LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2908, 21 October 1916, Page 12

LIVE STOCK SALES

*!■«> n DflJ gcty <u>d Co., Ltd.. report on under:--Wo offered a fair yarding- of cattle to a. good attendance of buyers ineluding several from outside districts. Competition for all classes was keen, and the whole of the yarding changed hands under tho hammer at prices in vendors' £? O }F- . Tile ? Quote as under:—Fat cows, » l is, J°<' m ns - 6d -= forward cows, £8 7s. to £9 Is.; store cows, £7 4s. to £7 Ms. <»•: empty heifers, £5 125., £6 Is., £6 125.., M Zs., £7 lis., £5 Ib.; cows with calves ot foot, £7 to £8; springing heifers, £6 155., £7, £7 3s„ £7 ss„ £9 55.; springing cows, £6 15s. to £8 145.; heifers in profit, £6 to £8; yearling bull, £5 195.; potter bull, £9 13s.

Messrs. Dalgety and 00.. Ltd., report on their Palmerston North cattle fair of October 19 as below:—Wo had a yarding of 800 head of all classes, and effected a very good clearance at the following prices :—Mixed yearlings, £3 10s. to £3 165.; yearling heifers, £4 9s. 6d„ £4 13s„ £4 145., £4 175.; grade Holstein yearling heifers, £6 195.; small yearling 6teers, £5 17s. 6d.; store cows, £6 25.; empty cows, £7 195.. £8 35., £8 «s. 6d.. £8 145.. to £9 10s.: 2-ye«r empty heifers, £6 lis., £6 165., to £7; light fat cows, £10 19s. 6d.; '3-year steers, £12 10s. to £12 175.; forward bullocks, to £14 14b. Sheep: Wether hoggets. 30s. Id.: mixed shorn 2-tooths, 245. 5d.; 4-tooth wethers. 365. 4d.; fat ewes. 365. Bd.; fat wethers. £2. / Tho Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report:—On Thursday wo held our annual cattle fair at Palmerston North. .Although, the entry was smaller, than previous years, the attendance was large, and competition keen throughout, prices ruling on a. par with our Fcilding fair last week:-Small yearling steers; £4; fair .yearling steers, £5 10s., £6 25.. fid.; 2-year ompty heifers, £6 lis.; 3-year speyed heifers, £8 165.; 2-year Hereford steers, £9; 3-year steers, £12; store cows, £6 10s„ £6 155.. £7; fair empty cows, .£7 10s., £8 55., £8; good forward cows, £10,'£10 45., £10 Us., £10,125.; fat heifers,- £9 18s. 6d., £10 45.; fat cows, £11 45.; cows with calves, £8 15s. . Messrs: Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—At 'Palmprsfon North on Thursday we held our annual spring cattle fair, and offered a small yarding of stook to a fair attendance of-buyers. Wo quote:—lso 3 and; 4-year i bullocks at £14 55.: £14 75., to £14 10s.; forward.cows, £7 155.; 18-month steers, £5 9s. 6d. to £6 lis.; ewes and lambs, 38s„ 38s. 6d.,'to 39g. . On Tuesday Abraham and Williams, Ltd., held thoir-monthly stock sale at Raumai. and submitted a fair, yarding of both •sheen and' cattle. Quotations:— Hoggets,. 295.;. oows in. milk, £9; empty cows. £7 lis. to £9 3s. Sd.; fat heifers, £9 75.; yearling heifers, £4 to £5; 2-veor steers. £7 3s. to £7 7s. 6d.; Shorthorn bulls, £5.125. 6d., to £11 25.; Jersey bulls, £3 10s. to £10; weaner pigs, 17s.