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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2257, 17 September 1914, Page 8

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LIVE STOCK SALES. The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:—At our monthly Ffllo held at Waikanae on Tuesday we offered a fair yarding of sheep and cattlc. Bidding was brisk, and we sold tlie wholo of our yarding, at satisfactory prices. Wo quote as follows:—Fat ewes. 225. Bd.; twotooth fat wethers, 255. to 2Js. 7d.; two and four-tooth store wethers, 20s. 4d.; eighteenmonth steers, Jersey sorts, £3 6s. fid.; twenty-month steers, £5; light fat heifers, £5 75.; storo cows, £4 lis. to £5 55.; springing heifers, £4 17s. 6d„ £5, to £6 lis.; dairy cows, to £6 10s. Tho New Zealand Ixjan and Mercantile Agency 00., Ltd., report:—At Raumai on Tuesday we had a fair yarding of cattle. All lines mot with a better response. Quotations:—Cattle: Good yearling Shorthorn hdfers, 365., 395., to £2 3s. 6d.; good yearling steers, £3 to £3 Is.; store cows, £3 10s.; forward cows, £4 16a.; s-pringing cows, £4 17s. 6d. to £5.; storo pigs, 255: 6d. ADBINGTON MARKETS. IBy Telegraph—Press Association.! Chrlstchurch, September 16. At the Aldington live stock market today there was a further rise in. beef and mutton. There were medium entries of fat stock and a fair attendance of -the public. Storo 6heop wero in good demand, especially young slicop, there being a riso in tho price of hoggets. Fat cattle showed an advance of 2s. 6d. per 1001b. Owing to tho competition of export buyers the fat sheep sale opened at an advance of Is. to Is. 6d. on the opening prices last week, and after the market firmed further, prices then cased off. Store sheep: Good forward lioggets, 14s. 6r. to 14s. lid.; very medium, 135.; four and six-tooth wethers (forward), 17s. Id.; culls, Us. Bd.; beet ewes, to 245.; four and sixtooth ewes, 175.; aged, Us. 9d. to 14s. Fat sheep: Extra prime wethers, to 405.; prime, 255. to 315.; others, 19s. Bd. to 245. 6d.; merino wethers, 12s. 9d. to 255. 3d.; oxtra primo ewes, to 325. 9d.; prime, 225. 6d. to 28s. 6d.; others, 19s. 9d. to 225.; merino ewos, 19s. 2d.; hoggets, 16s. 3d. i to 235. 9d. Fat caittle: Steers, £7 ss. to £11; extra, good' steers, £15; heifers, £6 ss. to £9; extra good heifers, to £14 155.; cows, £5 15s. to £8 7s. 6d.; extra good cows, £15 10s.; price per 1001b., 345. to 425. 6d. Store cattlc: Quotations! are:—Yearlings, £1 17s. 6d.; fifteen to eightecn-months forts, £2 16s. to £3 7s. 6d.; two-year steero (poor), £3 17s. 6d.; two and a half-year 6teers, £4 12s. to £4 155.; two-year heifers, £3 17s. 6d.; three-year steers,' £5 15s. to £6; dry cows, £1 12s. to £5 155.; dairy cows, £3 ss. to £11 10s. Fat pigs—Ohoppers, 70s. to 1205.; heavy baconers, 70s. to 755.; extra, heavy hacon©rs, to 80s.; ordinary baconers, 555. to 655.: price per lb., 6d.; large porlters, 4&. to 50a.; ordinary pnrkers, 38s. to 455.; price per lb„ 6Jd. to 63d. Storo pigs: Large stores, 325. to 395.; medium stores, 28s. to 315.; small stores, 18s. to 275.; wean era, 15s. to 1&s. BTJKNSIDE MARKETS. Dunodin, September 16. At the Burnside sales to-day the yarding of cattle consisted of 200 head, of which a considerable portion was good to primo quality bullocks, .and taken as a whole tho yarding was above the average. Tho sale opened firm at last week's rates, but owing to the operations of freezing buyers prices fumed as the sale progressed to the extent of 10s. to 15s. per . head. Prime bullocks fetched £14 10s. to £16 17s. 6d.; medium, £12 10s. to £14; light, £9 10s. to £11 10s.; prime cows and heifers, £11 10s. to £13 55.; medium to goc-d, £9 ICs. to £10 10s.; light and aged, £6 10s. to £8 10s. Store Cattle.—Bullocks, to £12; cows, to £7; heifers, to £5; bulls, to £7 2s. 6d.; dairy cows, £5 to £9 10s. Tho yarding of sheep was much larger than lias been the case for the past few wc-21t3. The quality was very good, although there were few pens of exceptionally heavy-weights. In consequence of tho heavy supply prices were about Is. 6d. per head easier for heavies and rather more for lights. Freezing buyers, although operating, wcro not buying so freely as tho previous weok. Extra prime heavy wethers fetched 355. to 395.; primo, 28s. to 31s. 6d.; medium, 245. to 265. 6d.; light, 206. to 235.; extra heavy ewes, to 335.; best ewes, 245. to 265. 6d.; medium ewes, 21s. 6d. to 235. 6d.; light and inferior, 15s. to 18s.; best lambs, 18s. 6d. to 228.; light, 15s. to 17s. - Pigs.—There was a small entry of fats and a moderate yarding of stores. Tho demand for porkers and baconers was keen, and all sold at satisfactory prices. Good stores and slips also met with a fair sale, while the few suckers forward found buyers at priccs somewhat in advance of .last week's congested market.