LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2188, 29 June 1914, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dnlgcty and Company. Umitcil, Masterton. report on their monthly sale at Alartmborouch ou June &>. when tncre was the usiwil attendance and a pood yardill" of stock. Quotation* -.-Sheep:■ Misod. Ofrcd ewes, in lamb - .o S.I), rams, , mixed aired ewes in lamb to £>.!>. iam«. 19». Cattle: Tliroe-ycar steers, £7 IK; fat heifers and cows. £7 65. ; cow and cahtfe .« lfo.: cows in calf S.li. bulls. -4 4s.;.mixed statiou-ijred wenners, £3 stare cows, £i m. 6(1. to £3 18s. Dalaetv and Company, I.imitert, Palmcrston North, report n, good entiy of hhecp. and <v small yording of cattlc at their Feildinp s«le on June Zo. The demand for sheep was not quite eo keen a* <it the sale t-hc previous week, but we impaired to elc-ar the whole of our entry at the following prices:-SmaU mixed lambs, lis. 6d., lie. 7d.; small 2-tooth wethers, 17s. 6d.; aged empty ewes, 15s. Id.; fat lambs, 16s. 2(1., 16s. 6d. to 18s. for a pen of woolly; forward wcthors, to Ms. 3d.; mixed age ewes in lamb. lEt>. to 18s. 9d.; fat ewes, 19s. 2d. to 19s. Id.; sprinu heifers, £7 10s.' ' • ■ , Mc»sr». Dalgety and Company, Limited, report:-We offered a good entry of all classes of stock to a good attendance of buyers at Dannevirke. In slicep, the tone of "the market all round was much better than la=t sale's report, and prices realised showed a good advance all round. Cattle were alea in good demand, and we made o, total clearance of every line throughout submitted, to auction at satisfactory prices. Quotations;— Sheep: Small hoeireW. 103. to lis. 7d.; medium ditto, 14«.; best lines, 15s. Id.; call ewes, 7a. 3d. to 10s - 6d.: medium owes in lamb, 145., 14(5. 6a. to Kb. 5(1.; full-mouth ditto, Ms., IBs. to 19s. Bd.; fat ewes. 18s.: fimull 2-tooth wether®, to 17?. 9d.; sood 2-tooth wethers. 225. 3d. Cattle: Stove <?ows, £2 155., .£2 17s. .£3 lCd. to £3 17«. 6(1.; rod wcaucrs. sniolli • 395. to 15i?.: fqrwnrd lieifeif in eair, £■! 10s. to £5; light .fat heifer" £4 10s. to £4 17s. fd.: medium ditto, to £5 12s, 6d.; 18-moutlis heifers. £3 25.; 18-months steers. £3 lis.; 2-year sleere, to £4 10s.; bulls, £2 to £4. The N.'/. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., report:—At Feilding, oil Friday," wo had a heavy yarding of sheep ond a fail* entry of cattle. .Moilmiiii hoggets sold •wel! but good hoggets did not. make late values. Breeding ewes were in strong demand. and sold well. ■ W'c effwted a total elenrnncc at the following • prices.- -Sheep: Medium lambs, lfe. sd. .to 15s. Id.; good lambs. 15.-. Bd. tiv 16.«. 6d.; ewe lamhu. I£.j. 4d • <loro ewes, Bs. 8(1.; forward ewes. lbs. 3d!; fat 2-tooth ewe?. 19s. to 2»5.; mixed Tat sbeep. 18s. 3(1.: fat ewes, 16;-. lCd. to 19d.; light fat wethers, 21s. 9(1.; cues with Rmunny rams, 2V.; chcsi with S.B. rams, 23.1. 3d. Oi. account T. A. Smith. K«i|.. ewes with liomnev ltams, 265. £d. Cattle: Wcaner heifers, £2 5?.; wcaner steers, £2 6-.; eons in eolf. £3 55.; forward cow*, £4 25, 6d.; fat nnd forward bullocie, £9; .stags, £4.

Jlocsrs. Abraham nod Lt4. : report on their FeiJding ts*\© on June 26:— Wo hail a heavy yarding of -step &im! fc-ir yarding of cattle. Stofck -sold frceiy ai current, rates, the demand tar lettrjb* bemg lcccu. Two-tooth forward fctopty Ms. Cel.: trood ewe- 1 l<imh, 15s. 6&,t iiusfcO !2?. Id., 13c'. 3d.. 14=. id.< 14?. 7d. to 143. Ski.: small do., jte. 4d. to to lis. Si.; <uul 4-yeur ewes in la rob, 2!.b. 6d.; 4, 6, And f.f.m. cw in lamb. 18s. Ud-., 16s. v«. to 16s. ICd.: cull ewes in «u 6c1.; forward empty ewes, Us. %&• to Wefat wethers, 245. 6d.; ranis, Ss. Cattle: Fat rows .Ph- to '£5 6-.; 9f»?e £3 7s. 6rt. to £3 155.: cowe in calif, £& rs. 6d. to'S3 Ifo.i woiner heifers, Ate. ttf M springing heifers, £5 155,; touirc, £f life.

■Mcssre. \V. and G. TiU'iJboH oil' l C<7„ Ltd.. report on their usual #eewy saw in their Carterton sale yojrfif an Jiyie hi. Owiii t to the boisterotu roririitni! Stoo>t did not come forward vis a-tiverUt'Cn, but we offered a small yardiag of sheep jid(l rattle, which met with fasr mwtietiMqrt from a small attendance, of hytfefs. Toe following prices were rMlifen:—lsot otto forward ewc<? ( 125.: f;it BT'. l(t;im|3., 165.; medium shorn laihbs, t-i. 40., is. re. te ?S. Id.; medium woolly 9?. Bet-fet'^i'e' ewes. lis. 6d. ; f.m. ewd? in lamb, 143 3d. to 18s. Zd.; 2 «d Mootk v,-et,lie?-s. 17s. M.s tot cowe. £Tj cowe in cn!f. £3 to £5 lis.; 2-year heifers, £3 7*. Gd.; stoj?ecoir?, £3 ICs. to £4 Is.