LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2819, 10 July 1916, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

The Sew Zealind Loan Mercantile Agency .Co., Ltd., report thatiet their ■weekly stock: sale held at Levin yards on Wednesday they offered a small entry of sheep and. a medium yarding of "cattle. Bales .were made at the following prices:— Medium lambs, 21e.; cows, £6 65.; two and a half-year empty heifers, £5 le. to £5 55.; eightecn-montns empty heifers, 63 Ms.;. weaner heifers.- 335.; two and a half-year steers, ,E7 'Bs. 6d.; spring calving heifers. £6 1?.; dairy cows, .67 to £3. The, New Zealand Loan, and Mercantile Agency C 0.,. Ltd., Bannevirke, report having held their weekly Dannevirke sale in *>'ie Miller's Koad yards on' Friday. There was a moderate entry of sheep and a satisfactory yarding of cattle. Both sheep and cattle sold well in comparison with recent ruling rates. Quotations: Ewes in lamb, 325. 3d.; weaner heifers, £2 10s. to £3; springing heifers, £7 to £8 10s.; steers (20 months). £5 18s.: empty heifers (20 months), £3 10s.: two-year heifers,: £6-7s. 5d.; fat cows. £6-lJs. 6d. to £8 10s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:—At FeUding on Friday wo had a good yarding ot sheep and a fair entry of cattle, and we hare to report a satisfactory clearance. Quotations :—Sheep: Cull ewes, 165.; inferior ewes in "lamb, Ms.; medium ewes iri lamb, 255. 9d, to S7s. 3d.; fair gwes in lamb, 28s. 3d. to 3Cs.; store ewes, 216. fcd.; medium hoggets, 20s. 3d. to 215.; forward wethers, 31s. 3d. Cattle: Small weaucr heifers, 315.; forward heifers, £5; cows in calf, £5 lis.; fat cows. £111 10s.; fat bullocks, £15 135.. 6d. rto £16 10s.

Messrs. Dalgcly and. Co., Ltd., report having offered n good yarding of. both sheep and cattle at their Dannevirke sale held oil Friday. . Prices throughout were good, and showed au.. average all round on'last sale's report. Ewes. 1 in laihb were eagerly sought. after, and although we passed in oue large line at auction, at the early part of the sale we had no difficulty in disposing of them by private treatv. Mr. G. B.: Allan's consignment of' Stud Bomney ewes realised from 3J to 4} uuineas (the latter prico being, paid for a. lino of 50 by a purchaser from Central Otsgo). In cattle we ofTcred some good pens .'of beef, wliicli clicitcd keen competition. Tt/o pens of fat cows, sold on account of Mr. J. Holden, Makotuku, sold at from £11 2s. fid. to £12 15s.' Following is a list of prices:—Slieap: Cull ewes, 14s. 3d.; medium hoggets, 18s. 4d.medium' two-tooth wethers, 275.; mixed aged ewes', in lamb, 50s. to 31s. 7d.; small .two-tooth ewes ill lamb, 245. 4d.: best lines, to 335.'3d.; stud shs-jr-ling ewes, 34, oj, to 4i:,'ns:;-stud shearling Komney i-anis, 10} to 15gns.: empty ewes, to 225.-2 d. Cattle: Low-condition two-year heifers, in calf. £5 lis.; cows, in', calf (aged), £7 lis. 6d., £11 10s„ to. £12 155.: fat steers,'to £14 17s. cd.: two and a half to three-year' forward steers, £12 155.; bull, £5 2s. .fid. . ..