LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1774, 12 June 1913, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Mffsrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Wellington, report as follows on their stock gale helu at Otaki on Tueedayi-We have to report holding one of the most successful sales ever held in these yards, We hod ft larßO entrv of both sheep and cattle, every pen being full, and buyers .were in good attendance. Bidding was hnsk right from the start, and we sold all line® of sheep under the hammer, and the bulk of our entry of cattle. All classes.'of sheep were in strong demand. A line of roixeufiffe ewes in larab, on account of 31.r. ii. C. Dunn, realised 17*. .2d. loun* cattlo were also keenly competed for. \\e quote the following prices r-Mixed-agecwos m lamb, 11*. 6d. ( tss. 8(1., to 17s 2d.: a ff ed ewes, in lamb. Bs. 4d.; four and six-tooth empty ewes, 1C«. 10rt.; cull ewes, 45.; cwo lambs, 10s. 9d.; raixed-ccx lambs, Bs., w. Bd., 95., Si*. Id.;- small lambs, 65.; two and four-tooth wethers, 14*. 3d.: fat ewes, to 14s. Id.; yearling etecrs, to £2 2s. 6d.; yearling to cightecn-months Ilolstein heifers, £3, £5 25., £3 10s.. to £4: empty heifer?, to £3 17e.: two and a. half-year steers. £4 10s. to £5 10s.; fiprinslnj? cows, £3 lis.; store co\vs,-i£2 to £2 7s. 6d.; rv, ' cov \?: to £4: tut Heifers and cow?, £5, £5 os., i.o 145., £6; bull, £3 Is.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Johnsonvillc ?ale yesterday n9 follows: —A good entry of prime bullocks and sheep came forward, ana sola well at la to prices. Prime heavy bullocks, £12 .€l2 £*.; nrime bullocks, £11 12s. 6d. to £11 155.: lighter. £11 55.; prime light bullock?, £8 2?. 6d. to £8 17s. 6d.; prime heavy weaners. £2 to £3; prime vealers, £1 ss. to £1 195.: liditor, £1 2«. to £1 &».; prime wethers. £1 0.?. 6d. to £I,o*. lid.: primo ewe?. 17s. 6<jL to '18s.: light ewei, 15s. 6a.; prime lambs, 145.; plain, lis. The New Zealand Loan *nd Mercantile Agency Company report:—Wo had only a fair ent-rv of sheep at Solway on wednc»> dav, but thci=e> met with good competition. We m ade a total clcaranc'e at prices rather better than those ruling last week. S.m. ewes, in lamb, made un to 14s. 7d.: soodmoutli owes, in lamb, 18s. Bd.; small twotooth wethers, 12s. 9d.; cull lambs, 6s.

At our Wanganui' eale on Wednesday, telegraph Dalgety and Co., wo yarded 1300 sheep nnd 150 cattle. Bidding for sheep wa« fairly brisk, all the principal lines being disposed of under tno hammer. The demand for cattle was null. We auole:—Mixed lambs, Bs. to lis.; fullmouth ewe??. 4s. 9d.; owes in lamb. lfe. 7d.; two and a half-year steers, £4; empty cow 6. £2 10s.: forward cows, £4 12s. bu.; calves. 18?.; dairy heifers, £4 10s. to £6 15s. The Kew Zealand Loan and 3lercantil« Agency Company. Ltd., report :-We held our usual weekly sale • at the Pahiatua Farmers' Association ! yards on Tuesday ln«t, when we offered a fair entry of both •liecp and cattle to a full reprosentiltiou of buyers. Shcop were yarded in lariro numbers, and, notwithstanding that there were several Manawatu men o»oratin<;. prices wero considerably easier than thoso Tiiliup at our salo held a. fortnight aso. However, with the exception of one .'mail pen of lambs, the whole entry chanced honds to the satisfaction of vendors, ivo sold woolly J amir, (oft hills), to P". 4d.: shorn lambs (mixed sexes), to 7.-. 'a.; ohU to <!>.; emnty cows stores), from £1 10s. to £3 125. 6d.; bulls, to £5 10s.

Jfessrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Paliiatua stock tale ns under: —We offered an exceptionally heavy yarding of sheep and a cood yardinc of cattle to a. attendance, the bull: of tli» sheep being bought for the Wairnrapa. and Jfan&watu. There was eood demand for pood breeding cood lambs, and wether.'. Poorer sorts and small lambs -were slightly easier. We o'otainc-d the "»ood price of 18s. Id. for 230 six-tontli ami fowr-year-old ewes, sold on behalf. of Mr. H. j?. Lethbridge. The bulk of the ontt.lc were pold at. late rate*, cows with condition psllins better. Quotations: Good six-tooth four and fivc-yrar brecdincr ewes.-12s. 6t1., 13s. 9d., to 18s. Id.: jrood mixed aped ewes, lie. 6d. to 15s. 10rt.; full-month ewes, Us. to fe. Bd.:' fat ewes. lft. 2d. to Ws. 5d.: forward ewe's, 10s. !d. to lis. 3d.; store ewes ss. Sd. to 6*. fid.: two nnd fo>ir-tootb wotbers, 15'. to 16s. lfd.; fat and forward wctbTS. 17-- 3d. to IPs. Id.; rrnod lamK-, ?a. M.. 10s. Id- to lis. Sd.; mcdiuri lamb., 7>. Id. to Bs. Id.: small lamb-.. <«. M. to ss. 7t1.: Ennnnini: heifers, £7 IPs.: heifers, in ralf, £4 fi«.; "forward-conditioned eoivs, £2 £3 18.3- to £1 Si.: "tore rows. £1 IK, £2 ?-., to £2 17?.: two-year r-teero, £3 17;. Cd. to £4 £•■:•.

Jiwi Ximti ttacinto«h ord Co. report VivinK licl'l their v.-ccl;lv fats in tt>«lr tt'aiooua (.Ua'icrton) .■alo.yn-rrtj on Wednesday. June 11. when they offered a yardir>n of »h'c«i> aid cattle, n* «dvcr».i?»d. which met with keen comnetition. nd His who!? yn.rdins nas sold a', the following rates:—'JVo nrul four-tooth vrtiicj;:. '6'. sd. to 16?. fd.; owe lambs. 9?.; *wr.thcr Je.inbs. 95. id.: shorn forward lambs, 8?. 6d.; shorn lamb?. 6s. Id. to 6a. 5d.; small two-tooth cives, 1le.: f m. empty ewes, (is. lie!.; cull owtt". 3s. 9(1 : cull lambs, 4s. 7d.; fat e'.vps, 14s. Ill: fat and forward lamb?, is.?, forward cows. £5 45.; store cows, £2 95., .Co. £3 7'=.; oishtcen-iiioiiths steer-. £2 175.; three-year ivtcors, £5; wcaner heifers, .£1 ss. 6d.: a, draught yearling Ally, £'0 55.: ond a light yearling filly, £4 Is. Tfre ADDIXGTON SALES. (By Telesraph—Press yifcsoclatlon.' Chrlstchurch, June 11. At. tlio Addinfjton live stock market, today the entries of sheen of nil classcs were not, quite ciiual to those of last week, but there v.ere fair yardings in oilier cleiinrlments. On uteo-unt of the cold weather the attendant was not so low as iminl. Fat. cattle sold irregularly, but. with no change in the overage of price-. Store cheep also cold at- late rates, and there was an advance of about ?a per head In fot lambs. The fat sheen sale also opened well, and prices we.ro firmer. In the nig classes baconera nnd choppers sold at late rates, nnd porkens were firmer. Store sheep: Lambs, forward rape sorts, !3r. to 13s. 7d.; extra, to 14s. 5(1.: fair to Rood forward lines, 12s. to 12s. 10d.; small. 9=. to 10s.; ewe lambs. 15;. 7d. for cood sorts and 12s. for small. A line of eivo iambs of specially pood nuality—in fact., the best offered at Addineton this season -made 16s. 6(1. Ewes. Miuml-mout.h. Us. to 135.: full and failing-mouth, Hi', to lis. t(1.: .-.ged. 9=.: i;ood local-bred half-breed fairmouths, 13s. Sd.; merino ewes. 4s. 3d. to 7i>. ICfl.: wethers, four ond sis-tonlh, If-s. to 16c. 3d.; two and four-tooth, 14s. 6d.;

