LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2718, 13 March 1916, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:—At Eket&huna ■on Friday-we had ■ a very good entry of sheep,—which we 'submitted to a large attendance of buyers.'' Competition was keen throughout, and prices were better all round than at the previous sale. We Quote:—Two-tooth, .wethers, £1 to £1 3s. ■2d.; four and five-year eweg, 16s. 6d. to 18s. 6d.'; mixed age ewes, £1; aged ewes, •10a;<>tO"'12s. -9d.; cull ewes, ss. "9d.i good shorn""lambs,' 16s.' Id.• to 15s. 7d.; medium lambs, 12s. 9d. to 13s. 6d.'; Eomney rams, U to :2gns.; Lincoln, rams, ign. to 3gns.; . Southdown rams, IJ-, to 2Jgns." : Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having hold their u6ual weekly stock !:ale in Darmovirke yards on Friday last, when they offered a fair yarding of sheep and a..3ma1l .entry of cattle to a good attend-anco-of buyers.'-Owing to tho recent rains firices- were satisfactory to vendors. A ino of four, ,six, and eighMooth. ewes, ex Ifangahuia, mado>23s.,'and Pinegrove four- ' tootll' ewes, - 345:; small two-tooths made 235. 4d.; other ewes made 21e. 3d. to 16s. 3d.; cull ewes, 13s. 6d. to 65.; cows and calves, low condition, £4 155.; two-year 6teers,! £4 155.; .eighteen-'monthe heifers, £3 ss. to £3. . Messrs.'A. H. Atkinson and Co., Ltd., report:—Porkers and boconers 6eiling at high prices, stores and slips , difficult of sale; liaconors made to 495.; light porkers, 28s. 6d: 't«/365:; heavy,' 445. to 4fe. 6d.: slips, lis. to..l3s,;.weaners,!,Bs. to <Bs. 6d.; sows, 475. ;6fl.v Hens, ; pcr pair, 35.; duoks, 4s. 9d.j roosters, 3s. 9d.; sound table potatoes, 6s. to 7s. cwt..; pig, 365. ton; tomatoes, 2s. to 2s.'Jd. half-case; pears, 2s. 9d. to 3s. 63.j apples, -3s. to 45.; : passions, 2s. to 2s. 6d.; onions, fe. to 86. owt.; pumpkins, 7s. sack; marrows,. 55.; chaff, £5 10s.; oats, 4s. to 4s. 6d.; barley, ss. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency ~Co., Ltd„...Ealmerston North, report:—At Palmerston North on Thursday only a small .entry, came forward. Wo. ■sold the bulk of our'yarding, but prices were hardly up to recent rates. Good mixed . lambs; lis. 6d.; mixed fat two. tooths, 225.; fat ewes, 225. 6d.; mixed yca!r'lings, £2; store cows, £4 10s.. £5; forward cows, £6 55., £7; fat cows, £7 17s„ £7 195., £3 155.; heavy bulla, £9, £9 ss.