LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2861, 28 August 1916, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

c ■ . .'■— — ;.' Messrs. Levin, and' Company report:— r During the pa6t week we held our yard -sales at Bulls and Fcilding, and a: sale . of cattlo on account of Messrs. 17. licid .and Son. Quotations:—At Bulls—Light fat cows, £8 to £9; fat and forward cows, £5 'I<C to £7; springing cows, £9 to £12 10s.; ' "springing heifers, £8 to £12 7s. 6d.; mixed -■weancrs, £3'lss. At Messrs. Beid and '(Bon's springing cows, £9 10s. to -£13 10s.; later oalvers, £6 Bs. to £8 10s.; . email second calvcrs, in low condition, and unsound cows, £5 to £6 55.; springing heifers, £5 12s. 6d. to £7 IDs.'; late calving heifers, £4 125.; empty 20-months heifers, £4 to £4 Is.; 20-months steers, £5; mixed •weancrs, £2 18s. 6d.; store cows, £4 16s. to -£5 12s. At Feilding—On account of Jas. „M'Kelvie: 60 fat wethers, £2 Is. 2d.; 60 ditto, 38s. 9d.; ditto, 385.; 27 ditto £2 Os. <6d.; "60 fat ewes, 345. 6d.;.40 ditto, '31s. On account of Job Harris: 78 fat wethers, 365.; -225 store wethers', 30s. 6d.; 151 ditto,'3os. -4d.; 22 small ditto, 245. 6d.;'71 mixed hoggets. 225. lOd. On account of K. Gcruschkat: 70 mixed hoggets, 19s. sd. On account of H. Garlick: 75 ditto, 21s. lid. : On 'account A. Shalders: 20 medium hoggets, "17s.'6d. On account of Highden Station: 3-prime speyed heifers. £16;' 8 ditto'cows ■«nd heifers, £14 6s. • On account of Jas. .Jt'Kelvie: 8 prime speyed heifers, £14 2s. ,6d.; 7 ditto, £14 4s.'; 8 ditto, £13 7s. 6d.; 16 ditto, £13; 8 ditto, £12 7s. 6d.; fat cows, £12 55.. to £13 2s. 6d. On account of Job '"Harris: 43 3 and 4-year bullocks, £13 18s.On account of other vendors: prime fat cows, £13 to £14 135.; lighter, £8 10s. to £10 2s. 6d.; forward cows, £6 10s. to £7; .springing cows, £10 to £12 10s.; best springing heifers, £8 10s. to £9 155.; other springers. £5 10s. to £7 55.; 20-month empty lieiTe'rs, £4 17s. 6d.

•~ Tho New. Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited. Dannevirke. rc•ports:—We held our usual weekly stock .sale at the Millar's Road Yards, Danne.yirke, on Friday. Quotations: Store cows, £6 17s. to £7 Is.; yearling steers, £2 12s. to £5; hoggets/ 235.'-to 265.; 2-tooth wethers, "255. 6d.; ewes and: lambs, 375. 7d.; ewes •in lamb, 325. to 355. .6d. - The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile -'Agency Co., Ltd., reports:—At.'Feilding, on Friday, a moderate entry sold well. Cull .hoggets, 14s. Bd.; good hoggets, 265.; store cows, £5 2s. 6d.; a good entry or dairy cows made from £8 to. £10; bull, £3 12s. 6d. '" Messrs. Wright, Stepiienson and 00., Ltd., report on their Carterton sale, held -yesterday, as follows:—Prime fat ewes, Ms.; medium, fat. ewes, 275. to 285.; aged ewes in lamb,' 253.; aged store ewes, 215.; .lioggcts, 21s. 7d. to 225. 9d.; Jersey cows, close to profit, £12 to £14; grade cows, "close to profit, - £9 12s. 6d., £10 to £11 7s. '6d.; backward cows, £6 155., £7 to £8; dairy heifers, springing, £7, £8, £9 12s. 6d: to £10; forward store cows, £8, £8 ss. to £8 7e. 6d.; aged store cows, £5 55., £6, £7 10s. to £7 12s. 6d.; yearlings, £2 10s. to £3 175.; .prime porkers, 425. 3d.; forward stores, 2£s. 6d. to 315.; medium stores, 245. 6d., 265. to 275. 6d.;.small stores, 235.; weaners, lis. 6d. to 15s. 6d.; sow and litter. £7 ss. •-Messrs. A. H. Atkinson. and Co., Ltd., report:—Good weaner pigs, 20s. 6d.; others. 9s. 6d. ; to 145.; stores, 31s:,- 365. to 405.; horses, £5 ss. to £10; dairy cows, £6; hens, per pair. ss. 6d. to 7s:! ducks, 7s. to 12s. 6d.; turkeys, 315.; cockerels, 4s. 6d. to 6s. Hi; pressed hay,. £5 per ton; oatenshear chaff, £5 10s.';. wheat straw chatf; 305.; barley. 4s. 6d.'bushel; Scotch tares, IDs. 65.; maize, ss. 6d.; wheat. 65.; feed oats, Jb. 6d. to 4s. 3d.; seed, ss. to ss. 6d:

.We note with interest that all the best prizes for cheese.at the Palmerston chow and the best prices in the London market were obtained by those makers who use Victor Vats. These famous vats embody a new principle of middle drainage —worth while investigating; A. J. Parton, Dairyman. Carterton—Advt.