LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2355, 11 January 1915, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, Palmereton North:—At our FeUding sole on Friday w.e have .to report a very fair entry of sheep and cattle. The demon a for sheep -was very irregular, and several lln?6 failed to changed' hands. Quotas tions:—Cull aged ewes, 4a. lid.; mixed-age store ewes, 9s. Bd.; rape lambs, 9s. Ba.; good rape lambs, to 12s. 7d.; fat and forward lambs, to 15s. lOd.; good two-tooth wethers, 15s. 5d.; fair two-tooth wethers, to 13s id.; oull end inferior two-tooth wethers, lte. 10d.; hulls, £3 to £5 45.; twoyear heifers, '£4' 16. to £4 95.; two-year steers, to £4 10s.; forward cows, to £4175. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Oo„ Ltd., report:—At Palmerston North «a!e on Thursday we had a good yarding of cattle, and we sold the whole of our entry at prices as below-.—Yearling steers (■small), £2 45., £2 ss. 6d.; fifteenmonth fltcere, £3, £3 95.; yearling heifers, small. 285.. 305., 375. fid.; eighteen-month heifers, £3 125.: t.wo-year empty heifers, £3 17s'.; store cows; £3 Ids., £4 10s., £4 15e.; forward cows, £5 12s. fid.; fat cows, £6 10s., £7; two-year steers, £4 6s. to £5: threoycar steers, £6 lis., £7, £7 Ws. . Messrs. . Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report;—At Levin on Friday, at the first sale held in the new year, we offered good yardingfi 0f..a1l classes of stock to a large attendance. Competition throughout the falc was keen and a clearance ot all lines offered was effected at prices well up to those Tilling before tho holidays. Quotations-.—Fat ewes, 19s. 6d. to 205.; light- fat- ewes, 17s. 6d. to IBs;; fat and 1 forward two-tooth wethers, 165.; four-tooth ' wethers, 17s. Id. to 15f). Id.; two-tooth wethers, t2s. 6d. to 14s. Id.; four-tooth ewes, lf>s.' lPd. to 17s. 3d.; store ewes. 9s. 4d. to 10s. Bd.: fat co.ws. £6 3f>. to £7 65.; forward cows. £4 7s. to £6 3s.- "id.-, store cows, <2 to £3 65.; cows and calves, £4 18s. 6d. and £4 19s. 6d.; eighteen-month heifers in calf, £.2 16s. to £3 155.; eighteen-month steers, £3 7s. 6d.; yearling steers, £2 10s. t-o £3; weano.rs, 2f.s. to 30s. Pigs; Ilaconcrs, £2 Is. 6d., £2 10g„ £2 lie.; ■ porkcr6, 275., 28s„ 355. 6d„ to 3fa.; stores, 14s. 6d., 17s„ 165.; weaners, 95., Us., 12s. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited. Dannevirkc, report on their usual fortnightly sale, hold on Friday, as follows:— A fairly good yarding of sheep name forward, but our entries were limited to a few small pens of lambs. We had a good yarding of cattle, however, included jn which were some good lines of fifteen to eighteen-month and two-year off steers. The?e cattle were good o»alit.y ond in good order, and pold remarkably well, considering the continued dry weather and scarcity of feed, owing to hush fires. Other classes of cettle. however, were hard to sell at considerably reduced prices on late- market reports. We report as follows:—Sheep; Woolly rape lambs, fair. 9<>. 6d. Celtic! Bmall yearling heifers, 325.; small fifteenmonth steers, £3 Bs.; two-year Jlolntcin cross heifers ill calf. £4 1?.; forward cows. £5 6(1. to £5 165.: fat oows, £7 to £7 12s. 6d.: well-bred eighteen-month steers. £5 3=. fid.; ditto two-v«lr off steers, to £6 75.: hnd.colo"''Ml ditto, £4 12s. 6<l. Store pig;, 20s. to 225. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile .LAeesax. Wdj, £6»oit jia BappfK

virke EO.IO on I;ndn.y there was a. good entry of both sheep end cattle. of which a fan- proportion was gold throuch us. Any fat or forward sheep met with kooc! competition, but sheep in backward condition met with a very dragging sale. Pal cattlo did not command the same attention as at previous sales, and a considerable proportion, was passed in. We quote: Fat ewes, £1; m.s. hoßgets, good, 14s. 6d.; m.s. hoggets, small, 125.: ewes and lambs, all counted, 7s. 6d-; fat cows, £7; springing heifers, £4 106. On behalf, of the Belgian Relief Fund vrc offered six rams, kindly donated by Mr. James ItacKcnzie, Mangatoro, which realised Bs. each.

