LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1876, 9 October 1913, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

The Now Zealand Loan mid Mercnntilo Agency Co. report:—We held our weekly suit! at Solway yards, Jlnslerton, on Wednesday, when we submitted a good yarding of sliccp an<l a fair one of cattle to the usual attendance of buyers. Competition waa hardly i>o animated as at the previous sales, tills no doubt being due to tiiu continued dry weather. Nevertheless, wn made a good clearance, though at slightly reduced rates. Two-tooth lvcthera, 135. Gd.; good hoggets, Us. to ]<s. 7d.; email do., lis. 4d.; ewes and J-amfis, 14a. to tov. ivd.; mixed steers, £2 135.; backward cows. £2 iSs. 6d.

Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. report :-On Tuesday we liHd a £-clo in tho Stratford yards, when v.-c yarcjcd £20 cattle. The market was dull, but. jwo disposed of all cxcopt a few empty I heifers. Yearling steers, wnall and in poor I condition 32c. Cd. to 650. for good strong cattle; yearling ohnrtlioVu hciiern, SGs. to fos.; coloured yearling, heifers, V2is. Cd. to 81s. 6d ; two-year *-tc3r.s, £33. to 245. 6d.; two-year cm-ply heifers, 74% tc 77a. 6(1.;. pitorc cows, young and in good condition, 64.:. to tows, rather old nnd lowconditionud. 235. to 55**.; bulls, Cla. to 955. In the dairy pens,, good heifers, close up to caJvinjy, made 12bs. to ln/s. fcd.; poua dairy cows, up to 185s. ?tlecsrti. Abraham and "Williams, Lid., report on their JohiisjiLviUe sale, heid yesterday. <ta folli'v,•«:—<•» largo vdrdins ul cattle and glicqp. camo forward, prices being fully maintained. Prime heavy oxen made £12 IC-s., £12 17s. 6d.; liclitcr, £11 30s. lo £12 2s. 6d.; light, £10 lCs. to £10 17s. 6d. A few vcalers realised from 253. 6d. to 30s. Prime heavy wcthcra n*tdo 28s. 9it., 3Cs., to lighter, 255.; prime heavy ewee, 275. Id. to 225. ,to 235. 10d.: U£«. tn 255. Ud. to 26a. Sd. Good lambs made 16s. Id.; lighter, 14s. 4d. to 15s. Gd.; light, lis. to 12s. 6d. to.l&j. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Woodvillo salo as under:— We offered a fair yarding of sheep and a. largo one of cattle. Wo quoteMixedp.:;o ewes and lambs, to £1 4s. Cd.; i?prinifing heifers, £6 ISs. to £8; Later sorte', £b lOrf. to £6 155.; store cows. £3 1C»3.; springing licifers, backward sorts, £4 4a. 6d. f.u £5 2s.' 6d.; forward cows. £5 55.; empty heifers, £3 10s. to £4; three-year steera, £5 135.; fat bullocks, £10 155.; fat cows, £6 !fc. to £7 Is.; fat heifers, £6 10a.;-■ cows and calves, to £3: yearling steers, £2 Is.; yearling heifers, £1 10s. The firm veport on their Paliialna t-ale as .ES-.der:— Wc olx'orcd a gocd yarding o2 'sheep and a largo yarding of cattle, antf have to repori. a- good cloarancK Heifers, Kpringinsj and on the drop, were slightly easier, . with the exception of one or two pens, anything forward and with good\condition selling well. Ewe hoggets, to 165.; mixed hoggets, 14s. lid.; empty mlxcd-ago cwy, 16s. 3d.; f.m. owes and lambs, £1 os. Qd. tu £1 2.«. 3d.; empty four-tooth owes, 17a; fat nnd forward owes, 18s. 3d. Springing heifers. /"6 10s., £7 2-s. 6d., to £7 17s. td.\ latter sort?. .£5 iOs., £5 155., to £5 17s. £d.; backward ports, £4 to £5; yearling heifers, £1 45.; yearling stccre, £2 lf»-i. 6d.; mixed sort 3, 265.: cows and Mlves. £3 6d.; dairy cows, £3 15s. to £6 10s.; bulls, £2 to £3 ss.

