LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2600, 23 October 1915, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., Palmerston North, report :~At our. Palmerston North sale on Thursday, we have to rcnSd V ii. nS -D'i VCry ,f au ' y ardin ß of sheep and cattle. Prices all round showed an advance, and quotations are as follow •- Empty woolly ewes, 21s, 6d.; small woolly Uoggets, to 16s. 6d.; medium woolly mixed hoggets, to 21s. 2d.; mixed age ewes with lambs, 275. 5d. ; fat woolly ewea, 335. 2d.: ralwJin 10s - t0 M cows and tali es, to £5 25.; empty cows, £5 ss. to to wffirs ' Just <«lved, £9 10s.

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ma., report having held their usual weekly snln on thoy offcred ' a fair j-ardlng of sheep and a heavy yarding of cattle The ySmling of lheep prtaCipally consisted of fats, and keen com- !>*}">» p'ace for all lots offered. In cattle the quality; of the yarding was only medium, lhe principal sales were as under :-Pr!me fftt ewes, 34a. 9d., 3fe„ 3fe. 2 ™. fat hoggets. 20s. 6d.; bwes and lambs, 28s! id.; forward empty cows, £5 4s„ £5 12s to £6; store cows, £3 to £3 155.; medium two-year-old steers, £4; poor-conditioned cows and calves, £4; mixed yearlings, 335. to £2Bpringmg cows, £5 to £6 10s. ' Messrs. DaJgety and Co., Ltd., re<port:-At our Pahautanui sale on Thursday wc offered a fair yarding of sheep and a heavy yarding of cattle. This -was the ftret -sale of the season. Competition was exceptionally Keen, and male cattle were also inquired for. Female cattlo were dull of Fale, ana the majority of such lines were passed m. The sale, all through, lmwever, was a. goou on, and in a number of instances owners' reserves on both sheep and cattle were exceeded. Our principal sales were as follow:—Two and four-tooth wethers, 295. Id.; medium four-tooth -wethers, 265. Bd.; three-year-old steers. £7 iK to £7 165.; empty two-year-old heifers, £4 to £4 55.; fiftecn-month6 steers, £2 12s. 6d.; oightcen-months steers, £3 17s. 6d.; springing heifers, £5 to £5 65.; yearling Ayrshire heifers, £2 6s.

Tlis Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company reports:—At our weekly sale at, Palmcrston on Thursday we had a. fair entry of <xuttle. Competition was good for all classes.of. stock, and we sold practically the whole of our entry at auction at improved rates as' follow :-Small yearling heifers, 365.; fiftcen-monthe hoin -tt 3 V 178._ 6d., £3 Is.; eightcenmontlis Holstein heifers, £3 55.; two-year empty lieifcrs, £3 lis., £3 lfc; yearling steers, '£2 125., £3 Ye?.; eightcen-months etcors, £4 lis.; heifers in calf, £3 7s 6d £3 95.; cows with calves, £6 7s. 6il • forward cows, £5 to £6 7s. 6d.; ligh fat cows £7 Ms., £7 17a. 6d ; good dairy cows £6 17s. 6d„ £7, to £9; gocnl eaghteen-months .Terscy bulls, £2 15s. to £5 2s. 6d.; two-year Jcreey bulls, good, £6 ss. to £7.