LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2338, 21 December 1914, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited (Palmerston North) -report: At our Palmer-' fiton North sale on Thursday last, wo had a good entry of both Gheep and cattle. Quotations: 2-tooth wethers, 14s. to 14s. Id.; 4-tooth wethers, to 17e.; forward wethers, to 20s. 3d.; store ewes, to 145.; light fat ewes, to, 16s. lid.; fat cows, to 18s. 4d.; .•mall yearling-steers, £2 17a: bulls.-to £5; dairy heifers, £4.75. 6d. to £4 9s. 6d.; cows and calves, to £4 - 6s. "6d.; ■ fltore cows, to £4 75.; empty heifers, to £4 9s. 6d.; springing heifers, to £5 155.; 3-3i-year bullocks, £8 ss. 6d. At our Mangaweka tale on Thursday last, we have to report having a very fair entry of sheep and cattle; all classes of stock met with a keen competition, and a total clearance was effected at auction at the following prices:—Good 2-tooth wethers, 16s. 2d., 16s. 9d., to 175.; mixed fat sheep, 20s. 7d.;. yearling lieifers, £3;- 3-year heifers, £3, 55., £3 Bs., to £4; 2-year steers, £4 17s„ £4 18s; 6d., to £5 Is.; empty cows, £4 10e. to £4 17s. 6d.; light fat cows and heifers, £6 6s. to £6 12s. 6d.: 3-year steers, to' £7 95.; bulls, to £8; 2 Sriine fat bullocks, sold account Donald tunro, realised £15.

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having offered a good entry of all classes, of cattle at their Dannevirko - sale held on Friday last. Prices were rather easier than last sales report, especially store cows and fat cattle; tho continued dry weather and bush Ares, in different parts of the district being responsible for same. A fairly good clearance was effected, however, at the following list of priceo:—Yearling steers, small 305., ditto heifers 31s. to £2 65.; Holstein, 15 months heifers £3 55., 15 months .steers £3 ss» 6d. to £3 Bs. 6d„ 2-year steers to £4 12s. 6d., well-grown 2-year off steers to £5 7si 6d., 3-year steers £6 Ze.. to £7 18s. 6d.. eood forward bullocks to £8 195.. At ft. Gilraour'fl clearing sale, TJmataroroa. which was held on Tuesday last the 15th instant, the firm report as follows:—The' bulk of stock offered came forward in good, condition, but there was only a limited inquiry for cows and heifers in milk, and tlie sale was of a very dragging nature throughout. A fairly large nuantity of implements and sundries realised tho usual clearing sale prices. Tho following are some of the prices realised: —Young cow 6 in full profit £6 10s. to £7 7s. 6d.;-ditto in -milk some time. £4 10s. to £5 155.; springing heifers, £3 10e. to £5 17s. 6d.; grade. Jersey x yearling heifers, £2 10s.; ditto. Holstein cross, 12 to 15 months heifers, £2 12e. 6d.; 12 to 15-months steers, £2 Us.; 2-year Holstein x empty heifers,' £3 10s.; 2-year s.h. ditto, £2 18s.; empty cows, £3; store pigs, 205.; aged Riding, £4; 6-year spring cart mare,. £16. Implements, sundries, and furniture usual clearing' sale rates. . The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency report:—We held our usual monthly-sale'at Pongaroa on Thursday, when.; we submitted a good yarding of cattle- to vthe usual attendance of buyers. Competition wa6 by no means keen, and & number of lots were passed out unsold. We quote: 18 months steers, £3 17s. 6d.; 2-year empty heifers, £4 45.; 6eifers R.W.B.', £3.155.; yearling steers, £3. ..

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:—At Eketahuna ,on Friday, w©l submitted a fair yarding of sheep, and a good one of cattle. Competition fo .rsheep was fairly animated, but cattle met' with a dull sale. Aged ■ ewes and lambs (all counted) made 6s. lid. to 75.2-tooth wethers. 135.; empty heifers, £3 10s.; empty .cows, £S 7s. 6d.

