COMMERCIAL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2492, 21 June 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL

LIVE STOCK SALES Messrs. Dalgetv and Company. Limited, Palmerston North, report on their Jjeiiaing sale on Friday last:—Good entry of tmeep and a small yarding of cattle. Small Jttinfcs, Bs. 9d„ 10s. sd. t-o lis. 9d.; medium l&mbs, 12s. 3d., 12s. 4d.; fair iambs, to 13s. 7d.; very fair lambs, 14s. 6d, to Ha. lCd. ; light tot sheep, l&s. 9d. to 19s. Bd.; aged ewes ill lamb, Us. 9d.; four and fire-year ewes in lamb, 176. 11<1.. 19s. 3d.. 23e. 4d., to 225. r /<L; backward dairy Heifers, £4 6s. ou. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Fcildlug sale last Friday Fair entry of both sheep and cattle. Twolooth wethers, 21s. Bd.; sinaJl. 196. 6d.; lowconditioned ewes in lamb, 165.; lamb, 12a. 6d., 135., to 14s. lOd.; fat wethers. 245. Jd. to 265. 3d.; fat ewes, 21-s. 9d. to 245. Cattle: Fat cows, £6, £6 €s., £7 75., £7 155., £8 145., £9 55., £9,155., t* £10; fat heifers, £6 to £6 12s. 6d.; forward cows, £5 7s. to £5 155.; store cows, £2 lis.; dairy cows, £6 ss. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report ou their Levin, sale on Friday Fat wethers, 245. 3d. to 28s. 4d.; light fat ewes, 195.: fat cows, £6 10s. to £7 135.; forward cows, £4 to £5 45.; store cows, £2 ss. to £3 Is.; heifers in calf, £3>185.; young dairy cows, £4 3s. 6d. An fcntry of about 60 pigs met with fair demand, and the following prices were realised:—Baconers, £2; porkers, 175., 255., 256., 315:.. to 355.; wcanere, 6s. to Bs. Messrs, W. and G. TnrnbuU and Co., Ltd.. report on their sole at Carterton on Friday last:—Six-tooth to f.m. ewes in lamb to Southdown rams, 17s. 2d.; f.m. ewes in lamb to Southdown rams, 12s. Cattle: Fat heifers, £8 to £9 18s.; fat cows, £6 143. to £7 Is.; forward store cows, £3 195.; store cows, £2 55.; old. store cows, 2 <l s. to 326.; yearling Jersey heifers, 265.; yearling steers, 235. 6d.; springing heifers, £6 ss. to £6 15s. On account of tho Wounded Soldiers' Fund—• 1 Daisy cart, donated by Mr. Jf. H. Woltersj £10; one load swedes, donated by Mr. A* Knutson, £1; four <lucks, donated by Mil 6am Swan a, 65,; and on* pig, donated by Mr. Steve Bishop, which, after being sold 48 times, realised £18 17s. fid. A donation woa also made by Messrs. Gould find Austin, of 18s. per head on six fat heifers sold, which means another £5 Bb. to the fund; and two springing heifers, donated by Messrs. Doller and Kemble, realised £6 ss. e*ach, £12 10s., and £1 donated by Mr. Bobt. i Kemble; a grand total of £48 lie. 6d. Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Dannevirke, report:— Clearing sale at Te Kehunga, on account of Mr. J. O'Neill—Herd averaged tho satisfactory price of £7 2s. per head, tho top | price being £13 ss. and the lowest £4 15s. Pigs sold at ruling roarkot rates. A mini-, ber of outside entries were offered, but these niet with, little or no competition. Mr, O'Neill generously donated, the proceeds of one of his cows for the benefit of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund. The result of tho offering was as under:—Adolf Berg. £1; John'Englebretsen, £1; W. Oread, £1; J. F. Meagher, £1; R. Moss, £1; John Stewart, £1; J. R. Meagher, Jtin., 10s.-; Adolf Rerg (final). £5 10s.; total, £12. Dannevirke sale on Friday last:—M.S. hoggets (small), lis. 2d.; two-tooth owes, los.; two-tooth wethers, 165.; four and five-year ewes (low conditioa), Us. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co,, Ltd., report:—During the week we hate held sales at Hinvitangi, Palmerston North, and Feilding, end a clearing sale on account of Mr. F. Wi?no!ski, at Mangawhafa. Quotations: Efimitangi— Eighteen-month heifers, r.w.b., £G6s.; el-ore cows, £2 10s. to £3. Wisnofski—Best early calvers. £9 to £12 155.; Septombe/r and October calvers, £5 15s. to £8; three-quarter cows, £2 10s. to £5 1&.; 28 sparing calvers, averaging £8 35.; springing heifers, £4 15s. to £5 155.; empty heifers, 30s. lo £2 17s. 6d.; yearling heifers (good), 38s. Pigs: Slips, £3 106. Sundries made good values. Palmorston North—Medium b.f. lambs, 12s. 9d.; raodium woolly lambs, 13s. Id.; fat wethers, 275. 6d.; store cows. £2 lis.; forward cows, £4 12s. 6d.; light fat cows, £6 to £6 55.; dairy cow 6 at drop (good), £9 10s.; bulla, £3, £4,' to £4 ss. Feildinff—Medium lambs, 12f. 2d. to 12s. Yd. Cattle: cows, £6 6s. to £2 155.; forward cows, £4 10s. to £5; fat and forward cows, £5 7&. &d. to £5 10s.: light fat heifers, £5 2s. 6d.; heifers in calf, £5.