LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2943, 1 December 1916, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES.

' Ihc New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency 00., Ltd., report that at their nionthly stock sale held at To Horo on Wednesday moderate yarding of cattlo met "with, teen competition, and a total clearance Tras mad© under tho hammer at prices in favour of vendors. They quote: *-Fat cows, £10 17s. to £13 95.; cows and calves, £13 Is. to £10 7s. 6d.; vealers, 26b. to 475.; wcaner calves, £3 Is.: yearling Steers, £7 25.; two-year do., £9 75.; yearling heifers, £4 17s. 6d. 'to £7 Is.; twoyear Jersey bulls, £7 12s. 6d. to £8 125.; yearling do., £5 Is. to £5 12s. 6d.; springing heifers, £8 18s.; cows in milk, £11 to £13. ■ The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.. Lta.. report that at tho Levin yards on November 28 they ofl'ered, a fair entry of stock to a good attendance of buy«rs. Competition -was brisk, which enabled them to make a good clearance. ■They quoto:—Light fat. ewes (shorn), 31s. 6d.; fat cows, £10 55., £11 10s., £11 155., £12 145., to £13 75.. 6d.; light fat heifers, £11 155.; forward-condition heifers, £fi 65.; store cows, £8 to £9 155.; Shorthorn bulls, £9 ss. £lu iu 3 .; jersey bulls, £4.125, 6d. to £8; weaner pigs. 13s. to 18s. Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.,' Ltd., report on their first anuual spring cattle fair held in tho Alfredton yards on Monday, where they hod a largo yarding of cattle,'practically, all of which were good quality and in good condition. There was a large attendance of buyers present, and bidding wax animated from start to finish of the sale, tho wliole yarding being sold under the hammer at prices which must have been highly 'satisfactory* to the vendors. The following aro some of the sales:—Account It. E.-Meech: 118 three-year . steers, £13 lis.; backward two-yea/; steers £11 2s. 6d. to £11 10s. Account Clapham Estate: 43 three-year steers. £13 155.; 43 Hereford-Polled Angus yearling steers, £11 125.: 19 do. heifers, £8 2s. 6d.; 15 small yearling steers, £9 145.; fouryear bullocks, £17 10s. 6d, Account 0. E. Cross: 30 Shorthorn icows, with calves, £15 155.; eight cows in calf, £12 165.; empty / cows, £13 55.; 5 two-year steers, £11 Is.; 7 two-year heifers, £5 Bs. Account W. lCebbell: 19 Hereford cows (empty), £14 25.; 23 two - and three-year Hereford heifer&, £14 Is. Account A. J. Rutherford: 22 empty cows, £10 18s.; 33 two-year dairy , heifers, £8 lis. Account C. Iticliardson: Hereford cow, £15 55.; Shorthorn steer, £14 7s. 6d. Account T. Freer: 5 three-j'ear steers, £17 2s.'6d. Account W. Brannigau: three-year steer, £15. Account T. A. wcbton: 4 yearling steers, £10 18s.; threo-year ! heifers, £6 155.; store oow, £8 12s. 6d. Account H. Pawson: 4 Shorthorn cows with calves, £16 55.; heifer and calf, £7 23. 6d. Account W. Edmonds: 9 mixed yearlings, £9. Account C. Gill: half-draught four-year I I maTe, unbrofcen, £11 10s. On behalf of tho "Red Cross the. firm Bold a, steer donated by A. E. Clapham for £5 155., and on©' donated by 0. Cross for £7. A liorso donated by C. Gill to the Wounded Soldiers' ''Fund mad© £7. • " Messrs. "Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., report on their, weekly Pahiatuasale as follows:—We offered only a small-yard-ing, which met -with good competition, and the whole yarding was sold at the following prices Forward six-tooth wethers, 325. 6d.; .fat? woolly hoggets, 40s. 6d.; forward store cows, £9 10s.; storo cows, £8 . 165... 1