LIYE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2285, 20 October 1914, Page 8

LIYE STOCK SALES.

. Mr. Newton King, ,in his weekly report, Eays:—On October 12, at .Douglas, thero ivas a full yarding. Empty heifcre maiip £3 Sβ; to £3 Uβ. , ; yearling heiiers, uesi, £2 10s. 6d. to £2 17e. 6d.; stood, up to £B 65.; others, £1 Is. to ,£1 lfs. (Jd-i yearling sheers, £2 25.-to £J 7s. 6d.; mixed' yearlings, JEI 19s. 63.;, store cows, £3 6a. to £4 1E«.; ' forward cows, £5 6s.' to £6 35.; pedig/reo 'Jersey'bull,-14 guineas; crado bulls, £7 to £7 Ito.; cows α-ud calves, £4 17s. Sd.; 6pnr.ging heifers, £1> to £6 IDs.'; small, £3 Ite.; dairy cows, £7' 55.; and a fine line of'GM hoggets eold at 17s. Id. At Stratford on October. 13 tho prices obtained were:— Empty two-year heifers, £3 2s. to x'j iw.; yearling heifers,- at from £2 2s. to £2 IVa; for well grown, and £1 Bs. to £1 19s. for smaller; yearling'to fifteen-month 6teers, £3 65. to £3 135.; yearling eteers, £2 6s. 6d. to £3 Is.; small and weedy, £1 10s.; cows and calves (small), £3 to *# lls.j twenty-month steers (rough), £4. 4s. to £4 9e.; fat cow 3, £7 10s.; heavy forward cowo, £5 6s. to £6 Us.;.good store cows, £4 3s. to £4 ISs. 6d.; smaller framed cows, £3.<a-to £3 18s.; bulls, £5 10s. j empty cwfts, ISs. 9d.; ev/es and lambo, £1 35.; cull owes, Us. M. Dairy,cattle: Best heifers, to £8 ICa; others, good sorts, £5 ss. to £6 166.; smaE heifei's, £3 to-£4 17s. 6d.; dnjry cows, £3 10s. to ;£5 12s. 6d.; the 81 springers sold averaging £5.105. 9d. On October 14 for the spring cattle fair at Stony Eiver I had an entry of fully 12M head. A very fine line of- 50 forward four and five-year bullocks was yarded by Mr. Joseph Lawn, of Warea, the first pen of 20 being sold'at £13 4s. 6d. and the balance at £13 Sβ. 6d.; a Den of fat thrce-ycar-oJd bullocks made.£l2 155.; two to two and a half-year Etoera (good • cattle) made £6 2s. and £6 3s.'; younger cattle, £5 75., £4 18s. 6d., £4 175., £4 165., £4 ■Cβ.' 6d., and £4; fat cows (very heavy), made vv to £10 Is.; good cows, £7 106/ to £B'7s.; others, up to £7 5b.; bigframed cows in forward condition made fTpm £6 to £6 19a.; others, £5 3s. .to £5 175.; good storo cows, £4 ss. to £5; 'other cows, lighter framed, £3 9s. to £3 175.; small eowe, £2 12s. to £3 55.; yearling eieere (strong demand), £3 2s. to £3 Uβ.; smaller stoors, £2 to £2..185.; yearling to iifteenmontji heifers (tops), £2 10sA 6d. to £3 6s. 6c1.; good. £1 19s. to £2 95.; smaller hei-,-fere, £1 12s. 6d. to £1 175.; cows and calves, £3 45., for very small and poor conditioned to- £4 7s. for fair-sized Jerseys (no Shorthorn cows and calves offering); springing heifers (mostly small), £3 15e.t0 £6 155.; empty twenty-month, to. two-year heifera (btrong demand), at from £3 10s. to £3 143. 64.; smaller, £2 15s. to £3 Bs.; dairy bulls, £5 10s. to £12 10s.; yearlings, up to £5; bulls for canning, at from £4 ICa. for smallish sorts, up to. £8 15s. for good-con-ditionod aged bulls; vea.lere, , £1 10s: to £2; ewes and lambs, £1 7s. 6d. At my annual bull fair at the Waiwakaiho. yards on October 15 buyers were available for all the bulls offered. There io at present a, shortage of good grade Shorthorn bullo, the two three-year-olds-offered on Thursday making £17 15s. and £15; 63 bulls were sold, the prioeG obtained being as follow:—Pedigrca Jersey bulls: Yearlings. 7 to llgns.; two and. three years, 13 to 16gns.; five and sir. years, % to.2ogne.; aged, 7 to Bgns. : grado Jerseys, two and three years, £8 10s, to £9 155.: yearling to eighteen-month, £4 106.; pedigree Ayrshires, BJgns.; yearling Shorthorn, 'f 6 ■ 10s.;. two-year grade UolBteins, £9 lOe. to £15; eightccn-months, £5 lto. to £9; yearlings, £3 15s. to £5 10e. MAETOJT CATTLE PAIR. Special attention of those requiring good straight lines of cattle is drawn to the advertisement in this ieeue giving full .particulars of the various lots to bo offcrcd. Tho whole of tho cattle arc on account of genuine farmers in the district, and spe-' c'inl attention is /ttrawa to the'lino of 2« three and a half-year forward .bullocks, and also to the various lines of Shorthorn Btccm and heifers, and mother-fed yearlings. The sale is fixed for Thursday, and will commence at 1.30 p.m. elinrp. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., ore the auctioneers