LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2954, 18 December 1916, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs...Dalgety and Company, Limited, report on tho Pahautanui., sale held onDecember la as under:—'We offered a medium, yarding of both sheep and cattle to a. large attendant of, farmers. All oesoriptions of, 1 stoolt:-were .Keenly com-' peted for, and wo "have to .report a total clearance under- the. hammer at nrioes well ■ up! to ruling rates. / /We qtaote:— Sheep: , Fat . and forward , fourth-tooth, wethers, to 335.: small'two-tooth ewes, 245. 3d. Cattle: -Fat'bullocks, to £17 65.empty threcrycar, hoifeM,- £9: S.H. bull'' '£9 55,;. yearling' bulls,' £5 25.; yearling heifers. £4 195.; weaner steers', £2 Bs. Messrs. Dalgety -and Cbmpany. Limited, Palmerston North, ■ ' report . having a. ■very fair yarding • of both sheep and cattle/at', their' Feildippr'- sale on Friday.- Bidding^was not keen at auction, but afterwards a good clearance was ■effected. ; Quotation's:—Store cows,'£B Is. to £9: fifteen to eighteen-month-steers. £7 ; 25., £7 155., and £9 Bs. ;■ small yearling steers, £4 lsl': empty htifers, £8 lis. Ed. 1 to £8 12s. 6d.; weaners (mixed), to £2 155.; fat cows, £9 9s„ £10 165., to £12 ss>; bulls,

to £8, 15etwo-tooth wethers, JOs. -to 30s - We \¥ rs ' % > 345. 10d,j 375. 6d. ' - ewes !, s '' hoggets, 'to T M® s i r - B*'8*' Y r 'Sht. • Stephenson, and Co on on their Eketahuna sale held 1; f oUo«-S:-We submitted a ?rv nt li! ? cattle and a medium enMrin' ,1 cp , to a moderate attendance, lint sale ffonerolly.competition was Mni.« ™ • Brazlers evidently being caurfX. ■ ccount of the dry weather conttjtions. Our sales made were as follows — Cattle- fi}2£ wethers cattle, fettle cows. £8 4s t,o Jin m c . caUea. £9 75. ; eighteen-montil to £9 : blllIs • £? 10s " £B 6d„ Co ''°r sew5 ew Zealan<l and Mercantile Agency £&'■ at . t , heir Upper Hutt te Thursday they submitted a ir of sheep and a large entrv of cattle to a fair attendance of buyers Although bidding ivas dragging thev clear! a? » 'j lo ' w ho'e of tfeir yarding Thnv =nw y eaa ? r prlces tlan of la t«Bold small two-tooih wethers! low ~J) ™' &•.; four-tooth ditto, 30s. 6d.; iiST. S stee S 3 (Jersey, sorts), £5 Is.-eighteen-month steers, £8 145.;. two-year J 1 colours. £9 10s. to £9 17s. 6d.a hai f .j. €ttr sterSi £12 three _ } ear mixed-colour steers. £13 ls, ; store cows, forward condition,- £9 125., £9 12s ' j as r e<l ' store COITS ' £ ' ! t0 £5 f r.o,/ at anci forward heifers, £8 18s to ±,9 145. ; weaner heifers, (£3 14s 6d • fifteen-month heifers, £5 Is. to £5 12s 6d '• £7 0 5TL h S fe, ' S ' with calresi us..to £9; cows with calves, £10 4s. to M. £?2!''to I £l3 COWS ' 10 £15; buUs ' 17s ' ™^f r in iS ' bra ' l!lm and Williams, Ltd.. J mo " thl y st<>cl{ sale was held at Eaumai on December 12. An average number of' cattle came forward. Prices were somewhat easier. Pat heife?s b r X B W%» tO £ 3 for B00d : 107 tn V 8 ! fifteen-month ditto, £6 ■wpanlrs^V? l i?' C T arh . nßa (poor) ' £4 : ' /' tevm, on Tuesday, and .K forward in large numbers, \ ■ of fat cows sold n i at€3, oul ' sheep entry «as small but tho few that -iverc offered f competed for. Fat woolly two-tooths brought £2 os. 6d.; fat lambs,' Z3s. 6d.; forward shorn ewes, 295.; store ewes,. 255.; fat cows,' £13; forward cows, ■lift it" !0 ,6, 6d - 8s - 'M'., £10 10s., j? "r s v„?t° re .cows, £8 45., £8 155.; fat heifers, £10 10s.';'.two-year empty heifers, £8 145.; yearling heifers (small), £4 10s.; yearling and fifteen-month heifers, £5. £5 ißs., £S 10s„ £5 145.; eishteen-month heif- • «", £6, £6 2s„ £t 4b., £6 .10s„ £6 lis!, r®., 14s - eighteen-month and two-year heifers, £6 195.; yearling and fifteen-month steers, £7; fifteen and eighteen-month, £8 145.; yealers, £3; yearling steers. £6 65.; cows and calves, £11 9s. Pius: Weaners, 155., 16s. 6d„ to 195.; stores, 235„ 255. 275., 305.; porkers, 395;, 395. 6d., 40s. 6d.,' 425„ 465.; baconers, 655. to 675. , At Palmerston on December 14, we had a moderate entry of stock. Bidding was rather dull, and _ prices in many instances failed to reach vendors' reserves. Business was transacted at the following rates. Kedium fat cows, £12 10s„ £12 17s. 6d.,' JI3 10s.'; forward cows. £10 10s. to £11 55.; store cows.,. £8 10s. to £8 155.; fifteen-month steers, £9; fifteen-month heifers (good),, £7- 12s. ,6d.; yearling: heifers, £6; bulls 1 (tinners), £10 to £10 2s. 6d.

