LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2617, 12 November 1915, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report:—At our. Huntervillfl sole on Tuesday we have to report having o. small entry of sheep and a good yarding of cattle; a]J lines met with a ready sale, and a total clearance was effected at the following prices:—Extra good mixed hoggets, 285.; shorn fat wethers, 225. 6d.; mixed weaners, 205.; small mixed yearlings, £2; yearling to fifteen-months heifers, £3 Is.; yearling to fifteen-monfihs steers, £4: two and a halfyear steers, to £7 19o.; light fat cows, £7 Bs. to £8 10s.;. three-year bullocks, £10 2s. 6d,; forward bullocks, to £11 16s. 6d.; store pigs, 295. Sd. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., Wellington, report having held their usual Levin sale on Wednesday. They offered an exceptionally heavy yarding of-cattle and a small entry of eheep. Competition was very keen throughout the sale, and they report practically a ' total clearance of about ICOO head of' cattle th© hammer. ,Quotations: Fat ewes, 225. 6d.; empty heifers, £2 10s., £3, £3 10s., to £4 £s.; mixed yearlings, 245., 325. 6d., £2, to £2 lis.; fat oullocks, £12\£12 10s., to £13; fat cows,£6,. £6 10s., £6\l7s. 6d., £7 fe., to £7 125..; forward coirs; £5, £5 10s., to £6; fat heifers, Co £7 10s.; yearling steers, £2.105„ £2 165.; eighteen-month steers, £3 10s., £4, to £4 12s. fed.; two-year steers, £5, £5 53., to £5 12s. 6d.; three-year steers,, £-6 2s. Gd., £7 105.,1 £7 155., to £8;- threo ana a half to four-year steers, £8 le., £9, £10 lie., to £12 155.; sfore cows, £4, £4 55., £4 10s., to £6. A line of 40 two-year Hereford heifers realised £5 Ids.; bulls, £4-10?. to £7. A line of springing heifers, £6' 10s. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., Wellington, report having held their Waikanae sale on Tuesday, when they offered a small entry of cattle, prices being a-s follow:— Fat and v forward cows, to £o IBs.; empty heifers, £3 2s; 6d. to £4 10s. Mesersi W. and G. Turnbull ond Co., Ltd., report having held their usual weekly sale In their Waipoua (Mnsterton) yards on Wednesday. A small yarding of sheep but a good yarding of cattle came forward, and met with very spirited compe* tition, and a good clearance was made at thb following prices:—Fat woolly wethers, 325.; shorn fat ewes, 2«45. Id.; store ewes, 155.; weancr pigs; '14s. to 16s. 6d.; fat cows, £7 19s. 6d., £8 4a., £8 155., to £9; fat heifers, £7 10s.; cotys and calves, £6 $s. 6d.; store cowe, £4, £5 Is., to £6; three and four-year bullocks, £8 165.; two-year empty heifers', £4 ' lis.; two-year steers, £5 Bs.; yearling Shorthorn heifers, £3 10s. 6d, to £4 Is.; yearling Holstein-cross steers, £3 25.; yearlingv • Shorthorn-Hereford-crosa steers. £4 fe., £5, to £5 10s.; yearling Shortheifers. £2 95., £2 18s., to £1- Tis. 6d.; yearling Jersey-cross heifers, 325. 6d.; yearling Jcrsey-crces steeTs and heifers, 365.; springing heifers, £6 Bs. '6d.; Jersey cow in milk, £9. 1