| ADDLN'GTON STOCK MAKKE'I'. (By Telegraph.—Pross Association.) Christc'iurch, October 8. At tho Addington live stock market there were modorat" entries of stock, exccpt in fat cattle nncl fat lambs, which formed, larger yardings. T.here was a fair attendance. Beef was eaeier by 2s. per ICOlb., and thero ra also a considerable drop in tlio prieo of fat lambs. Very little business was dono in storo sheep, 011 account of tile high reserves. Fat sheep were • firmer. Bucoti pigs Hold at last week's high rates, and porkcrr-' were eti 1.1 dearer. Store slieep prices ruled up to about tho level of the recent sales, but in most instances tho reserves fixed by sellers were about 011. a parity of current sales. with tho result that a nnmber of lines were rasscd. Tlio pales included 13 lionets at, £1 2s. 3d. and 18 ow» hotels at .El o<i. sd. Fat lambs: Best sorts, 17s. Cd. to £1, 0s 6d.; lighter, 13s. 6d. to 16s. Ed. Fat sheep: Extra prime woolly wethers, to £1 14s. 6(1.; prime. £1 63. to £1 ICs. 6d.; others, 195.. to £1 ss. 6d.; phort wethers, 17a. 4U. to .61 25.; prime woolly cwe3, 19s. lPd. to £1 7s. 7d.: shorn ewus, lbs. tu'toa 7d.; woolly hotels, £1 1«. Bd. to £1 10s. 9d. Fat cattle: Steers, £7 12s. 6d. to £12 10s.; extra to £21 lCs.; hcifera, £5 10s. to £9; extra, to £13 1"-. 6d.; cows, £5 15s. to £8 10s.; extra, to £13 10s. Store cattle: Fifteen "to eighteen-month sorts, £2 10s. to £3 12s. 6d.; two-year steers, £4 65.: two-yenr heifers. £3 17s. £d. (passed); two and a. half-year steers, £4 to.; threeyear steers. £7 15s. to £8: tlirs2-year heifers, £5 17a.; and cows, £2 IBs. to £4 Vs. 6d.; a line* of cloven cows, with calves, brought £10 65.; dairy cows, £3 ss. to £10 ss. Fat pigs: Choppers, £4 to £6 12s. 6d.; heavy baconcre, £3 15s. to £4 55.; extra, to £4 10s.; ordinary sorts. £3 to £3 10s. These prlecs' aro equivalent to 6jd. to 7d. per lb. Heavy porkers, £2 12s. to £2 165.; others, £2 ss. to £2 10s., equal to 7d. per lb. Storo pigs: Largo stores brought £1 14s. to £2 2s. 6d.: medium, £1 Bs. to £1 135.; and email pigs, £1 to £1 75.; small weancrs realised, 15s. 6d. to 18s.; and extra, good, 19s. to £1 2s. BURNSIDE MAHKET. Dunodin, October 8. At. Burnsida market to-day 252 fat cattle wero yarded. At the commencement of the sale prices wero 255. per head easier than last week, but, several pens being paased, they firmed up to within 10s. per head of last week's rates. The yarding 011 tho whole consisted of wcll-fmlshcd bullocks. Extra heavy bullocks, to £15 Zs. 6d.; good bullocks, £11 lCs. to £14; medium bullocks, £9 to £10 10s.; extra heavy heifers, to £13 17s. 6d.; good heifers, £8 lCs. to £10 15s. Fat sheep: 2250 yarded, comprising many pons of exceptionally good wethers. Prices at tlio beginning of the tale wero Is. Gd. per head lower than last week's rates, but towards tho end. 'of tho sale sheep sold at up to last week's quotations. Extra heavy wethers at £1> 15s. 9d.; heavy wct.hcrs. £1 7a to £1 10s.; good wetlicrs, £1 4s. to £1 ss. 6d.; medium wethers, £1 Is. to £1 Zs ; extra heavy ewes at £1 lis. 9d.; good ewes, £1 2s. to £1 ss. New season's lambs were penned, and sold at from £1 Bs. to £1 lis. per head. Thero was a-fair yarding of fat and stare pigs. All eorts were in goad demand, and sold at very satisfactory prices.