LIVE STOCK SALE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1908, 17 November 1913, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALE.

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having offered a medium yarding of both sheen and cattle at t-ho' Dannevlrlte sale, held-on Friday. Sheep were in good, demand, and a. satisfactory clearance wais effected, the bulls of tho cattle entries', also, changing hands at late market rates. Following is.a list of prices:—Sheep: Medium shorn twe-tooth, lis. 6d.; best lines, to 13s. 9d.: shorn ewes and lambs, to 16s. 6d.; woolly ditto, to £1' 45.; fat woolly ewes, £1. Cattle: Yearling heifera, £2 9s. to £2 95.;6d.; eighteen-months medium heifers, £2'l3s. 6d.; cows in calf, £4 10s.; ditto, SDringihc,' £7 2s. (d.r'f«.t<cows, £6.

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, report:—At our ' FeiMing tale on Friday, wo have to report having a. mo--dium entry of sheep, and cattle, practically all of which sold as follows:—Two-tootli wethers (few four-tooths). 15s. 3d.; mixedage owes, with lambs, £1 4s. to £1 7s. 6d.: mixed.fat sheep, £1 3s. lid.; yearling steers, £3 2s. 6d.; fifteen-months steers, to £3 17s. 6d.'; fifteen-months to two-year dairy, heifers, £3 2s„ £3 65., £3 155., to £3 185,.; store cows, £3 19s. to £4 10s. .

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report as under:—On Thursday, wo held our usual sale in the Upper Hutt yaTds, when wo •offered a fair yarding of sheep and a good ■yarding of cattle. Bidding at auction for most lines offered was good- and sales were effected'.as under—Full-mouth ewte, with 50 ner .cent, lambs, 18s. 2d.; good- woolly hoggets, 175.: springing heifers, £3 15b. to £5 45.; three-year-old steers (small). £4 10s. ,6d.: iifteen-inonth steers and heifers. £2 15s. to £3 75.; store cows, £2 155./ to £3 55.; medium cows with calves, £3 10s.: two and a half-year steers, £4 175.; -yearling,heifers, £2 Bs.; extra Hood snringihg'heifera. £6 155.; bulls, a large .entry, these selling from £2 10s. to £5. Messrs. Da'gcty and Co., Ltd., report having held their fortnightly Levin stock salo on Friday, when they offered a good yarding of sheep and an exceptionally heavy yarding of cattle, Although bidding was rather spasmodic, a. satisfactory Eale resulted, especially in regard,to. cattle, when most of the lines offered were disposed of under, the hammer. At the commencement sheep .met'-.with 'rather, a dragging-sale, ■principally'i'owins to the' fact that.in a number' of. instances. J vendors' . reserves were rather on , t-ho high' side, ar,d compared; with'-last sale Tates the prices for sheep were on about a par. For cattlo there was considerably more inquiry, and prices advanced about ss. per head.' Somo of the principal sales effected were as un-der:—Medium-woolly blackface hoggets, 145.;, small m.s. two-tooths (shorn), Us.; two-tooth wethers, 13s.- 10d.; .forward fourtooth wethers, 16s. 9d.':' fat woolly ewes, £1 45.; fat ewes (shorn), 17s. 6d. Cattle: Three-year-old steers, good colours, £6 2s. 6d. to £6 12s: fid.; medium do:. £5. to. £5.175. 6d.; light-weight fat bullocks; £8 to £8 113.; fat cows. £6 12s. 6d. to £7: two-year springing heifers, £3 10s. to £5;, store cows. £3 to £4 106.; eighteen-month Steers, small, £3 16s. to £4; weaner heifors, £2 ss. to £2 10s.; yearling heifers, £2 17s. 6d. to £3 li.: springing cows, £4 9s. to £5. 55.; bulls, £4 to £6,175. 6d.

Tho New' Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:—At Levin on Friday wo had a good yarding of stock. A brisker tone prevailed, and with the exception,'of one small pen of cattle/we disposed of our entry at prices satisfactory to vendors. We quote:—Fat owes, £1 45.: light fat wethers, £1 45.: wcuners (small), £1 to £1 25.: eighteen-months heifers. £3 135.: empty heifers, £3 17s. 6d.; yearling heifers, good, £3 35.; vealers, £1 7a; calves, 10s. to lis.: store cows, £1 sb. ; better, to £2 75.; light'forward cows, £4 35.: empty cows. £3 ,14s.:' light fat. cows, £6 10s.: springing heifers, to £6 2s; 6d.; bulls, at prices to £5. . . ' ; •

