LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2689, 8 February 1916, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

l .- ... —r — • s[r. Newton King rfport«:—At Douglas there was a fine entry for my annual eheep fair and: cattle .'. sale. Bidding 1 right 1 through 1 was brisk, prices for sheep being right in advance of all previous sales as follows Two-tooth ewes, 195.;. tv.'o-t-jn,t,h mixed' sheep.: 225. 2d (good); .. two-tooth ivcthers, 19s. lOd.; four tooth ewes, 2te. 4d.; trtu four, and ,eix-tooth .wethers. 225. Id.; two-tooth to f.f.m. e'nes, 17e. 3d. to 225.;

four and sii-tooth and f.f.rn. ewes, 18s. to Zlh : small, I4ri. 5(1,; Tat and forward owes, 21: 3d.; f.f.m. ewes, 18s. 7(1. to 19s. 6d.; f.m. ewe<s, 12s. Bd. ta 165.;.w0011y lambs, 14s. sd. to 14s. 9d,; good shorn lambs, 120. 4c1.; smaller, Bs.. lid. to 10s. 6d.; fat bullocks, .€l4; two and a luilf and thrcc-ycar steers, £9 18a.; two-year steers £4 to £5; eightccumonth heifers, good, £4; fifteen-month heifers, £2 10s. to £2 18s 6d.; springiug heifer i, £5 17s. 6d.; bulk, £7 2s. 6d. to £7 17s. 6(1.; small, £4 10s. to £5; fat and forward cows, £7 Is. to £9 45.; store cows, .65 to £6 155.: email storo cows, £3 13s. 6d. At Stratford, on February 1, there was a Hue yarding of both sheep and cattle. Bidding was good, practically everything beiiiy cleared at the following prices-.—Weaner

steers, £2; mixed wcauers, 275. to -385.; weauer heifers, 155.; ffteen-montli heifers, £2 se. to £3 is. 6d.; eighteen-month heifers, good, £3 9s. to £4 75.; eighteeu-iuouth bteers, £4 to £4 145.; two ami a half-year steers, £6 195.; jfat t\v> and a half-year heifere, £8'165.; fat cows. £10 and £10 Is.; light fat cows, £B'l3s. fid. to, £9 125.; forward cows, £6 12s. 6d. to £7 10s.; storo cows, £4 13s. to £6.12*.- bulls, £6 10s. to £10 103.; springing heifers, £A lCs. to £7; small lambs, 9s. Bd.; fat lambs, 16s. lid.; fat to forward ewes, 21s. lid.; fat woolly ewes, 28s. 7d.; fat to forward ewes, 216. lid.; fat woolly ewes, 28s. 7d.; fat to forward wethers, 235. Id. to 236 6d.; ; sound-mouthed ewes, 195.; f:m. ewes, 10s. 9d. to 17s. 2d.; two-tooth ewes, 205.; two-tooth wethers, 205. Id t0.215. 6d. t At Stony River, on February 2, both sheep and cuttle came, forward much in excess of. advertised numbers, a very satisfactory sale resulting at the following prices:—'Weaner steers, £1 14s. to £2 7s. 6d.; mixed wcaners, £1 He. to to £2 4s. 6d.; weaner heifers. 206. 6d. to £1 7s. 6d.; fifteen-month heifers. £2 16s. 6d. to £3 6s ; fifteen-month steers, £3 135.; two-year etecre, £5; two and a half-year steers, £7 Is., fat cows, £9 to £9 195.; forward cows, £o 18s. to £7 135.; stor>> cows, according to frame, £3 153. to £6 145.: springing heifers, £5 15s. to £6 12s. 6d.; bulls, £6 12s. 6d. to £11 15a.; Jambs, lis. 4d to 13s. 6d.; culls, 9s. 6d.; f.m. ewes, 17s to 18s. Bd.; mixed fa* ewes, 235. Bd., r-ixed fat sheep, lambs and lioggete, 18s. 4d.; fat and- forward ewes, 20s. 4d.; slip pigs, 14s. to i7s.; weaner pigs, Bs. 6<i.