LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2599, 22 October 1915, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Tko New Zealand Loan and Mercantile iigeucv Co., Ltd., report that- at their usual weekly sale lield at Levin yards on Wednesday. they offered » fair yarding of tattle and pigs, and report a total clearance at the following prices: Fat cow, £8 45.: store cows, £4 7e. 6d.; dairy cows, close 'to profit, £9; yearling heifers, small, 325. 6d.; wcancr pigs, Bs. 6d. to 15s. 6d.; boar. 21s. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report, a most succcssful sale .at Mr. Ooy6 farm,' Awahuri Road, on Wednesday. The cows in milk were an exceptionally nico lot and Tealiesd. from £7 to £17 10s. The springing cows were mostly late calvcrs, and the prices suffered accordingly. Messrs. TV. and G. Tornbull and 00., Ltd., report having held their usual weekly sale in their Waipoua. (Jlastcrton) yards, on October 20, 1915. A yarding as advertised camc forward, and met with keen competition, and Or total clearance resulted at the following prices:—Woolly f.m. ewes lu lamb, 235. lid.; shorn fat ewes, 20s. Id.; shorn fat wetheTS, 21s. Id.; shorn forward four and 6ix-tooth ewes, 176. Id.; shorn ewes aud lamhs, 235. Id. Porker© (small), 155.; slips (good), 155.; store sows, £2 Fat cows (good), £11 10s.; light, £5 18s. to £6 55.; cows in calf, £5 2s. 6d.; yearling steers, £3; two-year store heifers, £3 145.; Polled Angus bull. £6 ss.;iheifer calves, 315.; bay draught more, five years, £40 lCe.; black draught gelding, four years, £30; bay halfdraught mate, 'six years, £14; bay draught mare, five years, £45. We also sold on account of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund, donated by the executors in the estate of the late Phil one bay half-draught gelding, which brought £15.

Never has the demand for clear-headed constructive thinking in business been so urgent as it is right now. We are living in a progressive age, and must take advantgae of all up-to-date methods. It is in savings from waste'of any description that money is made to-day, and by concentrating one's efforts on , all details of our business wo claim to bo- able to produce results for our many cream suppliers. We want more cream. Can you supply us? Further particulars, Wanga nm Fresh Food Co.—Advt.

Stock sales with full particulars ,of stock to be auctioned are advertised elsewhere in this issue.