LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2831, 24 July 1916, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Dalsety and Company, Limited, Palmerstoji North, report having a. very Cowl entry of stock at their Feilding sale on Friday, wick sold readily as below:— bheep: Black-face hoggets,, ISs.; . good V'oolly hoggets, to 255. Id.;, empty ewes,. 19s. to 2k. 3d.; two-tooth wethers, lonvard, Id.; ewes in lamb, 265., 325, 9d., .to ots. Id.; fat ewes, 255. 2d;, 275. 4d., 275. 6d., . 295. 9d., to 30s. Cattle: Backward, heiiers. £5 los.; -empty cows, to£6'lsg.; mixed Hereford yearlings, £5 Bs.; eighteenmonth steers, to £6 15s. Messrs. Dalsety and Company, Limited, held 'their weekly Dannevirkc ..sals on , Friday, and report as follows:—tn bheep, \ve only offered two small pens, which tealis&l good prices. Our ! cattle entry • chiefly consisted of fat cows and boilers, These were not in quite such goci demand as last sale, and failed to reach (fen-dors' reserves at auction. .However, \ve wero .successful in placing ail passedIn line?, by private treaty. Following is ti list-of prices:—hoggets. 235.' Id.; two and four-tooth wethers, fat, 30s. 3d.; fat hellers, £10 J2s. 6a. to £11 155.; fat cows, from €10. to £10 10s. • / The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile 'Agency Company, Limited, Dannevirke, Report.:—We held our weekly stock sale at the - Dannevirke saJo yards on© Friday. Only, n moderate yarding of sheep aud icattle came forward. Prices realised Vrere quite up to recent quotations,' and ! most of the lines offered wore sold. Wo quote:—Cattle: Springing heifers. £7 ss. to £10 125.. 6d.; springing cows, £5 to £7 . 10s.;" store cows, £3 15s. to £5 10s. Sheep; Hoggets, 13s. 6d. to 16s. 6d.; good hoggets, 20s. \6d. to 225. 6d.; ewes, in lamb, fJ7s., 28s, 3d., 295. 6d., to 355. 6d.' The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company report:—At Feilding on. Friday we • ' a good entry of both sheep and <~.ile,' and have to report a very good eale. [Small hoggets, 15s. 6d.j fair-hoggets, 21s. 4d.; good • hoggets, 6d.. 245., 255., to 255. Id.; forward ewes, 218. 6d. to 225.; inferior ewes in lamb, 245., 255., to 255. Id.; forward ewes, 21s. to 225.;' inferior ewes.in-lamb, 245., 255. 6d., to S7s.'9d.; light fat wethers, 315.; yearling heifers, £2 18s.; yearling steers, £4 2s.;' empty two-year heifers, £4 25.; forward cows, £6 16s. to £7 155.; light fat cowfc, £8 to £9 35.; medium fat cows, £9 355. to £10 17s/ 6d.; light fat steers, £10 17s. 61;' rough , two-year steers, £7; springing cows, £10 10s. t

LEVIN AND CO.'S WEEKLY. REPORT. Messrs. iLevin and Co., Feilding, report:— During the past -week we field our usual 6«Jes at Hunterville and Feilding, arid clearing sales.on account of Messrs. •'!. H. Whisker, Carnarvon, J. Twigff, Raumai, IT. Walsh, Bongot-ea, C. P, lteat, Bulls, and Waldin, Coiyton, and M. O. Trcmr.ine, Ohakea. At .Mr. Whisker's, in conjunct tion with Ifcssrs. Dalgety and Company's Bale, in sympathy with the fall in prices at Feilding the nrevlous day, *&e sheep "vers not so keenly, competed for as anticipated, and. values ivere slightly in favour of buyers. The draught horse) elicited keen competition and high prices. Dairy cattle were in fair '.demand. At Mr. J. Twigg's sale the bidding was restricted. After twenty cows had passed through the ring Mr. Twigg withdrew from sale the balance of the herd. At' Mr. M. Walsh's a very satisfactory' sftla resulted—the herd averaging £9 17s. Ed. per head./ At Mr. Keat's sale the herd averaged £10 Bs. sd. per head, which, considering the condition of the cows, wo consider quite up to tho average ot the best herds sold this year. Heifers to calve made satisfactory figures. At Mr. P. Waldiri's 'sale the cows .were in jjnod condition, but bidding at the start of the Gale was quiet, but improved towards .tin close. Taken all i ounri, prices ruled in favour of buyers. This herd averaged £9 15s. per:head. At Mr. Tremaine's sale bidding was not so free 1 as at Mr. Keat's tale, Ftill a most satisfactory sale, "resulted—the whole, herd averaging £12 10s. (d. per head. At Hunterville we submitted a small entry, and all lots sold at prices ruling at other centres. At Feilding the .yarding of, sheep, consisted prinnipally of hoggets, which were in better demand- than at last Eale. 1 Most of our lots were, however, passed, vendors' reserves being on "the high side. Fat sheep were not in. much demand. In cattle, bidding was erratic. For young cattle and! store cows, we had good com-

petition—fats were slightly easier, and dairy stock were not sought after. Quotations are as under:—

