LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2158, 26 May 1914, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Cc.mp.iny, Ltd.. report:--jit Eketahuna on Friday wo hnd a good entry of sheep and cottlc. There was only a fair attendance of buyers, ami bidding was not vsry spirited at the commencement ot the sale, but brightened up considerably later. Empty ewes made from 15s. to 15s. 10d.; shorn lambs, lis. lid.; woolly lambs, 12s. 3d. to 12s. Bd.j weaner steers, £1 155.; and a line of ?0 weaner heifers brought £1 16s. Mr. _ Newton .King's weekly stock report, contains the following, inter alia:—At llrcnui yards on Monday, May 18, owin? to the very rough weather I had onlv a. fair yarding of rattle, hut Jill the advertised sheep came forward. The latter were all sold at the hammer under keen competition. Prices for cattle were pood. The dairy cows sold on account of Mr. M. O'fTallovan realised up to .£8 7s. 6d.. and n. few backward cows at from .-£4 ss. to

£4 Ik. Other prices vera:— WcAnw steers, XI 15s. to .£2 S?.; f-t'nniv fifteen to eij,'ht(/c«nionths.heifers, ,11 175.; two and two and a half-year steers, £5, £■■< 155., £-1 Ife.; store cows, £3 1?. to £S Us.: forward or small fat vows. £5 6a. in £5 18s. ; wearier heifers, £1 Ti-.; bulls. £5 ss. and £5 10s.; snriiigiiip heifers, £i 3s, to £6 155.; dairy cow?, £3 to £5 Its.: tows, ealvod, £5 to £9 2?. 6d,; ho'ffjetft small, 16«. 7d.; good, 13s. Id.; tv.-."> a.ml four-tooth wO-th-ere, 17s. lid.; fat end forward owes, 16s. 2d.; fat lambs. 155.; very fair Ihi* of scmtwlinouthed cv.es, in lamb, 16=.; i'.m. ewes, in lamb (culls), 7s. to. is. ?<>.. At tfahotn yards on Tueeslay, May 19, owing to tho very boisterous weather I had only n. small entry, oil of -whicH were ."old cs follow :-Wra nor steers. £1. 155., £1 Its., £1 Bs. 6d.; weaner heifer-. £1 25.; weedy Bused weaner*. 15s. 6(1.: bulls. £5 lis.: rough fif-teen-months steers, £5 Ss. 6ci,; deii-v cows, £8; forward cows, ,£5 t.-. to £S Bs.: store cows, £3 to £4 Is.; aged cows. £1 iis. On Wednesday I conducted a clearing so.lf> oa account' of Mr. Clio?. Smith, on the Jfs-a-riki Road. Ilahotn (the first, ir) Shif district this season!, and had a qosrt attendonce. Prices were <W follow:—Dairy cows, early calvers, mafe from £6 X'j Aid £«.; Into calvers. £4 to £5 ss.i very old caw, £2; well-bred lTtfidtc-'n hull?. £12 S*.; wellBrown line of in-calf two-year Jersey heifers, £7 10s.; weaner ITolsfern bull. M ?•-•: mixed weancrs. <Pl 11?.; drantrM foal, £9; sundries at satisfacta'y prices.