LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2515, 17 July 1915, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

' Messrs. Dalgety and Company. Limited, report:—At our weekly' : Paiinerstoii North. . .sale' on Thuirsda.v, we- have'to. report having only a small yarding of stock, which, sold, as follows:—Light 'store cowtf, £3"55.; : 'dairy; cows, to. £8; a line of 582 backward .wethers,.two and four-tooth, sold at'lOs.lOd. ! The New Zealand' Loan, and Mercantile '.'Agency Co. report:—Qb. Monday we ,he)d a '.clearing sale-of dairy stock on account of Messrs. Wilsoh' Bras., . Jones's. Line, ißongotea. The stock'was'good," ahd 'in 'first-class condition, i" Competition was .keen .'throughout the sale, with-the result that 'Rood prices were obtained. \ The herd of--137 cows averaged, £9. Best cows, £10 -10s. ito £15; average cows, £7 to £9 ,15s'.;'late' j'r.nd three-quarter cows, £3 ss. to £6 10s.; *13 springing heifers, £5 ss.'to £5'155.; yearfling heifers; £2 3s. 6d.j bulls, £3 7s. 6d. to >\£7. 2s. ;6d;-;'spring cai't horses, £14 10s.. .£l7Vfis., and.£2B; aged gelding, £5 10s.; hack, f£l3 55.; store pigs, 205.,: 305., 32g. 6(1.; slips, tZls. 6d.; breeding sows, £4'55., £4 -10s., £A jlfk 6d. At Palmorston North, on ThursI day tho firm had a email entry of both [sheep and cattle. All classes of stock were fin keen demand, and young , cattle showed Wn' improvement on recent prices. . Sixjtoatli ewes in lamb, 21s. 6d.; weaner heif7»rs, 205.; yearling heifers; 335. to £2 25.; iffersey yearling heifers,. 335.; heifers, x.w.b., !£2 155.; store.cows,. £2, £2 10s., £3 3s. t and }£3 55.; empty cows, £3 145.. £4 25., £4 6s„ I £4 195.; dairy cow, '•« lte.