At Mr. J. H. Whisker's sale three, four, and live-year ewes to lamb to Southdown rams, 325. 6d. to 325. 9d.; cull ditto, 245. 5d.; small two-tooth aethers, 235. 6ct.; ewe Ijoggets, 19s. 7d.; wethers, ditto, 19s. 9d. { woolly hoggets, 215.; cull hoggets, 13s. 3d.; fat ewes, 245. lid.; store ewes, 17s. <d.; P.B. Southdown ram lambs, 2*gns.; ditto ewe , lambs, l-<gns.; mixed-age P.B. Southdown ewes to lamb, 2JgriS.; two-tooth Southdown rams, 6Jgns.; six-tooth ditto, ljgns.; draught geldings, 5 to 7 years, £28, £40, £41, £44; ditto aged, £16; draught niares, four to five years, £28 10s., £30 10s.; hacks, £4 10s. to £7 10s.; unbroken four-year fillies, £27 to £27 10s.; best dairy cows, £10 to £13 10s.; others. £5 10s. to £9 iOs.; oows iu milk, £5 tOs. to 4)10; heifers to calve, £5 ss. to £7. At Mr. J. Twigg's sale:—Mixed-aged ewes to_ lamb, to Southdown rams, 31s. 3d.; mixed hoggets, 245. Bd.; dairy eows, July culvers, £6 to £13 10s.; August calvers, £6 .to £11 155.; fat cows, £9. Pigs: Stores, 18s. 6d..t0 295. 6d.; weaners, 13s. 6d.; sows to farrow, £4 10s. At Mr. M. Walsh's sale:—Best early calvers, £11 lCs. to £14 10s.; other early calvers, £8 10s. to £11; late calvers and unsound cows, £6 ip £7; heifers, to calve in 6pring,'£7 10s. to £9 10s.; Shorthorn bull, £9. At Mr. C. J. Keat's so,le:—Best July calvers, £12 to £15; best August calvers, £10 15s. to £13 155.; other August calvers, £7 10s. to £10 55.; September calvers, £7 to £14 55.; small second calvers, £4 to £7; best heifers, to calve in spring, £7 to £12 10s.; others,. £4 15s. to £6 155.; sows to farrow, £3 to £5 10s.; weaner heifers, £2 ss. At Mr. J. Waldin's sale:—Lest July i calvers, £8 15s. to £13 55.; other July calvers, £6 ss. to £8 55.; best August calvers, £9 to £14 10s.; other August calvers, £7 ss. to £8 55.; unsound-and late, £6 to £7; store cows, £5 ss. to £5 12s. 6d.; empty heifers,'£4 165.; weaner heifers. £3 to £3 12s. 6d. At Tremaine's sale:—Cows, just calved, £17 10s.; best July calvers, £12 10s. to £20 10s.; % other July calvers, £8 15s. to £12; best August calvers, £11 to £14; other August calvers, £8 to £10 155.; late calvers. £8 to £9 155.; pedigree Jersey heifers, 7gns. to 12£gns.; Jersey three-year bulls, 9 to'lOgns.; we-anei/ Jersey l/ull, 6*gns.; springing heifers, best, £10 to £12 10s.; others. - £6 17s. 6d. to £8. At Hunterville:—Mixedaged ewes, with Lincoln rams, 325. 6d.; fat heifers, £11; . fat cows (light), £8; store cows, £4 2s. 6d.; heifers to calve £5 75.; store pigs, 17s. to 225. At Feilding:—Wethers, 30s. 3d. to 31s od.; inferior hoggets, 17s. 6d.; f.ni. ewes with Romney rams, S3s.; old ewes with rams, 15s. • Cattle Fat bullocks, £15' to £17; three-year steers, £9 18s. 6d.-to £13; twenty-raonth steers, £6 9s. to £?; yearling ditto, £o 95.; fat cows, £8 16s. to £9 145.; fat and forward cows, £6 10s. to £8; store cows, £4 Is. to £5; springing cows, £8 2s. 6d. to £10 10s.; springing heifers. £6 15s. to £8 10s.; fat heifers, light, £7 18s.; empty heifers, £5 to £5 6s. 6d.

