LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2153, 20 May 1914, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams-, Ltd., report having concluded a very eucceseful dispersal sale on- behalf of Messrs. Arthur Itobiaeon and A. 1). If'Slaster, at Wharfll'oto, lvahautara„ : on Thursday, ap.d Friday. " Tile dairy iierd of 310 cows Was offered the first day, but it was found impossible to complete the list, and the balance of 29 were offered fcext morning". The last of the sundries wct» eold a, Jew minutes after 5 o'clock. The cows were agood quality lot, in siiUindiu condition, and competition at-auction was animated, and at, times particularly keen, selling up to £17, the whole line ./making: f,!io satisfactory average of £7 &i. Unsound co-ws and those 'offered as culls totalled 25. Excluding these, the average for 255 cows, including late calvers. was £7 IPs. Two-year heifers sold from £4 to £7 7s, Gd., £3 averaging £5 Ee., 69 weaner heifers selling at £2 7s. 6d. to £2 Ms.

The bulls, mostly a*ced. made 55 to 9 gni, neas. The draught horses were mostly ■ good sorts, and sold exceedingly well. A seven-year-old mare made £55, ogetl maTc £37. and agod geldings £27 to £31 .Ute., hacks £6 to £11. Thirty breeding sows soM at £2 to £3 10s., J4 store pigs 16s. to 205., and 26 slips 12s. to 14e. 6d, llessrs. Dnlgcty and Co., Ltd.. report on their Dannevirke sale as followsWe offered a. medium entry of sheep and cattle. All classes of sheen met with p?od competition, and \vc disposed of tho whole of our entry under the hammer at highly satisfactory prices. Following is a. licit of prices:—Sheep—Cull lambs, Ss. 2d. t-o lis, 4d.; aged ewes in lamh to Southdown rams, 18s. <d. to 18,s. 5d,; fat ewes, to Ms. 9d. Cattle-Mixed sex weaners, £2 2s. to £2 65., to £2 Bs.; heifers in calf to £3 ICis,; fat cows, £5 10s. to £6 15r). Messrs. Dalgety and Co,,' Ltd., report having held their monthly sale. at Wai. kamio on Monday. Owing? to tlic exceptionally rough weather right up the Coast, the stock did Mot some, forward up to advertised numbers, but they submitted a fair entry of sheep 'dad a good one of cattle. All classes of stock were keenly competed for, and the firm la-ad a--total clearonce at the does of tho s&lc. Thev quote; -Empty ewes. lfe. id. to 17a; cull lambs, to 4s. 3d. Cattle—tfeaners. J4s. lo &».; 18-month steers, to £2 16.5.; yc«r!ine heifcrs, to £3; yearling steer*, to £2 10s.; £lyear steers, to £4 95.; fnl caws, to £iS; bulls, to £3. The New Zealand Lon-.n mifl Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., reportAt Himilangi oh Monday wo had a- fair yarding of cattle-, which sold at late rates. We quote;— Weaner heifers, SSs. to 395.; Ifi-tnonth heif- ' ere. £2 lis. 6d. to £2 3Es. 6d.; yearling e'eers, £2 7s. 6d.; 20-month steer,?. £4 Ss.; store coivs, 30s. to £2; forw-ard cows, £4, £4 65.. to £4 Us.; fat cows, £6 6s. to £6 14s. 6d.: cows with calves. £} sS=<. 6d.; choice' springing heifers, £6 Ss. 6d., £-5 is., £6 10s. f to £7 ss.