LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2706, 28 February 1916, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgcty and Company, Limited, Quote from•.-their, fortnightly sale in ,tho Upper 'Hutt'-yards on Thursday l«6t as follows:—Full-mouth ewes, 20e. to 3d.; medium breeding: ewes, 15s. 9d. to 17:?. 6d.; fat ewes, 235:; woolly lambs. 10s. 7d. to 12s. 9(1.; fat lambs, 175.; fat wethers (light), 235. 10d.; fat and. forward wethers, fourtooth, 225. to 236. 7d.'; store ewes, 10s. Bd. to 12s. Id.; forward bullocks, £10 to £10 10s.; forward, cows, £6 2s. 6d.; empty store cowe, £4 12s. 6d. to £5 Bs.; fat heifers, £6 2s. 6d.; two-year empty heifers, £3 18s.; springing heifera £9, to £9 155.; mixed weancrs, 275. 6d. to 295.; bulls, £6 to £7 ,10s. Danncvirke, Friday last:-Small shorn,lambs, 9s. 6d. to 10s. 6(1.: cull ewos, 135.; small twotooth .wethers, lte. 7d.; modium ditto, to 21s. Id.; two-tooth ewes, Ms. 6d.;to 265. 4d.; foiir, six, and eight-tooth ewes,'2ss. 6d. (this latter-price was obtained for a line of 750 ewes, sold on account of Mr. A. J. Toi-y.-ard, Mangahuia; mixed-aged Romncy rams, ligns.. 2gns„ to 31gns.; ditto Lincoln rams, ligns. to l&gns. Cattle: Kighteenraonth steers, £4; cows in calf. £3 ss. toi £4; store cows, £4 16s„ £5, to £5 55.; light fat cows, £5 155., £6 45., to £6 10s.j medium ditto, £7 55.,' £8 105.,' to £8 15s.

Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Go., Ltd.. report as follows:—At Palmorston North, on Thursday a good yarding - of both sheep aud cattle came forward.' Probably on account of the continued dry weather, competition was . dull, and prices were hardly up to late rates. The were:—Small lambs, Rs. 6(1.; fair mixod lambs, 135.; rape lambs, 145.. 1(J.; two-tooth wethers, 22n. 6d.; aged ewes, 95.; s.m. ewes, 195.; store, cows, £2 Bs. to £4 155.; forward cows, £5 ss. to £6 12s. fid.; fat heifers, £6 15s. to £7; light fat cows, .66 165., £7 18s., to £8 55.; good dairy cows, £7 10s. to £10; springing heifer, good, £fj 12s. 6(1.; bulls, £6, £7, to £8.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltfi., quote from their annual sheep fair, held on Friday last:—The total yarding amounted to close on 34.000, of which we offered 9200. Some of the principal sales -were as follows:—On account Mr. 11. P. Clare, Waituna, 250 four and six-tooth ewes, 265., and ,393 four-year ewes, 245. Bd.; Mr. S. Williamson, Waituna, 181 six-tooth and four-year ewes, 275.; Mr. A. M'Dougall, Pohftliginn, 125 six-tooth ewes, 275. 9d., 300 ditto, 285., 600 four, six, and f.m. ewes, 24. 6d., and 300 ditto, 245.; Mr. W. Vil<A Colyt-on, 157 four and iive-year:ewes, 19. -3d.; Mr. G. T. Keeble, .Fitzherbert, ,340' four and' five-year, ewes, 25a. 1-d.;. Mr. J. Walker, Pohangina, 370 four and five-year ewes, 21s. 7d.; Mr. A. Rutlcdgo, Awaliuri, 78 two-tooth ewes, 305.; Mr. G. H. Matthews, Awahuri, 41 four and six-tooth ewes, 245. 9d.; Mr. W. Gordon, Waituna, 72 four-year ewes, 245.- 6d.; Mr. E. if. Phillips, Brunswick, '380 four-tooth owes,'2l«. 5d.; Mr. It. J. Stewart, 50 two-tooth ewes, 30s. fid-; - other quotations, four and five-year ■ewes, 20s. 6d. to 225. lid.

Messrs. Atkinson and Co., Ltd., report a keen inquiry. on Friday for pigs of fat and forward condition. Baconers mado up to 58s:;,: porkers, 40s. to 425.; store, 275. 6d. to 315.; slips, 145.; weaners, 6s. to 9s. 6d.; hacks, £5; hons, per pair, 3s. to 3s. 6d.; cockerels, 55.; table potatoes, 7s. to Bs. per owt.; -pig, 3. 6d. sack; tomatoes, Is. to 2s. 6(l:;caee ;.:apples,; 45.; onions, 7s. to 9s. por ewt.-; chaff, £5 10s. ton; oats,'4s. to 4s. 6d. barley, 55.; Russian black peas, ss. to 6s.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., beg to report that they held a most successful clearing sale on account of Mr, John M'Cool, who is leaving for the front; on" his Puketoi property on Thursday. All stock submitted were in particularly good order and condition, and the prices realised constituted a. record for the district. Two-tooth' ivethSs, 235. .to 235. 6d.: twotooth ewes, 225. lid.; four and six-tooth ewes, 265. 10d.; four and five-year ewes, 21s. lid.; four-tooth wetherei 275.; yearling .steers,, £4 17s. 6d.; two and a half-year -eteers, £B 2s. M.; yearling hcifors, £3 125.; cows and calves, £10; call cows, £5 2s. 6d.; spoyed heifers, £7 Is.; Hereford heifers, r/w.b., £6 25.; P.A. heifers, £7 55.; P.A. bull, 15Jgns.,;,empty heifers, £5 10s.; empty cows, £6 15s.- . ... . . Jlossrs. -Abraham' and Williams, Ltd., heg to report that they hold a. clearing 6ale for Mr. A., E. Erikecn on his Waikereru'property, on Wednesday. The stock camo-forward in splendid order, and the prices realised were eminently satisfactory to the vendor, and were slightly in excese of the ruling - market -rates as follow 321 four and six-tooth ewes, 265.; 184 twotooth ewes, 255. 2d.; 191 two-tooth wethers, 235. 2d,; 173 f.m. ewes, 235. 2d.; cull two-toot-h wethers; 21s. 6d.; cull .two-tooth to f.m. ewes, 205.; -woolly ewes, 275. 6d.; cull lambs, 10.; 156 good wether lambs, 15s. Id.; 198 good ewe lambs, 15s. 5d.; 12 Lincoln rams, from 2 to 4Jgns.; milking cows, £6 to £8 7s. 6d.; two and a half-year heifera, £4 155.; mixed-sex yeaJlings. £5 35.; two-year steers, £8; fat cows, £9.