LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2759, 1 May 1916, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

/ .Messrs. Dalgety-and Company,* l Limitedi' j foport having offered a. email entry of f ,' eheep: • yaTding of: "■ oattlo: at | : "sal6"bh "Friday. The' : > .(iheep. ealo throughout, was hardly .up to ] ' -last sale's report, -with the exception .of a i. ■ few good- lines, which - met with good \ The few l jiens -wo. offered -.-realised the following prices':—Sheep: Cull • lambs, 10s.; medium shorn lambs',' 145.-'to lie. 9a.; fat and forward ewes, 17s. to 18s: . M. ;.: Cattle: Our principal offering was a line of .140 rising three-year steers, which -. sold at:' £9 17s. 6d„ £10 to £10 ss. (in lots). Other quotations: Aged cows, £2.195.; r. .Store, £4 15s. to £6 17g. 6d.; speyed twoyear oif heifers. £5; liglit fat cows, £7. £8:25., 6d„ to £8 155.; bulls, to £7 12s. 6d. '. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, !. report having held a very successful clearmg f.ale of stock.'and sundries, etc., at Mangatoro on Thursday, on account of Messrs. Mitchell Bros., who have disposed •»f their property. "Both sheep and cattle .i.cii Keen competition; and realised ihe following prioes, which must be con- ! 'Mdered higlUy satisfactory to the veu- . dors:—Sheep: 81 four-tooth ewes .in lamb, ': : 50s. 3d.; 20a four-tooth ewes ill lamb, 30s. . id.;. <91 six-tooth ewes in lamb, 30s. 6d.; Bgod owes,-17s. 5d.; woolly lambs, 17s. 7d. . ' Clattle: Mixed-sex weaners, £2 IQs.; cighteon- . month heifers, £3 165.; two and a lialf-.-year heifers, in calf, £7 12s. 6d.'; eighteen*: .. / month steers, £5 155.; dairy cows, £5 ss. to : : £B;P.A. bull, 8J guineas. Burgy and pajr i' . . (turnout), £20; two-year off Si-aught fllly, £17. Woolpress. £10. -J':. ■ Messrs.- Dalgoty and Company, Limited, : : . Palmereton Horth, report having, .a' fair f . entry of shc-sp and cattle at their Feild- ! : ,'ing sale on Friday, which sold as below :— ': Kheep: Small lambs, to 125.-- 6d.; . mixed

lambs, to 15s. Id.; mixedr&ge ewes in i;,,' lamb, to 21s. 6d. Cattle: Store cows,--!-£ 4, . £4123;, to £5 95.; eighteen-month steers," to - £5; - empty eight€t3ji-raonth.:'.'"heLfers, to £3 t •• is.;-,light, fat cows, to ,£B-165.; forward, tullocks, to £12 10s. w>.' . V.".The' A T ew Zealand. Loan -and Mercantilet, - Agency Co. report:—At'Feildins, on Friday, ' : . ,'l7O hq4 a,fair entixof sheep, and at.me- - ■ Aium entry of oattle, and quitted/the >wholo ; of our entry at satisfactory prices: ~-"Botlj ! fat sheep and cattle were In Rood demand ' it , advanced Quotations:—Small " '.lambs, Us.; store lambs, 14s. 6d., 14s: 9d., to :j6s.; -fat lambs, '185.;,3d.; fat wethors, 305.- ! ki. to oIG. 6d.; fat' ewes, 21s. 2d., 235„ 245;-. :V\ id.,'to 255£3 d.; aged, ewes' to v rains, 17sT"f a-gedewes in Itomney. " .ram: 215.-6 d.; mixed-sex two:tooths (small), i ; "16s. Id:;'.-one pet lamb (offered on account .-Master-Willie Cornfoot for the Wounded . fioldtera'-Fund); realised'£s Is. Bdr OattleV Jitdre 'cows,' £2- 2s. to £2-155.; dairy cows, ,j£3 15s,';-fat oows, £9 15s. to £9 -17s. 6d.;..fat • '--■ .aeifers, £9 - lls."'to £10 25".; "eighteen-month" I . Meera,'£3: lis. t-o £5 14s.;;..weaner heifers,

i- f ho New . Z-cfllaud Loan arid''Mercantile ■ Agency Company, Limited,' report having' i-Jield ■ a stock sale at : tho-Millar's-Eoad sale yards. on .April 28.. ,'Bidding was brisk .-for fad yoirne ewes- and • wethers;- ; but -older ;ep of all classes met.';a* lower market, mbs (with the exception of a. few speciy good lines) having' a market drop on previous sales. Following are the prices ;' : ; - kalis&d-, throughout .the ..sale : jwes,' 21e/:t0,i33l 6d.'; fat-wethers-(light!,' , fas. -M:;','four;;.atifl five-year-old ewes, 18s. ■ >d.-to'sle. : ;' , tw6-tooth ewes. 21s. 6d. to 245.;. (our-and six-tooth wethers (very forward), ' ~)}ss. '3d:'n two-tooth wethere, 225. to 245. 7d.; •.j&oolly..-lambs (fat and forward), 19s. 6d.

to' i7s. 4d.; early shorn lambs, lie. 6d. to •16s:' 6d.; smaller lambs, 7s. 6d. to 9s. Oattle: Pat cows, £6 10s, £8 10s., to £12 55.; fat heifers, £5 10s., £6 55., to £7; forward ompty lieifers, £3 15s. to £6 ICe.: breeding cows (a, good line and well bred), making £7 155.; four-year fat and forward bullocks, £14 55.; two and a half-year steers, £5 17c. 6d.. £10, to £11 55.; one and a half-year Eteors, £2 Ids., £3 lOa, to £A 55.: ono anil tt half-year heifers, £2 55., £2 155., to £3 65.; yearling steel's, ,355.. £2 10b.. to £3; weaner calves, 255, to £2 55.; bulls, £4 10s. lo £6 10s.; two-year heifers (r.w.b.), £3 15s. to £4.^5,::';; .Abraham .and Williams. Ltd., report:—At; Levin, on Friday, wo yarded .ttV.mediumgentry, of both sheep and cattle, and ;have-,to' Teport a good sale at highly satisfactory-prices. . Quotations:—Sheep: Fai o'wes,S2ss: 2d: to 275.; failing-mouthed brooding owes, 13s. 6d.; rara stags (low conditioned), 195.; store ivcthers, 235. Id. Oattle: Fat cows, £7, £7 165., £8 16s„ £9, £9 155., £10 Is., to £10 55.; forward cows, £5, £5 12s. 6d., £6, to £6 10s.; store cows, £3 •10s„ £3 135., £4 Is., £4 10s.; eighteen-month 6tation-brod, heifers, in calf, £4 145.; two and a. half-year steers, £7 ; vcalers, £2 t : o'-£3 15s.'; bulls, £4 3s.- 5d., £4 155., £5, to £7 65.; '\veaner steers, 38s. Pigs: Wo hod an-entry :of 1(X) pigs, which sold as under:— TPeaners, .75,, Bs., to 12s. &d.; stores, 165., 19s;, 245., to 265.; porkers, 33a, 345., 355. 6d., 375. 6d. to 505.; baconers, £2 12s. to £3 Bs.