LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2873, 11 September 1916, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

■'■ Messrs, Dalgaty and Co., Ltd. report ' "having held theix weekly sale in the Levin .'yards on Wednesday, when they offered i i, good yarding of both sheep and cattle. • Competition all through was %>***■**%>■ ■ eially lor sheep, every lot offered being Bold' under the hammer at satisfactory '■■' raws. The principal sates were as under: • -Fat wethers, 385.; good conditioned store ' awes 265. 3d.; 4' and 6-tooth store wethers. - 31%'9d.; shorn hoggets, SOs. 7d.; cull ewes ••- in lamb, 245. Td,.; medium hoggota, .lis. 6d. '„■:Cattle: Fat cows (light), £7 12s. to £8; a good line of station : brcd yearling steers made the satisfactory price or £6; year•ling heifers, £3 12s. to £3 145.; empty- 2-'•-year heifers, £4 10s. to £4 145.; mixed -"•weaaers, £2 155.; springing cows, £6 ss. to . -»■■£» U.. • '■ ■ ■ : ■■ -.-■' ,_ •■ ... „:.The New Zealand Loan and lle-rcaatile , i'ieency Company report: At Palmerston North on Thursday we had a, fair yarding ""of oattle, all of whiohimot '(/ith. kecni com- * "petition at slightly .advanced rates:•""Yearling heifers, £3; yearling steers, ais--■•eoloured, £4 25.; good miied s.h. ycar--'--'ling6, £6 10s.: etoro cows.- £3 2s. w.s ',-empty cows, £6, £6 155.; forward cows, £8; . .springing heifers, £7. £7 12s. 6d.. £7 17s: 6d.; springing cows, £5 15s. to £9 2s. 6d.; * ; 'ccws immUk, £6 155., £7 10s. "'"The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile ■.-Agency Co., Ltd., report having hold their '<weekly stock sale at Levin on Wednesday, ,nwhen a small yarding of. sheep and a ...good yarding of cattle met with a good ■ inquiry, and praoticaJly a clearance was ■ '"effected at the following prices:—Fat '"wethers, 355. 4d.; empty store ewes, 255. ' -Zd.; 3 to 35-year steers, £13 10s.; forward "condition cows, £6 195.: empty heifers, £5 ■..fis.; heifers in calf, £5 95.; weaner steers, ~£2 16s. to £3 165.; good weaner heifers, ~# ss. 61 to £3 7s. 6d., small ditto £2 2s. (i.; light' f*t porkors, 38s. T'"Tne New Zealand Loan and' Mercantile '"Agency Co., Ltd., report: On. Tuesday we • -held a sale of dairy stock on account of ' 'Mr. John Lane, Hokowhitu. The cows were -.not in the best of condition, and prices .. .consequently suffered. The attendance was ' .good, however, and the demand keen. ' ißest cows, £8 to £10' 55.; back-ward cows, *'£5 to £8; springing' heifers, best, £7 to ;'£9 ss. ji-small and backward, £5 to £6 ' ■■• Us.; good- yearling Jersey heifers, £3 75., £3 155., £3 17s. 6d.: small yearling heifers, _£2 2s. 6d.; 2-year- Jersey bull, £5; fat .cows, £8. £8 15s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile "Agency Company, Ltd., Dannevirke, quote - r from their weekly Etock sale at the MilMar Road Yards. Dannevirke:—Dairy hei--fers, £S, £8 10s., £9, £9-55.; £9 17s. 6d., ' -£10 10s. to £11 55.; store heifers, £4 10s„ „'£sto £5 12s. 6d.; store cows; £5 to £6 10=.; ■ maiden ewes, 38s. 2d.; wethers. 385.; hoggets, 213., 225„ .225. 6d.. 245„ 24s 6d., 255. "to 2M> 6d. . ""The New Loan and Mercantile Agency -Co., Ltd., quote from their Eketahuna ■-■. sale -.-Dairy heifers, £7 10s.-to £8 10s.; fair conditioned 3 and 4-year steers. £12 Is.; low-conditioned do., £9 18s. 6d.; -aged 'milk-cart horse, £IZ. FeUdins sole:—Mixed " hoggets (small), 18s. do. (fair). 21s. " 9d. to 235. 9d.; fat hoggets, 28s. 3d.; ewes ' and lambs, 31s. 6d. to 395. 3d.; empty ewes, - S3s. 3d.; maiden ewes, 305.; yearling hei-

