LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1954, 10 January 1914, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, Wellington, report having offored an exceptionally heavy yarding of cattle at their Upper llutt yards on Thursday. Competition was not very at the etai-t of ths ealo, but brightened up considerably as the sale went on, and wo disposed of the bulk of our entry under the hammer and privately at the close of tho day. We nuote the following prices Shorn forward ewes and wethere, to 155.; fat ewes, to 165.; springing cows, £4 10s. to £6 10s. to £7; springing heifers, £5 10s„ £7, £7 35.; yearling heifers. £2 lie. 6d„ £2 125.; yearling steers, £2 15s. fid.; two and a halfyear steers, £3 6s. to £4 155.; etore cows, £2 45., £3 13s.*, eighteen-month heifers. £3 6e. to £3 155.; forward cows, to £5; fat cows, to £5 lis.; heifers, in milk, to £5; heifers and calves, to £5 Is.': - bulla. '£2 19s„ £4 10s. to £5 55.; wcaner heifers, £1 Bs. 6d. to £2 10s.

llesßrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report, on their Polmerston North salo held on Thursday, January 8, xs follows Wo yarded a small entry of sheep and a fair one of cattle. Competition throughout was good, and wo havo to report practically a total clearance. Sheep: Woolly ewes, 20s. 9d.; small two-tooths. 12s. 6d. •Cattle: Fat cows, £5 86. to £5 145.; forward cows. £4 se. to £4 135.; store cows. £2 15s. to £3 7s. 6d.; two-year steers, £5 10a.; 15month steers, £3 lis.; forward heifers in calf, £5 Os. 6d.; others, £4; yearling heifare, £2 12s. 6d. to £3: 18-month heifers, £3 ICb. to £3 12s. 6d.; weaners, 265. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., Teport:—Wo held our first salo of 1914 on Tuesday lost at Raumai, and the stock yarded was small in number. Only cattle oa-mo forward, which sold at prices as follow;— Fat cows, ~£s 55.; storo COWS, £3 10s.; bulls, £4 Te. 6d. to £5 2s. 6d.: forward bullocks, £7 ss. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report:—At Palmerston North on Thursday wo. had a email yarding of sheep end a,u average OT,try of cattle, all selling at lat© rates. We quoto:—Fat and forward ewes, 14s. 8d • store cowe, £2 2s, 6d.,. £2 10s. to £i ft.'forward cows, £3 15s. to £4 lis.: fat cows (light). £5 45.; fat cow 6, £6 to £6 12s. 6d.; cows in mtlk, £3 15s. to £4 10s.; eighteenmonth heifers, r.*vr.b., £3 lOe. Tho Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Limited, report:— U our pppeT Hutt eale on Thursday wo Had A fair yarding of stock, and oltlioush bidding at auction was slack wo disposed of our entry at the following prices Wcaner flteers, £1 33.; calves.- to 135.: Tcarline steer 6, £1 7s. 6d-; yearling bulls, £2 lis,-twenty-month steers, discoloured, £2 5? ' #°f 3 ' £3; I? rward cowb, £4 7s. 6d.; light fat cows, £4 17s. 6d. to £5 135.: bot' V?\ P.i r'vf o^ 3 aild calves, to £5 9e. Da., bulls, to £4 10s. Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report '1 " ■ bold tho first salo of tho now year an their Levm yard 3 on Friday, when a, S , iL y f U » B j ol 3j ot ; h 6hc °P «nd. cattlo came forward. Owing to tho moruinc lici^T 7 r et a "wrabcr of lines advertlsod did not come forward. Th© attendance of buyers was not larse, and bidding at auction was erratic and draKginc, However, all thinp considered, wo had i sa r' a J ld . at tbo cni of the day most iinea offered found new oivners. Somo 01 our principal eqlca were as under — hliorn fat ewe» (good), 17s. Id.; two-tooth wethers, 15s„. 15s. 6d„ 16s. 4d.; two-tooth f 6(1-: 6DIaH tiro-tootlu, 13s. Cattleiaght fat cowo, £6; empty cows, £3 to £3 Sf/' T e ?i' lin S Holsteln hci/ers, £3; Ayrshiro I'elfera, £3 Is.; elghteon-month tteers, iji 7h. 6d. to £o two and a half-year f 4 ,} 53 -^'.? 5 45.; sprJnKln-e hclfcr^ will i.' n i? iV tlO Th<) 31rat salo mil be held on January 15.