LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2727, 23 March 1916, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Tho Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report ;-At Alfredton on Monday we had a very fair entry of shcop. Competition throughout the salo was animated, and a total clearance was mado under the hammer at the follow in prices :-Fat two-tooth wethers, 27*.; stpio do., 225.; four and six-tooth ewes, 255. 7d., mixed age ewes, 21s. 10d.; cull ewes, 10s. 6d.; w.f. shorn lambs. 12s. 6d.; small w.f. woolly lambs, Bs. lid.; Lincoln rams, 3gns.; Eorancy rams, lgn. to 2&Bns. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Johnsonville sale as follows :-A good yarding of prime sheep and cattle oamo forward, and sold well at late rates. Primo bullocks, £15 17s. 6d. to £16 7s. Id. j lighter, £15 2s. 6d. to £15 10s.; voalers, £2 fto 125.;, extra prime heavy wethers, 28s. <ld.; prime wethers, 265.. 7d. to 275.; extra-prime heavy owes, 275. 2d. to 28s. 4d.; prime ewes, 245.; prime lambs, 19s. 4d, to 19s. 6d.; others, 15s. 6d. to 16s.

lid. . Tho Now Zealand Loan, and .Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report that at' their, usual monthly stock sale held at Waikonae on Tuesday they had a- full yarding of both sheep and cattle, and a good sale re, 6ulted, practically a clearance being made at the following prices:—Good shorn lambs, 14s: 2d.; medium.do., 125.; cull do., 56. ■=«.; mixed age ewes, ■ 175., 18s., 18s. 2d. to 19s. 3d.; cull do., Bs.; fat cows, £i ,.%-*J, 2s. 6d., £7 165., £7 18s., to £8; light fat heifers, £7 ICe.; eightecn-months ■ heifers, £3 55.; store cows, £4 65.; heifers, in milk, £6 15s.' to £7 10s.; springing heifers,£6 15s. to £7 75.; two-year bull. £5; yearling ao., £3 ss. .

' Messrs.'Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—At Waikanao on Tuesday stock came forward well up to advertised numbers. There was a' fail- inquiry for all classes of both sheep and cattle, and we have to report a good sale. Two-tooth wethers, 225. 3d.; low-conditioned ewes, 13s. to 15s. 2d.; cull lambs, ss. 9d.; forward ; bullocks, £11 to £12 Bs. 6d.; fat. cows, £6, £6 45., £7, to' £8 10s.; oighteen-months steers, £4 12s. 6d.; heifers, close to profit, '£8 to £10; spring-calving cows, £8 t0.4.9; fifteen-months heifers,'r.w.b.,' £3 145.; mixed weancrs; 245., 285., 325., 335.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., Pahiatua branch, report on their Woodville sahvheld on Monday last:-Tho yarding was considerably less than has been thocaEofor the past several months, but all stock'sold on a par with ruling rates. Fat cows sold from £5 10s. to £8 55.; lightweight fat heifers. JES, lbs. to £6 55.; tot heifers, £7 10s. to £9 12s. 6d.; fat com, £8; empty heifers, £3 to £4, 10s.; ompty cows, £3 10s. to £5 ss.;'weaner stoers,.3oa. to £3 45.; wcancr heifers, 255.; three-year steers, £9; two and a. half-year steers £6.- Pigs: Weaners,. lis. to 12s. 6d.; aged ewes, J7s.-9d. ..-..-

Messrs. Abraham, and Williams, Ltd., Pawatuiv.branch',-report on their Pahiatua sale, held, on' Tuesday last:—Wo hod a largo entry of. sheep and a medium ono of cattle. "Competition -was keen for all classes of good owes and wethers. , fn'ferior quality was slightly easier than in ithe past. Following is the range of prices: —Four and five-year owes, ate. ad. to 2I«.; 'six-tooth to f.in. 'owes, 20s. Id. to 225. lid.; ',two-tooth wethers, 21b. 7d., 225. lid., to 2>s. ■sd':;: two-tooth ewes, 17s. 3d. to 23a. id.; fat'.'owes > ';23s,..9d:;,good lambs, Ma. 6d., 15s. • &i, to 165." 9d.; -medium lambs, 125.. to lambs, 9s. to lis.; cull lambs, 7s.'-6d. to 9s'.; .'rams. lgn. to 31gns.; heifers, in ■> calf, £2 10a. to £3 55.; empty •cows, £5 2s.' 6d. to £6 153.; weaner steers, £2 10s. to £2 16s. 6d.; 'two and a half-year Steers, £7 10s.; empty heifers, £5 2s. 6d. to £6 10s.; Julie,' £4 15s. to £5.