fcrs, £4; springing lieifera, £6 155.; dairy cows, £10; fat cows (light). £8; fat bullocks, £19 10s.; yearline Jersey bulls, £2 15s.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., quote from their salo at Levin on Friday:—l\it wethers, 38a. 9d.. 395., 405.. 475„ 535.; fat owes, 31s. 7d„ 335., 345. 6d„ 375.; store jvethors, 295. 6d., 31s. lid.; s.in. ewes in iamb", 345. 4d.; forward empty owes,. 235., 349 4jd;' forward empty owes, shorn, 20s; liogttets (small), 19s. 4d. Fat cows, £11; fat'heifers, £9 ss; forward cows, £6 Bs., £6 165., £7 7b. 6d., S7 IDs., £7 125.; yearling heifors, £3, £3 45.; mixed yearlings (discoloured], £3; 18-month heifers. £1 55.. £4 10s.; store cows. £5 365.; 2-ycar steers, £7 Is. 6d.; dairy cows, close to profit, £10 to £13 12s. 5d.: snrinsrine heifers. £7 10s., £7 155., £8 10s. to £9 2s. 6d.; backward heifers in calf, £5 55.. £5 10s., £6. £6 15s.

Messrs. Wright. Stephenson, and Co., Ltd., report on their Martinborough sale., held yesterday, as follows:—We submitted' ft good yarding of sheep and cattle to a. fair attendance of buyers. Our yarding of-sheep comprised ehiefly hoggets, but the reserves were beyond buyers' ideas of value. ■ Cattle met with, ready sale, excepting backward dairy stock. Wo quota as follows .—Sheep: P.m. store ewes. 245. 5d.; small hoggets, 18s. 6d. Cattle: Prlmo fat cows, >,£l4 55.; fat ieifcrs, £8 to £10 12s. 6d.: forward bullocks. £12 25.; store cows, £5 to £5 10a.; dairy cows, close to profit. £9 12s. 6d. to £12 55.; springing heifers, £8 10s., £9, £9 10s., to £9 12s. 6d.; backward heifers, £5 10s. to £6 17s. Sd.; yearlings, £2 ss. to £3 is. Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., quote from their .Carterton .sale:— Fat wethers, 325. 6d. to 415.; fat ewes, 275. 3d. to 305.: 222 f.m. hoggets, ■ 255.; 100 w.f. hoggets. 235.; 94 b.f hoggets, 213; 235 f.m. ewes, 255.; 87 wethers. 2-looth. 275. 2d. Cattle: 21 store cows. £7 IBs.; 13 store cowc £5 65.; 17 store heifer. £6 25.; 7 spring heifers, £8 75.; 21 yearling steers, £4 . Bs.: 8 2-year steers, £6 lie.; 6 store heifers, £4 lis.; 11 store heifers. £6 195.; dairy heifers, close to profit,' £5 18s., £9. £11 'ss. to £15 2s. 6d.; yearling hulls, £3 10s.; yearlings, backward, £2 Us. to £3. Pigs; Forward stores. 27a. to 325. 6d.; medium stores. 255., 265„ 275. 6d. to 30s. Eltctaliuna, sole: Dairy cows,. £6 155., £8, £8 ss. to £9; springing heifors, £5 12s. 6d., £6 55., £7 to £8 2s. (A.; empty do., £4 65.; yearling m.s., £3 to £3 10a.: Etoro cows, £5 165., '£6 10s. to £7 10s.; 2-ycar steers, £3 Is.