LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2404, 9 March 1915, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having a very good entry of etock at our Fell ain £ sale on Friday, nearly every line .of which changed hands at tho following prices:—Cnll lambs, s©. to 6s. 6d.j email lambs, to 7b.; medium lambs, to Bs.; good mixed lambe. to 10s. 9d.; fat lambs, to 13s. 5d.; aged ewes, 75., Bb. 2d., to 9a.; mixed-age ewes, 10s. 9(1. iff 13s. 10d.'; twotooth ewes, to 15b. fid.: four and fire-year, owes, 166. to 16s. 9d. Cattle: Wearer heifers, lte. 6d.: weaner steers, 295.;' 50-month steers, to £3 10s.; light fat cows, £5' 2s. to '£6 ss.' -

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.,- Ltd., report ae. follows:—At our weekly sale held at Lcrin on Friday ft fair of both sheep and cattle came forward, practically the whole of 'our yarding -changed hands at the following prices:—Fat end. forward ewes, 16s. 2d.; f.m. ewes, low condition,' 12s. 2d.; medium fat cows, to £6 55.; light fat heifers,' good quality, £6 3?.: fat' two-year steers, £8 155.; store cows, £3 lfe. to £4 65.; eighteenmonth steers, £4 2s. 6d.: eighteen-month Heifers, to £3; bulls, £5 10b.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency 'Co., Ltd., repoTt at Pongaroa on Thursday we had a laTge yarding of sheep and a fair one of cattle. Sheep met with good competition,, but there, was practically no demand for cattle. A good clearance- was made at the following rates:— Good fonr and five-year ewea, 14s. 10d.; mixed-age .ewes, lis. 6d.: low-conditioned fonr 'and five-year ewes, 9s. 3d. to 10s. 6d.; medium w.f. lambs, Be. 3d.; small- ditto, 45., 45.-2 d., 4s. 9d„ and Se.; cowb and calves, £4 to £4 155.; store cows, £J. .

The ■ New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:—'We held our weekly sale at Eketahnna on Friday, when _we had a very good yarding of sheep./ There.was a good attendance of buyers present, and competition vrap fairly animated throughout the sole, with - the exception of one lot of Bheep we made a total clearance nnder the hammer at the following prices:—Four and five-year ewea, Ms.' 2d.: aged, ewes, 10s.; small two-tooth ditto, 10s. 10d.'; b.f. rape lambs, 125.; w.f. ffiflo. 10s. 3d. to' lis. 6d.; medium w.f. lambs, Bs. 9d. to 95.; smell ditto, 65., 6s. Id., 6s. 2d., 6s. 4d., and 6e. Bd.; cull ditto, 3s. 6d..t0 3s. 9d.; Lincoln mms, 3} to 4jm.; Southdown ditto, 3 to 3}gns.