LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1820, 5 August 1913, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Mr. Newton King reports on clearing sales as follows:—On July 24, at Riverlea, Mrs. G. Clarko's talc: Choice young cows,. £11 to £16; good cows, £8 to £10 10s.; tlrrccqisarter cows, £0 Ids. to £5 10s.; cows, calved, £8 loj. to £9; springing heifers, £8 ss. to £9 10s.; late or empty, £4 to £5 2s. 6d.; .bulls, £5 to £5 ss. Mr. 0. Olson's sale: iJest dairy cows, at from £7 to £9. bull, £5 ss. 6d'.. Mr. William Jviuies's sale.: Ohoico cows, £10 to £17; .good • cows, £8 10s. to £9 155.; aged cowa or late ca<lvera. £3 15s. to £6; clicioe twenty-month to two-year heifers realised froia £7 ss; to £8 155.; pood, £5 ss. to £6 os.; small heifers, looking rough, £3 15s. to.£4' 10s.; yearling .hetfere, £2 155.; .fifteen mouth Btecra, £3; store cows, £3 2s. 6d. t-o £3 17s. 6d. / Xlr. D. JfeiwiOiCey's sale: Cows, best at. from £9 ss. to £13 15s. At Ng-aere. Jir. G. M. Hamilton's £«le: Best cows eold Qit» from <£8 ss. to. £11 55.: others, £5 to £7 103. j aged, £3 15s. to £4 10s.; bulls, £4 to £5 5?.; yearling heifere, £2 ISe. 6(1.; sprindns heifers, £4 15s. On the same day (Monday last), -at the TJreuui yards, .tlie best of Mr. J. W. Ross's dairy cows realised fro>m £9 ss. to £13 10s.; good, £7 to £8;' aged drcid late covers, £4 105. to £5 53. At Huirangi onYthe samei'day, in6truotcd by the Public Trufltea, wore'*' sold tho cows, horsss, ar.d sundries in tho estate of v Thomas Lanjpmbm/, -deceased. Young cows, from £8 to £10; good sorts, but late, £6 10s. to £7 55.; cows carrying a fair amount of ftge. £4 1&?. to £6 £e.; the lioroes wore very good', selling under keen competition. Tuesday, July 29, ot RowanMessrs. Tate ai>,d Barasley's sole: Cows in milk eold at from £8 ss. to £12; choice young cows, £9 15s. to £15; good, but bit aged. £6 to £8 155.; three-quarter. 'jows. up to £9; empty cows, £2 10s.;• pedigree Jersey bull, 10gn®.; woanor to yearling heifers (poor), £2 155.; six-year bay gelding, £17. On the came day, at (the Ralhotu yards, I submitted Mr. AntJiur Cave's dairy i herd. The pick otf tlieso eold at from £8 10?. to £10; empty cows. £3 15s. Ifr. A. cloariiis sale (Omata) oil Wednesday: Choice young cows brought from £12 to £18; good; £9 10s. to £11; pedigree Aynsihire two-year'heifers, ssnis. to 7igns.: and a very ciioico litis of in-calf two-year old Jersey heifers, «J1 by the pedigree bull "MiliLs Reward," und in calf to a fine young pedigree bull, "Belvedere • Coin." sold undar keen competition to Jfr. Wm. Honeyfield, at £13 15s. Mr. J. C. Rob-eon's #ale: Best yoiling cowr, oa,rly calvers, sold at iflrora £10 to £14 55.; rood sorts, £1 to £9 155.; springing heifers, from £5 to £8. At Pimilio, Sir. Wm..Grant's evule: Tho cows wert an exception»llv choice'lino, and in freat' condition. Pricct?, especially for the jiiKmlf cows, wcrs not in kcopin? with the m'orite of tho i ot ock, oilthouirli tho h?rd of 80 cowe, dncludiiig 'late calvers, averaged £10 16s. 3d. ' T.ho cows which had. just calved • included some splendid types of dail'y. eattlo. and realised bettor values. Choice springing cows realised £18, £17. £15. . £13 Iftj.; £13. £12 Ift?., £12, £11; good sp)nTiping 6owf?, £9 to £10. A very choice* well-grown lino of 26 grade Jersey year;lp£ v ■ heifers, -in proat condM'ion, sold at prke?* in fa.vour of buyeit?, the pick brinjr'ing £4 17e. and the balance £4 3s. 6d. jro.?s-rs. JTamerton Bras.' ea-le: Best cows, from £8 to £11fair sorts, £6 to *i 97 155.; late calvers. £4 15s. to £5 10s.; tJhree'-fMiartor cows, £5 ICe. At Kaponga, Jfr. 11. Earringtcn's sale: Good yomnig. gows, £10 15i\; fair sorts, £7 -10s. to £9 103.; late col vers and a*ed, £6 to £7.