LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2587, 8 October 1915, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

■Messrs. Dalgety and Company,.' Limited, Wellington; report having held their weekly Levin sale on Wednesday.;' when .they offered a small entry of sheep and a very ■ heavy yarding of cattle. : All classes of- ' cattle met "with" good' competition, "Bythe , end of the salo we disposed •' of tho bulk'of our entry under the h-ammer.and privately. Quotations as follows:—Empty '.ewes, to 19s. 3d.; weaners, 155., 245.', to 325.; eighteen-month steers, 435.;' fat cows, '£4 14s. to £6 lis.; forward cows, £4.25., £4 155.; store cows, £3 Is. : to-£3 75.,- empty heifers, £3 to £3 lis'.; springing heifers,' £4,105.; two-year steers', to' £6 10s. 1 ; two'an'd a half to three-year=steers, £6 IC6. to £7-10s.; 00W6 .in milk, £4 15s. to. £10. •- Messrs. Dalgety- and Company,.. Limited, Wellington report as -follows • on', , their. Otaki sale, held on Monday. We submitted a fair entry of sheep and a large entry of cattle. The sheep met" with rather a dragging,.sole, but the cattle sold fairly well. Quotations .'as follows:—Yearling heifers; 37sS £2'l6s'.', to £3; yearling 18-. month steers, to £3 5e.; two and a halfyear steers, to £6 10s.-; empty heifers, £2 165., £3, £3.105.; cows in milk, £5, £5 12s. 6di, £5 155.; store cows, £4 to. £4 .10s.; . weaner pigs,'.-13s„ 165., 16s. 6d„ 17s. 6d., to 20s. ■ '