LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1880, 14 October 1913, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—At our Pcilding Ealo on October 10, wo had a fair yarding of both sheep and cattle. Sheep sold freely, but the cattle market was a trifle easier. Ewes and-lambs, 16s. to 20s. 3d.; hoggtes, 13s. 2d., "13s. 4d., 16a. Id., to 16s. Cd.; forward wethers, 175.; cull hoggets, 7s. Cattle: Yearling steers, £3 Os. 6d.; store cows, £3 ss. to"£3 175.; fat cows, £5 to £6 65.; empty heifers, £3 10s. to £3 12a. 6d.

•Mr. - Kewton 'King's weekly .stock report contains the following:—At my Kahotu ■yards, on Tuesday, October 7, for my spring cattle fair, 1 hod a good yarding of about 850 head of mixed cattle. There was a representative attendance of buyers, and th.B entry being mostly good saleable cattle in,fair condition, a very Eatisfactory solo resulted." Beat yearling steers made from •£3 Is.- to £3 65.; fair lines, £2 10s. to £2 ,l<s. 6d.; Btcers with bad colour or small, £1 9s. to £2 ss. 6d.; a nice pen of Jersey yearling heifers, all good coloured, but few shorrlng in calf, £4 14s. 6d. to £3 6s. 6d.; grade yearling heifers, £2 3s. to £2 iOs. 6d.; small, £1 10s.;- mixed yearlings, •£2 106. 6d.; eighteen-month etcera, £3 18s.; two-year, steers, £4 4a. to £4 135.; two and q. half-year steers, £4 17e. 6d. to £5 lis., the £5 lis. line containing a number of good three-year-olds; empty two-year heifers, £3 14s. 6d. to £3 18s. 6(1.; rough, £3 9s. to £3 lis. ; small store cows, £2 19s. to £3 He.; store com, £3 13s. to £3 19s. 6d„ and, for good lines, from £4 2a. 6d. to £4 123.; forward cows, up to £5 65.; fat cows, £6 63. to £7 Bs. 6d,; fat heifers, £5 Is. to £6 te.; dairy bulls, from £3 15s. to' £8 55.: yoarling Holstein bulls, £2 17s. 6d. to £3 Wfi.; yearling Jersey hulls, £2 9a. 6d. to £3 53.; well-bred yearling Shorthorn bull, £6 10s. On account of the executors of Mr. It. Morrow's ' estate— Grado Holstein bulls realised from 9 to 13Jgns.; springing heifers, from £5 7fi. 6d. to £6 12s. 6d.; and from £3 17s. 6d. to £4 15s. for small ports. On tho samo day at StratfordBest heifers brought at from £6 ss. to £8 10s.; others. £3 15s. to £5; dairy cows, £4 10s. to £8 ss.