LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2896, 7 October 1916, Page 12

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Palmorston North, report having a small entry of sheep and a very good entry of cattle at their. Palmerston North salo on Thursday. There -was good demand throughout, and practically all lines 'changed' hands. Quotations:—i Sheep: Pat ewes and hoggets, 265. j fat ewes, 295. Oattle: Yearling heifers. £i 12g. to £4 lis.; mixed yearlings, £2 14s. to £4 9a. 6d.; fifteen-month heifers, to £4 18s.; yearling steers, £3 10s. to £5 65.; cows and calves, £8 7s. to £9 2s. 6d.; backward dairy heifers. £5 7s. 6d., £7 55.. to £5; springing heifers, £9 ss„ £10, £11 Ms., £12 155., to £13 55.; pedigreo Jersey bulls, 15gns. to 20gns.; empty cows and heifers. £7 155.; two-year-old licifors, £5 95.; light fat cows, £9 10s. to £10; fat cows. £10 19s. to £11 6s. In conjunction with the New Zealand lioon and Mercantile Company, the firm sold a number of- dairy stock on account of Mr. S. 11. Lancaster. Yearling heifers, £4 to £5; two-year empty heifers, £5 Bs.; cows in milk, £9 155.. £10, £11 55., £11 10s., £13 55., to £14 10s.; backward heifers, £5 7s. 6d„ £6 55., £7 2s. 6d„ to £8; spriuging heifers, £9, £10, £10 10s„ £11 155., to £13 10s.; springing cows, £10 JOs., £11 55.. £13, to £15 10s.; grade Jersey Dulls, 7gns. to lOgns. The N.Z. Loan omd Mercantile Agency Co. report;—At Palmerston North on Thursday wo had a good, yarding of both sheep' and cattlc. The attendanco was good,- and the bulk of our entry Bold at lato rates.: Good mixed hoggets, 265.; fat B.F. hoggets, 285.; forward ewes, 275.; fat ewes, 345.: dairy cows. £9 10s.; good hcifors in milk, £11. On account of S. H. Lancaster: Cows in milk, £8 to £14 10s.; springing cows, £10 10s. to £15 10s.; springing lioifers, 3 years, £11 J>fi. to £13 10s.; springing heifers, 2 years, 35 7s. 6d. to £8 155.; fat cows, £10 to £11 55.; forward cows, £7 16s. to £fi 125.; 3-ycar heifers, £6 Is. to £6 Us.; cows with calves, £7; yearling Jersey heifers, £4 Is. to £5; small yearlings, £2 17s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agcncy Co., Ltd., report that at their Upper Butt yards on Thursday they submitted one pen of sheep and a fair yarding of cattlc. They sold aged owes with Bmall percentage of lambs, at 195.; store cows, £6 ss. to £7; forward cows, £7 ss. to £7 155.; cows in milk, £7 10a.; late calvcjß, £6 10s. to £7 65.; springing heifors, £5 ss. to £6 2s. 6d.; yearling heifers. £3 6s. 6d. to £4; oightccn-month Btcors, bad colours, £5 10s.