LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1606, 25 November 1912, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgety" and Co., Ltd., report having lield their .usual stock sale at T)annevirl:<; ,on November 22, when they offered 200 head of mixed cattle to *a large attendance, of the public.. Prices wore about the same .as late rates.' Yearling dairy lieifera,'£3 Bs. to £4 7s;; cull wearier steers, £1 155.; springing heifers,' £5; fat cows, light, £5; yearling steers, £3 Kg.; yearling Shorthorn heifers, £4, 7s. 6d.'; twoyear Shorthorn heifers, £4 17s. 6d. Sheep; Pat. ewes in wool,-19s. 3d.; mixcd-GOX hoggets in the wool, «16s. 9d.; four'and sixtooth ewes, 14s. 6d.

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd. (Palmer-Bt-on North) report haiving hold their usual weekly salo at Feildiug on" Friday, wlien there was a fair yarding of sheep and a small yarding of cattle, which realised the following prices :—Sheep: Small twotooth ewes, 12s. lid.; light, fat shorn .wethers, to 17s. 4d.; mixed-age ewes, with lambs at foot, to 225. lid. Cattle: Medium yearling heifers, £2 7s. 6d,;. yearling heifers, £3 7s. 6d.; medium two-year Shorthorn heifers, £3 155.; store cows, £4 Is.; fat cows, to £6 10s.; yearling bulls, to £3 lCs.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report oil their Feilding"sale as follows:— A fair entry of . sheep -and few cattle came forward. All lots sold at late;rates. We quote :-Shorn ewe hoggets, Us. 8d; to 14s. Id.; shorn wetlicr do., 15s. Id. •to • 13s. Bd.; mixed-sex- do., modium, 10s. to' lis. Bd.; ewes with lambs, 20s. to 245. 9d.; fat and forward ewes, shorn, Us. to 12s. 2d.; fat and forward woolly ewes, 14s. to l£s. 9d.; store ewes, 63. to 85. 2d.; two-year stecre, £4 12s. 6d.; 18-month heifers, £3 12s. 6d; to £3 155.; springing heifers, £5 to £6 2s. 6d.; cows with calves, £4 to £4 15s.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams,- Ltd., report:—At Levin, on Friday, a good yarding of sheep, consisting chiefly of fats and prime quality, met with keen competition, and sold at prices in advance of recent-quotations. On account of the Wercroa Experiment Farm, shorn fat wethers, 2Cs.; shorn fat ewes, 183. On account of Mr. James Leydon, shorn fat ewes, , 20s. 7d., 17s. 3d., and 16s. Bd. On account of Mr. E. Creswcll,■ shorn -fat wethers, 18s. Id.; shorn fat ewo3, 17s. 7d. Other lots of shorn fat ewes made .lfo. lid. 'to'lßs. 5d.; shorn fat wetjiers (light),' 16s. lid.;-light ■ fat wethers, in' wool, 245: to 245. 4d.; fat'ewes in wool, 225.; ewes, with lambs at. foot, 235. 3d. -to 2te. 3d.", woolli hoggets (small), 13s. lOd. to 14s. lid.; shorn hoggets (small), 12s. fid.; forward ewes in wool, 13s. lid. .to 14s. 6d.; fat shorn rams, 15s. 6d, to 165.; ligliF fat bullocks, £8 12s. 6d:;- two and a half to three-year steers, £5 fo. 6d.; two-year steers, £4165.; 18-mont.h steers, £3 6s. to £3 Us.; yearling steer's, £2 16s. to £3 os. 6d.; fat. cows, £5 l£s. to £6 135.; forwaPd cows, £4 to £4.165;. weaners. 265. to 355. 6t1.; bulls, £4. £5-ls.; store cows, £2 to £3; heifers in calf, £4 10s.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency- 00., Ltd., and Reduced report for week ended November 22 as follows:—At Apiti, on Tuesday, we had a good yarding of both sheep and oattlc. The hoggets were of good quality, and sold well at late rates. Cattle sold well. We quote:— Ewe hoggets,, 17s. 7d. to 195.; wether hog.gets, 16s. Id.; small wether hoggets, 125.; fat sheep, UP to 235.;. store pigs, £1; slips, IBs. 6d.; i3-mont-h dairy heifers, £3 7s. 6d. to £4 Is.; yearling steers, £3 55.; springing heifers (backward), £4 6s.'to £5 55.; dairy cows. £7-to £8 10s. On Wednesday, wo held a clearing sale of contractor's plant 011 account of Mr. Frank Allerby, of Colyton. There was a large attendance of buyers, and both horses and implements met with a ready pale. Heavy draughts made from £30 to £46 10s.; light sorts, £20. to £30: On Thursday, we conducted a clearing sale on behalf of Mr. Thomas Rowlcs, Kimbolton. The sheep, which wore of good quality, met with keen competition, and we clfcctcd a total clcarancc under the hammer. ' Implements and sundries soldwell. Prices are as follow:—Six-tooth woolly owes, with lambs, 253. 9d. to 265. 3d.; f.m. ewes with lambs, 225. 7d,; mixed hoggets (small),-14s. 3d.; empty ewes, 10s. 3d.; dairy cows, to £15 55.; 18-month Jersey bull, £6; weaner heifer calf, £3 12sf 6d. •

