LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2547, 23 August 1915, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

i -Messrs. 'Dalgcty. and Oompa-ny, Limited, . reported:—At our Palmerston. North sale 'o'ni Thursday, .we had an exceptionally good entry of 'cattle, practically oTery line of which Changed hands at prices highly satisfactory to vendors:—Empty store cows, £3; empty cows, £3. 19e., £4 ss„ £5 6s. £5 Bs. fkl.,'£o-.95. 6d.;,light fat cows, to £8 Is.; weaner heifers,'to £21s. 6d.; weaner steers, 355. to £3 2s. 61; backward dairy cowsi to £5 55.; .three' and a half-year bullocks, to £12; forward bullocks, to £13 135.; twoyear steers, to £6; two and a holf-vc-ar steers, to £7 6s. At our Huntorville sale, oil Tuesday, a fair entry of stock cumc forward, • whicli. sold ais follows Aged cull ewes, lis.; medium, wether hoggets, to 17s. 71; store-cows, low; condition,-£2 26. 6d.; dairy heifers, to £5 ss. ■ Messrs. Daljety. and Company, Limited, report having a. good entry of sheep and a fair" yarding of cattle at their Feilding sale. on ; -IMday; praotically nil of whicn Changed' hands at fallowing prices :—Cail hoggets, to 10s.; small hoggets, to 14s. !od.; medium hoggetG, to 16s. 64; good hoggets, 10s. 5d., 18s-Bd., 18s. ill to 19s. 7d.; . £ood woolly: hoggets, ,to 235.; cull aged ewe 6, 13s. fid.; light fat ewes, to 265. 6d.; weaner ..heifers,: to,- ; £l 125.; weancT steers, to £2 -12s. 6d.;. yearling steer's, to £3 7s. 6d.; twoyeiur -steers," to £6 Is.

The • New Zealand Loan and Mercantile •Agency' Co., Ltd., Dannevirke, report 'havingheld on August 19 a successful clearing salo on account of W. Hcrmansem -Mahttnihara. The condition of the etock of tho .stock, although fair, did not come up to, 'expectation's, but "the - public; recogni sing ■that .the quality was.thcrc, bid accordingly and one of, the most, if not the most, successful sale .of the season eventuated. Tho highest price realised was £14; and tho lowest realised was £6. The whole hunl of 54 cows and heifers making tho <xceptioually'good average of £9 155.. The following '.is a list of prices-obtained:—00-ws (including. heifers juet oalver), £14; '£13' 15s. ; £13 ilOs.; £13;'£12' 12s. 6d.; £12 (four); £11 325. :'6&; £11 10s.;-£11 ss'.; £11 2s. 6d. (two); £11; £10 ISs.; £10 103.; £10 ss. (tm>); £10 (three); £9 1&. 6d.; £9.175. 61; £9 2s. 61; £9 (four); :£8 17s. 6d.-; £8 155.; £8 12s. 6d.' (two); £8 •10s. (four); £8 ss. (two); £8; £7 (two); £6 10s.; £6. Springing heifers. £13; £12 55.; £9 7s/'6d.; £9; £8 10e.-(two); £7.25. 6d.; £6 17s.' 64.; £6 55.; £6 23. 6d. Week-old calves, 16s.';" m.s. "hoggets, 16s. 3d. ' ; Thq New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company roport:—During the week we have held sales at fiangiotu, Aniti, Pclmerston, and Pedlding. At on Monday, we had a good yarding of cattle, -which' sold freely. All fat and for-waa-d cows: sold particularly well. Weaner steers (small), 28s:;. : weaneri heifers (good), ;365.; teariings,--£2 ,65.; store cows, £3.£5., £3 .95., .£3 165., £4 3e.; forward coivs, £4 17s„ ■£5 105... £5 175.; fat cows, £7, £7 ss„ £8, £9 95.; three-year springing heifers, £5 10s.; dairy cows, £5, to. £8 55.; breeding sows,' £5. At' Apiti,' on' Tuesday, a email entry sold well. Forward wethers, 295. 3d.; light fat wethers, 325. 7d.; weaners, 325. 6d.; twenty-month heifers, £3 2g.; 6tore cows, £3 12s. to '£4 145.; cow 3 in calf, £4. 