LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2139, 4 May 1914, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Abraham, ant Williams. Ltd., report on their Feildins sate held on I'rlI day.—Wc offered a small yarding of sheep and a good yarding of cattle. ' Competition was keen throughout, and nil lots sold readily. We tiuotc:—Two-soar steers, £i to £5 Is.; eighteen-month steers, £3 95,; Jersey cross weaner heifers, 345, 6d. to £2; others, 25a. to Sis.; mixed weaners, 20s, to 255.; fat cows, £7; fonvnrci cows, £4 2«. U. to £4 65.; store cows, £2 to £i ids.; dairycows, spring ca Ivors, Si 10s. to £5 to £6 7s. 6d.; low-conditioned ditto, £3 3s. Sheep; Forward lambs. 13s. KM. to 14=.; others, lCs. 9d.; fat cweg, 17s. 6d. The New Zealand Loan and Jlorcantile Agency Co.. Ltd., report on tiidr Feilding sale as follows:—At residing, oh Friday, we had a good entry of both sheep and cattle, and have to report a very good clearance at late rates. Several email liens of forward wethers met vdth keen competition, and sold as high fl.s 20s. 10(1. Sheep: Medium lamba, 12s, 6ei.; o.ged breeding ewes. 13s. 9d.; s.m. ewes in lamb, Sfo. £d.; sin-fill wethers, 175.; black-face wethers, sural!, 17s. 9d.; forward wethers, 2to 2d. to 2Cs. ICcl. Cattle: Small weaners, 21.?.: weaner heifers, good, £Z 25.; S.lf. wcancm. £2 135.: store cows, £2 lfe. to £3 1!?. 6d.j empty heifers, £3 17c. 6d.: twenty-month steers, £4 75.; bulls, £2 15s. Messrs. W. and 0. Titrnhull and Co.. Ltd., report having he'd their weekly sale in their Carterton sale yards on Friday, when they offered a. very big yarding of sheep, cattle, and pigs, well above advertised num. hers. Competition was very been throughout the sale, and we can report practically a clearance at the following rates:—JVit owes, 165.; forward ewes, 15s. IM, to 14s. 5(1 ; ptorc ewes. lis. 3d, to 12s. 4(i.; shorn iambs. lCs., lis. Gd. to lis. 7d.; cull shorn Jamhoi 65., 75., Bs.. to Bs. Sd.; cull waollv iambs, te. 3d.; porkers, 18s. 3d., 205., ate, 6d,,- wraners, 10s. 6d.; fat sows, £5. £5 45., £5 75., £5 10a. to £6 9e.; three-year steers, £8 25.; forward cows, £-3 17.=., £3 15s„ £4, £4 63.. £4 125., £4 165., to £5; store sows, £2'32s' ■ £2 14?., £3, £3 45., £3 is. 64., £3 10s, £3 13°., £3 155.; springing heifers, £4, £4 ids.;' extra good, to £? 7s. ,'.#.; cmvtfy heifers', £4; cowi" and calves, £5 25.; wettHcf steers, 325. to 465.; weaucr heifers, 25*-., 2Cs,; bulla £4 ss.', £5 lCs.. £6 155., to £3. Messrs. Williafflfi and Kettle. Ltd,, report having hold their fortuightly saie in the Danncrirkc yards on Friday, when t-tey offered a fair yarding of both sheen and cattle. Bidding throughout was' very spirited on. all lints of sheep, but rattle were very hard to riuit, and most of the lines were pasoed in, They effected the following sales: —223 shorn Jambs, small. !os. lid.; thirty-month a. lambs, 13s. Bd,; 21 s.in. ewes, 139. M.j 7 woolly lamlm, Us. 4(1.; 28 eight-month lamb's, 13s. 75.; 15 for. ward ewes, 15s>. 3d.; -51 wether Jambs, 13s 4d.; 8 m.s. wcaners, £3 5?.; ! Jorcev bull £5 155. ; 1 yearling hull, £2 10s. ; 2 woAner heifers, 29a'; 1 cow in calf, £t Jg.- 2 co-m in ealf, £0 10s. Messrs. Dalgoty and Co.. Ltd., report on their Danncvirkc fortnightly sale as fr>|. lows:—A fairly good entry of all olftsses P f sheep came forward, and campAtitiou throughout was keen, end, vdth the exception of one small pen,/we- disposed nj the whole of our entry hv auction at satisfactory prices. In cattle wc, yarded several pens of S* and 31-year shfrn all of which met with a dull sale, and' the majority were tamed out unsold. The- followinj is a- list of prices realised:—Sh« C j>Cull lambs, 75.: medium'lambs, 9s, Kd. ta IU. lid.; best lines, 12=. H. to IS>. 6d.; fat J

and forward ditto. 15s. 9(1.; medium'empty ewes, ■ Iff. 3d.; best lines, 14?., 155.,' to' 15s. S(L; fat ami forward ewes, 16s. 6d. to Ids. Bd.: full-mouth ewes . In lamb, If.?. M ; young owes In lamb, 19s. 7d. to 19s. 9d.; two and four-tooth wethcrp, 38s. lOd. Cattle-. Good store coWK, £3 135.-6 d.; forward cows. £4 2rf. to £4 Me. ' . ' Messrs. Daigely «nd : Co., Lid., report having held <i very successful special stock Pilie at their Kopuiiranga sale yard'; nil Friday.' The «Ue was the first to be held, this year, and considering the advancement of the season the entry of both sheep and cattle vaa highly satisfactory. One thousand shcen'aud 204 cattle were offered, and there was keen competition throughout. The prices ruling at the present time were well maintained, and wc quote as follows:— Shorn B!, iambs, 55., ss. Id., and In. 3il.j wether lambs, -123. Id.; m.s. lambs 125,; two-tooth !o f.in. ewe; in lamb, 14s. 9d.; s.m. eweo t<? 13s. 2d.; heifers in calf, £2 195., £.5. .to £3 lis. 6d.; empty I'ieifcr.s, £2 Bs. to £."): nine-month steers, £2 ss. and £2 75.; eighteen-month steers. £3 95., £4 4s. 6(1. to £4 165.; calves, 3fe.; empty cows, £4 10s. to £4 135.; store cowy, £3; bullocks, £6 15s, .'•■■■■