LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1856, 16 September 1913, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

Mr. Newton King's weekly fitook report states: At Urcnaii yards on Monday last there was a good entry and attendance. Competition was Quieter oil store cattle, but for tho good Quality forward eprinsins? heifers I- bad p, good inouiiy and n. trood eale. Yearling steers, £2 153. to £2 195.: yearling lioifcTS, £2 7s. to £2 145.; choice Jersey' yearling heifers, £4 6s. to £<\. 155.: two-year empty heifers. £3 13s. 6d. to £3 18s. for grades, and £4 15s. to £5 2s. for colour; eierliteen-months steers, £3 145.; fat cows, £6 2s. to £6 175.; forward cows, up to £5 10s.; stove cows. £3 106. to £4 155.; cows and calves, £4 10s.: forward bullocks, £7 ICis.; hosscts, 155.; slip £1 to £1 15s. In tho dairy yards best springing heifers made from £6 to £10; others, small or backward. £3 7s. 6d. to £5 155.; puaranteed cows, £4 12s. 6d. to £8 10?. At Ilnkotu on Tuesday laet. o\v« ins to the mcotiuj? -of West Coast, lecu-s----holdors at Opunake, 1 had only a, small eniry and attendance. Yearling steeriy made £2 16s. 6d.; yearling heifers. £2 6s. to £3 35.: Holstein bull, £7 53.; weedy yearlings, 10a. to £1 35.; ajjed cows, £3; 6tore cows, £3 10s. to £5 7t*.; empty heifers. £4 is. to £4 Bs. 6d.; sprineinsj heifen?, £5 7s. 6d.; weaner pigs, 12s. 6d. At Stratford on the same day for my weekly spTinsin? heifors sale, I had a. pood demand for ffood QHali-ty heifers, which fold offrom £6 to £9 Ss.; email or haokward. £4 12s. 6d. to £5 lCs.; guaranteed cows, £4 to £7.

The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Aucncv Co., Ltd. (Stratford branch), report follows:—On Tuesday ln*t we held our fortnightly sale in Stratford yards, 330, he?d of mixed catt-le. oil of which were sold except two pen*. Mixed yearlinjrs, 455. to 525. 6d.; .Shorthorn yearling heifers, small '-ind rather low it) condition'. 41s. nip to 57fi. 6d. for ordinary cattle; vearlinp s'tcer<?, 455.. 5-s., 575. 6d., aiip to 63c'. for weLJ-prrown Shorthorn stuff; yearVir? heifers, sluvwin? Jersey and Jcr-fey-Tlolstein cross, s. for !ow-conditioncd cattle and uj> to 795. f-d.: two-rear cmpt-y Shorthorn heifers, off hill country, but in fir«t-cl«us condition, 745. up to <&.. (d. for rnltlc of .mixed colours; two-ve;ir strove. 75°. to B-3?. fid.: old store cow* 20«.. 405.. no to 575. 6d.; younjrer cows. 6**.. 675. 6d.. 77*:., fl:*. 6d.. 915.. 93«.. 94*.. 975. ond up to 107 c. for frfjh-coudit.tonrd ways; fnt rows. 120s. to 1275., 6d.' In th? dairy pci-S we offered about 50 heod of heifer?. Two-vcar sprinpin? heifer.i o*" nuality nd olosc to nrofit, np to £8 17s. 6d.: heifers,- backward, £4 ss. tip to £6; d»airy cows, fcr b®?t cow?, tin to £8 10s.. and from £5 2s. 6d. to £6 10s. for aged and backward cmvfi'.