LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1934, 17 December 1913, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES.

lleesrs. Dalgety and Company report:— At our Wancanul cale on liecemper 10 wc had a Eood yardins of both sheep and cattle. The demand all round was somewhat dull, but a. fair clearance was effected Fat ewes, 16s. to Vis.; fat wethers, 183.; woolly ewe hoggets. 17s. 2d.; three-year bullocks, £6 18s. to £7 10s.; jour and-fl™ year bullocks, £8 55.; two and a half-year steers, £4 10s. to £5; store- cows. SI 65..t0 £4: cightcen-raonth heifers, £,?, 7s. 6<l •, eighteen-month Jersey heifori? £2 Hs. 6a. to £3;' dairy cows, £4 10s. to £a 10s.; bulls. 3Cs. to £7 2s. 6d. Jlc'sro. Dal?cty and Co., Ltd.. report having held their usual fortnightly stock rale at Danncvirke on.Friday, when they offered n, fair yarding of both sheep and cattle to a good attendance of buyers. Fat cattle sold well according to quality, there beiUK a, good demand for oil store cattle. " There wag ouly a. small yarding of fat sheep, which sold up to late rates, 'l'hcro was a good yarding of tvo-tootli owes and wethers, which sold well, according to quality. Following are pnce3 realised -.-Cattle: Fat bullocks, £8 10s.; fat cows, £5 15s. to £7; Etoro bullock?. £6 165.; two to three-year steers, £3 15s. to £5 15s. 6d.; store cows, £3 145.; yearling steers. £3 165.; two-vear heifers, £4 2s. 6d.; bulls, £4 • 2s. 6d. to £4 12s. 6d. Shoep: Fat ewes. 14*; fat lambs, 12.3. 6d.; two-tooth ewes, 13g M. to lis. 5d.: cull two-tooth ewes. 9s. 6t1.; twotooth wethers, 14s. lid.; cull two-tooth . wethers. 10s. Tho New Zealand Loan and Agency , Co., Ltd., report:—At Hinrftangi, on Mondav'.'wo liad a good entry of KlUo and a small yarding of Eliecp.' We hav.s to' report a total clearance, almost every pen selling freely under tho hammer. Sheop: Fat ewes. 16i. 3d. to lto. 4d. Cattle: ,- Dull wctvnere ; 145.; good wcanor calves (this vear'a). £1 9s. to £1 155.; yearling heifers, £2 6s. to £2 65.; 16-months heifers, £3 2s. • 6d. to £3 133. 6d.; yearling steers, £2 Bs. to £2 155.; 18-raonths steers, £3 lSr,-v 2i and 3-vear steers, £5 10s. 6d.; store oVws, £3 7s". to £4 Js.; forward cows, £4 ,3s. to £4 19*: fat cow.', £5 to £6; cows with ralvjs, £4 14s. 6d. to £4 16s. 6d.; bulls, £2 2s. to £3 15s. Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Feilding. report :—At Fcilding. on Friday, we had a heavy yarding of ehecp and cattle, and have to report a good clearance. Bidding for sheep was brisk, and with ono exception every pen sold freely under tho hammer at prices in favour of Vendors. Quotations: SheepCull two-toothe, te. ,Bd. to 10s. 3d.; small two-tooths. 12s. 2(1. to 12s. lCd.; two-tooth ■ owes, good, 155. to 15s. 6d., end up to 16.?.; two-tooth wethers, email, 14s. 2d.: woolly hoggets,' 17e. Bd.: forward owes, 14s. Id. to 15s. 4d.; fat ewes, 16s. 2d. to 175.; two-tooth ' wethers, good, 15a. Id. to 16s. 3d.: mixed two-tooth medium, 14s. 2d. Cattle: Discoloured yearling steers. 38s. 6tl, to £2 3s. 6d.; eighteen-month heifers, £3 &3. to £3 195.: heifers, in-calf, £5; aged store cows, £3 3s. to £4; fresh store cows. £4 to £4 175.; eighteen-month steors, £3 15s. ~ Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report, as follows on their Dannevirke sale on Friday last:—At this fixture we had a good entry of cheep, but only a small yarding of cattle. Sheep met with very good competition, and wo eu.ccecded in quitting everything under the hammer. Practically oil of tho cattle wo had were also disposed of under tho hammer. Quotations:— Sheep: two-tooth wethers (shorn), 13s. lid., 13n.. 12s. 9d., 12s. Id. Cattle: Yearling steers, £2 5&; eighteen-month ■ steers, £3 125.; bulls, up to £4 10s. Tho noxt sale in above yards will tslte place on Friday next. There will be no ealc during Christmas and New Year holidays. Jlessrs. Abraham and lVilliam6, Ltd., report on their Feilding sale held on December 12, 1913, as follows:—We hod a good 3-arding of ehcep and a medium ono of cattle . All stock sold well, but fat stock showed a slight decline in price, owing to tho very heavy yarding offered. Medium two-tooth wethers, 13s. 2d.; ditto ewes, 13s: 2d:; good two-tooth owes, 15s. 7d.; mixed two-tooth, Us.. 9d. to 12s. 6d., culls, Bs. 4d.; stud Southdown ewes and lambfi, £4 45.; fat wethers, -slight, 16s. 10d., 16s. lid., to 17s. 5d.; fat cwcb, 15s. Id., 16=. Bd., 16s. lid., 176.; woolly maiden eweE, 245. 6(1.; woolly fat ettos. 235. Cattle: Twelve and fiftectt-nionth Holstein heifers, £2 15s. to £3 165.; yearling steers. £2 17a.; weaners, 2£s. 6d;: Jersey bull, £6 4=. 6d. Messrs. Williams and Kettle, Ltd., Dannevirke, report haying held their usual fortnightly live etock eale on Friday. There was a full yarding of cattle and a. largo attendance of buycre. Competition was keen throughout, and everything was cleared at very satisfactory price;, Tlicy 'nuotc:—Twenty store cows. £4 55.:-three, at £3 Ite.; three at £4 Its.: 1 at 335.; cud 1 at £4'115.: forward cows, £4 Ss.; fat cows, six ot £7 13a.. six at £7, ono at £4 11».-. yearling heifers, eix at £2 17«.. 12 nt £4 Is.; one at £3 35.; yearling steer-'. 11 at £3 35., one at £2 135., three at £3 10>., nud fivo at £3 45.; eight, empty heifer,!, £2 165.; S.H. bull, £4 10s.; wcaner pigs, 15s. sd. Messrs. A. H. Atkinson, and Co.. Ltd.. Feilding. sold on Friday a medium entry of pigs, prices being well up to late rates. About 300 head of poultry met with fair demand; good cockerels arc wanted, and very few are being marketed. Old birds are not in demand, and aro bringing less money than earlier In the season. They : quote:—Wcaner pigs, 12s. 6d., 155., 153. 6(1.; ; clips, 17fl., ; l&?., to 215.; stores, 255.. 2fa. 6d.; J light porkers, 235. to 325. 6d.; heavy, to 'i 40s. Poultry, per poir:—Old hens, 2s. 6(1., , 2s. 9d., 35., 3s. 6d.; half-grown chicks, 9d., Is., Is. 3d., la. 6d.: cookercla. Zs. 6(1., 35.; roosters, 55.: ducks, 3s. 3d., 3s.' 9d., 4«., 4s. 1 6d., to 6s. 6(1.; turkeys. 125., 135.; gobblers, | Z4s. New potatoes, 7s. to Bs. per cwt.; e peas, Bd. to lOd. per peck,