LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2749, 18 April 1916, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

fMessrs.; Abraham .and .Williams, .Ltd,,. r«f, port:—At levin ton ;Eriday : stook came lor-' iward in fair'numbers, and sold well at- : - price 3 .rather better than .lata 'rates. There a . keen demand lor fat stock, and in ;i" consequenco anything- with condition on ; urnae good prices. ■■ Quotations:—Sheep: . Fat ewes, 265.' to 265. Bd.; fat wethers, 2/s. ' Id.; fat lambs, 2fls. 5d.; woolly lambs, 165.: ; ; ,7d. to 175.; shorn' lambs, 14s. 6d., 155., to 16s. •6d.\' call lambe, 6s.' 3d. to 9s. 10d.; cull owes, ; Us., 9d. ; 7 Cattle: 1 Light fat cows, £7 'Bs.,''£7 ,12a.* ..id.',', to £8; .fat and forward cows, and £6 55.,- £6' 155.,: £6' 17a. 6d-; store ■:cows, £4; £4 2a„ -£4 lis., £5, to : £5 2s.;' ; three and four-year bullocks, £10, £12 lie., : to £12 '153.-; two-year steers, £6 65.; eight-, .eon-months and',.two-year, steers,- £4„-16s., r [~.£5 25., £5 65.;- cows and calves, £5 ! : 65., £6 -~ lis.; dairy heifers, spring. calvers, £5; i; teen-months empty heifers.: £3;' eighteen-j-,:.months and two-year empty heifers, £5; station-bred heifers, in calf, £6 10s. Pigs: ■ ['"We had an entry of 100 pigs, and eold all; r lots as followWeaners,' 6s„ 75., to 9s. 3d.; ftores,. 17s.', 19s. 6d., to 255. ; • porkers,- 323., J.\ 535., 35b.,'' 40s. '6d., 415,; baconers, £2' 3s'.r jv. £2 9s. 6d., .£2 175., £3 95., £3 10s.; choppers, ; • C 3 Is.. .; • ; . Messrs. Abraham " and Williams, Ltd., report having recently held a most success- [ Jul sale of dairy cows on behalf of Mr. , I. D. Brown, of Ohau. The'twelve grade • Jersey cows and six grade heifers submitled made. the. splendid average of £14 10s., : Vhich is' believed to' be so, far a . record I 'for the. coast.../Pxices -ranged iiaa" follow-'— Sows, £10 10s., £11 2s. 6d„ £14 10s„ £15, i £17 17s. 6d„ to £20; heifers, £12 10s„ £12 m 15b., £14 55., to £15.105. A few of the pedif' gree stock was' also submitted, but prloes ' offered were not up' to reserves, and only ! three animals found, buyers,. two selling. > dt .£lsi and one at i 'j£2Q. ■ . ■