LIVE STOCK SALE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1734, 26 April 1913, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALE.

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., Palmerston North, report having a very pood yarding of both sheep and cattlc at their Falmerston North sale on Thursday, and although the bidding wae not particularly ke&n at auction, nearly all lines changed hands at tho following prices:—Cull lambs,.! to'4s. Bd.; mixed medium lambs, to 75.10d.j woolly wether lambs. 9s. 6d.; empty mixed aged ewes, 75. : 6 d.; mixed weaners, 225», 245.'; 20-months empty heifers, £3 &s.; x mixed 18; monthe cattle, £2 10s. 6d.; coloured weaner heifers, £2 12s. 6d.; forward 3-year stationbred heifers. £4 Bs. 6d.; empty cows, £2 155., £3, £3 125., £3 153.; 2i-year steers, £4 Bs. 6d.; bulls, £3 55.; cows and calves, £3 10s.. £4 3s„ to £5 lis.; fat cows,to£6 te. 6d.;forward bullocks, £7 to £7 65., to £7 Us. 6d. Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report on their Pahiatua sale, held on Tuesday, and their Waimiro sale, hold on Thursday, at which they offered a medium yarding of sheep and cattle at both fixtures to~p. largo attendance of buyers and others. Sheep sola well at prices ruling in other centres, aw. they report a total clearance. \Sheep: 2tooth wethers. 13s. 6d.; 2 and 4-tooth wethers, 145., 14s. 6d., and 14s. 9d.; mixed aged ewes, 10s. 7d.; woolly lambs,, Bs. 6d.; shorn lambs, 65.; 2J-year steers, £5; cows in calf, to £3 lis.; 16-month steers, £2 10s.; weaner heifers, £2; wcaners, £1 6e. to £1 12s. 6d. Messrs. Abraham and Williams,• Ltd., re-port-as follows:—At Pahiatua, on April 22. we offered a good yarding of sheep and an extra heavy yarding of cattle, well over advertised numbers, close on ICOO head being yarded. Tho of the cattle wero the bullocks, mostly Si-year-olds, tof which there were over dCO, a' largo portion being of nice quality. This class met strong competition, Miv D. W. Allen ton--1 ping tho market with £7 lis. Other bullocks did not mcetrirauh prood inquiry, although Mrs. Burling's sold well, both the Polled Angus and Hereford-cross cattle making £6 10s. Wfo have to report a Inghlx satisfactory clearance. The attendant* was large, Wai'raiapa and Manawatu buyers being in strong evidence, and taking the bulk of tho grown cattle. A full clearance was made in the;sheep, values showing an advanco of late rates. Pat bulldcks. £10: good forward-conditioned bullocks, £6 10s., £6125. to £7 good 3t-year bullocks, £6. £6 4s. to £6 10s.; l\ and 3-year bullocks, '£5, £5 ss. to £5 155.; 2 and 2i-yeur steers, £4 12s. •6d. to £5; 18-month steers. '£3 10s., £3 lZs. to £3 165.; fat cows, £4 17s. 6d. £S os. .to £5 lis.; forward cows. £3 17s. 6d.. £4 Is. to. £4 65.; atorc cow©, £2 15s. to £3 55.; eowsi and calves, £3, £3 16s. to £4; Hereford-cross heifers, r.wb, £4; fat lieifcra, £5 10s; dairy heifors, £5 2s. 6d. to £5 12s. 6d.s empty heifers, £2 14a. 9d. to £2 18s.; weaner steers. 27e. 6d.. £2 to £2 ss; mixed weaners, 255. 6d. to 275. 6d.; bulls, £2 2s to £3 10s.; wethers, 14s. sd. to 15s. 7d,; f.m. ewes, in lamb, 7s. 2d., Bs. 9d. to lie. 2d.; empty owes, 7s. 0(i. to 9s. 3d.; store ewes,'6s.. to ss. 9a.; woolly lambs, 83. lOd. to lis.; good shorn lambs, 65., lis. 9d. to 9s. lOd.; small lambß, ss. Id. to 4s. Id.; blackfaccd lambß, 6s. Ba. to '93 4d

Newton King's weekly Tcport statesAt TJrenui on .Monday I had a good ontry of | cattle and sheep. 'Buyers were present j in good numbers from all parts, making ; fair competition for most lines/ Holstein weaner lieifcrs made from .£2 9s. to £2 155.; grade heifers* £1 15s. to £1 165.; weaner steers, up to £2 Is.; small Jnixed weaners, £1 65.; 2 and 2i-year in-calf heifers. (coloured), £5 to £6; empty 20-month heifer*. £3 lis. 6d.; 20-moiitti steers (coloured), £2 3s. to £2 17s. 6t1.; 24-year steers, £4 10s. to £4 155.; fat 2£-year bullocks, £6 Us.; fat cows, £5 3s. to £5 135.: store cows, £Z to £3 165.; bulls, £4 to 5 2s. 6d.; fat.heifers, £4 155.; lambs. Be. to 10s. 6d.; culls, 4s. to ss. 4d.; forward and fat ewes, lis. oil.; fat ewes,' 145.; fat wethers. 16s. 7d.; 2-tooth I owes, 13s. 2d.; 4-tooth ewes, 14s. 4d.; small 2tooth wethers, 10-3. Bd.: pood wethers, 14s. Id.; 6-tootli ewes. 10s. 9d.; cull owes, 3i On Tuesday, at Kahotu, there was a. fair yarding, and attendance. Weaner heifers made from £16s. to £2 35.; coloured, £2 155.; weaner steers, up to £2 os. Sd.j store cow's, £2 17s. 6d. to £4 2s. 6(1.; bulls, £4 10s. to £10 23. 6d.; weaner bulls, £E 4s. On Friday last I conducted a sale at haliui Road, Eihotu, on .account of Mr. Ohar« ]es Crisp. Dairy cows sold at from £6 15s. to £11 65.; aged, £3 15s. to £4 155.; fat cows, £5 155.; pedigree Ayrshire hull, 16 guineas,.' weaner heifers. £1 165.; weaner Ayrshire" steers, £1 Bs.