LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2278, 12 October 1914, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

' Messrs. Dalgoty and Company,. Ltd.,, Iβ- ■ port having held a -eato' in their Pahau-. tanui yards on Thursday, October, J, when ■ o small yarding of both sheep and cattle came forward. Buyers attended in fair numbers, and thero was exceptionally good . competition for all lots, sales effected be-, ing as under :-Jledium woolly hoggets, Us 3d.; three-year-old steers,' £6 45.; tf . -old steers, £5; springing heifers, from ifi ' to £6;. store cows, £3 lCs. :to £o 2s. : llessrs. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report having held their usual fortnightly . ■ ■ role iu their Levin yaTds on' Friday. OctoKber 9, when *hey offered to a large attendance of the public a very-good yarding, of both slKiep and cattle. Competition for all lots offered was exceedingly keen and a considerable' amount of animation'was noticeable from tho buyme side In sheep the principal entries consisted of fats, which brought extreme'values. An exceptionally prime line of shorn four-toqth 'wethers offered on account of ttio Wereroa State Farm,. m'ado a nmh •'■ price of 255. 9d. The eheep werointho pink of condition and wero a very even lot Other sales were as under:—Medium ■ fat wethers, ,21s.- '3d. to 21s. 7d.; medium fat ewes. 19s. 5d.; aged woolly ewes, with lambs, 20s. 6d.; good woolly hoggeto, 175.; two-year-old steers. £7 23. 6d. to £7 135.; yearling 6teers, £3 95., to £3 12s. 6d.; lowobnditioned ■ store cows, £3 to £3 lfe 6d.; light-weight fat cows, £7 to £8 23. 6d.; two-year-old steers, £6 to £61Cs.; springing heifers , (limited demand). £4 10s. to £5 l&s. 6d.;;veiilers, 275. 6d. to 355. Messrs'. Dalgety and Company, ltd., Pal- :" -merston North, report having a. fair yarajn» of ; sheep and cattle-at Feilding on Friday,' , practically-oil'of which changed hands at following': prices:—Mixed medium hoggets; 145.-; forward shorn ewes, to 14s. 9d.; mixed-ago ewes in lamb, 235.; fat and forward shorn ewes, 17s. 10d.; yearling heifers,'32s., : 345.. 355. 6d. to £2 76.; eppty ■ lieifers, £4:23.; backward dairy heifers, £4 55.; bulls, £4 12s. 6d.; two-year steers, \. 6gns.; _€torq:cows, £3 145.,; £3 18s. . Tae New' Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:—At. Feilding on. , Priday we had a good entry of eheep and cattle and ouittfd all lines at full rates. Medium hoggets, 14s.- 6d.: medium ewo - hoggets, 15s. 7d.; ewe hoggets, on ■ account "of',T. A. Smith, 17a 2d.; wether hoggete, .goc-'d, on account of A. Lockwood, lSs. 2d'.|F«mn:il.yearling heifers, 335. to 385.; : ,£2~l2sTr vealers, £2 65.; store 145.; fresh stoi'u cows, S4 Ss.'to! £4 v lp3^ :- empty heifers, £4; .light fat-cowSr-£S"to"£6'isß.; fat cows, £9 • .to. 6d.; springing .heifers, £4 Eβ. to £5 10s. Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:—At Apiti onr lMesday,-we had a good tTitey of sheep and cattle, and with the exception of one or t'Sb " , iJens'"or"yearliUg "heifers quitted ■' the -.whole yarding at good prices. : Quotations—Small hoggets, 13s. -7a."; mostly cwo hoggpts, 165.; mixed hoggets, lfe;"; yearling hefle're, £2 55.; yearling Jersey heifers, : £2 17s. 6d.;'. yearling'steers,. £3 2s. to £3 11s. 6d.; two=jcar laifers.-'empty, £3 9s.;' two-year steers,- £5J.5e.j stora cows, £3.125. to £4; springing heifers, £s'l7s. 6d. to £7; ' . backward heifers,,£4.los. .to £5;-springing cows; £4 ss. tb'£o;'|CoSvs and calves, £4. ■ The. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency 'Co., Ltd., report:—At our Levin yards last week we had a. very large yard- . ing.'of - cattle of all classes....There, was ft .'good-' attendance of buyers and bidding wo' 3 ''extreincly t .'brisk. With the exception .