LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2836, 29 July 1916, Page 12

LIVE STOCK SALES

I , - Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, 1 Toport'having held their fortnightly saleat the Upper Hutt on Thursday, when they i offered, a good yarding of cattle; Prices ruled as follow:—Eighteen-month steers, £5 14s. 6d.; fifteen-month steers, £4; yoar- ; ling steers, £2 55., £3; light-weight fat cows, £8 2s. 6d.; empty store cows, £5 55., £5 14s. 6d.', to £6 65.; springing heifers, £6 75., £7, to £10 10s.; cows iu calf (spring calvers) v £7 10s. to £8 Is. Messrs. Dalgcty and Company, Limited, report that at their Lovin sale on Wednesday they submitted a good yarding of sheep and cattle. There was a good demand for cfltUc, but fat sheep were slow of sale, vendors' reserves in some cases being too high to allow business to result. They ouote the folloajng price:—Ewes in lamb, 28s. 6d.; fat ewes, 305.; fat wethers, 31s. 7d.; empty store ewes. 15s. 9d.: lightweight fat cows, to £8; empty store cows,.

£4 10s. to £5 los.»; good vcalors, to £3 10b.; springing heifer.?, £6 18s.. £7. to £8 ss. Messrs. Wright, fctephenson, and Co., Ltd., report having held their weekly sal© in tlioir Waipoua (Mjistci'toiO sale yards on Wednesday, when they offered a fair yarding of shciep and cattle. which mot with fair competition and a pood olearanco resulted at the following prices:—Sheep: Fat withers, 535. 4d. to 335. lid.; fat owes and; •,wethers, 38a.; fat ewes, 25b.. 265. 6d., to 31&,;.f.in. owes in lamb to S.D. rams, 28s. 3d<woolly lambs, 21s. 9d.; b.f. lambs, 17s. 6ri.; shorn Jambs, 225. 6d. Oattlo: Threo-year licifers, £6 165.; twoyear lioifers, £4; eighteen-month heifers, £3 25.; yearling heifers (Jersey). £1, 175.; storo cows, £D 10s., £6 95.. to £7 165.; dairy cows, duo Aifluust, £8 10s.