LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1926, 8 December 1913, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES.

3fessr<?. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report luivin«y a email yarding of sheen and a good entry of cattle at their Paluicrcton North €-ale oil Thursday. Competition wa.3 keen for the shcop, and nearly all tho cattlo changed lrandi*. Following are quotations:—Forward woolly ewes, 185.9 d.; shorn fat owes, 17s. Id.; yearling istcers, £3 5?. 6d.; yearling hoifctv. to £2 175.; two-year stcors, to £5; empty lifteenmonths Shorthorn heifers, £3 lCs.; fair condition empty cowg. f.4 7s. 6d. to £4 10s.; forward cowc\ to £4 l&s. 6d.; forward heifers, to £4 16?;; bulls, to £4 lf«s.; dairy cows, £5, £5 10s. t £5 17s. Cd., to £7 17s. 6d.; three-year off steers to £7 lis.; forward bullocks, to £8 Bs.; light* fat bullocks, to £9 15s. jtfessrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Palmerstoil North, report having a fair yarding of both sheep and cattle at their l-'eilding salo on Friday, which were a 1! sold as nnrtcr:-Sheep: Mixed hoggets, 16«. to lfo. Cattle: Heifers, £3 lCs.: forward cows, £4 2s. 6d.; fat heifers, £4 lffi.; yearling etccrs, 375. 6(1.; bulls, £4 lCs. Tho New Zealand Loan and Agency Company report:—At ' Lr\via on Friday we had a heavy yarding of cattle. Competition was keen, for all linos, and wo disposed of our entry at price? satisfactory, to vendors. Wa (juotc:—Jersey-cross wc-aner heifers, to £1 55.; fifteen .Terseycrovd heifers, £2 to £2 75.; eigUteenxnouths ditto, to £2 6d.; twenty-months ditto, to £3 13j.'; fifteen-months btc'.Tc', to £1 12s. (poor ouality); fit-ore cows, £3 to £3 55.; better quality, £3 18s. to £4; forward cows. £A 75.. £4 Bs., £4 95.: two-year steers, to £4 cs.; two and ?. half-year stecTS, to £4 Bs.: three-year steers, to £6 16-3.: twoyear Jenscy heifers, to £4 If*.; bulls, £5 10s. to £6 55.; fat cows, to £7 7s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:—At Feilding on Friday we had a. small entry of sheep and a good yarding of cattle. Bidding for all classes of stock was brisk, and practically every lino changed hand's at fiill rate/ Quotations:—Shcsp, me'dium mixed two-tooths, l<s. 3d.: end good-conditioned two-tooths, l. c <j. 3d. to Its. 2d.: wethers, 15s. 6d. Cattle: Yearling heifers, £3 55.; fifteen-months heifers. £3 lis.: fifteen-months Jersey-cross heifers, £4 7s. to £4 10s.; store cows. £4 7s. fid. to.£4 16s. 6d.; light fat, cows. £5 to £5 IDs.; cows with calves at foot. £5 15s. 6d.; fat heifers, £6 13s.

Messrs. Abraham ar.d Williams, Ltd., report:—At Levin on Friday we ofTered o, very full yardhrr of both sheep and cattle. Competition, for fat •steel; was • keen, a.ud i,"ood prices were realised. Pi'imo shorn ewes, on accouut of Mr. J. Leydon, mado 18s. 6d. to 19s, 2d., and fat*shorn; two-tooth ewes and wethers, on account of tho State Farm, realised i&s. Id.- Fat Jambs on account of .the Boys' 'Training Farm 155., and fat shorn wethers. on account of Willonghby Broa, 19s. 9d. Fat bullock?, on account of Mr. Jno. Davios, made £11. and 'fat cows, on account of. Mr. J. Dunn. £7. Other quotations—Light fat wethere. 18?. Id.; fat woolly owes, £1 ss. 7d.j forward woolly owC'a, £1; woolly hoggets, 14s. Id. to 1&. 6d.; forward fihorn ewes, l&s. 6d.; twotooth ewes, 14s. 4d.; two-tooth wethorfj, 14ii. lCd.; shorn ewes, with lambs. 18s. Id.; fat cows. .£5 10s. to £6 75.; three-year stetrs, £6 lis. 6d.; fat heifers, £5 iti. to £6; springing heifers, £5 10n. to £6 10s.; store cows, • 20s; to £3; forward rows, £3 12a. 6d.' 'to. £4 £s.; two-year dairy heifers, £3 17a 6d. to £4 2s. fd.; eighteenmonth' dairy hbifers. £3 t-o £3 lCs.; year* linqr heifers. £2 12s, to £2 IBs.; yearling steers,,£2 15s. 6d. to £3 £y.; weanera, 2?js. ■to )sls.':' .small weaners, 7s. 6d. t? 20?.; bulls, £4 103. to . £6 ICe.; dairy cows in milk, £4 10s. to £6" 15s.'

• Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., roporft at their Feilding m!c. held on December We .had ?S good yarding of both sheep and cattle, the yarding of fat/sheen bring cxecptionaMv good in ouality. All stock fiold roll, and wo have 'to report a total clearance. Wo quote:—'Two-tooth •wot-hors. 143.; two-tooth ewe. K*. Id.; mixed, two-tooths. l?d. sd. to lc>. 3d.; fat wethors, £1 C<. 10d.: fat- ewes. 17s. 2d., 18s. 3d., 18;. 6d„ 18:;. lid., 195., to 19s. 6d.: light int two-tooth<y, lid. Cattle: Fat cows, £5 18s. 6d. to £7 25.; forward cows. £4 2s. 6d. to £4 lCs.: cow* with cn-lvM, £4 14®.; two-year heifers, £3 165.; yearling steers, £2 to £2 1Z2.; tlircc-year steers, • £6" 12s:

Mr, Newton King report? :~On Frida?, November 28. at Kaponga, f had a good entry-of cattle, with a strong-demand for oil cl-a v .'?es at the following urie'e-t:—Year-ling heiferd, £2 ss. to £2 16s. 6d._: yearling steers, coloured, £2.45.; empty, twoyear heifers, £3 12s. 6d. to £4 63. 6d.; bnlJ'**, £3 3s; to £7 2s. 6d.; good store cow?, £3 Ifo. to £4 145.; forward cows. £4 18s. to £5 813.; fat cows,' £-5 19s. to £7 45.: light cows, £3 Is. to £3 6s. 6d. At' Urenui on December 1 tho weather prevented some of tho advertised stock coming forward. but notwithstanding I had. a fair yarding, for which there was good competition at the following prices:—Yearling to fifteen-months heifers, £3 to £3 yearling to flftoen-months steers. £2 13f?. 6d. to £3 Bs.; two-year steers. £3 146. 6d. to £4 65.; two and a half-year steers, £4 17s. to £5 25.; three and a half-year Btcer.?, £7 12s. 6d.; empty heifers, £5 10?. to ,£3 17s. 6d.; fat cows, £6 to £6 14s. .6(1. j dairy cows, £6 ss. to £6 c.pringing heifers, £4 12s. 6d. to £7 10s.; fat ewes and v.-ethers (shorn), 18s. 6d.; small pi to, 10s. to 163.; bulls, up to £8 Bs. On December 2, at Kahotu, despite the very wet morning, there was a good entry of cattle, nearly all of which. I was able to clear at the following prices:—Yearling coloured heifere, £3 3s. Gd. to £3 Bs.; grade fifteen-mouths heifers. t £2 7s. 6d. to £3 35.; grade yearling heifers, £1 15s. fid. to £2 te, 6tV; yearling to fLriEen-months-steers, £1 18s. to £3 8?. 6d.; two and a half-year steers, £4 13s. 6d.; springing hcifcre, £5 !Cs. to £7 6d.; bu!h, £3 to £5 10s.; fat cows, £6 2«. to £6 12s. 6d.; good (''tore cow", £4 2s. Cd. to £4 135.; fat heifers. £0 2?.; small store cows, £2 Ifo. to £3 lie.