LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1714, 3 April 1913, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgety and Go. report:-At our \\ ail pa mu sale to-day we yarcied 19C0 sheep and 300 cattle. The demand all round was an improvement on last -sale. The bulk of the entry was disposed of wider the hammer. Wo qupte: Firm ewes, &3. 6d. to 9s. 6d.; lambs, fe. to 10s. Id.; mixed twotooths, 10s. to 125.; two and four-toOtli wethers, 13s. 3d.; two-tooth ewes, lis. 6d.; cull lambs, 4s. 9d.; heifers, £2 l(te. to £4 Is. 6d.; good stecre, £4 10s.; others, £2 53. to £2 17s. 6d.; fat cows, £5 to £6 155.; £2; fifteen-months steers, £2 17-s. 6d.; weaner steers, 255.; weaneris, 10s. to l&s. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report oil their Johnsonville sale as follows: —A good entry of both sheep and cattle came forward .and, sold well at late rata*. Prime heavy bullocks, £10 10s. to £11; Prime bullocks, £9 '15e. to £10 7s. 6d.;'good wethers, 16s. 9d. t to 17s. 3d., to 17s. Ed.; prime ewes, 15s. Bd.{ medium ewes, 14s. to 14s. Cd.5 plain ewes, lis. 3d. fo 13s. 6d.; primo lambs, 14s. Id. to 14s. lid.; good lambs, 13s. to 12s. Gd.; medium iambs. 12s. to 12is. 6d. ■■ The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Go., Ltd., report, having held their weekly sale in the F.F.A. yards at Pahiatua oil Tuesday, when they offered a fair yarding of sheep and a small entry ol cattle to a fair attendance of fanners and buyers.' Sheep showed a slight improvement on previous Gales. Cattle met a dragging • sale throughout! However, the company report a total clearance at t-he following rates:—Sheep: Mixed aged ewes, 7t5.0 6d., Bs. Ed. to 9s. 6d.; fat ewes, lis. Bd.; mixed lambs, ss. lid. to Bs. Cd.; fat cows, £4 15i3. to £5; forward cows, £2 15s. to £3 Eis.; store cows, £1 10s. to £2 55.; aped cows, 205.; weaner 6teers, £1 &s. to £1 14s. 6d.; weaner heifers, £1 6s. to £1 145.; bulls, £1 18s. to £2 Bs. The New Zealand-Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., .report:—At Itaumjii on. Tuesday wo had a Rood entry of sheep and cattle, and have to report a gobd clear* once: at late rates. Quotations Sheep: Lambs (medium), 65.-10 d.-to 65,; fat and forward lambs, 9s. 10d.; two-tooth ewes; 12s. 3d. to 12s.' 4d.; storo ewes, 7s, 4d. to &s.; fat ewes, 123. 9d.; store wethers, lis. 6d. to 13,?: 3d. Cattle: Wcauers (small), 17s. to 18s.; weaner heifers, 28s. 6a.; eighteen-montlis steers, £3 6s. to £3 10s. 6d:; twenty-months steers, £3 165.;. heifers In calf, £5 &s.; -springing-heifers, £6 55.; fat cows, £5 to £5 35.; cows in milk, £3 10a. Pigs:. Wean ers, 7s. 6d. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report:—We held our monthly Waikanao sale at our yards on Tuesday last, when we offered a fair entry of both sheep and cattle to a full attendance of buyers, and'under the hammer and privately afterwards the bulk of our entrv changed hands at satisfactory prices. We sold two-tooth ewes (small), to 10s. lid.; empty sound-mouth ewes, - to &3. 3d.; three-year-old bullocks, 'to £6; dry cows (spring calvers), to £6 10s.; store cows, from .£2 Js. to £3 56.; bulls, to £3 10s. ' The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile , Agency Co., Ltd., report:—Wc had a fairly large yarding of sheep and a fair entrr of cattle at Solway on Tuesday, which we *sj9£nq jo odiropuswu poos v Competition was. brighter than at the previous sale,- and we are pleased .to report a total clearanco at tho following prices:— Good woolly lambs. 9s. lid.; small, 6s. 6d. to 75.; culls, 4s. 9d.; two-tooth wethers, 9s. 6d. to 13s. 2d.;, small two-tooth ewes, lis. 6d.; aged ewes, 7s. 7d.: to 10s.. .lCd.; rams, 2 to li guineas: dairy cows, to £6 10s.; heifers, £3 to £3 17s. 6d.; ol(i cowts, £2 12s. 6d. to £2 16s. ' . ADD'INGTOX MARKET. