LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2813, 3 July 1916, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Dalgety. and Company, Limited, report having a good entry o£ sheep and cattlo at their Palmerston North sale on Thursday. The demand was not particularly keen for sheep, but tho majority of the cattle changed hands. Quotations: Sheep-Mixed lambs, 19s. 3d.; low-condition-ed ewes in lamb, 215.; mixed-age ewes in lamb, 245. to 265. Cattle-Empty cows, £4 15s. 6d. to '£7; heifers, at drop. £3 17s. 6d., £9; weaner bulls, £2 to £2 19s. 6d. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, DannevTrke,, report on their i-ale held on Friday as follows:—Wo only offered in sheep two pens of fat ewes, which failed to reach the owner's reserve (the recent wet weather being responsible for our small entry. In cattle, we sold a small yarding, which realised the following prices:—Two and a half-year steers,' £9 17s. 6d.; small Jersey heifers and calf, £5 to £5 Is.; small Jersey heifers and calf, at drop, £10. Messrs, Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held a very successful clearing sale of sheep and cattle at Te Uri on Thursday' on behalf of Mr. L. C. Breakwell. The prices realised are considered as. the best obtained in this district for some years. Following is a list of prices realised:—26B Romney cross ewes in lamb to Romney rams, 345. Id.; 301 Lincoln cross ewes in lamb, to Romuey rams, 355. lOd.; 63 Lincoln cross ewes in lamb to Romney rams, 305.; 438 m.s. woolly hog: fets, 235. Id.; 311 two-tooth wethers', meiura, 295.; 494 s.m. ewes in lamb to Southdown rams, 31s. 6d.; 50 two and a half, to three-year steers, £10 3s. 6d.; 18 Hereford cross eighteen-month to two-year empty heifers, £7 Bs.: dairp cows sold at from £10 12s. 6d. to £13 2s. 6d. The New Zealand- Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. report:--At Fcilding, on Friday, we had a moderate cnlry. and sold all lines at full rates. There is a sLrong inquiry for all classes of stock, especially for good quality hoggets, wethers, and breeding ewes. Small lambs, 16s. 9d.; fair lambs, 215.; good wether lambs, 245.; Lincoln cross ewe lambs, 245.; cull wethers. 18s.; low-condition store wethers, 255. 10d.; light fat ewes, 235. 3d.; small heifers, 245. 6d.; yearling heifers, £2 12s. 6d. to £2 165.; small steers, £2 165.; empty eighteenmonth heifers,'£4 65.; heifers in calf, £6; springing heifers. £9; light store cows, £4; two-year Shorthorn steers, £9 10s.; rough three-year steers, .S3 ss. to £9 12s. fid.; bull, £9 15s.

. Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co.. Ltd. 'date Wl and G. Turnbull and Co., Ltd.). report having held their weekly sale in their Carterton sale yards, when they offered a good yarding of sheep., and a small entry of pigs and cattle. Competition was keen throughout, and a good clearanoe was made at the following prices :-On account Mr. Malcolm M'Lennan; Carrington, 345 four-year-old ewes iu lamb to Southdown rams, fetched, 355. 9d.; other prices were—F.M. ewes in lamb, 245. 3d., 255. 3d., to 265. 6d.; two-tooth ewes and wethers, 245. Id.; two-tooth wethers, 255. Id.; fat and forward, 245. 4d.; forward store ewes, 21s 4d.; b.f. lambs, 16s. Id.; woolly 'Romney Lincoln lambs, 19s. 4d.; shorn lambs, 16s. Cattle: Fat heifers, £9 165.; forward store cows, £6 lis., £6 175., to £8 6s.' 6d.; store cows, £5 Is., £5 35., to £5 135.; cows, due August, £5 to £6 6s. Mr. Newton King reports:—On June 22, at Rohotu, for Mr. H. N. Chapman's clearing tale of his Kahui Road herd, the cows were in good condition, but a good many wei'e aged and rather late culvers, these reducing the average somewhat, but nevertheless ' a satisfactory average of about £9 was'm-ade. On the same day- at Waitara Road, for Mr. C. J. Herrick's sale, competition throughout was very keen, everything selling well. ' The best price ' for cows was. £16 Nte., the herd averaging £10 12s. Cd.; weaner heifer's made £2 25.; empty fifteen-month heifers, £3 155.: ?;-ade Jersey bull, £9 10s.; empty cows, £6165. to .