two-year-old steers, £4 155., £5 10s. to £5 l&j. 6d.; forward empty cows, £4 65.; backward store cows, £2 IDs, 6d.; cows and calves, £4 135.; cows in calf, £4 18s.

STOCK SALES AT ADDINGTON. (By Telegraph-—Press Association.) Christchurcli, October 30. At Addington fairly large entries of stock catuc forward on account of iti3 being a 'double market, there being no sale next week, in consequence of the show and races. There was a pood attendance. The few store tfheep offered sold well. Fat lambs were offered in large numbers, and consequently prices were much lower titan of late, though the sale was considered a good one. The fat eheep sale opened well, and prices wore firmer by Is. to 2s. psr head. .Fat pigs brought late rates, and in the earlier part of the fat cattle 6ale there was a sharp rise in prices, but the market eased towards the close. There was another small entry of etorc sheep, about half of which were shorn lines, the balance being wethers and a couple of pens of hoggets in wool. The attendance of bnyero, a* usual, was fairljgood, but those present were evidently keen on bu.= incirs, and various lines were clcared under good competition. Prices wore up to the late ruling . high rates. Quotations are:—Four to six-tooth shorn wethers. 15s. 6'J. to 16s. 9d.; aliorn hogget*;, 14s. lo 15?. 4d.; fou«r to six-tooth withers, in wool. lE*. Bd. to 20*. 6d.; wether hocgets, in wool, 17-. lid.: ewe hoggets, 20s. 3d.; merino wethers, in wool (medium elanO, lis. 6d. A few cull merino ewes, with i lamb*, all counted, 6s. Thoro was an entry of 450 fat lamb?, ! which was by far the largest of the ?ca- ' r?m. The lambs were well grown, but a number of lota shoved the effect-.-: of the recent rough weather, and wero not in iiueh prime condition as the offerings ut late markets. Buying was confined to butchers who required rood supplies for , next week's trade, and. thoueh prices were

much below these lately ruling, the sale on the whole ws»n a t-ilisfaetory one, and but few lots were passed in. JtoHt iambs were making 17.-=. fid. to 22?;., and lighter 13.'. to 17c. Thure \va« a, larger yarding of fa* fcheop than at. recent sales, and. owi'iig to broken weather interrupting fhoarinj. there were not as many thorn i«:heep as otherwise wenld have been the ca>i\ The range of prices was:- Prime woolly wethers, 265. to 295. 9d.; others, 225. to 255. fid.; prime shorn wethers, 20s. to 24«. 5d.: others, Ik. to ISt*. 10d.; woolly merino wethers, 18s. 9d. to 2fe. 9d.; extra prime ewes, 295. 3d.; prime, 23.=. to 275.; others, ?os. to 22.*. 6d.; shorn owe, 18.?. 9d. to 2Js.s woolly hoggets, 20s. Id.; p.horn hoggei>s, 15s. to 19s. lid.: woolly merino owl's, 14n. fid.

Two hundred and eighty-three head of fat eattlo (eight less than the total last week) were yarded, the entry including a rumber of fine lines. At tho opening of the sale price:-: rose at locust Is. srt. per 1001b., but at the last pens they fell hack again to the price ruling at the previous sale. Steers made £7 12s. fid. to £12: extra good linrrt reaching, £19 10s, Heifers brought from' £7 ss. to £11 55.; cows. £6 2rt. 6d. to £10 155.; extra, to £13 17s. 6d.

The yarding of store cattle was .small, the entries covering principally 15-month to two-year-olds and dry cows. The demand was fairly good, but the prices were slightly lower than for laat sale. Fifteen to eighteen-month sorts realised from £2 17s. to £3 UVi.; two-year-old steers, £4 If?, to £4 Ifo.; two-year-old heifers. £4 ICe.; extra good, £5: dry cows, £1 to £3 18s.; dairy cows made, £5 to £10 12*.-;. 6d. Thcre*was a good entry of pig?, and the demand for them was keen. Choppers realised from £3 10s. to £5 10s., one especially good line getting £7. Baconers ran from 525. 6d. to fiOs.: heavy pigs,-655. to 725. 6d. and to B(te. These prices were equal to from sd. to sid. per lb.—about the same as last week's figures. Porkers brought from' 365. to and better sort* from 465. to ste.—these prices equalling from s*d. to sl(d. per lb,, or a elight advance on the previous sales. The entry of stores was good and the demand brisk. Large 6tores brought from <2n. to 5?5.; medium, from 345. to 405.; small, from 225, to 32/?. Weaners ranged from lcs. for small, and 255. for extra, good sorts. One pen of the best offered realised 2fe.

BURNSIDE STOCK AND PRICES. IBy Telegraph.—PreSs Association,i Dunedin, October 30, At Bnvn-vidc' to-day 152 fat cattle wcro va-rded, the majority being good quality bullocks. At .the beginning of the sale pricw were on a par/with last week's rates, but thoy ea*ed about 10s. per head towards the finish. Best hul!oek«. £12 to £13 lCi?.; extra heavy, to £16 17s. 6ri.; good, £10 10s. to £11 10s.; light. £8 10s. t-o £10; best cows and heifers, £9 lOi?. to £11, extra, to £13 12s. 6d.; medium, to good, £7 ICe. to £8 155.: light. £4 Ifc. to £6 10s. Fct sheep: 2500 penned. There was a lair percentage of heavy-weight wethers in the vardinjr. and theeo sold well, prices- bcin-T about Is. better than tha-2 ruling last week. Medium sheep hardly held thtv'r own with last week'.? rates. There were very few ewe* forward. wethers, 235. to 265. 6d.; extra heavy, to 345.; medium to good, 225. to 235. M.; light. 19-. to 215.; (Miorn wethers, IBs. 6d. to 205.; best ewes, 225. to 235.; extra, to 28a. fid.; medium to good, 13s. to 19s. Fat lambs; 80 penned, or about double last week's yarding. ■ At this time of the year only a certain' number arc required, cud prices showed a drop of fid. to 2s. per head; best; 19s. to 20c. 3d.; others, 14s. id. to 17.5. 6d. Pigs: 63 fat pigs and 78 stores were penned. Store*? realised abo-int the same price a<s lost week, but fats were easier. Suekere, 1 £«-. to 23?.; slips, to 265. 6d.; stores, to 325.: porkers, 425. to 5Cr?.: light baeoners, to 585.; heavy do., to 70s.