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, and Reduced, Dannevirke, report- having held the following -sales during the week:—At Makotukn, on Wednesday, wo had a fair yardin B of both sheep aud cattle, which we oi'crod to ft- flood attond<mco Of the public. Wo effected a total clearance at prices In

favour of vendors. At Dannevirke, on Friday, wc bnrt a fair entry of cattle which {with one c-xecption) wc disposed of under the hammer. Quotations:—Fat ewes (shorn), 14s. lOcl.; fat ewes (woolly), 19b. <d.; forward ewes (woolly), 175.; cows in milk, £12 12s. Gil., £12 Es., .-£7 10s.. £7 55., £4 10s.; springing heifers, £7; store cows, £2 16b.; yearling heifers, £3 15s. 6d., £2 153., £2 lis.; yearling steers, £2 195., £1 lCs. 6d. .(small); . 18-month lieifens, £4 Is.

The New Zealand Loan arid Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., and licduced, report:— We held our usual fortnightly. Levin sale at our yards on Friday last, when we offered an entry of 200 head of cattle and 400 sliecp to a full attendance of buyers, who competed well for every, lot offered, and the re:;ult was a practical clearance at highly satisfactory. prices. ,A lino of two, four, and six-tooth owes, with lambs at fool, made 21s. These sheep were hillbred, and- the ■ price was considered 6atis-, factory. We sold Jersey wcaner heifers up to £2 Is. 6d.; mixed weaners, £1 35., £1 55., £1 65., £1 Es., £1 10s., and £1 145.; voalers, ■£1 7s. to £1 lCs.; 15-month Jersey cross heifers, to £4 155.; a very choice line of 18-month Jcreey heifers, at £6.; dairy cows (close to profit), from £5 10s. to £6 155.; two-year-old steers, from £4 17s. 6d. to £5 3s. 6d.; empty store cows, £3 3s. 6d., £3 10s„ £3 155., £4 Is., £4 3s„ £4 7s. 6d.; fat heifers (light-weights), t-0 £5 55.; fat cows (medium finality), to £5 7s. 6d.; 18mont.li empty heifers, to £3 ISs.; bulls, from £1 153. to £3 10s.

Messrs. Williams and Kettle, report as follows on their usual fortnightly sale; hold in the Miller's Hood yards, Dannevirke, on November 22:—15-month Jersey cross heifers, £3 to £4; 15-month steers, £3 13s. 5d.; three and four-year bullocks, £7 55.; two and a half-year 6teers, £5; two-year-old empty heifers, £3 65.; mixed yearliugs. small, £2 7s. 6d.; springing .heifers, to £6 10s.; fat cows, £5 lCs. to £7; two-year, stags, to £2 7s. to £2 155.; Shorthorn bulls, to £7. . •-.■■■ \. Mr. Newton King's weekly report states:— At the llaymarket, . New Plymouth, on November 16, I. had a big entry of pigs, all being cleared at' the following rates;— Weaners, Bs.'to lis. 6d.; slips,, from 15s. to 225.; small stores, up. to 275.; good, to 385.;sows, £2 10s.' On Monday,. November 18, at Okato, for Mr. E. H,. (tollman's clearing sale, I had.a very large attendance, buyers gathering from all parts of Taranaki.The 'dairy cows were in excellent condition, reflecting great credit on the - vendor: About 12 cows had been in. milk all the winter, and including these,the-herd averaged £8 ss. , Best cows in milk realised from £9 'ss. to. £13 155.; second-grade from £6 to £7 55.; winter, milkers,-£4-75.-6d. to £5 155.; store cows, £4 p. 6d. to £4 lE<j.; cows with two calves,'£s Ife.; springing. t\vo-year heifers,' £5 • 10s;; empty. twq : year. hoifere,'£4 7s:; heifer, calves,'£l 155.; mixed calves, 125.; sow. with, litter ol' six;: £5 Es.; storo pigs,. £l l&s. 6d.;. slips,; 14s. .to.' 195.;. gelding, £28.: Sundries and furniture- sold very readily at satisfactory, prices. _ .On. Tuesday,. November 19, I had a fair: entry in my liahotu. yards, with an" excellent attendance. Bidding throughout .'was very' spirited, .every.-line being cleared -at the. hammer without exception; ;Prices, considering tile"-quality of the cattle, were considerably in advance "of recent sales, as follow:—Small .15-month heifers, £2 13s. to £3 25.; good, 6d. to, £3 125.; 15-month steers (with colour), £2 12s. to £2 195.; good 15-month 3tecrs,' £3 75.;,. two-year empty, heifers, £3 19s. Gd. to £4 155.; bulls,- from £1 lis. 6d. to £5;. gDod store and forward cows, £4 la. to . £5 125.; small or . aged, £2 ss. to £3 45.; small fat cow's, £6; twoyear steers, £4 1-s.; small slip pigs; 145..'6 d. At my Stratford, dairy yards, on the same day, springing heifers-sold at from £5 10s., to .£8 12s. 6d.;/heifers, calved, £5 7s. 6d. to £6 155.; springing cows; lip'to £9 125., 6d.; aged, £5 to £5 7s. 6d. ; i. .