Messrs. 'Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report: At Levin on Friday a'good yarding of all classes of stock came forward for the last eale of the year; competition was not as brisk as usual, but most lines changed, hands''and a good clearance was effected by the end of the day at- the following quotations :—Pat ewes, 18s. 10d., 205., and 20s. 9d.: fat and forward ewes, 17s. 3d.; ewes and lambs, all counted, Bs.; 2-tooth wethers, 15s,' lOd.; 'small 2-tooth wethers, lis. 6d. to 126.; mixed 2-tooths 135.,6d.;.5t0re ewee, 10s. 9d., to. 12s. 6d.; fat cows," £6 to'£B; forward cows, £4 'to £5105.; store; cows, '.£2 to £3; cows and calves, £3 ss. to £4155;; 2-year steers,.£s 65.'6 d.; 3-year steers, £5 15s. to /£6 155.; springing -cows, £6 to- £8; purebred ' shorthorn bulls,. to 20,; guineas; yearling heifers; 355. to £2; weancrs, 10s. 6d.Ho 18s. A large entry of J pigs sold at Tecent quotations. Messrs. Abraham- and Williams, Ltd., report- as follows on their Feilding sale held Friday last:—We. had a very heavy yarding of both sheep and cattle. Sheep seemed to he a trifle easier, but we quitted the whole- of our entry at satisfactory prices. Wo (fuote: 4-tooth wethers,' 175., 18si' 4d„ to - 19s. Bd.; 2-tooth' wethers. 12s; 6d., 14s. 7d„ 15sl, ,15s. 3d., 16s. 3d., to 17s. 3d. ; 2-tooth ewes, 135., 14s. 10d., to 155.-- 6d.': mixed 2-tooths, small, lis. • Yd.: F. ,an(l_ 15s. 10d.; fat ewes and. wethers, 20s. 74.; ewos and lambs, shorn, all counted, 9s. 1d..; ewes and lambs, woolly, 245. to 255. 3d. Cattle—Best fat cows, £8 155., £10 10s„ to £10 165.; others, £6 12s. to £6 17s. 6d.; 2-year steers,' £5, ,2s. 6d.;. .forward bullocks, £10; vealere; '30s.;' store cows, £2 18s.', £3 Js.; £3 7s„ to £4; forward cows. £5 55.; dairy cows, £6; bulsl, £4 15s. to £6.- - .-

. .Messrs. W. and G'. Turnbull and Co., Ltd., report .having , held their usual weekly salo in f . their '- Carterton eale yards on Friday last. A-good yarding of sheep, cattle,- and' pigs were offered to a fair attendance of buyers, and competition being-keen there .was a good clearance at the prices :—Sheep—Fat ewes, 18s. Id.; fat 2 and 4-tboth ewes, 17s. 6d.'; fat and forward ewes, 17s. Pigs—Weaners, ss. 9d„ Bs., to lis.; porkers, 165., 21s. 6d„ to 255. Cattle—Fat cows, £5 7s. 6d., £5 10s., £6, £6 2s. 6d.,, to £6 65.; forward store cows, £4, £4 2s. 6d., £4 125., to £4 145.,; springing cows. £7 10s.; heifers and calves,. £2 15s. to £2 165.;. yearling' heifers, £2; yearling., steers, 35s. ; 'to 405.; weaner calvcs, 13s;,- 145.l 155., 21s.', 235„ 245. 6d.-, to 255.': 2-year S.H. Bull, £4; 2-year Jersey bull, £2. The firm also sold ion -account of the Belgian, Relief Fund ono fat cow, donated by J.'H. August, Esq., for £5 7s. 6d„ and one yearling heifers, donated by R. B. Sayers, Esq., for £2. Messrs. A. H. Atkinson and Co., Ltd., Feilding, sold on Friday the usual yearend quantities of pigs and poultry. Good quality, weaner pigs sold well; inferior wero not wanted, good poTkers made good values. Good weaner pigs sold at 135.. 6d., 155., to 17s. 6d.; others, Bs., 95.,' to 10s.; slips. 14e. fd„ 155.'6 d., 175.-6 d„ to 186. 6d., 205.; stores. 265., 295., 315., 345„ to 395.; porkers, 40s„ 455„ to 50s. Hacks, £3; new potatoes, lCs. to 13s. cwt-.; gooseberries, 9s. cwt.; .Auckland apricots, 6s. 6d, to 7s. 6d. 201b. ca6e; lettuces. Is. to Is. 6d. box; pea 6, 9d. peck; wheat, 7s. bushel; chaff, £6 ton, feed oats. 3s. 9d. to 4s. Poultry at ner pairHens, 25., 45.9 d„ to 55.; geese. 6s. to 7s. 6d.; turkey hens, 9s. 6d., 10s;,' 12s„ to 14s. 6d.; gobblers, to 225.; chicks, 9d. to 25.; ducks, to -4s. 3d., 55., ss. 6d.

