LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2522, 24 July 1915, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

llessrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held a'succcssful clearing sale on account of Mr. T. M. Kingdon, at his honiestead, near Levin, on Tliursday. An exceptionally good sale resulted, the hord making the satisfactory average of £1 153. ' Prices ranged as undcr:-Cows, close to calving, £8 lis. to £10 10s.; Septem-ber-October "calvers, £5 15s. to £7 55.; heifers. close to. profit, £7 ss. to £8; 18-montlis h-:-ifcrs. £4 7s. 6d. to £4 lis.; joarling Hdtas. £2 Bs. Exceptionally keen competition took place for pigs offered, and six sows .offered made fritti £4 12s. to ''6 Is. : Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held their ,AYaikanae sale on' Tuesday, when they offered a small yarding of cattle. The weather being exceedingly wet and boisterous, prevented many advertised lines coming forward. Tho.salee eifeoted were--as under:—Forward oows, £4 7s. to £4 125.; sipringilig coire, £5 155., £8, £9; springing heifers, £4 2s. 6d. to 5.

| At their weekly Levin sale on Wednesday, Messrs. Dalgety and Co. report that although tho day was exceedingly wet, 6tock came -forward, practically fully up to, the advertised number. Competition, especially for hoggets, was exceptionally keen, and every line' offered sold under the hammer with animated-iximpetition.- Compared with last week's rates the price of .hoggets advanced fully. Is. per liead. Buyers wero present from the Wailicto, but were "unable to. secure aiiy. stock. The'-sales effected were as under Woolly ewe hoggets, 17s. 3d.;, good woolly wether, hoggets, 16s. 6d. to'l6s." lid.; medium mixed sex shorn noggets,- 135... to 14s. id.; low-cpndition:and inferior hoggets, Bs. 9d. to lis. 6d.; empty ewos, 6s. 7d. A heavy yarding' of fat sheep' met with keen competition, pnees ruling as under:—Fat wethers,'-28s. to 30s. 4d.; fat ewes,', 265. 3d.> to- 265. 3d.; fat hoggets, Bg. 6d. to 19s. - • Oattle': Low-condi-tion yearlings, 335.';-store''cows, £2 155. : t0 £3 Bs.: 2-year P.A.. steers, '£5 55.; A good entry of pigs were all disposed of nnder the hammer, at -prices in excess of vendors Messrs. Dalgety fend Co.. -Ltd.,, Masterton, report having held their, special sheep sale at Alfredton on Thursday., Tho yarding was. rather disappointing,, owing to; tho recent heavy* rains; several entries.*did not conio.forward; making a difference between tho number advertised and the 'total: yarded oMOOO' sheep.' Several lines ;pf-;Rpinney. i cross .breeding, owes, of - first.' quality, .woro 'keenly'-competed for,' and realised 'from 255. to : 26s. 3d. Other-prices are as follow: —Sheep: Mixed aged "ewes, 4-tooth to 5-year, In lamb -;to • Romney!ranis, ,2£s.. to. 265. 3d.; 2-tootih'to f.m. ewes, in lamb to Romnoy rams,. 225: to■;225; 2d.; 6-tooth.to 5-year ewes in. 'lamb "to Southdoi™ rams, 215."; - small-ihogget-s, 125...fid..',. f Messrs-' Dalgeay .and .Company,- Limited, Palmerston North,'report:—At our Palmerston North sale on Thursday, we have to -report having -a, fair ' yarding of stock, 'which 'sold as- below:—Aged ewes, m lamb, to 155.i3d.; mixedi age ewe.-, m. lamb, les. i Bd. -to 1 v., ,' „'' ... • 1 Messrs. W. ! and G. Tiirnbull.-and Co., Ltd., report on their Walpoua. sale of July 21. as follows:—A fair yarding of sheep and cattle came-forward.- Owing to'the'boisterous weather a few lines of sheep did not come forward. Bidding was brisk for ,all olasses'"of-good" sheep and good springing dairv cows. The following are the priccs realised:—Sheep: - .Purebred! mixed ago Romney ewes, 25 guineas; f.f.m. ewes, tn lamb, fair condition,' 19s: -M. to ■ 20s. Id.; ewes in lamb, low condition, 155.. to 15s. 7a.: good forward wethers; --245. Id.;: mixed- 2tooth wethers and ewes (small). 16s. lid.; potter rams, 15s. 2d. Cattle:. .Good -dairy cows,'-close to profit, £B,'£9 :2s. 6d., £9 10s., £10 to £13 55.; dairy cows, oalvers, £5, £5 ss. to -£6 10s:; fat cows, 9 10s.; 3-year heifers, in calf, low condition, .£4,125.; for-WQ-td oowSj £4 ss. to £4;10s.; stiorc-cows, £3 103.; bulls, £7 10s. to : £11.; ss.'..The- firm also sold, on account of the Wounded Soldiers' -Fund, a Hereford hull, donated :by Mr. Geo. Shew, To Oro Ore, which realised ill ss.