LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2827, 19 July 1916, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Levin and Co. "report:—During lastweek we''held yard sales at: Bulls and ; Feilding, and dairy sales'on account of . Messrs. Ellery Bros;, of Bulls, and Bully- .. more, of Awahuri. At Bulls, we subvmitted a small yarding of: sheep and a ■ .heavy yarding of cattle, including several small dairy, herds, bidding for which was good. Fat cows and store cuttlo sold well. 'Messrs. Ellery- Bros.' sale bidding for early calving young cows, was good. Later calters wore, lioweycr, sold at prices in ' v Vfavour of buyers;- The first 100 • cows . 1 averaged" £9 9s. 3d. per- head, aud the . whole herd of 140 head, including stores : .and unsound cows, £3 "10a. per head. At •v.. 31r. : Bullymore's sale the inquiry was good and the herd,averaged- £11' 10s. The jiigs made record! prices. ; At Feilding the demand was t d'lill, and prints for sheep showed a drop of Is. 6d. to 2s. all round. Cattle were slow of .sale, and most linos . were, sold' at prices considerably lower, than last week's rates. QuotationsAt , Bulls, fat ewe 3, 255. to 275. 5d.; b.f. hog- . :■ gets, 17s. Ed.;-fat cows, £8 10s. to £10 2s. . i . 6d.; fat and forward oows, £6 2s. (d. to ', £7-7s. 6(L; store cows, £4 ,'to £5 95.; early calving dairy cows, £9 10s. to £10; later, calvcrs, £6 17s. 6d. to £B; best' springing heifers, £10 10s.; others, £7 10s.; yearling heifers, £2.15. to £5 2s. 6d.; wearier heifers,.22s. to 315.; yearling steers, £3 335. to .. e. £4 95.; twenty-month steers, £6 6s. 6d. At' Ellery Bros.'s gale, best early calvers, £10 30s. to £18; other early calvers, £7 13s. to , £10; late calvers, £5 155.. to £7; unsound . cows. £3 to £5; nigs,, sfores, ,16s. to 285.; breeding sows,' £5. J At-*-Mr. - Bullympre'e sale, best July calvers, £11 to £13 10s.; , other July calvers, £8 to £9 10s.; August calvers, £9 10s. to £11 10s.; sows with lit-' . tei'S, '£11 to £11 10s.; sows to farrow, £4 Ss. !to £7. 55.; store pigs, 18s. 6d.; threeyear half-draught mare, £16; sundries at .; full rates.. At Feilding, on account Tawcra Estate, 200 ewe lambs, 245. 9d.j 94 four-tooth ■ to f.m.,ewes with Southdown rams. 38s: 6d.; . 97' wethers, 295. 9d.; account L.'G.-Hogg,-169 ewo lambs', 225.; 78 small mixed lambs, * '.lis. 94.( account'B. M. Sandilarids, 96 twotooth ewes with Southdown rams, 295. 6d.; .131 two-tooth ewes with Romney rams, 335.; ■ account J. G. Cobbe. 60'* f.m. ewes with liomney rams. 255. 9d.; account- H. Gem- . schkat, 50 mixed lambs, 215.; account W-. <3.Pearce, 45 fat wethers, 355. 3d.; account "If: -N. Beazer," 46' two-tooth with Lin- . -coin rams, 255. 5d.; account HensonEstate, ■ ; -51 two-tooth. Komtaey ewes with Tiomney y-ams, 41s. 3d.; account J..-A.' Eailev, 292 , wethers, -31s.- 7dv, fat cows, £8 15s. '-'to* £13; fat. and. forward cows,' £6 15s. to ; - ■ ~£7 10s.; store cows, £4 15s. to £6; cows ill .. ''calf, £4 7s. 6d: to-£6 55.; springing heifers, •t£7 to £8 155.; .twenty-month steers. £6; .three-year. /bullocks, in - good : condition-, "i"; ~.£13 155.; weaner steers, £3- 8s.;" weaner" .heifers, £3 lCp. ~