low-conditioned . forts, to 165.: toward' line?, six and 155. 3d., merino wethers, low condition, 3s. 9d. to ss. 3d. Fat. dieep: ethers. -Is. to 265. Cel.. other", lis. t" 2to. 6(1.; rrimc ewes. 185. 6(1. to 23=. IC(I.; medium, 155. 6d. to 18?.; need nud licht, 9s. 3d. to 15?.;. merino wethers, 16,=. lid. to 185. lid.; merino ewes, Us. Kit cattle- The overuse nrice was on a par with that ruiintr a week earlier, namely 2U to "9f. per ICOlh. Steers realised £7 15s' to £11 55.: extra, to £16 12s .6(1.; heifers, £5 10s. to £9 17s. &d.: cows £5 to £10 2«. 6d. Fifteen to cijrhtcen-months lines were nas?cJ at £5 25.. two-year helfcrs changed hands at £3 Bs. 6d.,.and cow.-, at Xo lCt. to £4 5?. Dni ry cows made .£4 lCs.'to .CO. and extra, to £12 15«, Fat Ininlif: Pricrs were, on the whole, about le. better than last week, and worn eciual to about 5Jd. to 6d. jicr lb. Teqs made to 255.: avcraze weight;, lis. to 19s. 6(1.: liclitcr. lis. to ,16«. 6(1. The yarding of fat hies wae «. medium one. Choppers ond baconers sold at. unchanged nriccs. but -haconera were slightly hotter. Choppers mode £3 10s. to .to: heavy baconers, 62?. 6d. to 755.; hshtor, s«s. to 60-. Thee priec* were eflua-1 1o s><l. nor lb. Heavy porker? realised <375. to 50*., and lisrhtor 36?. to 45«.-ecjuat lo 6d. per In. Store pip«: Best sorts realised 50?. t.o medium. 2fc\ to 29?.: small fort?. 14?. to SCS. Wcancrp were in pood demo nci, .tuit brnuclit 1C«?. 6d. to 14?. 6d.. tho?o I'calisini; the hipho-t pricc bcinp extra pood. BCKXBIDE MARKET. DunccNn, June 10. i There was o. full ynrdinp of fat cattle , at the Buniside m-arko'-s to-day, the entry : totalling. 200. Competition was good, and priee* were much on a par with tlio rates < .ruling at last talc. ExtTA. prime heavy bullocks, £ 1 4 10s.: prime. £12 to £13 10?.: medium. £9 IC*. to £11 16?.: others, £0 10s. to £9 10s.: best prime heifers, to £11 10s.; prime heifers and cows,_ £3 ICs. to £10 10*.: others. £5 10s. to £7. Fat Sheep.—There was a full yarding the entrv comprising SGCO. The yarding- con* sistcd mainly of medium-weight wethers and old ewes. There were very fewheavy wethers forward. Owing to tncro havinp been no £-ale last. v;cck. butchers «toek-3 were lipht. and consequently the demand was pood. Trices for pnnio ,«hcef> were firm at late rates, but for medium wctlicra and ewes they were a little ra.-ier. llest wethers. £1 Ev=. t« £1_ 10s.; incdium, 19s. to £1 Js. 6d.; other-. I7s. to 18s. 6d.: eitra licavy ewes. £1 is. 3il-: medium, 16k. to £1; others, )Z& Cd. to Us. 6d. Fat linmtf.—There was a full j-.irdin? of 3500. The usual number of export buyers were present, and a c.lcaranrc was effected at prices ou a. par with late rites, jvvlrn- prime, to £1 45.; prime, 16s. 6u. to £1 Cs. 6d.; medium, 16s. to 6d.; others, to l£-s. 6(1. n Pisrs.—There wo« a. very small yarding, eonslstins of 41 fals nnd 33 stores. Fat pigs were in keen demand at- prices Qiule oil a- par with those ruling at the last sale, but stores were rather neglected. Best baconers, £2 15s. to £3 ICs.; liglit baconers, £2 ss. to £2 Ifc.; porters, ft to £2 10s.: stores, £1 to £1 55.; clips, 15s. to £1; suckers, Ee. to 12;.