15s. to' £6 155.; two and a half-year steers' (rough), £5 2s. 6d.; springing heifers, £5 ss. to £6 ss. At Palmerston, on Thursday, we had a fair entry of sheep and a. heavy entry of cattle.. All; sold, freely, values in favoluir of vendors. Oull lambs, Bs.; medium hoggets, £15 10s.; fat wethers, 375.; fat ewes, 275.; yearling heifers (small), 235„ 315.; yearling heifers, 375. to £2 2s. 6d.; yearling heifers, 375. to £2 2s. 6d.; yearling steers, £2 lis., ;£2 155.; mixed yearlings. £2. 75.; • eighteen-month steers (rough), £3 10a.; springing lieifers;, £4 to £6 10s.; springing he,jfeirs,.'£4 -to £6 10s.; springing, cows, ;£6 2s. 6d."; cows and calves at foot. £4 10s., ■£5 ss'.; store'eows, £3 155., £4 155.; forward cows, 1 £5 to £6.75.; light fat. cows, £7■ to £8 15?.; fat heifers, £13 10s.; fat bullocks, £15 Is.-■ At Feilding, on Friday, we had a good yarding of both and cattle, and, with the exception of one pen of sheep, quitted all lines at full values. Cattle were in keen demand andi sold well.' Cull hoggete, 12s.' 10d.; small hoggets, 16s. 2d.; good mixed-hoggets, 19s. 9<L to ,215.; pght fat'ewes,'2ss. .to 265.; prime ewes. 30s. to 335. 3d.j-'fat wethers,' 355.; yearling steers (good), £4 35.; twenty-month • heifers, £2 17s. 6d. to; £3:7 si; cews ; in calf, £5 2a.; store cows," £A 10s.;' forward.cows, £6 10s.:to £7; two and two and a half-year steers, £6 12s. 6d.; two and a half to three-year steers, £8 65.; three-year steers, £9 165.; bulls. £6 lCs. ' Messrs. Abraham and . Williams, ' Ltd., report:on their Feilding sale on Friday:— We l'.ad a, medium entry of both, sheep, and cattle. All olasses of stock selling, well, and we quitted the whole of our. enri try .raider the hammer. We quote:—Bestj j hoggets, 18s. 7d. to 20s. Bd.; medium,;. 17s. to> l 17s. Id.; fat b.f. hoggets, 21e. 3d.; fat: ewes ' 295;: 74., 295. 9d. to 295. 101; faf 'tooni'' Wethers, 265. ,2d;- .Cattle: Eighteen-month, steers, £3 13s. 61; mixed weaners,':3ss'.. to; 375. 61; two-year steers, £7; two i ahd--ai half-year empty heifers. £5 125.; ,61 ;\ loWH; comditioned' Bullocks, £7 175.;- eighteenr. - momth'. empty heifere, £2 14s. 6d.; ' .cowp, £2'75., ,£3 3s„ to £3 145.; springing cows, low, £4.t0 £4 10s.; heifers and calves, £7 17s. 6d.

! . Messrs. W. and G. Tarnbull and Co., Ltd, .report having held their weekly Enle in thoir Carterton yards on Friday. A f.ood yarding of sheep and cattle came forward, and bidding -was keen throughout the eale, and a total clearance of sheep and tactically a. clearance of cattle was made at. the following prices. Shieep: -' Mat ewe wethers, 345.; woolly,. mixed-sex hoggets, good, 21s. lid.; -wooUy wether hoggets, 2'e ; medium hoggets, 17s. 2d-.; medium b.f.'hoggets,,l7s. 6d.; f.m. ewes in lamb, 24s 3d.; store ewas, 15s. Pigs: Sows in pig, £4 to £4 2s. 64. j slips, 12s. 6d., 13s. 6d„ !<s.. to 155.; porker, 275. 9d. to 28s. Cattle: Fat cows, £9 to £10; forward cows, £5, to £5 175.; store cows, £2 16s„ £2 ISs., £3 Is, £3' 63., £3 75,. £3,145„ £4 Is. to £4 11s.; oid cows, 405.: forward heifers. £5 "Is.;- ttore licifers, £2 95., £2 13s.', to £3 135.; heifers 'and calves, £4 125.; springing ileifors, i-5 55., £6, to £7 10s.; springing heifers 'Jote culvers), £4 125.; springing cows, good. £6; medium, £3 10s. to £4; yearling heifers, 25»., 385.. to 445.; yoarling steers, 465.; eighteen-' month heifers, £2 17s. Mr. Newton King reports:—At Waiwokailio on August 13 I had a very heavy yarding, and all lines were cleared at the following prices :—Jersey yearling heifers, good, up to £2 13s. 6a.; grade yearling heifers, well grown, £2 to £2 lis.; smaller,

