LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2866, 2 September 1916, Page 12

LIVE STOCK SALES.

-■ . "xho Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company; ltd.,'-report :-0n Tuesr day ire Wi a clearing sale on account ol ' Mr. Gordon Smith, Taikorea. .There was on exceptionally largo attendance, and the ' aalo went with a awing throughout.; The dairy hord were a particularly good lot. •with a, high reputation;', and. put up t » ■' ioord in prices. All tho other lines sold ■■■■■■■■'. well. The hord. of 44 cows averaged £14 te, best priccs being £17 10s., £18, £19,10s„ --'i> £20. £20 55., the 2fi cows in-milk averaging ■'r-.C:. £13 15s.'6d:, and ten springing cows aver a"ing £14 175.; nino springing heifers also sold well, tho avoraire price being £11 75.. : 'f. beat prices being j£l3 10s., £14 10s., and £15 55.; halfdraughfc mares,'£l6, £20 5a.; sow. £6 155.; hoifers, on account of'.other, yen. dori, £8, £8 15s.V £9 ss„ £10 10s. At Kongo- ... - tea, on Wednesday we had a good yarims. • ' Ail olasses of stock .were in keen demand,■ and we sold the wholo entry at auction. ' All classes of store cows sola particularly • woll. The following prices wero ohtain- . hoggets, 20s. 4d., 235. ' 4d.. f.m. v owes, in lamb, 30s. 9d;; fair store coot, £3 16s. 6d.,' £4, £4 175., £5 .125./»£s 17s. 6d.: forward cows, £6. 65.; 6d., £5.175. 6d., £7 ■■■■' 'Bs,' £7 10s.; fat C(nvs,'£B 10?., £9 175., £11 ' 2s , cows with calves, £7; springing heifers, £5 55., £6 10s., £7 10s.; good three-year > springing heifers/ £10 2s. 6d.; ■ springing t co<T6, £7, £7 55.; yearling heifers,;£ 2 135., £3 135.; yearling steers; small,: £3 135.; i forward empty heifers', £5 Is.; discoloured ; 'i£s steers, £5' 163.; pigs, slips 235..-to 245. 6d ' good stores 285., b'aconers '393. to ,£2 3s. : At PalmorstonNorth on Thursday only

a small yarding came forward, which' sold at l&to rates:—Yearling heifers, 358., £2 16a. 6d:; empty two-year heifers, £3 Bs.: storo cows, £3 2s. 6d„ £4 lis., £4125., £5 35.: springing heifers, backward,' £5 175., £6i springing cows, £7: dairy cows, in milk, £6, £7. The Now Zealand Loon and Mercantile Agency, Ltd., report that at their weelily sale held at levin Yards on Wednesday, they offered a small yarding of sheep and a .fair' yardingof cattle... • A good clearance -was made at the following prices. dium fat owes, 295.; mixed ago breeding ewes (low condition), 275,; cull owes, 10s.; forward conditions/cows, £6 2s. to £6 95.; twelve month hcifrtrs, £2 10s. to £4; twelve month bulls. £3 12s. The New Zealand Loan and. Mercantilo Agency Co., Ltd., report:—At Pahiatua on Tuesday wo had a very fair entry of shcop and cattle. Competition was animated. A particularly nice line of 100 fat and for■ward 2-tootli wethers, offered on behalf of Mr. T. Wilton, Mararetu, Fahiatuo, made £1 17s. 3d. Other -wethers brought 365. 3d. and 325. 3d.; medium hoggets, 215.;. cull do., 155.; springing heifers, £6 ss. to £9; small weaner heifers, £2 18s.; dogs, £5 55., £4, £2 105....and £2. , .