Messrs. Abraham and Williams. Ltd., report :—At Levin 'on Friday a good entry of both 6heep and cattlo met with keen competition, very little going out unsold. Woolly fat ewes, 21s. 5(1. to 28s; Id.: woolly fat wethers, 235. Id.; shorn fat ewes, 165., 17s.' 2d.. 17s, 7(1.; shorp fat wethers, 19s. Id.; shorn fat ewes and-wefchon?, 18s.; fatlambs, lis. to 15s. 4(1.; mixwl woolly hoggots, 16-'. 6d.: raised 6liorn hoggets, 15s. 6d.: fat bullocks. £10 ss.;;fat cows, '£5 16s. to £7 Bs.; three and a/half-year steers, £6 95.; ■three-year steers, £5 4a. 6d.: two and a half-year steers. £5 65.: two-year Bteers, £4 life.; store cows. £2 10s. to .£5 155.; springing heifers, £5 12s. 6d. to £7: twoyear dairy heifers, £3 17s. to' £4: fiftcenmontll heifera, £3; yearling and fifteen-month lialfbred Jersey heifers, £2 18s.; yearling heifers. £2 £s.:wenners, 20s. to 255.: mixed yearlings, 325. 6d.; bulls, £3 to £6.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams. Ltd.. report on their Fcilding sale, held on Friday, ns follows:—We offered ci, fair ynrdiug of oheep and cattle, which met with a good demand for all classes,' fat sheep particularly being keenly sought after. Wo (luote:—Ewes with 'lambs, 21s. 6d.; shorn do., 13s. Id.; cull ewes, lis. Id.; four-tooth, fat wethers, 18s. to lßs< ltl.; two-tooth do., 16s. Id. to 16s. led.; shorn fat owes, 17m. 4d. to 17s. Bd.;. fat, woolly ewes, ,265. 3d. Cattfc.: Fat' cows, £5 to £5 Is.; springing heifers, £4 lCs. to £5 10s.: forward empty cows, £3'. 10s. to £3 175.; fifteen-months steers: £3 lCu.; dairy bulls £2 10s. to £4 13s. fid. '■

Mr. Newton King supplies "the following weekly report:—On Monday last for my monthly Douglas 6ale I had a good yarding of cattle and several pens of sheep, the mar .lority of which I was able to dispose of at the hammer <iftur good competition, at full market values, as follow:—Yearling steers, £3 2s. 6d. to £o 55.: smaller, £2 16s. 6d. and JE2-17«.; Jerseys, £1 95.-, (wo to two ""d n. half-year steers with somo colour, £4 35., £4 2ti. 6d„ £4 Ig.; two and a. halfyear steers, £5 Bs. 6d.,. £4 175., £4 165., £4 7s. : threb and a half-year bullocks, £7 75.; bulls, at from £3 lis. to £6 10s.: yearling heifers, £3 Bs.. £3, £2 7s„ £2 fc„ £2 Is.; forw-u'd cows, £5 to £5 12s. 6d.; store cows, £4 2s. to £4 13s. fid.; small store cows. £3 7s. to £3 lis,; springing heifers, £5 2s. 6d. to £7 55.; cows and calves. £4; empty two-year heifers, £3 15u to £4 10s.; small fat cows, £6 25.; hoggets, 135.; empty ewes, 145.: owes aud iambs, £1 Is. 6d.; rams, 6s. to 9s. 6d. At Stratford yards on Tuesday' I had a full yarding of cattle and two pens of sheep. The cattle entered were mostly yo.u-linea and store cows. the latter meeting with an excellent demand, anything with condition selling readily o.t record prices. ( Yearling steers were much inquired for, all lines offered being disposed 'of; the best, pens at from £3 3s. 6d. to £3 9s. 6d.; small, at-from £2 9s. 6d. to £3;' Jerseys. £1 15s. I had several buyers for forward yearling heifers, r.r.d 'woe able ,to dispose of 253 lioad of this class at prices ill the purchasers' favour. X supply prices: Yearling coloured -heifers, £3 10s. t.o £3 155.; grado yearling heifers, £2 17s. 6d„ £2 13s. 6d„ £2 lis. 6d„ £2 Us..'£-2 fe., £2 6s. 6d., £2 55.; yearling bulls, £1 15s. to £3 fe. :two-year bulls. £4 Is. to £4 15s. ;cows and calves (small and low in condition), £3 14s. 6d.; email fat cows, £6 2s. to £6 Bs.; forward cows, £5 to £5 165.; fresh-con-ditioned store cows, £4 10s. to £4 19.3.; good stoTes, up to £4 12s. 6d.; small store cowra, £3. 6s. to £3 .17s. 6d.; aged cows, £2 Is. to £2 lßsi 6d.: steers, as mentioned above. In the diir.v pens I lmd e small entry, the inquiry being much quieter. Sales were made as follow:—Dairy coiw. guaranteed, £8 10s., £8 7s. 6(1., £8, £7 10s., £7 55., £6 55., £4 7s. 6d.; heifers, £8, £7 55., £6 15s. £6 55.. £6, £5 155.. £5 10s„ £5, £3 7s. 6d„ £2 10s. (Next sale November 25. 1913.) At my Stony River yards on Wednesday there was a, fair entry, the majority being cleared as? follows:—Yearling steers, £2 ss. to £8 19s. 6d.; eightcen-months steers, £4 Is.; yearling bulls, £1 17s. 6d. t-o £3 155.; grade bulls, £5 10s. to £12; yearling heifera, Jerseys, £3 19s. 6d. t-o £4 2s. 6d.; grades, £2 185... £2 10s. 6d.. £285., £2 ss. 6d„ £2 45.; forward cows, £5 6s. to £5 18s.: store cows, £3 15a. to £4 155.; small or aged store cows, £2 to £2 195.; springing "heifers, £6 10s. to ,£6 lis.;' empty two-year heifers, £3 10s. to £4; hoggets, 155.; wcaner pigs,' lZsi 6d.