LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2334, 16 December 1914, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgoty and Company, Ltd.,-Wel-lington, report havine held their weekly Levin, sal© on. Eritlay last, when they offered, a small yarding of sheep and,a fair-one of eattlo. Sheep met with- rather a dragging Eale, wHUitho exception of rate, which were well ooznpeted. for. Tho demand for cattle had fallen off somewhat from last sole, but most linee were sold under the hammer. ■ Prices: Fat ewe 3, 20s. to 235.; yearlinß heifers, to £2 55.;. ■weaners, to , £1 Bs.-- 6d. ■ empty heifers, £7 17s. 6d.;'empty cows, •£3 fc., £3 65., to £3 165.; two and a half-year steers, to £5 14s. fid. | , Messrs. Dalgety and 00., Ltd., report havine held their weekly sale at Taratahl.on Monday. There was a fair yarding- of etock, for which there was only fair competition. However, poEsed-in lots were eagerly sought, after, and'tho firm report practically a total clearance at the following prices:—Good 2-tooth wethers, 15s. 3d.; ditto ewe 3, 155..1 d.; forward ewej, 155.; medium two-tooth wethors, 135.; cull lambs, f>3. 3d. to 7s. 4d.j fat heifers, £6 106.; springing heifers, £3 15s. to £4 6e.; autumn culvers, £7 125.; empty cows, £3 18s.; empty two-year heifers, £3 ss. to £3 6e.: ditto eighteen ; months heifers, £2 155.; eighteenmonths steers, £3- 13s. < Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Woodville stock sale, held on Monday:—We had a heavy yarding of both, sheep and cattle. There was not much .demand, for sheep, but cattle met a real'good '■ tale, .especially. for fat stuff and anything.with condition, and' wae an. improvement■lα young cattle, and we have to report practically a total-clearance at satisfactory prices. Quotations:—Fat eivea,' 1&3. 7d. to 195.; two-tooth wethers, 14s. Bd. to 15s. 44.; aged ewes and lambs, 165.; fat oowe, £7 7a. 6d. to £8; light fat oo.we, £6to £6.105.; forwaui covye, £4 -to £5; store cows,.£2 ss, to £3 7r.; cows and calves, £4 10s. to £7 6s.;'fat heifers, £5,155., £6 175.. 6d., to £7 2s. 6d.; two-year heifers, £4 35.; fifteen-months Jersey-cross heifers, £2 I6s. to £3 Bs.; yearling jieifers, £B ss. 6d. to £2 Bβ. j three-year steers, £7 Jβ. to £7 45.; eighteen-monthe to two-year steers, £4 535. M.; yearling steers, £2 14e. to £3; weaner pigs, 10s. to 11s.

NEY7TOJT KING'S WEEKLY REPOBT. On Friday, last at my Waiwakaiho yards, ,there was a fair yarding with, a good attendance of buyers. Mr. Oldham's : dairy cows were a nice line, the herd making an averagei of £9 103. Other prices were: Choice well-grown, fifteen to eifrhteen.months heifers,,£2 18s.'6d. to £3 55.; goodsized Shorthorne. fifteen-months heifers, £2 4s. to £2 9s.;'small, £1156. 6d.; good fifteen months steers, £3 11s.; small or weedy yearlinge, lip to £2 Bs. '6d.; rough two-year Jersey eteers, £3 145.; two-year ompty heifers, £3 13a. and £3 145.; fat cowe. from £7 10s. to £9 45.; forward cows (large framed), up to £7 Iβ.; emeller-fram-cd forward cows, up to £6 65.; good, freshconditioned cows, .from £4 17e. .to £5 10s.; smaller-framed cows, from £3 13e. to £4 65.; aged and poor cows, £2 56.; two and a half-year steers, £6 10s.; yearling grade Jersey bull, £5; ordinary yearling grade bulls, £2 7s. to £4 25.; two-year pedigree Ayrshire bulls, £4 11s. to £5; young dairy buU6, guaranteed sound, £7 lCs.; heavy bullocks for freezing, £10 10s, to £12175.6 d.; light bullocks, £510s. j pedigree Jersey twoyear bulls, 15srns., 7 to 9gns., and 7'to Bgns. for yearlings; dairy cows, to to £13; pedigree Jersey twenty-months heifer, 1 » ens.; dairy cows, £8 16s. to £8 10s. ;■ springing heifers, .