LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2787, 3 June 1916, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held their usual weekly Levin sale on Wednesday, when they submitted a. good entry oi both sheep and cattle. All classes ot sheep were keenly competed for, but cattle met with ratlior a dragging sale from the start. Quotations arc:—Two-tooth ewes, 215., 21s. 10d.; empty ewes, 18s., 195.. 7d.; two-tooth wethers, 225. Bd., 225. 9d.; store lambs, 16s. 3d. to 17s. 5d.; cull lambs, 78. 3d.: fat and forward lambs, 18s. 6<1.; fat cows, £6 35., £6 10s., £7 lis., to £8 55.; two-year steers, £5 265.; empty store cows, £3 18s.; springing- cows, to £9. ■ Mossrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd-., Palmerston. North, report having a fair entry of sheep and cattle at their Palinerstou ICorth :sale on Thursday, all of which soldi readily at'■ the '■ following yrices:—Store cows, is: 55., £5 12s. 6d., £5 165., to £6; dairy heifers, £6 l'/s. 6d., £7 2s. 6rt., to £8 17s. 6d.; heifers with calves, £4 155.; weaner steers, ia; mixed weaners, 30s. to 335.; small weaner heifers, £1 Is.; mixed lambs, 15s. to 16s. M:: light fat lambs, IBs. Scl.; light fat ewes, 2is.; store ewes, 125.; mixed ago ewes in lamb,|22s. 9d... . ... J; . ' Messrs... Dalgety and Co. report having held their usual fortnightly ,-ealo at .'tho ;Upper Hutt on: Thursday "last,;, wlien they ;oifered' a medium 'yarding- of sheep and 'cattle., -A satisfactory clearance was effected at. the following prices :—Fat wethers, 315.,-'3ls. 6d:; forward'-wethers,-255. 6d.; •fat woolly lambs, 235.; small.-lambs, Us.; two and a half-year steers. £9; fat cows, £6 17s. 6d„ £7, £8 7s. 6d„ to £10; fat heifers, £6 10s. to £8 10s,;-vealers, tO:£3; cows in .calf, to £7 2s. fid.; empty storo cows, £3 Ids. to £5.' . .

The' New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report that at their Upper liutt sale; held on Thursday, they submittedl a largo yarding of cattle and cleared everything, with tho exception of-ono pen, at satisfactory prices. They quote:— Tivo to two and a half-year steers, mixed colours, £7..105.; empty two and a half-year heifers, £5 10=.; two-year heifers, £4 .10s.; forward cows, to £8 10s.; springing heifers, £6, £6 55., £6 12s. 6d„ to £9 12s. 6a.; eighteen-inonths heifers, £3 Ms.; aged store cows, £4 17s. 6d. to £5.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Teport that at their weekly stock sole, held at the.'Levin yards on Wednesday, they offered a fair yarding of both sheep and- cattle, and report a good clearance at tho following priccis:— Mixed age ewes in lamb, 245.; good twotooth ewes, 30s. Id.; two-tooth store wethers, 28s. 10d.; store owes, 17s. 3d.; light fat and forward heifers, £6; forward cows, £5 3s. to £6; low-condition : cows, £2 12s,V fid.; heifers, in caif, £4 10s.; springing heifers; £8 ss. to £8 10s.; cow in milk, £8; small weaner calves, 235.

Messrs. W. and G. Turnbull and Co., Ltd., report having-held their-usual weekly sale in their Maeterton (Waipoua) sale yaras on Wednesday, when they: offered a goodyarding of sheep and cattle, as advertised.'. Competition was vory keen, and a total clearance was made.. The bulk of the entry was on account of the late Sirs. E. K. Welch,, .which .sold,.as follows:—Pour-tootli Homne'y' ewes,"'in lamb' to 'Itomney rams,. 345. 6d.; six-tooth Lincoln owes, in lamb to Komncy rams, 355.; six and eight-tooth ewes, in lamb to Southdown rams, 355. 3d.; mixed sex-lambs, 20s. Id.; small lambs, 14s. fid.'; fat ewes and -wethers, 265.; Eonmeyrams, 2os; 3d.; Southdown rams, 155.; cows and calves,-. £10 Bs.'; fat .'heifers, £10 155.; store cows, £s;.'forward;-heifers, £5 10s.; two-year steers," -£7 35.;-. three-year steers, £10 145.; yearling; heifers, £3 Bs,; caives,' 20s. On account ■of '.fother vendors: P.m. ewes, in lamb to Southdown rams, 245.;fat ewes, 245. 6d., 255. 4d. to 2fc,; store ewes, 13s. 3d.; thres-year steers, £10 65.; tv?o : year steers, £6. 75.; eighteen-month steers. £8-Is.; yearling; steers, £2 10s.j steers, calves, 325.; heifer calves, 335.; fif-teen-mouths heifers, £3 Is.;'forward heifers, £5 19s. to £6.55.; fat cows, £9, £9 14s;, to £9 195.; store cows, £3, £3 65., £5, £5 Bs., ■to £5 17s.springing cows, £12 65.; Jersey bull, £6. ;