LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1782, 21 June 1913, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

The New Zealand Loan • and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.. report:—At our Levin sato, held on Friday, wo offered a small yarding of stock, which sold as follows:— Mixed hoggets, 10s.: wcaner heifers, £1 2s. 6d.; sfcoro cows, £3 13s. 6d.

Messrs. Williams and Kettle, Ltd.. report having held a successful clearing sale, on account of Mr. Donald M'Donald, tho wellknown Lincoln breeder, of lVaitahora. on Tuesday, when they offered the whole of his live and dead stock to a representative Catherine of farmers and outside buyers. The stock came forward in first-class condition, and attracted keeu competition. Tho firm quote as follows:—A fine line of 645 breeding ewes brought the good price of £1 Is.: ram hoggets. 2i guineas to £4145.: 4-tooth Bomney rams. £2 2s. to £5 55.: 3 and 4-year Leicester rams, £1 Is.: 2-tooth Southdown rains, £3 35.: stud ram hoggets. £4 4s. to £5 55.: stud ewe hoggets, 2i guineas: 2-tooth stud empty ewes, £2 25.: 4, 6, and f.f.m. stud ewecs, £3 3s. to 4S guineas: 2-tooth stud ewes in lamb, £4 45.: 2-tooth to f.f.m. ewes in lamb, 16s. 6d.: fat ewes and wethers, 15s. 6d.: wether hoggets, lis. 6d.; owe hoggets, 135.: fat irnd forward bullocks, £10 17s. 6d. to £7 12s. 6d.: 18months steers, £3 2s. 6d.: Si-year stecr3 £6 9s ■' fat cows, £7; draught horses, broken, £30 to £39: 2i-ycar draught filly. £14 to £18 10s.

HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN SALE. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Ltd.. repoyted having held the first annual breedcrs' consignment sale of pedigree_HolstcinFriesian cattle at Longburn, on Thursday, when they offered to a representative attendanco 15 stud Holeteom bulls and 10 stud Holstein females. It was apparent that mid-winter is an off-season for sellin" bulls, but the demand for females was kc®n, and it >vas evident that females in calf sell to a better advantage at this season of the year than in the enrinff, when in milk. Nine-montns bulb, on account of Mr.-A. H. Street. New Plymouth. 20gns., 32gns. to 35gns.; 9-mont : hs heifers, on account of Mr. W. M'Kcime, ston North, 32gns.. Mens.. Mgns.! 9-months bull, on account of Mr. >. E. Leighton. Southland, 60gns.; 4-year bull, 71gns. -Hie well-known cow, Maid of Leith, sold nnder keen competition, and was knocked dswn to Mr. W. I. Lovelock, of Palmerston North, at 280gns. The auctioneers state that this is the highest. prico which has ever been paid for a milking cow in the D<v minion. A rising 4-year-old bull, °ff 6re ? ™ account o£ Mr. J. Wylie, Southland realised, 73gns., and a rising 2-year-old bull, 60ld on account Mr. W. I. Lovelock, brought 71gns.