£4 17s. 6d. to £6 12s. 6d.; woolly four-tooth ewee and lambs, £1 Us. 6d.; woolly fat ernes, £l-4s. 3d.; shorn fat evces, £1 os. 6d.; shorn f.m. ewes, 16s. Id.; fat- two-tooths, £Ms. 3d. At Douglas on Monday, December 7,' there'was.-a full yarding with a good atr tendance,' bidding throughout was brisk, and a, good clearance was made ee follows: -Fifteen to seventeen-months heifere (good lines), £2 10s. to £3 65.; smaller heifers, £2.15.; fifteenrmonths steers, £3 to £3 10s.; smaller eteers, £2 12a. to £2 17s. 6d.; twoyear empty heifers, £4; two-year steers, lough, £4; springing heifers; £4 17s. 6d.; yearling bulls,'£3 2s. .6d. to £4 7s. 6d.; medium-weight bullocks, £7 to £9 2s. 6d.; .three-year bullocke, £7 6s. to £8; fat heifers, £6 175.; fat cows, £7 10a. Bd. to £3 165.; forward cows, very heavy, up to £7 7s. 6d.; smalMramed forward cows, £4 15s. to. £5 75.; good store cows, up to £5 18s.; fat steers, £10:10s.; shorn f.m. ewee, 13s. fid,; mixed fet shorn sheep, 17s. 6(1. At Stratford on Tuesday, -December 6, ■there was a fair yarding, mostly goodquality cattle, and fair bidding for most lines offered. Prices were as follow—Jersey fifteen-months heifers, £2 16e. to £3 25.; good Shorthorn- fifteen to eighteen-months heifers, from £2 10s. to £3 25.; small' yearlings, -up to £2; yearling steers, .-E2 10e. to ,£2 18s.; small, £1 2s. to £2; empty twoyear heifers, £3 Es. to £3 17s. 6ct.; two and a- half-year steers, £5 2s. 6d.; fat heifers. £5 14s. to £6 165.; two-year heifers, with, small calves, £3 12s. to £4 35.; yearling to sixteen-nioriths 'Jersey bulls, £1 16s. to £3 155.; bulls, £7 to £9 75.; dairy cows, £4 ;to.£s 155.; store cows, £4 Is. to £5 165.; forward cowe, £6 to £7 65.; fat cows, from .£7 lo.s. to £10 10s.; three and a half-year bullocks, £8 12s. 6d\; two-tooth wethers, 15e. 6d.; four-tooth wethers, £1 03. 6d.; shorn rams. 12s. 6d.; empty fni ewes, 11s. 10d.; mixed fat sheep, £1 Is. 9d.; 5 pedigree Jersey bulls, on account of Jft. W. Tickers,:at from 9} to 12gns. each; also springing heifers, at £5 ss. On Wednesday, December 9, at Stony River yards, there was an exceptionally heavy eutry. Bidding was good and a fair proportion of ■ the entry was cleared at the following, prices:—Yearling to fifteenmonths heifers, £2 to £2 155.; smaller cattle, £1 7s. 6d. to £1 175.; fiftecn-months steers, £3 2s. to £3 125.; Jerseys,. £1 11s to £2 95.; fat heifers, £5 10s. to £6 9b.; twoyear empty heifers, £3 i 6s. to £3 155.; twoyear steers, £4 10s.; stags, £6 7s. 6d.; small two-year heifere. with calves, £3 2s. to £3 lls.; pair of very heavy prime fat working bullocks at £17 ICs. each; fat cows, £10 35., £10 Is., £9 135., £9 4s £9 2s. 6d., £9, £8 155., £8 125.; smaller fat cows, £7 4s. to £7 165.; forward cows, £5 to £7 155.; good fresh-conditioned cows, £5 ss. to £6 35.; 6mall store cows, >ip to £4 2s. 6d.; sow and litter, £4 55.; weaner pigs. lfe. 6d.; store pigs, £1 10s.; fifteenmontha Shorthorn bull; £5 17s. 61; fifteenmonths Jersey bulls, £1 19s. to £3 ■ 155.; heavy bull, £13 fc.; medium bullocks, £7 Ee. to £7il2s. 6d.; fat ewes, £1 os. 6d. ■