LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2187, 27 June 1914, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Mtjafera. Dalgety and Company,. Limited, . report! that nt .their. Upper Jlutt sale ,011 Thursday they offered a.' t»ood"'enlr'y' bf botfr.!}hecp and cattle. AH classes of sheep met-wHh keen competition, and there was a- gOOi demand for etore cattle, the demand for.ifairy cows having slackened oft since late'sales. Quotations as undei::—Fatwethcrei.'2&*. Id. to 235. 111.; two and four-tooth vetliei's, to £1; fat ewes, to 20a. Bd.; ewes, in tomb, to 175.; lorward lambs, to 14a. 6d.; woolly lambs, to 125.<10d.; cows at drop, £7 '155., £9, £11,- to ,£l2; /springing heifevs, £S I£J Mi 7e., £4 125.. £5 lCs. to £7 55.; fnt c0w5,.£3 18a. X 5, £5 IPs.., £5 lie., to £7; two and u half-year steers.'£s 12s. 6d.; yotirlinsKXJ ss. 6d., £2 165., £2 7s. 6i.; eigh'teenmontlis licifcrs, £3. £3 ls.f £3 75.; store covfA'gtZ lte. to £4 83.;, bulls, £4 25., i £5 lto. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited. Tcp'ort:—At our fortnightly sale at l'«ihano< on Wednesday bidding was very spirited, -ond all lines met with a ready Falo, everything going under the hammer:—Quo-tations-.—Small mixed 'lambs, K'a. 2d. t« good wether }amh». Uβ. Oi.'-. aged, fme-ji'oolled ewes, 12s. 3d.; empty cowe, £5. At our Jlfliigaweka sale on Thursday wo hail a small entry of sheep and cattle, all ' of w.lucn met with Uecn competition, and sold highly satisfactory prices to vendors.-- Quota tions:-C!ood mixed lambs, to 1f0.'.10d.; small lambs, '.Cβ. 9d.; mixed-aKo , ewea, in lamb to Ilonuicy Tains 12a. 7d.1. ami f. heavy elilnjieil wethers, 245. 4d.empty; heifers, £t 18s.; dairy heifers, £5 ss. to £fr,7s. 6(1.; dairy cows. £6 WkJ; f. «nd f. - cowp,;£s 23. 6d. At our Polmer3ton North palo ,on Thursday we 'glicml a. fair yarding of stock. Qnotationß:— Lambg, .. 13s. • p.m.'ewes in lamb, 16s. 9d.: forward cwcs,-.Ws. 5d.; springing lieifers, £0 to £7 K3.1 mixed wzaners, poor auality, 195.; gooa wcanor heifers, £2 7s. 6d. " " , ' ' The: Xow Zealand Loan 'ami , Mercantile Agency Compnny, Limileil, report:—At Palmerstpu North on Thursday wo had a good yarding of both sheep and cattle. Competition wn; good throughout; and we =old ths' whole of the entry with the exception of two pens at. good valuta A particularly Eood-line of ewes offered on account of the «-:ti«e'of the late Mr. TUos.- Kilsby mado tho ttricc fcf 255. 6d. ' Quotation?: Jlediuiu.niixetl.lambs,'los. W.; good wetjlicr lainU>, 16e. 2d.; fat ewe?. 19?. 3d.; mixnd aged cwos, in lamb, ZOa. 2d. to Sss.

'.?•:; yearling heifers, £2 45.; store cows,' £2 Bs. 6d., £5 Ba. 6d., £3 125.; forward cove, f> 175., £i Is., £4 145.: fat cows. ,E5 135.; twenty-month steers, £4 12s. 5d.; epringing, heifers, good, £6 to £7. . ' Jfcssrs. Abraham end Williams, Ltd.. report on an unreeerved clearing mIo held on account of Mr. JI. Reave, atlfukanui, on Thnreday.-laat:—Wβ offered the dairy hord of 28 cows, and have to report a. tfooil fale, t.ho herd averaging £6 16a. 6d. per head; heifers. £5 12s. 6d. to £6 23. 6d.; bull, £4 7s, 6d.; pony, £6; thrcc-ycar unbroken inarc, £5 155.; sundries sold at ]ate ratc3. Jfcssrs. Dalgety nnd Co.. Ltd., report— Wo held our fortnightly ealo at Wn-nganuii. on jfednceday, when we offered a Bmall ytirdine of sheep mid cattle. Pricce were well up to recent quotations. Wo quote:—Kat wothers, 19s. U. to 225. 7d.; fat circs,-16s. M. to 16si. s(l.;,hoggets, 16?. 3d.; springing .loifcrs, £5; dairy cows, £8. ■ ; , ■ : ■ -