LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1618, 9 December 1912, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dolgety and Co., Ltd., report having held their usual stock sale at Dannevirko on Docembor 6, when they offered . a small yarding of cattlo and sheep to a small attendance of the public. Prices wore . not up to lato rates. They quote as follows :—Oows with calveß at foot, £4; yearling -steers, £3 12s. 6d.; yearling dairy heifers, £3 to £3 55.; 2-year heifers, £4 12s. to £4 155.; 4-year-old bullock passed at £7 12s. 6d.; weaner calves, 16s. 6d. Sheep: Ewes, 4-tooth to 6-tooth light, 14s. 2d. • Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report .having had a very fair yarding of both sheep and cattle at their Fei'ldinir weekly Pile on Friday. There was a good demand for all classes of stock, at following prices:— Sheep: 2-tooth wethers, to 14s. 3d.; aged shorn ewes, with lambs, to 15s. 7d.; fat ewes, to 17s. 3d.; mixed age ewes, with lambs, to 20s. lOd. Cattle: Small yearling heifers, £2; yearling heifers, to £2 15si to £3 l'3s, 6d.; yearling steers, bad colour, £2 125.; store cows, to £3 145.; forward cows, to £4 155.; bulls, £2 to £4 65.: weancrs. 235. to 265.; 15-months Grade Jeresy heifers, to £5 6s. Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd.. report having had a fair entry of sheep and cattle at thoir Palmerston North sale on Thursday last, which sold as below:—Small 2-tooth wethers, to 12s. Bd.; good 2-tooth owes, to 14s. 9d.; yearlinc steers, to £3 65.; bulls; to £4 15s. Tho N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co;, Ltd., and Bcdriced.(Feilding braneh), report on last week's sales as follows :— At. Feilding, on Friday, we had a medium entry of sheep and cattlo. Sheep sold readily at lato rates, but cattle were a shade easier. Small 2-tooth owes, 10s. 10d.; small 2-tooth wethers, lis. to 125.; small fat owes, its. 3d.; good fat and forward ewes, 15s. Bd.; light forward ewes. 10s. 10d.; store owes, 3s. 3d.; yearling heifers (small), 385.: 15-months licifera £2 Is.: light fat cows. £4 17s. 6d.; good forward cows, £4 155.; hulls at £3- to £4 10s. At Apiti on Tuesday we had no sheep, but a fair yarding of cattle, which sold well at lato rates. Fat rows. £5 55.: forward oows, £4 2s. 6d. to £4.155.; yearling steers (small), £2 14s. 6d.; 15-mcnth steers, £3 10s. to £3 125.; 2-year steers. £4.105.: 15-month heiters, £3 165.; rows with calves, £4 175.: 18-month erade •Torsey bulls, £3 15s. to £4 10s.; bulls. £3 15s. to £3.175. 6d.; woaner pigs, Its.: slips. 13s. 6d. and 14s. The.New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., and Eeduced, report—At our fortnightly sale, hold in Miller's ltoaxl yards, Dannevirlte, last week, we had a good yarding of sheep and a moderate entry of cattle. There was a good attendance of the public, and, with the'exception of one pen, we disposed of everything under the hammer. Two-tooth ewes made 13s. 10d.; fat ewes, 205.; fat cows, un to £5 10>.; forward cows, up to £4;. forward empty heifers, £4 Is.; cows in 'milk, to £4 10s. Bulls, etc., also made satisfactory prices. '■ .Messrs. Abraham and Williams renort on their Feildins sale as follows:—Wo submitted a good yarding of sheep and a few lot?'- of cattle. All sheep sold at lite rates, cattle being slightly easier than last sale. Fat shorn.ewes, 16s. Id. to 175.; fat blaehi&it maiden owes, 15s. lid.; forward woolly ewes, 17s. Id.; store shorn ewes, Us. to 12s'.; 2-tooth cwos, 13s. 9d. to 145.; mixed 2-tpoths. small, 9s. lOd. to 12s. 6d.; woolly ewes with lambs, good, 24-3. 5d.; 4-tooth wethers, 163. Id.; empty cows. £3 to £3,85. 6d.'; 2-yertr steers, £4 Is. to £4 145.; 2£-year rteers, £5 16s. 6d.; 18-months steers, £3 .to.'.'id. ' '

■ilessrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—At Levin on Friday we offered full ■vs-fdings of both sheep and cattle to a full attendance of buyers. 1 Competition for 'ill classes of sheep was keen, and a, clearance was effected at tho undermentioned quotations. Bidding for catt!e was . not so,,.keen as at recent sales, and several .lines of young: steers wiere passed in. Quotations:—Fat wethers (shorn), ISa. 6d.; fat owes (shorn), 15s. 3d., 15s. 7d„ 16s. 3d.. 16s. 6d. and 17g.; hoggets, 16s. 9d.,: forward withers in wool, 225. Gd.: forward ewes in wool, 153.; store wethers in wool, 17s. 4d.: fat woolly owes. 18s. to 215.; fat woolly wethers, 235. 3d.; owos and lambs, 245.; ohorn ewes with lambs, all counted, Bs.: .ma-cod cwe3 and withers in wool, 18s. IM.; mixed 2-toot-li.s (shorn), 15s. 6d. and 15s. 7d.; light fat bullocks. £8 55.; fat cows, £4 Ite. to. £7 75.; 25-ye.i-r steers, £4 18s.; 2-yoar sWern. £4 55.; 18-month stoCTS, £3 10s.; jw-rlinat steers, £2 JOs. to £3 2s. 6d.; forward cows, £3 17b. to £4 Cs.; Ftorc cows. £?. ,55.-f> £3; wsaners, 20s. to 355.; bulls. £3 to £4 2s. Cd.

Messrs. Williams and Kettle, Lid., report bavins held their fortnightly £»lo in the Miller's Head yards, Danncvirke, on Deceiribsr 6, when they offered a small yarding of sheep and cattle to the usual attendance, of buyers -.—Tfro-tooth wethers (extra good), 155.; ewes and lambs, 28s. 4d.; cows in calf, £3 to £5 63.; 18-month . steers, £8 ss. to £4;, yearling steers, £3 Is,; yearling liciferSi£3 la.; Jersey bulls, £5 ss. to £6; fat toilers, £6 6s. to £7 25.; fat cows (light), £4 19s. Mr. Newton King's weekly stock report is as follows:—At Kapongo, on Friday, Kovemtjer ti, 1 had a good entry, ino3tly.store., cows',' which sold very readily,-And''real-' ised as follows:—Fat cows, £6 to £6 45.; good store cows, £4 7s. to £5 Is. 6d.; small and aged, £1 2a. 6d. to £3 63.; dairy bulls, £0 to £10 10s.; bulls for canning, £1 17s. Cd. to £3 Gs.; 15-nionths heifers, £3 6s. to £3 75.; dairy cows, £5 10s. to £7; springing heifers, £7 to £9. ss. On Tuesday, B-coem-ber 3, owing to tho very wet weather, J had only a .small entry in my Eahotu yards, with a small attendance of tho public. Fifteen-months heifers, from £3 3s. to £3 9s. 6<1.; small, £2 '63. to £2 155.; empty 2-yoar heifers, £4 to £4 18s.; dairy cows, £5 15s. to £9; good store cowb, £4 to £4 17s'.; small and aged, £1 17s. to £2 Us.; bulls, up to £5 17s. A.t the Haymarket, New Plymouth, on Saturday, November 30, goad we&ner pigs ma-do 123. 6d. to 17s. 6d.; slips, up to £1 35.; stores, from 31s. to 47b. 6d.; pedigree Berkshire slips, £3 : 3s. Private sales: Since my last'report I have made tho following sales, together with a good number of lambs for forward delivery, at lCs 1 .; fat cows, £6-10s. to £7 3s. 6d.; fat bullocks, £10 53. to £10 155.; yearling heifers, £3; 3 to 31-ycar bullocks, £6 3s. to £6 13s. ,6d.; empty 2 to 2£-ycar heifers, £4 9s. to £4 12s. 6a.; bulls, from £3 10s. to :£i2 125.; yearling steers, £2 155.; springing heifers, £5 155.; Holstein heifers, in milk, £15; 4 and 6-tooth -wethers, 15s. 6d.; 4tooth wethers, 13b. 9d.; hoggets, 12s. 6d.'