LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1984, 14 February 1914, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgety and 'Company,' Limited, Teport;—At our Palmerston North eale on Thursday we had a email yarding of sheep arid a very good entry of cattle, which 6old as follows:—Four and five-year-old breeding ewes, 135.; small weAnors/. 18e., 225., ana 235.; young bulb, £2; dairy, cows, £4 7s. 6d., £4 10s., to £5 18g. 6d.; 'empty cows, to £4; aged cows with calves, £3 Bs.; stags, £5; two and ai half-year steers, £5 4a.; three-year- steers, £6 55.; • forward bullocks, £8 '4s. The New Zealand. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report.;—At Palmerston North, .on Thursday, a moderate' entry of •sheep and cattlo came forward, tho' bulk of the .yarding selling as under:—Sheep: Fat two-tooth's, 17s. 4d.; 'sihall mixed, twortooths, 14e. Id.; wether lambs (woolly), 10s. 6d.; ewe lambs, 9s. 2d.; cull ewes, 7s. lid. Cattle: Weaners,- £1 50.;' wcaner-stcere (good), £1 18s.; eighteen-month steers, £0 ss; 6d.: twoyear steers, £4 Zs. 6d. ; two and'a half-year steers, £5 45.; springing heifers, £4 ss. to, £5 Ee. 6d.; springing cows, £6; fat cows, £5 10s. ■ ' \ Me=i?rs; W. and G. TnrnbuH and Co.. Ltd report, having held their, weekly stock'Eale in their Waipoua (Masterton) saleyards,-. on Wednesday, when they offered a good yarding of, sheep, cattle, and 'pigs. There was a fair'attendance of buyers present. Com-' petition was rather dull, but. there was a total clearance at the-following rates:— Sheep :—Two-tooth wethers (small), 145.; fat ewes, 16s. Id.; fat and-forward lambs. 12?. 6d.: for ftore c-wes, 13s. 3d.; two'and four-tooth owes and wethers, 145.; woolly lambs, 9s. 9d. to. 10s. 7d.; shorn lambs, B;. 9d.; store ewe 6, Bs. 2d. to 9s. 10d.; .cull lambs, 3s. Gd. to ss. 9d. Pigs: Woancm. lis.; porkers. 245. Cattle: Springing heifers, £5 55., £6 155.. to £7;. cows and calves, £4 Zs. f-(l.; for store cows. £3 195.; storo cows, £2 75.; 18-month steers, £4 K; two. year-old steers, £5 Is.; two-year-old heifers, in calf, £4.95.': empty -two-vear lieifera, 18s. fid.; eißhtecn-month heif=rs in calf, j£3 7s. 6d. r weaner calves. 21s. to 25d.. .