LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2515, 16 July 1915, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

■ The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd-., report that on Wednesday ' they held a. gale of dairy stock, on account of Mr. 0. Neilsen, of Aokautere, end have to. report a. satisfactory -sole. Cows int milk; £4 15e., £6 ss„ £7 15s„ £8 55.; best cows, £8 to £12' 155.; average cows, £5 ss. to £7; low-conditioned and late cows, £3' 10s.. £4 155.; the 18 dairy cows averaging, £6 Us.; eprinflging heifers, £4, £4 10s„ £5 12s. 6d.; empty heifers, £2 12s. 6d.j weaner heifers, 305.; empty sows, £2 2s. 6d, r to £3 £s.; elipa, 17s.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report having held their usual weekly ! stock sale at their Levin yards on Wednesday, when they offered a small entry of sheep and, a. heavy yarding of cattle to a large attendance of buyers. Bidding was' brisk throughout tho sale, and, with, the exception of several lots of dairy cows, e, total olearancc was made at .satisfactory prices. The, quote :—Cull two-tooth ewes, 13s. Bd.; four-tooth do., 12s. 2d.; sii-toolh do.. 12s. Id.; - four-year do., 10s. 6d.; oull rams, 7s. 6d.; light fat cows, £5 2s. to £5 lis. 6d.: good forward cows, £4 IDs., £4 155., to £4 17s. 6d.; etore cows. £2 l>s., £3 .4s„ £3 17s. 6d., to £4' 55.; cull do., £2 6s. to £2 125.; twenty-month steers, £4 135.; nine-month dairy heifers, 20s. to 325. 6d.; dairy cows, £4 55.; eighteen-month bull. £3 25.; light iat porkers, 265. 6d.; medium do., 305., 325.. to 33a. 6d.; heavy do., £2 ss. '/ . ' Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held their usual weekly sale ■In their Levin yards on.-Wednesday, when thcy 'offered to a,' good attendance a full yarding of - sheep . and an exceptionally heavy .yarding of cattle. Competition all through was keen, especially so for all classes of . sheep offered, fat sheep in particular commanding keen attention. "Dairystock'were dull of: sale.' . Male, cattle and empty : cows were' in demand, and all lots offered were disposed of under the, hammer at . in'• excess of buyers' reserves. The principal l.sales were as f under:-r-Fat wothersr 295. 6d., to 30s. 6d.; fat ewes,. 235. 6di, 245.,'. to 265.; ,fat end forward wethers, 255.; full condition four-year ewes, in lamb vS Southdown ram, 16s. 3d. to 17s. 2d.; good condition empty ewes, 193. 7d.; medium shorn: hoggets, 10e. lid.; light-weight fat cows, £6 10?r to £7'-75.; forward■ empty cows, ■ £5, 45., to £5. IBs.; medium condition empty- cows," £3 10s. to £4 17e.; eighteenmonth steers. £3 16s. to £3 18s.; full condition cows' in calf, £3 lis.; springing heifers, £5'56.,.t0 £5 7s. 6d.;, dairy co.we, close to' profit, £6 10s.'. to £8 10s: . 1 *

Messrs.' Dalgety «nd Company, - Limited. report\ having r held a most successful clearing- sale, on account of Mr. -H;> V; flamniond at his Tdrigimoana homestead Ohjui, on- Tuesday. •• A-representative gathering of buyers were present from all parts of -the district. • - Stock came- forward in very fair, order," and''as the sate yae unreserved exceptionally Jieen competition took place for «11 lots - offered. - . Owing to the inclement weather -which had been- experienced r.the; week prior to the sale, sheep Svere- not looking at their best, but as they had been bred and born on high country, buyers recognised that the stock would do welt wherever grazed. The principal sales were =as under Four-tooth ewesi in. lamb to, 265. 4d,; . six-tooth ewes, ,255.;- medium ewes, 235. 4d.;'four and five-year''ewes, 22e. 9d.; medium 9horn wether. hoggets, 12s. 7d,; medium ewe two-tooth wethers, 225. lid.small two-tooth wethers, 19s. 4d.; empty ! ewee;?l4s/ 7d.cull lambs, 9s. 4d.; forward .empty ewes, 20s. 10d.; Shorthorn Hereford weaner heifers, £5 Is, fid.; Shorthorn Hereford "\yeoner steers, £4; cows in calf to Hereford bull, £3 175.; eighteenmonth empty-heifers, £3 ss. to £3 10s.; Hereford'.bull; £6 65.; milk cows, . £6 10s., two-year heifers in calf. £4 7e. 306.; yearling heifers, ■£2d2s.'; draught hones, £20 10s., £25, £35; •backs and? harness horses, £13 10s. to £15. and Williams, Ltd., report v on their Pahiatua stock sale, held on f TUesday,^as' i was a. very large entry-, of'- cattle as well as sheepBuyers were opsratiug freely from, outside district®; and although some of the steers .did inob realise owners' expectations under .the/hammer they wer# all quitted at .increased . prices after tho sale. Sheep showed a • hardening tendency all round, and a. good clearance was effected. Cattle: ■Some two hundred head of cattlc were yarded, and prices realised were as' fol-low:—Three-year bullocks, medium condition, £7 12s. 6d, to £9; two-year to two and e' half-year bullocks,' £6; two-year bullocks, '£5; empty Vcows,'- £2 lfe. 6d. to £3 55.; empty.- heifers, £4' 12s; 6d.; forward store cows,' emptyv £5 2s. 6d. Sheep; 136 mixed •hoggets. 165..4d.,\33 mixed-age ewes. l4s. 5d.; 91 mixed-age ewes, 16s. 6d.; 18 ewes in lamb, 195," 6di: 109 ewes in lamb to Southdown xainv 19s;? 300 ::four \ and five-year ewes, •20s;; : '61-two-tooth- wethers,' 245.; 36 fat ewes, '245.; fair lambs,' 20s.- to-235. 6d.; fat ewes, 206.' 6d."'to 245.; stud Bomney ewes, offered oh account of Mr. William Mitchell, 12gns.