LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2592, 14 October 1915, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report, on their • Johnsonville sale as : follows:—A good yarding of pnut quality cattle and Jheep camo forward. There was a large attendance of buyers, and everything sold, readily' at' lute 'rates. ' Prime bullocks, £17 to £17 55.; and heavier at £18 to £18 55.; prime, lighter, £15 10s. to £16 to £16 10s.; vealcre, 26=. to 295.; springing hellers, £6; two-year steers, small, £4 75.: prime heavy wethers, 095.; pnmo light- welters. 325. fd.; extra, prime shorn •wethers'. 275.; extra, heavy prime- ewes, 405.; prlmo ewes, 3os. 6d.; medium ewes, ate.; prime siiorn ewes, 255. 9d.; prime lambs, 16s - 4d. to lis.; and 17s. Bd. to ISs. 3d.; light; 14s. 1-ld. to Ife. i ■ Messrs. Abraham end Williams, Ltd., report as under regarding their Woodvillo =ale-held on Monday:—We had no eaeep, and the cattle submitted were, generally speaking, poor in condition and quality. The sale throughout was dragging, except where good cattle called - the attention. of the buyers, when the bidding showed animation. Fat bullock, £9 12s. td.; fat heller; £9 is.; second calvers, guaranteed. '£5 ss. to £7 155.; springing heifers (good), £5 50s. to £6; springing heifers (medium), ' £4 to £-5; backward heifers, £3 t-o £4; empty heifers, £3 10s. to £3 155.; empty cows, £4 2s. 6d. to £4 155.; yearlings, £1 12s. 6d. to £2 95.; Jersey bulls, £o ss. to Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd.. report on their Pahidtua Ecle, held on luesday:—Wc had. a largo entry of cattle and a small one Of sheep. The yarding of cattle was not noticeable for quality, and the. sale throughout was anything but brisk. sjXtra good heifers at the drop held their own regarding price, but inferior backward cattle were very hard to quit. The following aro a. range of tales effected- 33 fat woolly .ewes and wethers, 3Ce. 6d.; on account of Mr. D. O'Brien, six good heifers at ..drop, £3 12s. 6(1. to £7 7s. 6c1.; medium heifers, £4 7s. 6d. to £6 2s. 6d.; poor heifers. £3 7s. 6d. to £4 55.; yearling • heifers, £1 7e. 6d. to £2 5a.; bulls, £3 7s. 6d. to £4 to £4 10s.; empty cows, £3 17s. 6d. to £5 55.; barren heifers, £5. The New. Zealand Loan -and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report that at their usual monthly stock sale, held at Wai- • kanae on Tuesday, a good entry of cattle came forward, and with the exception of several pens of yearlings, tlic whole of ■ their yarding changed hands at satisfactory prlccs.. They quote :-Thiree-ycar light fat steers, £12 6s ; three-year good-condi-tion steers, £9 lis.; fat cow, £9; springing heifers, £4 to £4 10s. ADDINGTON MARKET. (By Telegraoh.—l'i'ess Christchurch, October 13." , At' the Addington live stock market tho entries of almost all classes of stock were small, and there was a general rise in prices. Fat cattle were very firm; fat . lambe and sheep were dearer, store sheep showed a rise in values, and pigs also sold well. Store sheep: Aged cwee (in lamb), to 18s. 3d.; dry ewes, to 17s. 9d.; - six-tooth wethers, 215.; "horn four-tooth 1 wethers, to 15s. lid.; good shorn two-tooth wethers, to. 17s. Id.; -inferior wether hoggets. Ife. to 155.; fairly good wether hoggets, 16s. 1 to 17s. Bd.;

shorn hoggets, 13s.7d.;shorn ivcther hogMts 12s; 9d. to 13s. Bd.: aged owes <m<l lambs, ft?.; sound-mouthed ewes f" 11 Jambs, Ms. to 14s. 6d.; ewe hoggets. 18s. lOd. to 21b. 9d.; superior owe hoggets, 245. to Jo. sd<i. For fat lambs prices ranged from 20s. 9d. sheep: Prime wethers, 30s. to 435. 3d.; others, Ms. to 295. 6a.; merino wethers, 295. 6d, to 335. 6d.; shorn wethers, 19s. to 33e. 6d.; extra, pnimc ewes, to 425. Id.; prime ewes, 275. 6(1. to 3fc. 6d.; others, 21s. lid. to 275.; shorn ewes, 275. to 325.; hoggets, 17s. to cattle: Extra prime steers, to £21 : steers, £8 ss. to £12 10s.; extra' urirao heifers, to £21; ordinary heifers, '£6 17s. fid. to £12 10s.; extra prime cows, to £14 5g.; ordinary cows, £6 ICe. to £10 10o.; price of beef per 1001b., 325. 6u. to 505., extra to 546. Store oattlc: yearling's. 15s. fid. to 205.; fifteen to cißhtecn-months sorts. £1 12e. fid. to £2 55.; two-yejfir. steers. £5 7s. 6cf.: two-year heifers, £2 Ife. to £3; two and a half-year steers, £6 7s. fid. (passed); threeyear st-eors, 66 17s. fid. (passed); two-year hoifcrs, £4 17s. 6d. to £5 (passed); di\v cows, 305.. to £7 7s. 6d.; ('airy cows, £3 ss. to £9 15s. Pigs.—Choppers, 60s. to 117s. 6d.; cxi.ro, heavy baeouers. to S2s.; heavy baconere, 725. to 80s.; light baooners, 58s. to 705.; price per* lb., sjd.; heavy porfcere, 445. to 485.;-light porkers, 3Ss. to 425.; price per. lb., 7d. . ... BURNSIDE MARKET. Duncdin, October 13. At Burnside to-day 118 fat cattle wcro yarded. Owing to the small entry and butchers' stocks being low, competition -was exceedingly keen, and' prices extremely high; advancing fully 305., compared with last week. Best bullocks, to -£22 15b. ; extra, to £24 12s. 6d.; medium, to £20; lighter, to £17 ss.;<best heifers, to £16; medium,* to £11;' light," to £8 10s. Pat sheep: 1283 were penned, n, small yarding, and only fair Quality. For the lew pens of good sheep forward, competition was vary keen. Best wethers, to 50s. 6d.i extra, to 565.; medium, to 4Cs.; light and unfinished, to 305.;. besfc ewes, to 48s. 3d.; extra. to 545.; medium, to 305.; unfinished, to 225. Sixteen , new season's'lambs wero keenly competed for up to 275.