LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1663, 1 February 1913, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Ltd.; Palmerston North, report having had a medium yarding of both sheep and oattle at their Palmerston North sale on Thursday. There was a good demand for shorn lambs and weaners, but other 'classes of cattle were dull of sale. Quotations: Medium shorn lamba, 75.-1d.,t0 7s. 6d.; good, Bs. 3d. to 95.; woancra, small, 155.; woanor steers, 255. 6d.; wearer heifers, to £2.

Tho Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., and Reduced, report;—At our Hlmitangi tale on Monday a moderate entry came forward and was quitted at full rates. Sheep; Cull lambs, ss. 2d.; stubble lamb 3, 7k. Ltd.; woolly hoggets, 15s. 3d. Cattle: Weaners (small), 13s. to 17s. 6d.; yearling steers, £2 to £2 10s.; yearling heifers, £2 7.5. 6d.; fiftcon-months heifers, R.W.8., £3 55.; two-year 6teers, £4 10s.: two and a steers, £5 Bs.;. aged cows, 30s. to 355.; forward cows,. £4 10s.; fat cows. £5 to £5 55.; bulls, £4 10s. to £5 lte. Pigs: Slips, 20s.

Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., - and Reduced, report.:—On Tuesday we held a gale.of dairy 6tocK on account of Mr. H. Scholes Fitzherbert. The cows, which were a good lot, sold at prices ranging from £7 to £11 10s. for the better sorts, and £5 to £7 10s. for aged cows; sprinsjinp heifers, £6 10s. to £8 10s.; fifteen-months heifeTe, £3 10s. to £4 10s.; two-year heifers, £4 17s. to £5 12s. s weanor heifers, £2; calves, 12s. 6d.; wcaner pigg, 9s. 6d.j cow, 255.; plough horse, £18. ,'Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., and Reduced, report :-We held a successful special woaaer fair at Eongotea on Wednesday, when we offered 650 head. There was a largo muster of buyers from tho Main Trunk line, Apiti, Dannevirke, and locally. The weancrs were as a whole, a good lot, and competition was keen throughout, very' few lines (these being of inferior duality) beme turned out unsold. Jersey heifers (extra good), £4; grade Jersey heifers, £2 7s. to £2 155.; grndo, Ilohtein heifew. £2 14s. to £3 la.; good crossbred heifers, 38s. to £2 55.; medium heifers, 30s. to 3Ee. ; good Bteers, 30s. to 385.; medium and discoloured Stccr3, 235. to 28s. 6d.; medium mixed 25s to 345.; inforior, lCs. to 17s. 6d.

The New Zealand Loa.l and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd.. and Reduced report:—At Palmers ton on Thursday wo had a medium entry of cnttlc, which met with a dragging sale. Weaners 27s • Jcrsey-crora wcaner heifers, £2 12s • linlfors, R.W.8., £3 Js.; store oows, £2 3a to £2 135.; forward cows, £4 4s. to £4 12s £d ■ fat cows, £5; two and a half-year steers' £4 145.; bulls, £3 7s. 6d. '

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd rcport^7At ? ur Pn'-mereton North sale held on Thursday, c. small yarding of bo'.li sheep and cattle cold at late rates. Wo quote;— Woolly lamb", ?s. lOd.; four, six and f.m. ewes, 135.: forward cows, £4 10s • springing cows, £5; snrinsinir helfera ss. to £5 10a.: bulls, £2 17s. to £3