LIVE-STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2634, 3 December 1915, Page 8

LIVE-STOCK SALES

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile ;'Agency Co., Ltd., report that at their usual monthly stock sale held at Te lloro on .Tuesday, cattle did not come forward up to advertised numbers, owing'to rouf,*h weaklier. . Notwithstanding this they offered a fair entry* of sheep and a heavy yarding •of cattle. Competition was keen for most ; lincs offered, and they have' to report a good sale. The following prices were realised Fat sheep, 375. Id.; ©horn ewes with Jambs, 255. ■ 3d.; fat cows, £7 14s. to £9 10s.; fat heifers, £7 to £7 "145.; store cows,' •£4 3s. to £4. lis.; cows with,calves,:£4 7s. &L to £6 Be.; dairy cows* £6 10s. to £8 .••205.; vealers, 275. 6d.; eighteen-montlis. heifers, £3 Is.; yearling heifers,' £2: to £3; twelve-months Jersey bull, £2 55.; breeding sows, r.w.b;, £2 6s. to £3; boar, 10s; . The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile. Agency Co., Ltd., report that at their usual weekly stock sale held at.Levin on Wednesday they offered a heavy yarding of cattle, which met with good competition, end .with the .exception of two pen 6 of. young stock, the whole of their yarding changed hands at the following prices:— Fat cows, £8, £8 fe., £8 95., £8 lis.; light fat heifers, £6 7s. 6d. to £6 lis.; forward cows- £5 18s. to £6 55.; store coirs, £3 375.; three-year Jereey 6tecrs, £7 155.; two and a. half-year steers (mixed colours), £4 lie., £5 75., to £5 10s.; twelve-months «teers (inferior), £2 55.; yearling heifers (dairy sorts), £2-ss. to £2 lis.; two-year heifers, £3 155.; ©pringing heifers, £5; fat porkers, 273. 6d. to 355. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their JohnsonviUe sale as follows: —A- good entry of cattle and sheep came forward, and sold at late rates. , Prime bullocks, £15, 7s. 6d. to £15 lighter, £14 15e. to £14' 17e. 6d.; vealers, 295.> to 355.; heavy, £2 145." to £3; prime heavy wethers, 255. 6d. to 265. Id.; -prime ewes, 225. 6d.; light ewes, 2fls. lid. to 215.,'6d.; . extra prime lambs, 17s. lOd. to 18s. 9d.; lighter, 15s. to 15s. fid. "teesrs. W. and G. Tnrnbull and Co., ; ttd., Teporb having held their usual weekly sale of stock in their Waipoua. (Masterton") sale yards on Wednesday. A gooA .yarding of sheep and cattle came forward. Competition for all classes of stock %vas very keen, and we have to Teport a total clearance of all lines offered with the ex-

ceptiou. of two pens of bfld coloured steers. The following- arc the prices realised and. forward ewes iu the wool, 275.-to vOs.; fat two-tooth wethers, 20s. to 20s. 7(1.; forward ewes (shorn), 18s., 18s. 7d., to 18s. Bd.; shorn ewes and lambs, 21s. sd. to 295: 2d.; two-tootli. wethers (email). 17s. Id.; fat cows, £8 145., £$ 55., to £11 lZs.; forwar.d cows, £6 55., £7, to £7 lOs.; empty heifers, £5 to £5 10s. 6d.; "'three-year steers (bad colours), £7 10s. to £8 10s.: two-yeav steers,' £7 4t?.; yearling steers, £3 145., £3 18s., to £4; eightecu-months empty heifers, £3 10s. to £3 18?.; ysarlinp heifers, 365. to £2 ssi; cows and calws, £6 to £6 135.; store cows, £3 to £4 25.; eighteen-month Jersey bull, £6 2s.