• NEWTON KING'S, REPORT., . Mr. Newton King reportsOn Monday, at Douglas, there waa a fair yarding, which sold at the following prices Yearling heifers, £2 125. 6fl. to £3 65.; yearling steers, £4 Bs. to .£4 10s.; in-calf two-year heifers, £5 17s. 6d.; empty, twenty-month heifers, £5) 55.; store cows, £6 3s. it) £7 12s. 6d.; fbrward cows, .up to £8 195.; two and a half to three-year bullocks, £10 Bs.; springing heifers, £8 10s.-to £9 155.; bulla, £3 155.: hoggets, IS*. 9i£. to 19s. 2d.; culls, lis. 7d.; two-tooth wethers, 305.; f.m. ewes. 16s. 2d. •

On the same day at Motonui, for Mr, Mann White's clearing sale buyers were keen after any of the cows showing quality, these selling at from £14 to £19; farm horses, £15 10s. to £30.

At Stratford, on Tuesday, for the fortnightly sale, there was a full yarding of both sheep and cattle. Competition for all cattle was good, but sheep were dragging. Yearlings and store cows were in strong demand. Yearling steers made from £3 18s. to £4 lis., mostly rough; yearling heifers, £2 16s. to £3 Us.; and a record price of £4 19s. was obtained for a Shorthoru-Holstein pen of mixed yearlings, on account of a Ngaere client; empty twenty-month heifers. £4 16s. to £5 Bs.; rough two-year steers, £7 25.; year* ling bulls, £5 ,175.; two and three-year incalf heifers, £7 95.; small store cows, £4 9s. to £5 14.; good store cows, £6 12?. 6d. to £7 13s. 6d.; forward cows, from £5 to £9 10s., according .to frame; fat cows, £9 18s. to £11 65.; sound-mouthed ewes iu lamb, 295. 7d. to 30s. 5d.; hoggets, 18s. 9d. to 225." 103.; fal "weiberi, 355. sd. to 395. 9d. In the dairy pens I had a fair entry. Dairy cows sold at from £8 ss. to £15; springing heifers, £9 ss. to £12 10s.; small, £5 to £7 ss. - ' On Wednesday, at Inglewood for the weekly sale there was a fair yArding of cattle and a good entry of sheep. Bidding throughout was good, the whole of the catt-lo and practically all the aheei> being cleared during the day at nricca satisfactory to the vendors. . Prices obtained were:—Yearliug heifers. £3 75.; yearling steers, good line, £5 25.; rough, but good-s*ifccd, £4 Bs.; empty heifers. £4 9s. to £5 10s. for a gocd pen of Shorthorns; store cows, £6 2s. to £7 Bs.; forward cows, £9 to £10 Is.; dairy cows. £10 2s. 6d. to £11" 155.; guaranteed cows, in calf. £6 Bs. to £7 155.; springing heifers; £7 12s; 6d. to £9 155.; small, £5 12s. 6d. to £6 12s, 6d.: small hoggets, 17. Id.; mixed sheep, aged. 16a. 6d.; f.m. ewes in lamb, 255. to 30s. 6d. ...

On the same day at Rowan, for the clearing sale of dairy cattle on account of Mr. A. J. Dcmpsey, the heifers were mostly small, but sold very well, the best making from £9 15s. to £11; others, £5 to £7 155.; cows, £12; bulls. £6 ss. to £8 55.; store cows, £7 10s.'to £7 15. On Thursday, at Oanui, for Messrs. Jordan Bros.' clearing sale, the dairy cows contained a good number of aged cows, but they were in great condition, 3nd sold very well, a most satisfactory sale being held. Be9t cows realised from £11 10s. to £14 10s.; others, £8 ss. to £10 10s.; aged cows, £6 to £8 55.; empty cows, £7 10s. to to £9; the herd, averaging £10 25.; best two-year springing heifers. £10 ss. to £11; good, £7 123. 6d. to £8 10s.; smaller, £5

155.; empty heifers, £5 2s. 6d. to £5 7s. 6d.; yearling heifers, £3 2s. to .£3 125.; yearling 6tecrs, £4 Is.; Shorthorn bull, £11 .10s. to £13 10s.; Hoistein bull, £7 10s. At Motouui, on the same day. for the clearing sale in the'estate of the late C. Gray, best cows .made up to. £17 55.; others, from £9 ss. to £12 10s.; the herd averaging £11 lis. 6d.; empty cows mado from £5 ss. to £9 15a.; yearling heifers, £3 7s. 6d.; springing heifers, £7 155.; bull, £9 93.; form horses, up to £27; breeding sows, iip to £6 ss. On the same day at the Bird Head, Stratford, at Mr. Arthur Bennett's clearing sale, tho cows were a nice lino of Hoi-gtein-Shorthorns, and were very keenly competed for. .Tho best price obtained was £24, but others ran consistently closo to this figure, the herd of 65 cows averaging £14 10s.