LITE STOCK BALES

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1842, 30 August 1913, Page 8

LITE STOCK BALES

Messrs. D&lgoty aand Company, Limited, Palmare tan Nort.fr, report:—Wo have to report 'having a very fair yarding' of cattle ©'t our Palmorston Nort.h iaio oil Thursday, which, ©old oa below: —BQd-colonir&d weansr etcer?, £1 18s. 6d.; coloured' dairy hoifcrs, to £3 155.; backward dairy heifers, in calf, £4 lto.Cd.; sprir.jjins liefiers, t-o £6 55.; light fat bullocks, £10 3s. Messrs). Daljety and Co., Ltd., report ha.Yins held their fortni»jlitJy sale at their Levin yards on Friday, when they offered a Rood yarding of both fhoep and cattle. In bit!dins oil tfrrourfi was keen far all classes of stock. Store sheep sold on a parity -with lata rates, but fat sheep showed an advance of from 2j. to 3s. per head, Ths ouolity of the sheep yarded was above ttio average, especially in fat wcthors, Bud the lire- offered op account of tho State Farm was as pnimo a lot as ever came into the yards, nnd .tnado tho t-alisfactoTj- prices of £1 15s. 2d, and £1 133. 6d. Other sales were as follow Good fat wothcrs, £1 63. 9d„ £1 ss. Id., £1 2s. id., £1 Zs. 6d.; medium fan. wethers, £1 to £1 a?.; medium fat wptftors and ewes,'l9s. M.; extra good lio^eret3, 17e. 7d.; pood do., 15s. 3d. to 16s. 6d.; fair do., lis. 6d. to Ms. 7d. Tho demand for cat/Mq was fair, steers eommandins moTe aliention<, - Saks were as under:—Three-year steers, £5 15s. i twoyear steers, £4 9s. 6d.; yearling eteers ond heifers, £2 lfe to £3; enupty cowfi £2 16s. to £4; two-year licdfers, £3 123.;' Traders, 31s. to 365. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd.. report:—At Palmerston North on, Thursday wo had a. good yojrd'inis: of sheep aird a fair entry of cattle. There waa a fair demand for all classes of stock, and we irn nased to quit the bulk of our entry. Wo quota:—Bvrre in lamb to Romney ranis, 18s.; fat ewes, Its.; empty ewea, 13s. 6d.; extra. lo&vy fat. £1 lis. to £1 12?.; small woolly hojssets, 136. 3d.: shorn! hosKet*, 12s. 6d. to Ms.: cull ditto, 7s. 94.: stare bullook?, £6 45.; yearling heifers, £2 713. 6d. to £2 t.?.; sprinsins heifere, £5; cows, £5 to £7 10s.; cows in millc, £4 10s. to £7 53. At their Levin sale on Frida.y, JJi« New . Zealand Loam and Mercantile Afrency Go. submitted a fair yardins, mostly _of fat stock, and made ft clearance at prices in favour of Tendors. They quote:—Fat ewes, to £1 75.; light fat wethers. £1 6s. lid.; fat cows, £8 195.; others, to £9. The New Zcatand Loan and Mercantile Agency 00., Ltd., Palmcr-ston Nort'i, report :—At ItomgotCT, on Wednesday wo liad a, rood yarding' of cattle and have to report a very satisfactory cloaxance at full rates. Wo quoto:—Xearlinj* heifers (small). £2 7s. 6d.; eighteen-monitilis hrifcirs, £3 !s. to £3 Us.; two-year empty heifers, £3 195.; heifers, £5 2s. 6d. to £6; spnimis*inx cows, £4 'ss. to £6. and up to £11; etoTo cows, £3 ,2a. to £3 166.; forward ccrws, £3 19s. od. to £4 Cs.; fat £6 to £9: e i ftfvtecir-mtmth s steers 1 , £3 10s.; old cowb. 255.; low-condition cows, £2 6s. to £2 13>). 6d.: small yearlings. 245. 6d. to 31s. At Palmoreton North on Tliurfday wo had a small entry of 'Sheen and a crood yurdinjr of cattle. Late rates were wcill maintained. and very few lines failed' to find a puTolraeer. Ono'tn tiicn s?lieon: }.Tedium 12s. 4d. to 136. 6d. O.- f fl": Ye&Tltos 1 lieiferj (Rood). £3 55.; yearling «tesr.s, £3; -store cows, £2 10s. to £3 6d.; bclter-cr.nditioncd cowe. £3 10s. to* £4 3s. •ows, in mtlf. £3 10?.; springing heifers, £6; bull. £3 10s.