LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2469, 24 May 1915, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Me«sr<s. Dalgety end Company. Ltd., Palmcrston North, report:—At our Foilning on Friday last, the tone of the sheep market showed a- decided improvement on the previous week's sale, and practically a total clearance was effected. Cull lambs, to ss. lid.; small lambs, fe. 3d.. 9s. 2d., to 9s. 6d.; woolly lambs, 10s. 6d.; medium lambs, 10s. Id. to lis.; mixed-age ewes in lamb, 135., 14s. to 15s. lid.; small twotooth . wethers. 14«. 3d.; liffht fat ewes. 19s. <d.; store cows, to £Z- 55.; dairy cow 6, £3 fe.; dairy cows, £6' ss. to £7 2s. 6d. Messrs. Dalgety and Co.. Ltd.. report on 1 their Danncvirke sale held on Friday Small shorn lambs, Bs. 3d. to Bs. 6d.; medium woolly lambs, to 9s. lOd.; f.m. ewes, in lamb, to 10s. Bd.; eulL two-tooths, 10s. ! 6d.; medium two-tooth wethers, to lfe. Cattle: Small yearling heifers, 225. 6d.; two-yw-r-off heifers, £3 2s. 6d. to £3 10s.; I fair-conditioned store cows. £3 to £3 45.; fat cowe, £6 55., £6 12s. 6d„ to £6 155.; dairy cows, Scptcmher calvere, £3 2s. 6d., £3 10s.. £3 155.. to £4 2s. 6d. At their Levin sale oil Friday last. Messrs. Dalgety and Co.. Ltd., offered, a good, entry of sheep and a- small yarding of cattle. Tho average quality of Ihe sheep which came forward was exceptionally good, and. for most of the Lines submitted there was kosn competition. On account of Mr. M. H. E. Gorringc, they sold 376 good-skinned two and four-tooth wethers at 20s. 6d., 140 two-tooths at 18s. Id., and. 240 empty owes at 12s. 6d. Other sales were a-s under:—SmalL lambs, 6s. 4d.; empty ewes, Bs. 6d. to 9s. 2d.; fat ewes, 19s. 4d. to 2fls.; lightweight fat "wethers, 21s. 6d.; springing heifers, £8 12s. 6d.; fat cow 3, £6 10s. to £6 125.; light-weight fat bullocks, £10 ss. to £10 155.; mixed-sex Polled Angus yearlings, *355.;' /springing cows, £5 6s. The New Zealand' Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:—At Feilding on Friday we had a fair entry of both sheep and cattle, and quitted . the -whole of our entry at rather better prices than thoso ruling last week. Quotations: Cull lambs, 55.; ewe lamb 6 (good), 15s. 9d.; fat lambs, 16s. 5d.; four-year ewes, in lamb, to Southdown rams, 17s. 3d.; - four-year ewes, in lamb to Koniuey'rams,. 17s. 6d.; six-tooth ewes, in lamb to ltomriey rams. 18s. 9(1.; four-tooth ewes, in lamb to Komney rams, 265.; two-tooth ewes, in lamb to Romney rams, 225. 5d.; store wethers, 18s. 7d. to 19s. 6d.; rams, 13s. to 14s. 6d.; weaner steers. 305.; store cows, 355. ,to £2 Is.; forward cows. £3 10s, to £3 17s. 6d„ to £4 55.; ro*. ; ward heifers, £4 10s.

