LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2901, 13 October 1916, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their weekly sale lield at Levin on Tuesday. All stock cajno forward well over advertised numbers, and wo havo to report a most successful sale. Competition right throughout was .very keen, and we had practically a total clearance. All lines being eagerly sought after. Quotations:—Sheep: Pat woolly wethers, 38s. 4d., 38s. 6d., £2 Is. 6d., £2 4s. 9d., £2 65.; fat woolly ewes, 375. Id., 395. Id.; fat shorn wethers, 275. 9d.; forward wethers, 345. 3d., 355;; empty owes, 28s. lid.; good hoggets, 265. lid., 275. '3d.. 275. Bd.; small hoggets, 17s. 9d. to 215.; low-conditioned ewes and lambs, 345. 4d.; cull ewes,, 14s. 6d. Cattle: Pat' bullocks,"£lß 18s. 6d.; fat cows, £9 Is., £11 75., £12; forward cows, £7, £7 lis. 6d„ £8; store cows, £5, £6 10s., to £6 55.; fouryear bullocks, £14 2s. 6d.; three-year steers, ■£11 to £12 75.; yearling, steers, £3 195., £4 10s.; yearling heifers, £3 3s. 6d., £3 95.; two-year-old empty heifers, £5, £5 2s. 6d. ; cows,-with calves at foot, £9; dairy bulls, £7 10s., £9, £9 10s., £10; stringing heifers, £7.75. 6d., £8 10s.; cows, close to profit, £11 ss.

Tho New Zealand. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report that at their Levin yards on Tuesday they submitted a ssjolt entry of Btud sheep and a full 3'arding of cattle to a good attendance of buyers, Sheep were neglected, but all classes of cattlo offered met with a keen demand; practically everything changed hands at prices in favour of vendors. They quote:—Medium fat cows, £9 2s. 6d. to £10; forward-condition cowb, £7 to £8 17s. 6d.; store cows, £5 7s. 6d. to £6 10s.: empty-two-year good-condition heifers, £5 to £6 125.; vealers, £2; heifers, r.w.b., £4 13s. to £5 25.; yearling heifers, £3 2s. to £4 45.; yearling steers, £5; eighteen-month bulls, £5 16s. to £10; spring heifers. £6 to £9 2s. 6d.; cows in milk, £7 to £10 2a. 6d.; weancr pigs, 18s. to 195.; fat porkers, 355. to" 425.

Moßsra. Dalgety and Company report haying held their monthly sale at Waibanae on Wednesday, when they offered a small yarding of sheep and cattle., In spite of rough weather, a "total clearance was made at Tery satisfactory prices. A nice even line of mixed-sox hoggets, offered on behalf of Mr. I. G. Duncan, fetched 30s. 4d. Other prices were:—Mixed-sex woolly hoggets, 265.; mixed yearlings, £2 9s. 6d.; yearling bulls, £4 35., £4 Es.; empty store heifers, £4 12s. to £5; springing heifers, to £7; cows in .milk, to £9 55.; light-weight fat cows, to £9 15s.