LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2305, 12 November 1914, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

■/.... Messrs,: Dalgety and Company report v Staving held their fortnightly, sole in the : 'lievin yard on Monday, when a good yard* '.-..- ing of-6heep and a heavy yarding of cattle came forward. •' Competition woe good, end at the end of the day a satisfactory, clear-" ■ ,ing was effected. The prices ruling were as under:—Medium wool hoggets, 15s. 9d.; . shorn owes and lambs, 22a.; shorn and fat -V:: wethers. 22s.'6di. t0,225. 'Bd.; shorn and fat ewce, 188."10d:.to. 19s. 9d. • Cattle':' Empty /heifers, £3 to £3 155.: yearling heifers, £2 ;' . ; to JE2 2a,'; flftecn-moiith Holstein cross heifers, £3. 2s. 6d.; yearling steers, £3 to £3 : 7s. Sd.r.fat cows, light,' £6 10s. to £7; springing' heifers, £4 10s.' to: £5; two-ycar-/'.old. 6teers, -£4- to-£4 155.; empty cows, £3 :6s: to '£4 10s.; cows with calves, £5-95.; '.dairy cows, £6.105. to £7; bulls, £3 9s, ;/;.to-£4:iqs.- ' . '■•■ ■■ Messrs; Dalgety- Company- report ' havihg-V'held their 'monthly sale in. the '.Waikanae yards on Tuesday, when, .they ::offered;a medium entry of cattle. The 't sale throughout woe lifeless, and: business f;was liard/to effect. Sales effected were ."'.as:;under:— Three-year-old steers; £6 Us.; '. .four-year-old bullocks, £9 , 10s.; , full- - condition cows with calves, ;£3; cull cows ■'.' in;calf;;£2 14b..; ', : .--/ ; T'. Mcssrsr Dalgety and Oi>.i Dtd., Masterton, ;feport having held their usual' weekly sale ■ at Taratahi on Monday, November 9, when '-•"there..was the usual attendance, end a ;•.■'•"-' largo'yarding of stock,, principally cattle, ■-.': ..which-met with ionimoted competition end .'leaiißed'-.the following prices:—Cull hogV.'gets,. 10s. 6d.; medium down wool, 15s. 10d.; ;;'.! springing, dairy cows,-.-to £10 10s.; springZing heif ere, £4 10s.. to £5 lCs.; fat cows, ■•■":':-:£6-'19s.'- i to £7 45.; forward coire; £4-Is. to ■'•:."'£4:-195.: 6d.;'- store cows, £3 10s. to £3 155.; '',', empty; ttwo-year , heifers, £3. 10s; to £4; :, eighteen-month steers, £4; yearling steers, .-£1 18a.,'.'to' £2 17s. 6d.-; yearling heifers, 375. «■" 6d..-ti>'£2 'lis.; bulls,\£2-17s. 6d. to £6. .'■ "■

~;-. The New. Zealand Loan and- Mercantile Agency", Company, Limited, report :—At our .--'Levin, sole'.on Monday we had a small ~v - , entry of sheep and a large yarding of : ■ cattle, .and made, a total clearance' at the '■■ . following prices:—Light fat ewes, 175.; fat ;'. lambs, .i55.4d.; light fat bullocks, £10 175.; . ■ fat cows,: £5 135., £6, 55., £6 lOe., £7, to £7 . ....12s. 6d.; three r year, steers,'£7 lis. to £8 „ 155.; store cows, £3 55., £5 IDs., - £4, £4 45.; : .forward:, cows, to £4;175. 6d.;, eighteen;month...heifers,' £3. 'to £3 10s.; yearling heifers; ■£2 Be. 6d.; T weaner calvers,' 215.: .-. bulls, £2 10s„ £3 Ms.,'£4, £4 10s., £5 ss. |- ; to £6 7s. .- , ■,■;•'■■ " ;: V BTJENSiDE\jrAEKETI ■ {By .Telegraph.—Press' Association.) : ;~ ; . Dunedln, November 11. There was a smaller yarding of fat cattle than usual at. Burrisido to-day,' only 134 • being penned.' Owing to short supply tha demand was keen,- and the fall of 15s. per. .- head Tccorded last iweek was -fully- made ■-, ,up.. Heavy-weight bullocks realised up to ;. £1775. 6d; ; good, £14U03..-to £16 10s.;, me.;':'.dimn, ,£12,105. :to £13 10a.:. light. £9 10s. to-£11;-host heifers, to £14 12s. 6d.; good ■;, £10; to £12 10s.;. medium', £B.los/ 6d. to £3 . 10s; 6d.;'lightand aged, £5 55..t0 £6 17s. 6d Fat sheep.—Of 236f yarded a considerable' ■■;,. number were of excellent quality, end the ;: : yiarding onthe whole .was'an. improvement :.■. : on;'.that o.flast week; .although there was ... a, good demand, the. extreme rates ruling .;-atiithe; end of -last'.' week's sale were not :-.-■-;obtainable. ..Values to-day were about .'.;', equal.,to.-.the opening rates of last'week, ■;.- butwerels. 6d.-per head.iower than those . ruling, at- the. close, a week ago. ' Extra ■-I heavy-weight wethers, in wool, 355. to 44s • ~.: prime wethers,-295. to 335.; medium, 25s to Ws.-, : •■light, 225. to 24g.; shorn wethers, to i 245;-9d:;". extra prime ewes,:, to 365. 3d.; ;. 'prime,; 275. -to >305.;, medium; 235. to 24s •' ..- -light,. 18s. to 21s. ■■; ~,: Lambs: 86 were and there was e. fair, demand at prices .about equal to . < 'iast.'week's, rates.. Beet, 18s." to 225. 6d-- . t6,:175. ; light, 14s. to 155.: '•' .-■:.-. Pigs: The entry consisted of heavy bocon- ., .ers...' All.classes declined in value,'and in many 'cases sales were, difficult to effect, - and there : was a decided reduction in ..-price. Heavy baconcrs met with fair competition at prices on a par with those .- rubng Jost week, say. up to. 705.; light baconers at 425.. to 455.;. and porkers at . .JOs:. t0.405. were quite out of favour, and could only be sold with difficulty even at ... these prices. Slips met with .slow sales at 15s. to 225., and suckers at 10e. to 12s.