LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2380, 9 February 1915, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

The "New Loan' and Mercantile 'Agency Company, Ltd.,' report:—At our "Levin sale on Friday practically tihe whole of our entry changed: hands '. at yw> following prices:—Slioep: <m<r':forwaTd ewes and wethers, mixed, 20s. Id.; aged owes. lis. 9d.; mixed-ace ewes (low condition), 12s. 2d.; medium .fat cows, £S 75.. to £5 10s.: forward ..empty cowfi, £4 1/8. 6d.; empty storo cows, £4' 6a; spranging heifers, £5 lfe.: fat.'- and;, forward' empty ■heifers, £5; vcaler, £t 146. ■ Messrs. Abraham aid-Williams,, Md..' re-, port on their Johnsonville 6torc ertook saJe as'follows:—A good yarding of sheep came forward and everything was sold except a' line of fat and forward wethers. Prices wcro as follow:—Two-tooth wethers, 14s. . lOd. to IJe.; small two-tooths, 10s. Ba.: six-tooth to f.f.m.'. ewes, 15s. Bd.; forward owes. 14s. 6d; to 155.; f.f.m. ewes, 12s. 6d. to-.1J9.-5d.: f.m.. ewes, \ 10s. id. to lis. to 11. 6d-: old ewes, Bs. 9d. to 9a. 9d.; Rood lamte, - 10s.; small,. Vs. 6d. to Bs.; tfulis, '43.-6 d.-to 'ltomney rams, £3 35.; eightcenHnointh steers, £3 35.; two-year steers, £/l 17., ' ■ At Palmerelon on Thursday Messrs. and Wiilio,ms,..liUl., offered «. yarding-of 6500 sheep oad a good entryof cattle- " 1 Competition , was good for rape lambs and good .woolly lambs.. Wo oultted tho bulk of the entry at the. following nilotatioiisFour and six-tooth wethers -ife. to 17s. 2d. ; two-tooth, wethers,';;l49.' Id ' to ! 14s. 6d.; fat 18s. 3d,;';,fat maiden owes, 19s. 5d.; six-tooth ewos, lis.to llß.iZd-i coll ewos, 3s. 9d. to 75.; shorn m-oo in-nib-S lte. 2d. to lis.; good woolly ewes 9»- to 10s. Id. to 10s. 7d. to lis '• 9d.; small ..woolly lambs, ; 4«. - c/ 1 '-to- 6s. 4d. ; medium shorn- lambs, ta"' to 8s- 3d.; cull ditto. 46. Id. to ss'- fafcicows, £8; throe and a half-year hiiflocks. £?; forwaid cows, £4 -ss. to £4 lfe • stoxev-cows, £3 2s. to £3 13s. weaner ; eteo-s,- 2Js,-; -yearling- heifers, 375. 6d. . Mr Hewton King reports.--On Monday, February i, for my Douglas sheep fair and mttlo sale X had a heavy entry Competition ''throughout wO3 spirited, all lines, with tho exception'of two pens of sheep, being 'cleared at tho hammer. J. had a special" entry of owes and. tombs on account of Messrs. Budge Good, which were juovstlsr good elioep. but tlirong-ii having just been, shorn and having had several days' yarding and driving.-wero looking very tired,-but tho whole of the.so sheep were -sold at the following prices tooth owes, 15s. 7<i.; l£s.

tots, 10s. 3d.; ecconds. Bs. lOd.; calls, ss, 2d. and ss. 7d.; cull ewes, 9s. Bd. to lis. 9d. Other pricos were: Four and sixtooth. wethera, 17s. 7d.; a line of fourtooth cwos, lately shorn, made 17s. lOd.; fat ewes, lto. to 17?-; two-tooth wethors, from 14s. lid. to 16s. Id.; two and fourtooth ewes (rather email), 14s. Ud.: f.m. owes, from 7s. for poor to lZe. 9d, for the better class, the average pricos boini: lls. .6d.; Jambs, second Duality, Bb.; culls, 3s. 6d. to Is. Id.; TouKh yearling steers, £2 "M. ,6d.; eighteen-month heifers, with somo oolour,' £3 65.: fifteen- and eiphteenmonth'heifers, rough.- £2 7s. to "£2 10s.; bulls, £3 17s. fid. to £8; fat cows, primo hut light, £8 to £8 Bs.; 'hea7y cows, ■ unfinished; £7 2s. «rt. .to 47 l»9.; forward cows, up to "£S 195.; good Rt-oro cows, £4 15s. to £5 Bs.; light-framed cows, £3 5s. 1 to .44 6b. At Stratford on Tuesday, February 2, I had a fair entry, for which there was a general inquiry for all lines, with ■the exoeption of eighteen-month heifers, which were slack. Prices obtained were;— Weaner steers (good Shorthorne), £1 175.; others, £1 45.; mixed weaners, £1 55.; weaner. heifers, ,10s. to £1 Ob. 6d.; springing heifers, £5 10s.; eighteen-month eteerS, £3 10s. 6d. to £3 14s. 6d.; emaJl yearlings, £2 3s. to £2 17s. 5d.( two end a half-year steers, £5 10s. 6d.; eighteen-month heifers, £2 3e. to £2 14s. 6d:; bulls, £7 ss. to £9; small, £3. 17s. 6d.; fat cows, £7, 10s.~ to £3; forward cowe, '£6 ss. to £o 17e. " 6d.; .etore:co-we, £4 is. to £4 155.; small cows, £2 13s. to.£3 lis.; four-tooth ewcE, 15s. 10d'.*; f.m. owes, 7s. 3d. to Bs. 9d.j mixed-age - cwee, 13s. 3d.; lambs,. Be.' 6d.; fat ewes, 16e. 6d. At Stony River yard on ■'Wednesday, February 3, I 'had a . small entry, which sold as follow:—Mixed weanere. good Shorthorns, £1 'Bs. to £1 lis.; springing heifers, £4 '165.; cight-cen-month steers, £3 lis.; fat cows, £8- to £9 Is.; forward cows. £6 12s. to £7 Bs.; heavy bo'lV. £10 ss. end £10 10e.; light bulls, £4, 17e. 6d.; heavy etags. £8 15s. to £12; Jersey two and a half. and three-year steers, £4 17s.' 6d. to £6 55.; lambs. 10s. 4d.; four-tooth-ewes, 17s. Id.; mixed sheep, 14e. 5d.; goats, 3s. 6d.; slip pigs; 15s. 6d. to 16s. :6d. ?\