LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2340, 23 December 1914, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Masterton, report having held their weekly sale at Taratalii on Monday. ' Fat ewes and wethers, 19s. 2d.; ewes with lambs at foot, 18s.' Bd.; forward m.s. 2-tooths, 145.: fat lambs, 15s. Id.; forward ewes, 14s. 10a.; 3. and 4-year store owes, 126. 6d. to 13e. 2d.: forward conditioned cows, £5 He.; 2-year £4 Bs.; store cows, £2 to £2 15s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report:—At the fortnightly Dannevirko sale there was a small yarding of sheep and a good entry of cattle offering to a fair attendance of the public. Prices, especially for cattle, were somewhat easier than of late. Wo quoteM.S. 2-tooths, 14s. 6d.; yearling steers, £2 2s. 6d.; store cows, £3 155., £3 17s. 6d.; fat cows. £7 2s. 6d., £6 55., £5,55.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report Rangiotu 6ale on Monday we had a good yarding of cattle, which met with good sale at late . rates. Quotationslß-month heifers; £2 18s.; 2-year-steers. £4 9s.'; store cows, £3 55., £3 10s.; forward cows, £4 165., £4 195., £5, £5 lis.; fat cows, £6, £7; £7 7s. 6dl, £7 10s., £7 195.; good dairy cows, £7 10s.; light fat cows, £4 to £6. , ADDINGTON MARKETS. . ; (By Telegraph.—Press Association,) Christchuroh, December 22. There were moderate entries of fat stock. Fat cattle sold firmly at late rates, and prices afterwards improved 2s. per head. Fat sheep, especially ewes, were easier. Store Sheep— Extra 2-tooth wethers, to 16s. Id.: good, 15a. to 15s. lid.; fair. 13«. 4d. to 14s. 9d. Cull and inferior owes, Bs. 6d. to 12s. 6d.; extra 2-tooth owes,' to 18s. Id.; fair, 15a. Bd. to 165.; cull ewes with lambs. 6s. •7d.; • cull dry ewes,, ,9s. ,9d.; prime . lambs, 19s. to 225.; lighter, 15s. .to 18s. 6d. Fat Sheep.—Extra prime wethers, to 285.; prime, 21s. 6d. to 265.; lighter, 17s. 6d. to 215.; merino, 12s. 6d. to 15s. 6d. Prime ewes, 17s. 6d. to 245.; other ewes, 12s. to 175.; merino ewes, 10s. 6d.; hoggets, 17s. to 18s. Vd. Fat Cattle.—Extra steers, to £16 155.; other steers, £8 ss. to £11; extra heifers, to £12 55.; other heifers. £5 7s. 6d. to £8 ss. Price of beef, per 1001b., 325. 6d. to 425. 6d.; extra, to 455. Store Cattle.—ls to 18-month sorts, £2 2s. 6d.. to £3; 2{-year steers. £5 55.; 3-year 6teen?, £6 Icq. to £7; 3-year heifers, £5 155.; and dry cows. 30s, to £6 55.; dairy cows, £3 to £10 17s. 6d.

Pigs—Fat pigs, choppers, 50s. to 80b.; heavy baconers, 565.i to 605.; lighter baconera. 475. to 545. Price per lb., sd. to s)d. Heavy porkers, 40s, to 445.; lighter porters, 34a. to 38s. Price per lb., 5Jd. to.6d. ftoro Pigs.—Beat stores, 32a. to 38s.;.medium, 325. to 385.; medium, 225. to 3Cs.; smell, 16s. to 215.; weaners, ss. to Us.; sows in piga, 355. to 655. BUENSIDE MAEKET. Dunedin, December 22. At Burnelde to-day prime bullocks made £13 10s. _to £15 7s. fid. (one extra, heavy show ctnimal brought £21); medium to good, £11 15s. to £12 10s.; light and unfinished, £9 to £10; prime cows and heifers, £13 to £14 55.; extra., to. £15 2s. 6d.; medium, £10 to £11 55.; light and aged, £6 to £8 7s. 6d. Pat sheep: 2204 penned, mostly shorn ewes of medium to heavy-weight, with few peh6 of prime wethers. Prime wethers, in wool, 28s. 6d. to 31e.; extra, to 335. 6d.; medium, 245. 6d. to 275.; prime shorn wethers, 245. to 265. fd.; extra to heavy, 28s. 9d.; lighter sorts, 20s. to ■ 225. 3d.; primo woolly ewes, 28s. to 31s. fid.; eitra, to 345. 3d.; prime 6horn ewes. 22s 6d. to 255.;-eitra, to 27e. 6d.; lighter, 19s. to 20s. 9d. Fat lambs: Only 1190 penned. The number forward proved too. small "{or requirements, and there was a sharp rise on recent values, the prices being 2s to 2s. 6d. higher than those ruling last week. Prime, 20s. 6d. to 225. 3d.; extra, to 235.; medium quality, 17s. to 195.; light and unfinished, 15s. 9d. to 16a. 3d. Pigs: There was a email yarding, but prices showed no advance on la6t week's rates.