LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2848, 12 August 1916, Page 12

LIVE STOCK SALES

Th© New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:—'On held a clearing sale on acoount of Mr. Bobt. Waller, Bainesse. There was a large attendance, and the sale was good throughout. Four and six-tooth ewes in lamb to Bomney rams, 38s„ 375. 3d., 6d.; sii-faoth and f.m. ewes in lamb to B.D. rams, 325. 9d.; good mixed hoggets, 245. Id.; fair mixed hoggets. 19s. 3d.; small mixed hoggets, 135.; Romney. rams, .signs.; forward bullocks, £10 lis.; three-year store bullocks, £9 155.; two and a half-year steers.,. £7 12s. 6d.; yearling to eighteenmonth steers, discoloured, £5 os. 6d.; dairy cows, £7 ss. to £10; heifers in calf, £5 to £7; yearling heifers, £2 14s. to £3; eighteen-month empty heifers, £4 Is.; fat heifers, £6 ss. to £6 10s.; forward cows, £6, ss. to: £6 12s. 6d.; fat cows, £8 10s.; yearling Jersey bull, £4; two-year. Holstein bull, £6 55.; breeding sows, £8 2s. 6d.; slips, 175.; four-year draught gelding, £21; good hook, £13 10s.; harness maro, £8j dog-cart, £25. ' The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report that at their Levin yards on Wednesday they offered a small yarding of sheep and cattle, when the following prices were reaisedEmpty Store ewes, 205.; forward-condition cows, £5 155.; dairy cows, due' September, October, £7 7s. 6d. to £8 10s.; cows in milk, £8 10s. to £9; heifers (springing), £7 7s. 6d. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report;—At Palmerston North on Thursday we had a fair entry of both sheep and cattle. Competition for cattle was brisk; sheep sold at late raEes. GTood mixed hoggets, 225. 6d.; small Hoggets, J2s„ ,14s„ 155.; forward ewes, 19s. 4d.; mixed yearlings, £2 Bs.; yearlins heifers, £2 7s. 6d„ £3 55., £4 Is.; forward cows, £6 145., £7 145.; fat cows, £9 Bs., £10; springing heifers, £7 55.; dairy cows, £6 155., SI 2s. 6d., £9; pedigree Jersey cows, 14gns. . Messrs.-Dalgety and Company, Limited, Palmerston North, report having a fair yarding of . cattle at their Palmerston North sale on Thursday. The stock. mot Svith a ready ' demand at the following prices :—Weaner heifers, £2 12s. 6d.; yearling steers, £4 ss. to £4 10s.; store cows, £4 12s. 6d. to £6 12s. 6d.; forward cows, to £7 10b.; cows and calves, £8 2s. 6d. to £8 55.; rough three-year-old.steers, £9 10s.; fat cows, £10 12s. 6d. to £li 10s.; fat and forward cows, £8 10s. Messrs. Dalgety-and Company, Limited, report having held their weekly sole at Levin on Wednesday, when thoy offered a fair yarding of sheep and a good yarding of cattle. Competition was soipid, and satisfactory prices were mado for all lots offered. The principal sales were as under:—Fat wethers, 345. to 355.; forward four and six-tooth wethers, 325.; cull rams, 14s. Cattle: Fat cowb, £7 155., £9 10s„ to £10 135.: empty heifers, '£4 Bs.; eiehteenmonth heifers, r.w.b., £3 lis. to £4 25.; springing heifers, £4 15s. to £6 55.; small weaner heifers, 215.; springing cows, £9 2s 6i. to £10. At the Upper Hutt sale on Thursday, Messrs. Dalgety and-. Co., Ltd., report havins. offered a good yarding of both sheep and cattle. Competition all through was keen, and practically eveTy line offered under the hammer was disposed of at full market rates. .The sales were a>s under:—Forward four and six-tooth wethers, 30s. 6d.; medium woolly lambs, 17s. 6d ■ aged ewes in lamb; 235. Id. Cattle: Forward empty cows. £6 15s. to £6 175.; forward empty heifers, £5 to £6 7s. 6d.; good ■ springing cows (large entry), £7 to £12;

cows in milk, £7 10b. to £9 2s. 6d.; two-year-old steers, £7 Bs.; wringing heifers, £8 10s. to £10 65.; oighteon-month heifers, £3 35.; woanor heifors, 245. to 275. j bulls, £4 Js. to £5.