LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1662, 31 January 1913, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgety end Company, Ltd. (Wanganui), report:—At our Wavcrloy sale on January 24 .wo yarded 1000 sheep and 120 cattle: ■ Bidding was keen, everything being disposed of under the hammer, tho demand for sheep being better than for some tlmo past. Wo quote: F.m. ewes, lis. 9d.; lambs, 9s. 2d.; mixed two-tooths, 14a.' 4d,; fat two-tooths, 14s. 6d.; - s.m. ewes 10s.; fat cows, £7 7s. j four-year bullocks, £5 Is.; store cows, £4; cull steers, £3; two and a half-year steers, £5:55.: bulls, £4 7s. 6d. to £6.

Jiossrs. Dalgcty and Co.,' Ltd., report hav-' ing held their usual stock sale at Woodvllle on January 27,. when they offered a fair yarding of stock to a largo attendance. Prices lor sheep were a good deal easier, especially for lambs. Cattle were also a little easier. Fat cows. £5; wcaner stocra aud heifers, 3Cs.; eightcen-montha steers, £3 19s. 6d.; two-year steers, ■ £5; woolly lambs, from 25., fa., to 75.; fat and forward shorn- lambs, Ea. 9d. Messrs. Dalge'y and Company. Limited (Palmerston North), report, on the "Cliff-, side" dispersal sale of Komney sheep held on account of Mr. W. I. Lovelock, at the hdmestead on Wednesday, as follows:— Ewe lambs, 18s. 6tl. to 203. 6d.; two-tooth ewes,. Ugns. . to.'lfcns.; aged ewes, .225.; four and .six-tooth ewca, 30s. to 335. 6d.; two and four-tooth rams, to 3gns. , Messrs. Abraham and 'Williams, Ltd., report on their. Johnsonvillo sale, held yesterday, as follows:—A .small entry of bullocks and a heavy one of sheep cam.3 forward, end sold readily at late rates. Prime heavy bullocks, £10 10s. to £11; prime bullocks, £10 to £10 55.; vealers, 325. to 345.; primo wethers, 18s. Id. to 18s. 7d.; good wethers, 17s. 4d. to 17s. 10d.; prime heavy ewes, 17s. Id.; good ewes, i ss. 9d. to lis. ; medium owo3, 153. to 15s. 6d.j plain. Ka. 6d.; primo lambs. 153.; good lambs, lis. to Ms.; plain, 10s. 6d. to lis. . ' Mcssre. James Macintosh and Co. report havlns held' their usual weekly sale in their Waipoua (Masterton) solo yards on Wednesday, January 29, when they offered a small yarding of sheep, but as, good yarding of cattle, to a good number of buyers, and competition was fairly keen. Quotations ore ac follow:—Wolly lambs, 9s. 2d.; cull woolly lambs, 75.; two-tooth owes and wethers (small), 10s.; cows in profit, SA to £6 2s. 6d.; cull cows, £2 to £2 ss. to £2 10s.: store cows, £3 IDs. to £4 55.; weancrs, 243., 275., to 3C\3.; small calves,- 15s. to 16e. 6d.; fifteen-months heifers, £2 las.; cows and calves, £4' lCs.; springing cows, £6 to £6 10s.

V THE BTJBNSIDE SALES. ' (By Telegraph—Press Association.) -' Dunodln, January 29. At Burnside to-day 196 fat cattle were penned, Including a few lots of heavy bullocks. Prices for bullocks were 10s. to 15s. per hoad easier than last week, while in cows and heifers there' was a drop from 2Cs. to 235. per head from' last week's rates. Extra heavy bullocks, £14 to £15 17s. 6d.; good, £11 to £12 10s.; medium, £8 to £9 Is.

Fat sheop: 3003 penned. Following on the large yarding last week tho entry was too big for requirements, end prices showed & declinc'-of Is. 6d. to 2s. as. compared with last week. A largo portion of to; day's yarding was turndd out unsold, and until the freezing works open, the market will probably bo very irregular. Wethers; cxtra heavy, 235. 6d. to 255.; good, 18s. Gd. to 19s. 6d.; medium and unfinished, 16s. to 17s. 6d.; owes, extra heavy, 20s. to 225.; good, 15s. 6d. to 18s.; medium and inferior, 12s. to 14s. Fat lambs: 533 yarded. This numbor proved to bo much in excess of butchers' requirements,' and prices wero about 3s. per head lower than last week. Best. 163. to 17s. 6d.; good, 14s. to 15s. 6d.; medium, 12s. 6d. to 13s. 6d. Pigs: There wero 300 fat pigs yarded, and prices Showed an improvement on last, week's Quotations. Stores sold at about last wcok's rates. , .

Messrs. Dalgcty and Co. report ns follows on a clearing sole held at Wainui-o-Mata, on Tuesday, on behalf of the Brinscombc Dairy Company. Thero was a large attendance of buyers, and wo iwcrc successful in disposing of everything under tho hammer. Wo auote tho following prices: —Empty heifers, to £4; heifers m milk, £4 15s. to £8 2s. 6d.; cows in milk, .£4 55., £4 10s., £5 103., £6, £6 5e., £6 12s. 6d„ £6 155., £7 10s., £7 155., £8, £8 10s., £8 155., £9, £9 IDs., up to £13 10?.; dry cows. £3 10s., £4, £6 155., £7 155., £8 7s. 6d.; calves, to 12s. 6d.; four, six, to eight-tooth ewes, lis. 6d.; shorn lambs. 75.; Lincoln rams, to £1 Is.: nged ma"ro, £5 10s. to £6 10s.; yearline; milos, £-3 155., £3 17s. 6d., £6 7s. 6d. ■ Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.. Ltd., and Reduced, report bavins held their weekly sale in tho Mangahao yards yesterday, when they offered o. small yarding of sheep and a good entry of young cattle to a fair attendance of farmers and buyers. All stock offered met with fair competition, end we have, to report a total clearance, with one exception, at tho following prices: Sheep: Mixednged ewes, 10s. to 10s. 6d.; oscd owes, 7s. Id. Cattle: llolstein-cross heifers, £2 10s. to £2 155.; pood wmner steers, £t lfs., £1 17s. 6d. to £2; mijed wcaners, good, 20s. to 305.; bulls, £2 175., £4 ss„ to £4 6s. Customs rcvenno collected at Wellington yesterday amounted to £2K6 2s. 6d.