£8 10s.; farm horses, £28 to £35; mower, £15; dogcart, £18; dray,, £12 10s. On Friday. June 23, at Rahotu, for the fortnightly cattle sale, • a good entry was cleared at the hammer as follows:—Weaner heifers, £2 12s. to £3 4s. 6d.; weaner stesrs, £2 12s. to £3 165.; empty heifers. £4 2s. 6d.; small cows, £3 13s. to £4 125.; store cows, £5.135. to £7 75.; forward cows,

£8 to £9 10s.; yearling bulls, £4 75.; fairsized bulls, £8 17s. 6d.; rough eighteenmonth steers, £4 10s. to £5 135.; in-calf three-year heifers, £8 12s. 6d. to £9 10s.; dairy cows, £9 10s. At Urenui. on June 28, there was a good entry witli a keen inquiry. Prices obtained were:—Yearling steers, £3 10s. to £3 155.; yearling heifers, £2 ss. 6d. to £3; twenty-month steers. £5 13s. 6d. to £7; store cows, £5 12s. 6d. to £7; forward and fat cows, £8 2s. to £11 55.; in-calf heifers. £6 17s. 6d. to £7 95.; dairy cows, £8; springing heifers. £5 7s. 6d. to £6 10s.; three-year bullocks, £10 25.; empty twenty-month heifers, £4 Is. to £4 10s.; Bmall lambs. 155.; aged ewes in lamb, 17s. 6d. to £1 On the same day at Midhirst, for Mr. G. 11. Smith's clearing sale, bidding for the dairy cows (a good line) was vcrv keen, the herd averaging £12 10s., the best price being £18 10s.; heifers in calf made £6 ss. to £7; wcaner heifers. £3 6s. 6d.; small steers, £3 2s. 6d.; Midhirst Faotorv shares, 165.; farm horses. £14 10s. to £25 &.; dray, £16; gig. £16 10s. At, Stony Eivcr a good number of yearling steers were offered the top prices for these ranging from £3 14s. to £4 ss. Other prices were:—Small steers. £3; yearling heifers, £2 12s. to £3; empty twentymonth heifers, £3 17s. 6d. to £4 35.; twontyinonth steers, £6 14s. to £7 65.; store cows, £4 17s. 6d. to £7 76.; forward and fat cows, £8 2s. 6(1. to £11 155.; empty forward heifers,-£7 10s. to £8 145.; Shorthorn yearling bull, £5 10s.; springing heifers, £5 10s. to £8 10s.; dairy cows, £5 ss. to £10 10s.; in-calf three-year heifers, £8 ss. At h'aimata, for Mr.T. Bust's clearing sale, the herd of-cows were in fair condition, a few of the line being a little aged, but a good average of £9 95., was, obtained. I'earling heifers made £3 55.; breeding sows, £5 53. On Juno 28, at Inglewood, for tic weekly-cattle sale, competition for all lines, with the exception of in-calf heifers was very keen, excellent prices being realised. A rough pen of twentymonth, steers made £7 65.; and a nice line of Shorthorn twenty-month empty hcifere, £4 17s. 6d. Other prices were:—Yearling bulls. £4 15s. to £6 17s. 6d.; yearling steers, .£3 176. to £4 35.; yearling heifers £2 Bs. 6d. to £3 55.; empty twenty-month heifers, £4 4s. to £4 17s. 6d.; fifteen and eighteen-month empty heifera. £3 13s. 6d.; in-oalf two-year heifcrE, small. £5 2s. 6d. to £6 55.; two-year Holstein heifers incalf, £7 55.; two-year Jersey heifers, £6 15s. to £7 lfts.; dairy cows (small). £7 55.; store cows. £5 9s. to £7 125.: forward cows. £8 3s. to £9 6s'. 6d.: small lamb's, 19s. 7d.; sound-mouth ewes in lamb, 31s. 9d. to 325. 10s.; f.m. ewes in lamb, 21s. 9d. On the same day at Midhirst. at Itr O. Fowler's clearing sale, the cows wero good, and sold veu readily up to £18 10s., averaging £13 10s.; in-calf heifers made £5 15s. to £9: Brenner heifers, £3 75.; farm horses, £22 to £27.