LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1979, 9 February 1914, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgety and - Company, Limited, report:—At our Fellding tale on Friday wo had a good entry of both sheep and cattle, practically all of which .changed hands at prices satisfactory to vendors:—Cull lambs, 3s. -2d., fe lid. to ss. 6d.; small latiibs, 6s. 3d.; 7s. Id. to 7s. 7d.; shorn rape- lambs, to 10s. 5(1.-; four and five-year-old ewes, 12s. 7d.,\ 12s. 9d. i -'l2s. 10d., 135.. Id., to 14s. 6d.fourtootll wethers, to, 17s.- 9d.; . small yearling heifers. £2 as.; small yearling steers, £2 Is.' 6d.; mixed wcaners, 2fe.; cows and calves, £3 12s. 6d. Ths New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report:—At Feildin», on Friday, we had a good entry of sheep, coT&istins mostly of good store wethers, and have to report a, total clearance. A email yarding of . cattle tamo forward, and were sold at late rates, tho lino of steers. on account of Mr. G. F. Smith, realising £7 2s. 6d. Quotations:— She-ep: Two-tooth wethers, 14s. lid., Its., 15s. 2d., 165., and 16-5. sd. to 16s. £d.; two-tooth owes,.l4s. 10d;; fat ewes, 15s. 5d.; f.m. cwea, 12s. 6d.; forward lambs, 10s.; cull lambs, 6d.; cnll ewes, 35.-to 3s. - 3d. Cattle: Aged store cowe, £2 155.; store cows, £4 65.: three and three! and a half-year bullocks-, £7 23. 6d. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd.; report:—At our Foiling soli on Friday wo offered a medium yarding - of sheep and cattle-, which, sold at r.uling rates. Fat ewes, 15s. 10d. to.lfa 6d.; forward ewes, 15s. 2d.;' fat lambs, 15s .1(1.; store lambs, ■ ss. 6d.; four-tooth Southdown rams. 4i 'to 4Jgns.; small. ;18-month heifers,' £2 lCa.; yearling steers, £2 165.; weaners, 215.; fat cows,' £6 15s. Messrs. W.'and 0. Turnbull and Co., Ltd., report having held their weekly sale in their Carterton yards on Friday, when they offered n, good yarding of sheep, cattle, and pigs, woll above advertised numbers. There was a big attendance of buyers, and competition being exceptionally keen tho wholo yarding, with the exception of two pens of ewes, was sold aU'auctlohiatlthe following rates:—Two-tooth wethers; l'4s-,'. to lfe. 3d.; fat owes, 16s. 2d,; shorn lambs, 13a.; b.f. lambs,. 10s. 6d.; forward ewes, 14s. lid.: store ewes,. 7s. 3d. to lis.; -.voolly lambs. 10s. od. to 12s.;'small two : tootli ewes and wethers, Us. 4d.; medium woolly lambs, '75., 75.-7 d„ to Bs. 6d.; cull woolly lambs, ss. 3d.;, cull shorn lambs, 4s. 6d. Pigs: Weanens, Us. 3d.; porkers. 235. 3d.; baconers, £2 7s. 6d. Cattle: Year heifers, £3; springing heifers, £6 17s.'; fat cows, £5-,45. to £5 55.; forward cows, £4 9s„ £4 ICq., £4 175.; store cows, £3 95.; cows and cnlvoi, £3 12s. 6d. to £3 17s. 6d.;. wedner heifers, 34a.; mixed weaners. 165.,! 235„ 255.,'t0 235.; bulls, £5 10s., £6, £6 te„ £6 193. to £7 9s. Messrs. Williams and Kettle, Ltd., Dannevirko, report holding their fortnightly live stock. eale'at. the association's j'ards last week, when they offered a full yarding of sheep and cattle to a large attendance of local and outside' buyers. Tliey report a, total clearance, with th£ exception of one pen. Two fat cows, £6 2s. 6d.; one fat cow, £4 15s. and ono at £5 195.; three fat ■ bullocks,- £11 2s. 6d.; bulls, £2 10s. to:£3 10s.; eighteen-month heifers; £2 Bs.; weaners, 325.; store cows, £4 ss. and £4 ft?.; 91 m.s. woolly lambs, lis. Id.; 207 woolly wether lambs, 10s. 6d.; 398 two-tooth ewes,' .135.. 7d.; 526 two-tooth ewes, 13s. 6d.; 47 two-tooth, ewcy, 10s. Bd.; two-tooth wethers. 15s. 6d.: 27 two-tooth wethers, 10s. 6d.; 630 four, six, and eight-tooth ewes, 12s. 7d.