LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1907, 15 November 1913, Page 12

LIVE STOCK SALES.

; Messrs. Dalgety and' Company, Ltd., Palmerston North, report :—Wo had a small entry of sheep and a very good yaruinj of cattle at our Palmcreton North sale, nearly all of which sold at pricee satisfactory to vendors. Quotations:— Very fait hoegete. to 17s. 3d.; best ewo hoggets, to 19e. 5d.; yearling nulls, SZ 7s. 6d., £2 10s., to £3; 2-ycar bulls. £3 ss. to £1 Mβ.; weancr steers, £1 113.; 18-months steers, to £3 15b.; yearling Jersey heifers, to £i 55.; 2-ycar empty heifers, £3 13s. 6d. to £4; springing heifers, £5 ss. to £5 155.; springing cows, medium, to £6 10s.; springing cows, good sorts, to £7 18s. 6d.; empty cows, £4 3s. 6d. to'£4 45.; empty forwar4 cows, to £4 18s. 6d.; fat cowe, to £7 2s. 6d.; light fat bullocks, to £10. Tho Now Zealand Loan, and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., Levin, ronorte:—At our Upper Hutt wlo, held on Thursday, we had a good entry cf cattli), and, with tho exception of a spall pen, a clearance at satisfactory prices.., Wo quote:—2o-months steers, £3 lls.; storo cowe, to £3 65.; cowo and calves, £3 55., £3 10s. to £4 Bs.; vealcr,'. 235.; bulls, £3 to £4; yearling heifors, to £2 10s. . . Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:-At our Paliacreton North sale on Thursday we offered a fair yardine of both sheep and cattle, which sold readily under the hammor at tho following ratos:—Fouitooth ewes, with lambs at foot, £1 Bs.; mt wothers, £1 4s. 9d.s. fatcwos, £1 Jj id.small yearling steore, £1 14s. to £2 Bs.; 18-months eteers, £3 145.; ycarlln? heifers, £3; backward Bpringing boifere, £4 to £4 155.; store cows, 325. 6d. to £2 Is.: forward cowe, £3 10a. to £4 65.; cows, with calves.

1 Messrs. Abraham and Williams Ltd., reFort on their annual cattle fair, held at ahiatiia, on Thursday, as follows:—The eoJo was a record for the district, the entry comprising oiactly 2170 head. Several mies of grown bullocks were yarded,, but on the whole the entry was deficient in cattle of this description. The attendance was exceptionally large, and iucludod buyers from Wango.nui to Otaki, and' a representative attendance from the Wnirar rapa. Contrary to expectations, tho ''strike" hnd not the slightest effect on buyers. Bidding at auction was very animated for all classes of bullocks—an exceptionally successful sale has to be recorded. Out of the total entry we sold 1433 head under the hammer. Another couplo of hundred wero disposed of afterwards. Young catile were keenly competed for, but the prices asked by eome vendors in several instances were prohibitive. A nice lino of 21 4-year bullocks brought £8 Eβ., and 12, on account of Mr. A. Howard, £8 9s. (top price of the day); 22 3-year bullocks, on account of Balfour Estate, made £8. Our principal sales were as under:—Four-year bullocks (beet), £7 7s. 6d., £7 10s., £8 ss. to £8 95.; 4-year bullocks (others), £6 63., £6 lCis. to £6 175.; 3-year bullocks (best'i, £7 55., £7 9e. to £8; 3-year bullocks (others). £5, £5 45., £5 fa., £6, £6 10s. to £7 23. 6d. A nice line of 91 3-year I'.A. steers made £7 10s., and a lino of 32 3-ycar Hereford bullocks made £7 Vs.; 25-year eteers,- £6 135.; 2- year steers (best), £4 125., £4 15s. to £5; others, £4, £4 7s. to £4' 9fi.j 15-months steers, £3 7s. 6d. i yearling steers. £2 lie., £2 17s. 6d., £0, £3 4s. to £3 12s. An exceptionally pood line of 15-months P.A. steers, eold on" account of Falconer Bros., made £4 7s. 6d., 2 and 3-ycar heifers. £3 Uβ. to £4 2s. 6d.; 18-months Holetein heifers, £4 is.; yearling heifers. £3, £3 2s. 6d. to £3 Bs.; emnty heifers, £2 155., £3 7s. to £4 3s. dd.; heifers and calves, £4 ICh. to £4 12s, 6d.;.springing heifers, £4; fat cowe, £5 to £6; eoringing cows, £4; empty cows, £3 6s. 6d. to £4 15s. 6d.