Jlossrs. A. H. Atkinson and Co., Ltd.! Feildinj;, sold on Friday a large yarding of pigs, etc., good prices ruled for anything ot quality. ' bight-weight porkers and stores sold at 265., 285., 315,, 365., to 555.; breeding sows, £2 17s. 6d. to £3 10s.; slip 6, 155., 16... 195., to 205.; weancrs. Us. 6d., 125., to lis. 6d. Poultry, at per pair*. Hens, 2b. 3d., 2s. 6d„ 2s. 9d., 35., 3s. 3d., to 45.; poor cockerels, 2s. 3d. to 3s. -fid.; chicks, Is. 6d. to 2s. 3d.; ducks, 4s. 3d. to 4s. 9d. Pups, si. each. Aged geldings, £3 to £5 15s. Potatoes, Bs. to 10s. cwt.; apples, 2s. 6d. to 3s. per half-case; plums, 2s. 6d. to, 3s. per case.

Mr. Newton King supplies the following weekly report:—On. Monday, for my month- f, ly sale at the Douglas yards, I had a full yaiding with a good inquiry throughout, f; Prices throughout were right up to values ruling prior to the holidays, and in a few f, co«es showing alt advance. Viften-moiith Jersey heifers made £3 55.; yearling to x liffeeu-month Shorthorn heifers,' £2 ss. 6d. e to £2 10s.; good fifteen-month steers, £3 12a.; smaller, £2 13s. 6d. to £3 25.; two to f: two and a half-year steers, £5 Is. to £5 45.; three-year steers, £7 55.; yearling to r fifteen-month hulls, £2 IBs. to £4; mediumweight bulls, £7 55.; small cows and calves, 1 £4 95.; fat heifers, £7 75.; fat cows, £7 7s. to £8 35.; no heavy-weights offering; forward cows, £6 2s. to £7 Bs.; good store cows, £5 Is. to £5 175.; smaller cows, £3 I 15s. to £4 lie.; mixed two-tooths, 14b. Yd. to 17s. 7d. At Stratford, on- Tuesday, I > had only a small yarding, the whole of whi-cli I was able to olear at satisfactory 1 prices •ae follows Fifteen-month 6teciis (showing Jersey), £3 45.; two-year steers, ' £5 to £5 10s.; small bulls, £3 15s. to £5 2s. 6d.; fifteen-month 1 Jersey heifers, £3 £s.; c yearling to fifteen-month heifers, £2 Bs. 6d.;. fat cows, £8 Is.; forward cows, £6 11a. to' f £7 12s. 6d.; store cows, £5 2s. to £5 17e. ' 6d.; small cow 6. £2 10s. to £4; f.f.m. and 1 f.m. ewes, 14s. 6d.; f.m. ewes, lis. 6d.; aged ewes, 10s. Od Wednesday, at nly Stony 15 River yards, I had a small entry, prac- £ tically all of which was cleared at full market rates as follows:—Yearling heifers, ' £2 to £2 25.; sixteen-month heifers, £2 17s. 6d.; Jersey fifteen-month heifeTS, £3; fif- ' teen-month-steers, £3 75.. to £3 10s. 6d.; two and a half-year steers, £5 lis.: yearling ' Shorthorn bull, £5 55.; heavy .bulls, £14 ss. to £14 17s. 6,d.; light bulk, £4 165.; springing heifers, £5 ss. to £5 17b. 6d.: fat cows, £7 '165.; forward cows, £5 Us. to £6 195.; store cows, £4 ss. to £5 Is.; wethers, forward condition, 17s. 6d.; i.m. 1 ewes, 16s. fid.; forward lambs, 12s. Ba.; good lambs, 9s. 1