■* of two pons ;we ' sold everything at very .satisfactory prices. We Quote as follows: —Fat steers (two years), to 5£6 Its.; fat cowsV £7 to £7 55.; store cows, light, £3 19s. ■. 6d. to £4; two and a half-year steers, to £6 18s.; yearling steers,:. from £3 ,14s. to £3 153.; two-year empty heifers, from £3 10s. 6d. to £3 195.; ten-monthe heifers, £1 ■ : 135./6d., £1 165., £1 175., to £2; springing '.'■; lieifers, £4 16s. to £5; bulls, from £2 25., £3.105., £4, £4"23.- We also sold.pnc thoroughbred mare with foaLat. foot for £20 : 23. (d. ;»Vi-,»- . ; .»; , :■,- . . . . Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report "on their Feilding oals heldvon Octo- . bcr ?:—We had a good yarding of sheep of cattle. -Prices compared favourably with laet week's quotation's:" "We "quote: Fat and forward wethers, 23s.;.>fat,.ai:-d .forward eivee, 18s.; medium hogjets, 14s: 4d.; fat wethers, 225. £d. to 233. lOd.; fat ewes, 183. 4d. to 22.3. sd. . liittlc: Store bullocks. £6 lie., £6 18s. 6d., to £7 16.; fat and'forward bullocks, £9 Ills.-, ,two-ycar.Kteors. £5 10s. to £6 Is.; yearling -r heifers.-525. -6d. to £2 35.; yearling Ptecrs, £2; yearling, bulls, 245. to £2; others, . £2 ss. " jrcasrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report having held their usual fortnightly cale-nt Levin on Friday, when they 6ubmittcd a fair entry of, sheep and a heavy yarding of onttls to a. large attendance of Bidding throughout v.-as very brisk' and nil 16U met with keen competition. Prices realised were as follov,- — Bhcep: Fat-woolly wethero. Us. 2d.; faf sliorn wctlicrs, 2-Js.. 255..3d.; f.it shorn ewes, extra good, 235: 10(1.; fat shorn hoggets, extra good. 21-1 id.; s.m. ewes, with 100 per cent. )>.f. kimbs. "is. 4d.; liosKtts, host, 170., IE6. )d., !Bs. AS.-, others. 13s. 4d to 15s. 6d. Cattle: Fat cov.s, heavy, £7 55., £8 Is.. £B:lZs. 6d:; £8 165., £9 4e., £9 Sa.; . light":fat coV:, £5 fis.. S5 IB=.. £6 Is.; for-ward-cows, £4. £4 12s. 6rt., £4 17s. £d.; storo cowa; £i, .C 3 7s. 6(1, to .-S3 165.; three and .four-year low-conditioned-bollocks, £7 155., £0 75.: two and a half-year steers. £b 18s. 6d., £5; yearling sfesrs, best, £3 55., £3 . 135.; ; othcrs, £2 Mi. to £o; yearling heifer?, £2 Us. 6d., £?, 10s., to £3; ycarlin" • mflipree , -Joreoy'biille, bred by' Mr. E. S. Lancaster, U to 14 guineas; grown dairy bulls. .£4 155., • £5,; £5. 12s. 6d.; yealcre. 3s. 6d.; heifers just calved. £6 10s'., £7, £8 10=.; .eprinjrinp: heifers, £6 to '£8. Pigs: We had' an entry of JJO pigs, every lot changinc hands at following price?:—Baconcrs, £S ISe.; porkers, M 5.,355. 365., •'39 a., 4Cs.. to 155.: weflners, 10s., 12s 6d., 135., 15s. 6d., 16a., 175., lEs. Messrs. W. and G. .Turnbull and Co., Ltd.. report bavins held their iifual weekly Kile.in their Ciirterton sale yardu on Friday, October 9. when they oJTc-cd a good yarding of sheep, cattle and pigs to a good-attendance of buyers, and had a pnnd clearance nt the following rntw—l) f ho"KOts (mndiuui). !fe 9d. ; fat shorn ewes 193.;-"tore ewes, 10s. to lls. 'id. . PWs-Wca.jiei-5, 135. 6'l. to 14s. 6i1.; slips. 19s. 6d.-Dorke-ro, 255. 6d. lo 555. Cattle: Sprin"iii"» heifers, £415«!.. £5 5=., to £6 55.: dairy cows, close to calving, £4 17s. 6d.. £5, to £6 55.; two-year licifors, £3, £3 55., to £3 10s • ntore cows. £3 9s;, £4. £4 Is., £4 155.; eightccn-montlin steers. £3: twu-ycar steers, £5 7.=.; two-ycer Jersey bulls. £3 15s. to JS4; Jersey calves, 255.: seven-year gelding, • dray.and harness. £33 10s.