,-ADDMGTON MABKET. By Telegraph—Press Association-

Chrlstchuroh, March 22. At the Addin'gton live stock- market, there were fairly large entries of stock, especially storo sheep. Fat cattle sold nt last week's • rates, ■ and the market was a little brisker. Store sheep sold Irregularly, good sorts : being in demand, but old ewes were dull of sale. For fat'lambs there was no change. Prime fat sheep were firm, and other classes were ca6ier. There was a .better, demand for store cattle, and pigs sold well, a Southland buyer operating freely for stores. Store Sheep.—Forward lambs, 13s. 9d. to 17s. 7d.; ordinary, 10s. to 13s.' 6d.'j culls, 6s. to 8s: Sd.; two-tooth ewes, to 235. >6d.; four and six-tooth ewes, 19s. to 21s. 6d.; sound-mouth ewes, 15s. 6d. to 205.; fail-ing-mouthed ewes, Us. 6d. to 165.; tooth "wethers, 13s.'6<L to 16s. 6d.; forward 'four and six-tooth 6, 17s. 6d. to. 21s. 6d. Pat Sheep!— Extra, prime wethers, to ,41«.; prime 'wethers, 255. to 33s.;.others, 18s. 3d. to 245. 6d.'; merino wethers, 16b.; extra prime owes, to 335.; prime ewes, 245. to 275. 9d.; medium, -19s. to 235. 6d.; lighter. 13s. 3d. to 18s. 6d.

Pat Lambs.—Extra primo lambs, to 265. Bd.; prime lambs, 20s. 6d. to 235. 6d.; lighter, 1&. to 20s.

Fat Cattle—Extra■ prime steers, to £20;, ordinary etecrs, £7 7s. 6d. to £12; eitra prime heifers, to £12; ordinary heifers, £6 17s. 6d. to £8 10s. ; extra prime cows, to £12; ordinary cows, £6 ss. to £9 55.; price of beef, per 1001b., 325. to 505., extra to 555.

Store Cattle—Yearlings, 215.; fifteen to oighteen-nionths, £2 Is. 9d..t0 £3 ! 175. 6d.; two-year steers, £4 ,ss. to £5 75.; two-year heifers, £3 17s. 6d. -and £4; thrce-'yeaT steers, £6 125.; three-year heifers, £5 7s. 6d., to £6 155.; dry cows, 30s. to £6 12s. 6d.: a line of eighteen-month Hcrefords sold at £8 12s. 6d., and cightecn : months purebred Shorthorns at £11 55.; dairy cows, £3 10s. to £14 10s. ;

Pigs.—Choppers, COs. to £5 . Us.; baeonera, 60s. to £6; equal to 6Jd. per lb.;-pork-ers, 38s. to 505.; equal to '7W. per lb.; large stores, 48s. to 525.; medium, 365. to 465.; smaller, 17s. to 345.; weaners, 6s. to 12s.'

BTJENSIPE MABKET. ..■.By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, March 22. At-Burnside .to-day 218 fat cattle were yarded and met with good sale. Beat bullocks, £15 10s. to £17 10s.; extra, to £19 12s. 6d.; medium io good, £13,105. to £15;

other 6, £11 10s. to £12 10s.; best cows and heifers, £10 10s. to £12; extra, to £16 155.; medium to good, £8 to £9 10a.; others, £6 lfti. to £7 Ms.

There was a large yarding .of fat sheen, 3000 being penned, and freezing buyors kept prices up to late rates. Best wethers, 27a. 6d. to 305.; extra, to 34a. 9d.; medium, to good, 235. 2d. to 265. 6d.; light aud unfinished. 18s. 6d. to 215.; best ewes, Ms. to 265.; extra, to 31s. 3d.; medium to good, 18s. to 216.; others, to 15s. Pat Lambs.—2lß wore penned, and prices wore firm at lale rates. Best, 20s. to 225. 6d.; extra, to 285.; medium to good, 16s. 6d. to 18s.; •unfinished, 13s. to Ms. 6d. There was a £air-sizcd yarding of pigs, and baconers were in keen demand. Heavy baconers, 755. to 985.; light, 555. to 705.; porkers, 40s. to 555.; There was a. medium yarding of stores, and prices were fully up to late rates. '