, Mi-. Newton King supplies the following weelily report:—On Monday, December 14, at my Urenui yards, I, had a. full yarding of cattle, with'a. representative attendance of buyers. Fat cattle came forward much in excess of advertised numbers,. and buyers, appreciating the -convenience, 'of the present modo of selling the fat cattle at these yaTds' gave . spirited bidding throughout,, the'los head being disposed of in good, time at very satisfactory prices, as follows:—Fat cows, £11 55., £10 18s., > £10 168., £10 10s„ £9 175.. £9 lis.,'£9 95., £9 Js.. £9 25.; £9, £8 18s, 6d..' £8 175., £8 155., -£8 135,; £8 65., £8 '55.,. £8 Is.; £8, .£7 195., £7 17s. 6d.; fat-heifers and light-framed, cows, £7 10s., £7 75.; 6(1;; '£7 55.,-£7 Is., £7, £6 19s. 6d„ £6 18s., £6 125., £6 ICe., £6 7s„ £6 35.; prime fat bullocks. £15, £14 Us., £13 Is. ■ In the, dairy yards I had a. very small entry," for which the inquiry was very slack, only a. few head being sold at from £3 17s. 6d. to £4 10s„ and dairy cows at £7. I had an entry of about 750 head of etoro oattle and 350 sheep; the latter met with fair bidding, but vendor's reserves were in every instance much above buyers' limits. All /classes. of store cattlo, wero inquired for;) Jersey 15-months heifers (second quality),-being the slackest; 15 to 18 months Shorthorn 6teers made £4; good 15 months .steers, £3 12s. 6d.; yearling stoers, £2 lis. to £3 Is.; 15 months good Shorthorn heifers, £2 14s. 6d. and £2 155.; smaller, £2; 15 months Holstein heifers, £2 18s.; Jersey, 12 to 15 months heifers, £2 3s. and £ 255. 6d.; Jersey Shorthorn, 16 months heifers (well done), £2 175.; choice 16 months Jersey heifers, £3 155.; empty 2-year heifers. £3 14s. 6d.' to £3 195.; 2-year steers (rough), ;£4. ;65.. to. £4 10s.; 2.V and 3-ycar . steersi; £5 165.~; -cows and calves (good), £6 3s. 6d. "to"'-£6:>*ißs.; small, £3 17s. 6d. to £4 ■•Es. 6d.; 3-year bullocks, £7 18s.; forward cows, £6 2s. 6d. to £7 75.; good store cows, £4 15s; to';£s 10s.f others, £4 to'.£4 10s.; heavy b'ulH, <£12 10s.. £11 17s. 6d., £10 17s. 6d„ £10 -12@;«6d., £9 2s. 6d., £7; 1 5 months Shorthorn .bulls, £5; yearling Jersey bulls, £3 to £4 ss;'; forward and fat ewes, 175.; store pigs," £1 10s. On Tuesday. 15th instant, at Raliotu,' I had a good yarding of good-framed, nlcc-conditioned cattle, for which I had ;a ready sale at the following prices :—Well-grown. 15 months Shorthorn heifers, £2 19s; to £3 os. 6d.; smaller, £2 2s. and £2 55.; Tough yearling steers, £3 to £3 ss. 6d.; spring heifers, £4- 10s.; 'yearling bulls, £2 Bs.;-cows and calves. £5 195.;. 25ycar stcers','7good. £5 155.: fair lino of 2-ycar steers,' £4 195.; 2i and 3-year steers, £7; heavy bills £.'2 7s. 6d„ £11 155.. £11, £10 10a., £9; 55., £6 17s. -6d.; prime heavy fat cows, £10 45., £9 135., £9 95., £9; lighter cows, £7 10s. to £8 95.; forward cow 6. £6 to £7 4s.'; store cows, good, up to £5 Ids.; poor,. £3: 7s. to £3 18s. At Kohuratahi on _ Wednesday,, for ray bullock 1 fair and cattle ' s.ile, there .was a good entry, particularly bullocks, the majority of which were in forward condition, and Drought very favourable comment from the buyers present, these making good competition, for all linos,i practically everything being clearad at the following pricep:—4-year bullocks, 26 at £11 75.; 3-year bullocks, 58 at £9 175., 33 at £9 155., 32 at £9 Bs.. 49 at £8 18s., 9 at £7 155.: 48 good 2}-ycar steers at £6 165.. 17 at £6, 12 at £5 125.; and small lots of bullock's at £10, £8 12s. 6d.. and £8 65.; 2-ycar empty heifers, £3 195.; bulls. £4 10s., to £7. 55.: store cows. £4 2s. to £6 75.: 15 months Shorthorn lieifcrs,. £2 10s.; good 15 months steers, £3 18s. 6(1., £3 los. 6d., £3 125.; mixed 2-tooth .sheepi 15s. 3d. •