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.), Christchurch, April 2. At Addingtou to-day there were very laTge entries of all classes of sheep and fair entries ,111 other departments. Tho for store sheep was again kceu, and prices were fully maintained. Fat lamb 3 showed a further weakening in praces, and owing to the large entry fat sheep were easier. Fat cattle were alto weaker in price, as were also fat pigs. There was a good sale for store cattle, of which there was a special entry from Gisborne. Store sheep-Quotations: Ewes, two-tooth", fair lines, 17s. to 195.; others, 15s. 9d. to lfo. 6d.; four-tooth, 16s. 6d. to 17s. 2d.; sixtooth, 16s. to 16s. 9d.; two and four-tooth, 16s. to 17s. 4d.; two, four, six, and c'iglittooth, 14s. to 155.; four, eis and eight-tooth, 14s. 6d. to 165.; four and six-tooth, 16s. 9d. to 18s.; six and eight-tooth, 13-3. Gd. to 18s. &d.; good four-year ewes, 14s. Gd. to 15s. 9d.; fresh sound-mouth sheep, 15s. to 15s. lid.; medium sortis, 14s. to 14s. 9d.; inferior, lis. 6d. to 13s. ,6d.; full and failing mouth sorts, 9s. 6d. to 125.; aged and inferior sheep, 6s. to 7s. Lambs: Forward rape lines, 13s. 6d. to 14s. 6d.; exceptional; to 1 £s. Id.; medium rape sorte, 12s. to 135.; good average stores, lis. to lis. Gd.; medium, 10s. '9d.; others, 9s. 3d', to 10s. 4d.; medium owes, 13s. 2d. to 13s. 7d.; wethers, four and sixtooth, forward, 16s. to 17s. 5d.; medium, 1 •15s. to 15s. 6d.; two and four-toolh, 14s. to I 17s. 4d.; fwo-t-ootli, (small) to 14s. ( Fat lambs: Export buyers were operating freely, but at prices about 6d. per head below rates ruling last week, the bulk of tho purchases being made on a basus of sd. t-o s£d. per lb. Light lambs sold- rather better in proportion than medium or heavier weights. Tegs eold at 17s. .to 205., and. a few extra, to 215.; ordinary freezing weights, 15s. to 175.; and lighter, 13s. t-o 14s. 9d. Tho range of prices for fat sheep wag:— Prime wethers, 19s. 1o 225. 9d.j lighter, 15s. to 18, 1 ?. 6d.; merino wethers, 10s. to 15s. 4d.; primo ewes, 16s. to 215.; medium, 13s. to 16s. 6d.; aged and light, 10s. to 12s. 6tl. For fat cattle prices were unchanged, boef realising 225. 6d, to 30s. per J.COlb., according to quality. Steers made £7 10s. to £11; extra, to £14 2?. 6d.; heifers, £6 to £9; extra, to £11- 7s. 6d.; ami cow£, £5 15s. | to £10 2s. 6d. 1 Storo cattle: Fifteen to cighteen-months ! Horts made £3; -two-year steers, £5 12/ i. 6(1.; two and a half-year steers. £5 17s. 6d.; twoyoar heifers, £4 10s. to £4 17s. 6c1.; threeyear steers, £6 9s. (Id., pai-sed; three-year heifers, £5 ss. to £5 10s.; and cows, £1 10s. 6d. to £4A Jino of 157 four to six-year Shbrlhorn and Hereford bullocks from Gisborne realised £7 7s.' 6d. to £8 Ife.; the majority beiug taken by Peninsular graziers. For dairy cows prices ranged, from £1 to £10 12s. 6d. Fat pips: Tho boom prices of the previous week were not maintained, valines dropping considerably. Choppers realised £3 to £5 10?.; heavy £3 sc. to £3 J35..: and lighter .sorts, £2 12s. 6d. to £3. (equal to srt. to 51d., against 6d. per lb. the previous week). Heavy porkers made £2 4s. to £2 9i?.: and lighter sorts, £1 18s. to £2 3s. (etjuivaleiit to 6id. to 6d. ner lb., compared with 6Jd. to 7d. at the talo held ou March 26>. Medium sorts realised 325. to 4Cs., and,smaller pigs 225. to 305., whilst wcanere made 12s. to 18s. BUHNSIDIS SALE. Dunodln, April 2. Al. H urn side stock sale there was a, full I yarding of fat cattle, 215' head, principally good-quality bullocks. The entry was in excess of requirements, and prices showed a drop of fully 10s. per head. Quotations: Best bullocks" £11 10s.; best cows and heifers. £8 10s. to £9 155.; extra, to £11 2s. od.; medium , to good, £6 15s. to .£7 155.; light, £4 10s. to £5 10s. 1 Fat fehcep: A* very largo yarding of .4389. AW primo sheep sliowd a drop of Is. per while ewes and medium-weight weth- i ers declined Is. 6d. per head. Quotations: I'r.ime wethers, 20s. to 235.; extra. 1o 28s. 9d.; medium to good, 18s. to 19s. 6di; light, • 16s. 6d. to 17s. 6d.; best, ewes, 17s. 6d. to 205.; extra good, »to 265.; medium, 12s. 6d., ; lE.=. 6d. ■" , 1 • Vat lambs: 1550 pciuicd, mostly gohtl qual- ' its'. Exnortcrs were operatinir freely, aad ]