LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2835, 28 July 1916, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency 00... Ltd., report, that at their Levin yards on Wednesday they offered a, fair yarding of principally fat sheep and cattle to a food attendance of buyers. Several pens of sheep failed to reach reserves, but cattle sold freely under the hammer. They quote:—Fat wethers, 345.; .fat.cows, £11 4s. to £11 10s.; fat heifers, £10 7s„ £11 55., to £12 18s.; vealers, £2 18s.; forward-condition coivs, £5 2s. to £6 35.; weaner heifers, 275: 6d.; weaner pigs, 13s. 6d. to 165.: store pigs, 245; 6d. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency C 0... Ltd., report:—On Monday, we held e rale-, of dairy stock, on account of Mr. Denis Purccll, So. 2 Line, Foxton. Competition was gootl ■ throughout. The .herd of 61 cows made an average of £10, the top prices being £12 155., £13, £13 10s., £15, £15 ss.' The pedigree milking Shorthorn cows were keenly' competed for, and realised 21}gns., 27Jgns,, and 40gns. The heifei-o were good, and sold well at prices from £6 to £10, average £8. Shorthorn bulls,, three-year, 16igns.; Shorthorn'bulls, two-year, 12Jgns. to 20gns.; yearling Shorthorn bulls, Vigils, to Signs. , Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., held their Martwn sale on-Tuesday. There were very good yarilings of both sheep and cattle, and a. good sale .resulted, although the demand.for'hoggets was not quite so keen. Quotations: Two-tooth wethers, 285., 295.; small do., 255. Id.; wether hoggets, 225. sd„ 245.; ewe hoggets; 235. 6d. ; mixed hoggets, 21s. Md„ 225. Id.; fair do., to 20s. 3d'; small do., 15s. 6d., 16s. lid.; two-tooth ewes in lamb to stud rams, good/ £2; small two-tooth ewes iu lamb, 285.;- four and live-year ditto, 28s. 6d., 295.; others, 265. 7d.; f. and f. ewes, 20s. 9d.; fat ewes, 23s> 9d.: fat wethers, 055., v 3ss. 6d.; prime ditto,'37s. 9d.; empty heifers, £4 lis.; £A 155. ; forward ditto. £6 2s. 6d.; fat ditto, £7 10s.; empty cows, £2, £4; forward ditto, £5 12s. 6d., £6 12s. 6d.; fat ditto. £7 10s. to £8 125.; cows and calves, £7 7s. 6d„ £7 155.; wcancr heifers, £2 55.; weaner steers, £2 195.; twenty-month ditto, £5; two and a half-year ditto, £7 65.; threeyear ditto, £9 hs.; springing heifers, £7 ss„ £7 155.; others, £5, £5 10s.; Shorthorn bull, £10. . ■ •