LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2688, 7 February 1916, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report having held a most successful clearing Hale of dairy cows, etc., on.account of Sir. H. Guy, of A.to-1, on Thursday. There was not a large attendance of buyers, but bidding was keen throughout. The cows made from £A for three-teaters to £13 12s. 6d. for sound, and the heifers from £4 15s. to £8 55., the whole heTd averaging £8.- At Eketahiina, oil Friday, we had a good yarding of sheep and a small one of cattle. A large. attendance of buyers were present, and-bidding was fairly animated throughout' the sale, with the exception of. one email pen a. total clearance was : mado under the hammer at tho following rates:—Good b.f. rape lambs, 15s. Bd.; good w.f. wether lambs, 14s. 3d.; medium m.s. lambs, 12s. 10d.; small do.. 10s. to 12s. 3d.; low-conditioned, four and five-year ewes, 155.. Bd.. to 16s. 3d.; aged ewes, 12s. 3d.; store cows, £5 17s, 6d.; wcaner, heifers, £1 ss. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Feilding sale held on Friday as follows:—We submitted a heavy yarding of sheep and a fair yarding of cattle to a good attendance. Competition was keen, all classes of stock meeting with a. ready sale, with the result of a total clearance at the following rates:—Four, and five-year ewes, 18s. lOd. to 215.;. others, 165.; good shorn rope lambs, 13s. 8d„ 13s. 10d., 15s. 3d., to 15s. Bd.; two-tooth wethers, 235. Bd.; fat . ewes, 215.; fat wethers, 235. Fat cows (light),-- £7: to £7. ss. ;• eighteenmonth to two-year steers, £3 55., £4 125., t-o £4 17s. 6d.; weaners, mixed, 255. to' 375.; springing cow, £9 bulls,. £4. l(ls. to £15 los. . • Messrs.■ Abraham and. Williams, Ltd., report that' at tlieir Pongaroa stock ealc, held on February 3, they had a large yarding of sheep and a medium one of cattle. With the exception of three or four head of .cattle we .made a t-dtal clearance of our entry at prices slightly under thoso. ruling in the Forty-Mile Bush district. F.M. ewes made from.los. lid.; fiveyear ewes," 10s. to . 19s. j mixed-sexed twotooths, 18s. Id.; six-tooth to f.f.m. ewes, 19s. fid.; shorn lambs, 6s. 6d.;.lambs. 10s.; empty two-year heifcr6, £3 10s.; two-year steers, £6; two-year heifers . in calf, '£3 19s. fid.; fat cows, £6 lCs. " FEILDING PRODUCE MARKET. 'Messrs. Atkinson and Co., Ltd., report Week-end values as under:—Weaner . pigs, Us. 6d. to 13s. 6d.; slips, 155., 165., 175.; stores, 205., 245., 285., 325. 6d., 335.; porkers, 355., 395., 4ite. Poultry, per pair, hens, 3s. 6d.- to 3s. 9d.; ducks, - 4s. - 9d. Oatensheaf chaff, £5; feed oats, 45.; barley, 55.; peas, 65.; Scotch tares, 17s. 6d.; wheat, 6s. 6d.; potatoes. 7s. to 7s. 6d. per cwt.; peaches, 3s. to fc. per halfcase; nectarincs, 4s. 6d„ 55.; tomatoes, 'ss. 6d.' tr 65.; pears, 2s. 6d„ 3s. 6d.; apples, ,3s. 6d., 45.; plums, Is. 6d.