LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2607, 1 November 1915, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Dalgety and Company/ Limited, Masterton, report bavin* held their usual fat stock sale at the Carterton Show on Thursday. All the freezing companies operating in the Wairarapa were, represents, anil. competition was very keen throughout, the following' prices being realised:—l*ambs: Two pens lambs offered account' Mr, 0;: Oampbel 1, at, £2 Is.: • two pens account Mr. A. Grant, at £2 ss.;.five *ens account Mr.-A. E." Booth, at 255.; and three pens- at 215.; two pens aocount- Wiggins Bros, at 18s. Ewes: One pen account 6ievers Bros., at 365.; two pens account W.

Henry Booth, at 295.; one pen account A. S. Grant, at 255.; one pen account If. K. ll'Phee, at 355. Wethers: Two pens account Mi*. C. Campbell, at _435.; one Den account Sievers Bros., at 305.; one nen W. Kcmpton. •at 325. One fat wether, donated by Mr: J. Hamilton, Longbush; on Recount of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund, roalised tho satisfactory sum of £12. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report:—At our Palmerston North annual cattle fair on Thursdav, we have to report having a good yarding of cattle. There was keen competition throughout the day, nnd practically every line*changed hands at advanced rates. Quotations:—Small yearling heifers, 30s. to £2; yearling.heifers, £2 45., £2 95., £2 lis., £2 19*., £3 ss. to £3 Bb.; small yearling steers. £2 ,4s. to £2 145.; yearling to 15-inonths steers, £3 14s. 6d., 4s. Id.', to £4 195.; empty 2J-year to 3-year heifers, to £* 65.; empty store now 3, £3 16s. to £5 55.; fair-conditioned cows. £6 25., £6 95., £6 103. to £7 65.; forward cows. 15s. to £8. Messrs. Dalgety'and Company, Limited, report:—At ourFeilding sale on Friday we have to report having a fair yarding of sheep and cattle, which sold as below:— .Medium mixed hoggets, to 19s. 6d.; aged ewes; to 18s. 2d.; good mixed hoggets, to 255.. 7d.; ewes 'with blackface lambs, to 545. Gd., fat woolly ewes, to 30rf.; light fat woolly .wethers, to 30s. 6d.; bad-colourpd yearling 6teers, £2 10s.: 15-month's steers, to £4; small heifers, with calves, £4 10s.; backward springers, to £5 2s. 6d. The N.Z. • Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd, report having held their fortnightly sale at the Upper Hutt yards on •Friday, when they offered a large yarding of cattle to buyers from the Manawatu and surrounding districts, and under spirited competition sold ipractieally the whole ot their yarding at satisfactory prices. Tliey quote':—Z\ to 3-year steers, £8 45.; 2ycar steers, mixed colours, £5 ss. to £5 10s.; 18-months steers, £4 Bs.; empty cows, £4 65., £4 10s. to £5 65.; empty heifers. £4 10s. to £4 155.; forward cows, £5 10s. to I tl ?s.» small springing heifers, £4 3s. to I £5 135.; heifers, r.w.b., £3 ss. to £3 10s.; ycarli'ngs, heifers, to £2 55.; mixed weaners, to £1 7a. i The N.Z. Loan, and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report:—The DanneI »irke sale was held in the .Miller's Road ! Yards on Friday, when we offered a small ♦ _ arding of cattle. Thero was good competition for all classes of stock, but owners ideas of values in some cases < were too high to admit of business being done. Quotations:—Fat cows, £8; store cows, £6 13s. to £5 10s.; 2-year- steers. £5 35.; yearling steers, £3 10s.; yearling heifers, £2, 153. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report having held their weekly sale at Eketahuna on Friday, when • they offered a fair yarding of sheep and cattle to a fair attendance of buyers. Ajmost a total .clearance was made at the following rates:— M.s. shorn hoggets, 14s. 10dj to 155.; shorn ewes with lambs, £1 Is. 3d.; fat woolly ewes, £1 75.; 3-year steers, £7 Bs.; heifers, in profit, £6 10s.; springers, £8.

The New Zealand Loan/and Mercantile Agency Ltd., report:— The fat "tock sale in connection with the Carterton Show was held oh the,grounds on Friday morning. The various'freezing companies were again operating, and although prices were not as high as at the' previous show,'the sale was a most satisfactory one. Wo sold on account of Mr. .Colin Campbell, fat lamb? at £2 35.,'£2 25., and £1 35.; on account. of; Mr. A. Clark, two pens fat Jambs at-18s.; on account of Mr. C. L. Hoynolds, two pens fat ewes at £1 135.; on' account of' Mi\ Tom Reid, one pen of shorn wethers, £1 ss. / Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Peildlng saie on Friday:— We had a medium yarding of both shctp end cattle. All stock again- sold well, and ive effected a total clearance under the hammer. We quote Sheep: Ewes and lambs, 355.; fat ewes, shorn, 255. 6d.; woolly, light, 18s.;. fAt maiden ewes and wethers; •horn, 235. 2d. to 235. lid.;"small, 17s. 3d.; small 2-tcoth withers, fat, 21s. 9d. Cattle: Fat bullocks, £13 14s. 6d., £15 to £15 17s. 6d. • 2-year steers, £5 3s. 6d.; yearling Btcers, £2 IBs., £3 to £3 35.; yearling heifers, 265., £3 ss. to £3 125.; fat cows, £8 fc.; bulls, £5, £7 12s, 6d„ £10 15s. to £11 lis.Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report having held their weakly sale at Levin on Friday, when they submitted heavy y-ardings of both sheep and cattle. Bidding throughout was keen and animated, and with very few exceptions we sold practically all lots under the hammer. Quotations:—Sheep: On account It. H. S. Gorringe—Fat wethers, 325. 2d.. 365.; fat ewes, 355. On account of Experimental Farm— Pat wethers, 325.; fat ewes. 335. 9d. On account K. Kirkcaldie. Esq..—Fat ..ewes (shorn), 225. 6d„ 265. Other quotations :— Fat wethers, 365. 9d„ 375. Id.; fat ewes, 355. 6d.; forward empty ewes, 28s. 28s. to £1 os. 3d. Cattle:,On account of Boys' Training Farm—Fat. cows, £10 25., £11. On account of'N. "MacMUlan—Fat cows, £8 ss. and £11 15s.' Other quotations:—Fat c»ws. SB 105. to £10 75.; forward cows, £5 14s„ £6. 2s. '6a., £6 -lis. to £7 Us.; store, cows, £3 65.„ £4 13s. to £5 55.; cows' and calves, £3 3s: 6d.. £5 145., £5 195.; forward bullocks (light). £11. £11 25.-6 d.; 2 and 3-year steers (low conditioned), £7 10s.; 2 and steers, £6 135.: 18-months steers. £3 17s. 6d.; 18-months heifers, £3 10s„ £3 15.; 2-year empty heifers, £4 155.; yearling lieifers. 335. 6d.. £2 55.. £2 10s.;' yearling steers. £2 6s. to £3 3s. 6&; bulls.. i 8 65., £9 10s.. £10, £10 l!s. 6d.; dairy heifers, in mill;. £5. £5 55., £6 lCs., £7 2s. 6d. to £9 13s. Pigs:—We had an entry of. 70 pigs, which sold ns lmdcr:—Wcaners. lis. 6d., 12s. 9d.. 15s. 6rt... 17s. 3d. to 16s. 9d.": stores. £1, £1 (Is. 6d.. £1 55.; porkers, 335. 6d„ 345. 6d., 365., £2. £2 2s. 6«.