LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1593, 9 November 1912, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgety and O.onvpaaiy, Limited, Palmerston North, 'report having , held, their weekly sale on Thursday, November, 7, when, owing to the very rough'wealthier, .only a very email yarding came, fonvard, Stock; ,; howevor, met a gooa inquiry. QUo'tatlons:—Small miied hoggets, 12s. 9d.; shorn, lis. lid.;- forward ewes, 13b. Id.; storo cows, £4 Is. 6d.; light fat holfo*s, £5 2s. 6d.; bulls, £4. 7s. 6d. ,to £5 £a... .Messrs.- Dalgety 'and Company, report on their. fortnightly Bale-'at. Levin yesterday as follows:—We, eubmitted.close-' on 600 head of cattle and a small yarding, of sheep. The ■ largo entry',of cattle' was mostly, due to.the postponement of our cattle fair earlier in. the week,, owing 'to tho rough weather... The majority of the offering was made up Of yearling to twoyear steers and heifers, and the demand for this class of cattle was. very, good. Most of the linos submitted changed hands before the end of the day at the following prices:—Shorn fat ewe 3, 15s. Id.; shorn'two and four-tooth wethers, ffa,f shorn tw(h tooth ewes, 135.; throe-yeaf-old 'steers, .£4, l'e. 6d. to £5 55.; two- and a half'year-Old steers, £4 to £4:155.; 18-month M.> two-yea-r steers, £3 10s. to £4 13e. ;■ jB-m.onth. heifors, £3 lis. to £4 25.; yearling: steerß,. £3 to £3 95.; yearling heifers, £3 to. £3 lis.; young Jersey cro9S heifers, £4 25.; light fat bullocks, £7 --IBs.;' fat cows,' £6; : forward, store cows, £4 to £5; store Cows, .£2- to £3 ■ 9s. 6d.; dairy cows, up to.£9. . The New Zealand Loan. and. Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., and- Beduced, report:— At our weeltly sale at.:Sohv-jay, on Wednesday, wo had only a fair entry qf sheep and cattle. These -however, .met With -good competition, ■ and everything, was cleared under the hammer. Fat ewes (shorn) mode 15s. 3d.; medium hoggete, 133, to 13s. 10d.; aged rams-, 9s. 3d. to. 145.; cows, to £7; heifers, £5. .