LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2598, 21 October 1915, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Johnsonviile sale as follows:—A good yarding of cattle and sheep camo forward, and sold at late rates, l'rime bullocks, £16, £16 7s. 6d., to £16 15=., and £17 2s. 6d.; lighter, £15 to . £15 10s.; vealere, 255. to 455.; prime heavy shorn v.-ethers, 275. 6d. to 275. Bd.; lighter, 255. 6d. ■ to 265.; prime shorn ewes, >245. 2d.; light shorn ewes, 225.; medium woolly wethers, 345.; prime lambs, las. to 18s. 2d.; lighter, Im. to 15s. lid.. Messrs. Ahraham and Williams, Limited report on their Pahiatua sale, held on Tuesday last:—We offered a email yarding of sheep anal only a medium one of cattle. Fat two and four-tooth mixed-sex sheep made 295. 9d. On account of Mr. D. O'Brien a particularly nice lot of forward springing heifers realised from £6 10s. to ' £7; good heifers sold freely at from £5 to £6 12s. 6d.; backward heifers, £3 10s. to £4 10s.; poorer heifers were' very dull of sale, realisng from 30s. to £2 10s.; guaranteed sound cows, £6 15s. to £7 55.; empty heifers, £4 ICe. to £5; empty cows, £5. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report as follows:—At Himitangi on Monday we had a good yarding. Competition was good throughout, and we sold the bulk of the entry at improved rates, as follows:—Yearling heifers, 355.'6 d.; fifteen-month heifers, £2 9s. 6d., £2 lis. 6d.; eighteen-month heifers, £2 14s. 6d., £3 Is.heifers, r.w.b., £3 Es. 6d . £4; store cows, s£4 6s„ £4 95.; good forward cows, £6 75.; two-year springing heifers, £4 10s., £5, £5 10s., £5 155.; good two-year springing lieifers, £6, £6 lEs.; three-year springing heifers, £5 165.. £7; 12s. 6d„ £8 2s. 6d.;'oows with calves, £3, £4, £4 145.; good

two-year bull 6, £5, £5 123.i £6 55.; tlireeyear Jersey bulls, £3. The New Zealand Loan and llercantllo A"oncy Co. report,:—At Kaumai, on Tuesday, ivo liad an average yarding, tlie whole of which met with good competition at slightly improved rates as follows coloured . yearlings, £2 Is. 6d.; eighteeumonth Jersey heifer, £3 ICS.; two-year steers, £5 155.; empty cows, £4 Is., £4 165.; forward cows, £5 lis., £6 17s. 6d.; fat'cows, £9 10s.; springing heifers, £4 2s. 6ri.. £5 23. 6d,, £6 55.; young Jersey bulls, £2. ss„ £A 7s. 6d., £4 155., £5. ADDINGTON MAEKET. By Tclotfrapn.—l'resa At-soeuttlon. Chrlstchurch, October 20. At the Addington live stock market the entries of fat stock were somewhat larger than last week. The demand for beef was very keen, and prices were the liigho6t known in the'yards. Fat lainbs also sold well considering .the number offered. Store sheep were also in keen demand in consequence o£ lain, and thero was a further rise of 1«. to 3s. in-fat sheep. Store sheep: Medium owe hoggets, 18s. _to 20s. Id.; good owe lioggets, 13s. 9d. to 235.; shorn wethers, Me. 10c!.; wether lioggets, 16s. 2d. to 195.; aged ewes and lambs, 116. lid. to; 13s. 4d.; shorn aged ewes and lambs, lis. to 12s. 6d.; sound-moUitlied ewes and lambs, 15a Id. to 16s. 2d.; ffiry ewes (aged), 12s. 6d. Fat lambs: Best lambs, 20s. to 255.; lighter,' 17s. 6d. to 19s. M. Fat sheep: Extra prime woolly wethers, to 525. 6d.; prime, 325. 6d. to 4£s.; others. 225. 9d. to 325.; shorn wether/;, 16s. £d. to 345.; woolly merino wethers, 235. 6d.; extra prime woolly ewes, to 435. 6d.; prime ewes, 305.. to 365.; others, 193. 9d. to 295.; woolly merino ewes, 175.; shorn ewes, 245. 6d. to 30s. 6d.; woolly hoggets, 17s. to <os. Fat cattle: Extra, prime steera, £21 10b.; ordinary steers, £10 to £13; extra primo heifers,- to £14 55.; ordinary heifers, £7 lCs. to £12 10s.; extra prime cowa, to £19 153. > ordinary cows, £6 17s. 6d. to £11. Price of beef, per 1001b., 365. to 545.; extra, to 60s. Store cattle: -Yearlings, 15s. to 275. 6d.; fifteen to cigliteen-montli, £2 to £2 135.; two-year steers. £4 6s. to £5 Is.; two-year heifers, £3 16s. to £4 55.; two and a halfyear steers, £6 7s. 6d.; threc-yea-T heifers,. £5 lfis. 6d. to £6 55.; dry cows, 50s. to £7 12s. fid.; dairy cows, £3 to £11 ss. Pigs: Choppers, 70s. to 1255.; extra heavy baconers, 90s, to 100s.; heavy'.bneoncr*, 60s. to 70s. Price, per lb., 6',d. to 7d.' Heavy porkers, 38s. to 545. Price, por lb., 7d. to 7'd. Best'stores (not large), 325. to 36d.; medium stores, 2ls. to 305.; small stores, 14s: to 215.; small weaners, 9s. to' 12s. 6d.; good weaners, 13g. to 17s. 6d.; sows, "with Utters, to 110s.

BURNSIDE MARKET. RECORD PRICES FOE BEEF. Dunetlln, October 20. At the Burnside market to-day 115 fat cattle -were yarded, in fairly good quality. The sale opened with prices about 30s. per head in advance of last week's exceedingly high pries, and as it progressed values hardened until at the clogs they were 30s. higher than the opening rates. Best bullocks, £22 to £24. 10s.; extra, to £26 10s.; medium, to £18 to £21 10s.; others, £15 t-> £17 10s. Best heifers, £15 to £17; extra, to £19 17s. 6d.; medium, to £13; others, £8 to £li. Beef realised 565. to 655. per 1001b., the highest prices ever recorded at Burn6"'e - l , . , • , Fat sheep: 1795 were penned, in fair to good quality. The wile opened with prices about on a par with last week's rates, but,' as it progressed they receded, and at the close showed a decline of about Is, on the exceptionally high rateS ruling last week. Beet wethers, to 505.; extra, to 535. 3d.: medium, to 405.; light and unfinished, to 305.; best ewes, to 385.; extra, to 426.; medium, to 305.; light, to 225.; . shorn, wethers, to 28s. 9d. Lambs: 32. penned. These sold under good competition, up to 265.