LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2846, 10 August 1916, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

lho -\fr.v Zealand Loan Rnd Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report that at their monthly stock sale held at To Horo on Tuesday, they had a good entry "of sheep and cattle, and have to report a satisfactory sole at late Tatcslloggete, 18s. 9d'. to 235. Bd.: mixed age ewes, in lamb, 325. Id.; two, four, ajid six-tooth wethers, 31s. 7d,; two-year steers, £6 10s.; three-year empty heifers, £5 125.; weaner steers, £2 175.; mixed wenners (dairy sorts), £2 10s.; small woaner heifers, 255. to 275. 6d.; light lit heifers, £8 25.; light fat, cows, £8 6s. to £9 11s.; forward condition cows, t/l to £7 155.; store cows, £1 to £4 55.; dairy cows (September cat vers). £9 to £10 10a.; late calvcrs, £6 ss. to . £8; springing heifers, £7 10s. to £8 17s. ADDINGTON HAItKBT. EECORD PRICES FOll A BU.LLOOK AND A SOW. By Telegraph—l'ri-ss Association. Christohurch, August 9. The market at Addiugton to-day was a doublet one on account of the Grand National holidays next week. Entries of lat stock were very large. Among the entries were a number of specially prime cattle and sheep, including a number, of prizetakers at leading show 6 in Otago and Southland. Two bullocks, including the champion at the last Otago finmmcr and Winter Shows, were sola on Dehalf of Mr. /birnon Wright, of Balciutha, at the record price of £65 each, the previous record being £48 10s. Fat cattle sold well, and fat lambs made last week's prices. There was a strong demand for pigs. A purebred Tamworth sow, estimated to ' weigh over 6001b., was sold on behalf of Mr. H. Stuart, of Middleton; at the record, price of £20. ' Fat sheep were very firm, and special lots brought high prices. Mr. F. Bull's Shropshire-cross wethers sold up to £14 155., or within ss. of their. record of two years ago. The Otago sheep 6old up to £8 10s.,.and'a Hawke's Bay line up to £3. Store Sheep.—Ewe hoggets, 19s. Id. to 235. 6d.; wether hoggets, 17s. lOd. to 225. Bd.; mixed hoggets, 17s. 3d. to 19s. 10d.; two-tooth ewes, 255. lid. to 38s. 9d.; Bix and eight-tooth ewes, 275. 3d.; soundmouthed ewes, 245. Id. to 275. 2d.; aged owes, 16s. to 17s. 3d.; two and four-tooth wethers, 275. 2d. to 275. 4d.; four and sixtooth wethers, 235. lOd. to 275. 4d.; four, six, and eight-topth wethers, 255. Fat Lambs.—Prime, 255. to 355.; medium, 225. 6d. to 245. 6<L; lighter, 15s. 6d. to 225.; new season's lambs, 20s. to 30s.

i'at Sheep—Show wethers, £14 10s.; extra prime wethers, 605.; prime wethers, 30s. to 405.; others, 245. 6d. to 295. 6d.; merino wethers. 19s. 9d. to 345.; extra prime ewes, 455.; prime ewes, 2Ss. to 395.; medium ewes, 255. to 275. 6d.; others, 225. to 245. 6d.; show hoggets, 625. ■ Fat Cattle— Extra prime steers, to £65; primo steers, £35; ordinary steers, £10 to £12 10s.; prime heifers, £14 12s: 6d;; ordinary heifers, £7 12s. 6d. to £12; prime cows. £16 10s.; ordinary cows, £8 to £10; store cattle,' fifteen to eighteen months, £3 2s. 6d. to £4 10s.: two-year steers, £5 to £5 12s. 6d.; two-year heifers. £4 7s. 6d. to £4 155.; dry cows, £2 to £8; dairy cows, best. £15 to £19 195.; others, £3 10s. to £14. Pigs—Extra prime Tamworth chopper. £50; choppers. £4 to £6 17s. 6d.; baconers, £3 ss. to.£s 6s...equal to 7d. per lb.; porkers. 455. to 655., enuf.l to 9d. and 9Jd. 'per lb.; large stores, 40s. to 535. 6d.; meuiam. 30s. to 385.; smaller, 225. to 295.; baconers, 18s. to 235.

BUENSIDE MARKET. By Telegraph—Press' Association. Ouncdin, Austust 9. There was a biff yarding of iat. cattle at Burnside to-day, 201 being penned. Tlio Quality. was on the whole good. Competition was keen, last week's high prices being fully .maintained. Extra prime heavy bullocks, £25 55.; 'best, £20 to £22 dium to good, £16 to £18 155.; light, £12 to £15; best cows aud heifers, £14 10s. to £17; medium to good, £12 10s.; light and unfinished, £8.

Fat Sheep.—36oo penned. The quality on the whole was the best brought forward for some time. The entry exceeded butchers • requirements, and prices "declined 'about Is. 6d. Export buyers 6ecurod a good many pens. Best wethers, 355. to 375. 6d. ; extra prime, 425..6 d.; medium to good, 295, to 325. 6d.; others, 275.; best owes, 295. to J345.; extra, 405.; medium to good, 21s. to 275.; light and unfinished,'2os. - Lambs.—s72 penned. The quality was only middling. There was a full attendance of export buyers and farmers. Last week's prices were fully maintained. Best. Z4s. to 265.; extra, 385.; medium to good, 21s, M. to 235.; others, 20s. There was a large entry of pigs, and good competition for fats. Prices were about equal to -last :week s rates. Stores were not in such keen demand, and prices declined.