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report that at their monthly sale in the Waikanae yards oil Tuesday last they offered a good yarding of sheep and a medium entry of cattle. Competition all through was dull, and. in a great many instances reserves were not The principal sales effected were:—Fat six-tooth wethere, 255.; small two-tooth wethers, 13s. fid.; forward empty ewes, 17s. 9d.; store cows, £3 165.; light-weight fat bullocks, £9 76. 6d.; culled cows and calves, £2 12s. Messrs. Abraham and Williams report on their Feilding sale on Friday last:—^We had a heavy yarding of both sheep and cattle, which sold at low rates. Wo quote: Forward ewes, 15s. 4d.; owcb in lamb, poor condition, 14s. to 15s. Id.; cull do., fe. 5d., 75., to Bs. 2d.; fat ewes, 18s., 205., to 20s. 6d.; store cows, 21s. to 305.; forward cows, £2 10s., £2 18s.' 6d„ to £3 55.; bulls, £5 10s. Thc»2Cow Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd.. report:—Danncvirke sale: Mixed-age ewes, lis. Id.; Jive-year ewes, lis. 6d.; two-tooth wethers, 12s. Id. Tho ifew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. report:—At our usual monthly sale held at Waikanae on Tuesday, -we offered a small entry of sheep, and a good yarding of cattle. Prices:—Sheep: Small woolly lambs, 7s. 4d.; forward cows, £3 lis.; dairy cows, £5; springing heifers. £7 15s. to £8 2s. 6d.; .©ighteen-months heifere, £2 Is.; eightoen-months Jersey steers, 345.; mixed "weaners,43s., 165., to 235. 6d.; weaner steers, 275. 6d. Dairy stock sold on account of Mr. A. Monk as follows August calvers, £4'to £6; September calvers, £4 to £6 17s. 6d.; buU, £4; hack, £4 10s. Messrs. W. and' O. Turnbuil and Co., Ltd., report having held their usual -weekly sale in -their Carterton sale yards on Friday, May 21. A good yarding of sheep, cattle and pigs came forward, and -were offered to a large attendance of buyers, bidding at auction was keen for good-conr dition lines, but low-condition was unsaleable. Pricos realised: Fat ewes, 20s. to 225.; fat and forward wethers, 18s. 6d.; fat and forward ewes, 16s. Id. to 175.; store ewes, 13s. 6d.; fat aud forward B.F. iambs, 14s. to 14s. Id.; forward woolly lambs, 145.; F.W. ewes, in lamb to Bomney rams, 10s. 10d.; old ewes, 6s. 6d.; small lambs, 65.; rams, 10s. to 15s. Pigs: Porkers, 18s., 205., to 255. Cattle: Heifers,-due # factory dates, £4 Is., £4 4s„ to £4 55.; eighteen-months heifers, in calf, £2 10s.; eighteen-months steers, £3 176. 6d.; store cows, £2 195., £3, £3 10s., to £3 lis.; lotr-condition store cows, 325. 6d. to 405.; cows in calf, due factory dates, £4, £4 10s., £4 .15s„ £4 165., to £6; steer calves, 225. 6d.; heifer calves, 23e.; cow (just calved), £8 155.; bulls, £3, £3 35., to £4 ss. Mr. Newton King's weekly report:—Monday, May 17, at Urcnui— I Two-tooth ewes, 17s. to 17s. 10d.; six-tooth and four-year empty ewes, 16s. 3d.; f.m. ewes, 7s. and 7s. 6d.; wethers, 18s. 3d.; small lambs, 75.; : springing heifers, £5 to £5 12s. 6d.; very 1 prime fat heifers, £8 to £8 10s.; good, £6 to £6 10s.; fat cows, £7 to £8 145.; lightframed fa.t cows, £6 36. to £6 175.; forward bullocks, £8 10s. to £9 95.; small fat heifers, £5 10s.; eightc-en-months steers, £3 6«. to £4 45.; eighteen-months heifers, £2 3s. to £3; store cows, £2 to £3 10s.; forward cows, £4 to £4 10s.; two and a halfyear steers, £6 125.; -weaner steers, £1 15s. ' to £1 175.; weaner Jersey heifers, £1 4s. I Bahotu on Tuesday, May 18—Weaner heifers. 16s. to £1 35.; weaner steers, £1 to £1 155.; fat cows. £3 Bs. 6d.; forward cows, £4 Bs. to £4 155.; store cows, £3 4s. to £3 155.; dairy cow 6, £7 55.; two-year steers, £4 Is.; springing heifers, £5. At Oraata, clearing sale on account of Mr. Arthur Mills—well-bred line of Jersey heifors, bred by Mr. Mills, made £10. Other prices were:—Yearling heifers, £2 10s. to £2 155.; weaner heifers, 23 guineas; store cows, £3 10s. to £6; pedigree Berkshire pig.s, 3 to 6 guineas. . FEILDING MARKET REPORT. Messrs. A. H. Atkinson and Co., Ltd., report the following values for produce, etc.: Pressed hay, £6 to £7 per ton; oaten sheaf chaff, £8 to £8 10s.; Algerian seed oats, 7s. to 7s. 6d. per bushel; feed, 4s. 9d. to 55.; straw chaff, £3 10s.; feed barley, 6s. to 6s. 6d. bushel; G.P. peas, 6s. 6d. to 7s. 6d.; Scotch tares, 15s. to 18s.; wheat, Bs.; table potatoes, £5 per ton; pig, *£2 10s.; pumpkins. 6s. to Bs. sack: onions, 7s. to 9s. cvrt.; apples, 2s. 6d. to 3s. half-case; pears, 3s. to 4s. Store pigs, 17s. to 235.; porkers, to 355.; good weaners, 10s. 6d., lis. 6d., to 135.others, 7s. 6d. to Bs. 6d.; slips, 13s. 6d.; cow, to profit in June, £5 15e. Poultry, per pair: Hcn6, 2s. 3d. to 3s. 6d.; roosters, 4s. to 4s. 6d.; pullets, to ss. 9d.