2<s. fid. to 375. 6d.; good yo'arling steers, £3 Bs: to £3 lis, 6d.; romffli, £2 IDs. to £2 I£g.; small, 395. fid. to £2 Is.; good line of two-year-Old empty heifers, £4 25.; fair. £3 7s. to £3 125. 6d.; two-year steers, £5 75.; ■aged store cows (good framed), £4 2s. 6d. to £4 12s. 6d.; light framed store cows, £3 10s. to £4 55.; fair 6tore cows, £4 tfs. 6d. to £5 165.; forward cows, £6 12s. to £7 Is.; bulls, £6 12j. 6d. to £9; hoggets, <7s. to 19s. 6d.; ewes and iambs, £1. Mr. J. West's dairy cows were a mixed line, «< 11ing up to £12, averaging £7.155. Mr. Xlarpor. Lepper's cows sold at from £7 to £12 is.; dairy cows, in account of other sudors, realised from £6 10s. to £10; springing heifol's, up to £9 155.; and from £4 ss. to £7 12s. 6d. for two-yeair-oilds; cows in calf made from £4 ss. to £6 12s. 6d. On August 16 for the cleaning sale at Mr. King's Barrett Head farm the cows wore all Holstein, and those showing well down In calf met. with .great competition, selling np to £17 ffe. for the best, but a good nanir bar were later calvers (no dates being available), and the average for the' herd of £11 43. 6d. was a. very good. one. Three-quarter cows said up to £7; empty cows, £4 tOs. to £6 55.; yearling heifers, £2 fo.; yearling bulta £2 4s. to £5; farm, horses, £2V 10s. to £35; three-year Holstein* springing heifers, £9 to £10 10s. On the same day at Douglas tiie following prices were madte: — Yearling heifers, 36s.;'small, 225. and 23&: yearling steers, £3 Is.; rough, £2 ss. 61 to £2 75.; two-year steers, £5; Jersey 3 and rough, £3 16s. to £4 125.; two and a halfyear steers, £6 75.; good two-year empty heifers, £4; fair, twenty-month empty heifers, £3 to £3 Bs.; store cows, £4 Is. to £4 175.; fat cows, £8 6s. to £9 lCs.; hoggets, 20s. ,5d.; culls, Bs. Gd; to 10s. 3d.; two and ewes in lamb, 275. 6d.; f.f.m. ewes in lamb, 255.; f.m. ewe© in lamb, £2s. t0.225. 6d.; cufll ewes, 145.-64 to Ifisi '<1.; fat.sheep, 265. 6d.; fa.t ewes, 2(9. and 275.; ram®, Ids. 6d. to 15s. 9d.; store and forward wethers, 275. lid.; springing cows, £5 lEe. 6d. to £6 2s. 64.; three-yjpair springing heifers, up to £9 10s.; smaller, £3 17s. 6d. to £5 15s. At Stratford on AMg-ust 17 prices obtained were;— Good yearling heifers, £2 10s. to £2 175.; fair, 30s. 6d. to 385.; empty two-year ihcifers, £3 7s. to £3 125.; r mall yearling heifers. £1 to £1 to. fid.; yearling Bteers, £3 7s. 6dv; fair. £2 16s. to £3 Is.; light store cows, £3 16s. to £4 £«.; .(air store'cows, £4 13s. 6d. to £5 45.; goodi stores from £5 10s. to £7 16g. for cows carrying a little condition; light fat cows, £9 25.: fat two-year . Jersey. heifers, £5 18s.; forward three-year steers, £11; good'-condStion-od two and a half; to three-year steers, £8 195.; ema.ll hoggets;. 16s. 6d.; f.m. ewes in lamb, 20s. 6d. In the dairy, yards, pood heifer's sold up to £11, but the smaller and backward sorts were' hard of sale, making from £4 15s. to £6; dairy cow 6 made from £5 10s. to £9 and £15 for one choice Jersey, cow; three-quarter cows made £4 155.; the '61 head sold averaging £7 7s. At Stoney River' on August 18 the following prices .were made;—Jereoy yearling heifers, £2 45.; mixed yearlings, 345. to 37e.; small, 265.' to 295.; empty two-year heifers, £3 16s. and £3 17s. 6d.; empty eighteen-month heifers, £3 2s. to £3 9s.;' yearling steers, £3 2s. 61; rough, £2 7s. 6d. to £2 125.; springing heifers (good), up to £9; others, mostly email, £4 to £6 10s.; dairy cows, .£7 ss. ,to £10; fat covfe, £8 17s. fid. to £9 155.; store and forward cows, £4 lEs. to £7 55.; light store cows, '£3 4s. to £4 75.; Toung ewes and lambs, 305.; hoggets; Ills. 6d.; slip, pigs, £1 is. to £1 7s. 6d.; f,m. ewes in lamb, 225,