• Jtr. King reports:—On December | 6. at Inglewood, there wag a heavy yard- | ing of cattle, all pens and races being I well filled. Buyers were present in good j numbers, and made brisk competition,'the host proportion.of the yarding being clear-) I ed. Prices were:—Best springing lxelfer3, ; £9 10s; to £12; good. £7 17s. 6d. -to £9;' I small, £6 7s. 6d. to £7; dairy cows, £8 17s. 6d. to £12; atoro cows, £8 7s. 6d: to 55.; forward cows, £11.to £12 15s. 6d.; for-, ward-conditioned heifers, up to £12 155.; .fifteen-month, steers, £8 9s. to £9 95.; small steers, £6 19s. to-£7 12s. 6d.; ; fifteenmonth heifers," £6 15s. to £7 155.; two-year empty.heifers, up to £9 3s. 6d.; bulls. £6 15s.'to £10; yearling heifers, £5 Bs. 6d." , £6. On December. 7, ; at Ohura, buyers were in strong-force, a very satisfactory' sale resulting 1 . ; Forward bullocks made £16-45., £16, £15 165., £15 2s. 6d., £15, £14 175., £14 15s. 6d.; tliree-year bullocks, £14 7s. 6d., £13 195.; two. and a h'al»year steers/ £11 to £12 18s,; fat, two and a half-year steers, £14.175. ,6d.; fifteen,- to v eighteen-, month steers.'good, "£9 25." to £9 .15s.;' small, £5 " 15s; to £7 155.; • fifteen to eighteen-month heifers, £6 135." to £7 95.; small, £5.155.; .two-year heifers, £9 25.; fat cows, £13 15s. to. £14 23.. 6d.; store cows, £8 7s. to £11 475.; store wethers, 31s. 10d.»to 325. 6d.: dry ewes, 295. to '315.-6 d;; woolly wether hoggets, 40s. to 445. 6d. At Batiotui on: December B,"there was a fair entry which' Bold well, as follows:—Fifteen-month steers, r £7 155.; small, £6 2s. 6d. to £6 155.; fifteenmonth heifers, £6 15s. to £7 25.; smallerv heifers, £6 Is. to £6 55.; bulls, ;£8 to £13;' springing heifers, £9 2s. 6dv to.£lo 55.; dairy cows, £15 10s.; fat cows,- £14 to £15; forward, cows, £10 2s. to £11 18s.;-.-store cows, £7 19s. \6d. ? to £9 12s. 6dV; empty two- * year £8 18s. 6d.j cows and. calves, £12 Bs.; dairy cows, good, £15. 10s. '=■ At' TJrenui, on December 11, there: was a ?ood entry. Prices throughout, were a • shade • easier, but most, of'the yarding changed hands. Prices wcro:—Fifteen-month steers,' mostly small, £7v 165.; fifteen-month heif9s.' to £6 145.; empty two-year heif-ersj-£8 135.; fat cows, tip!to £15; prime fat heifers, £15; bulls, £5 15s. to £14; store cows,\£9 ss. to £10 ,155.; two and a halfyear steers, rough, £9. 12s. to .'£lo 65.; springing heifers, £7 7s. 6d. to £10. At Stony River, on Decejnber 12, a very sat-, isfactory sale resulted.-' Best fifteen to eighteen-month steers made £8 10s. 6d. to : £8 135.; smaller steers, £7 10s. to £7 18s. j 6d.; fifteen-month heifers. £5 7s. 6d. to £6 I 155.; empty, two-year heifers, £8 13s. to £8 .1 176.; bulls, £9 17s. 6d. to £16 155.: two-year 1 steers, £9. 165.; fat cows.--.£13 155.; 'store and forward cows, £8 10s.' to». £10 '18s. ? ■ mixed weaners, £3 3s. At Kohuratahi, on I December 13, the bullocks were good, and | sold readily.' Three and a half-year bullocks (good) made £16 155., £16 65., £15 17s. ; two'and a half-year'steers,. £13 lOsl, £12;. £11-125." 6d.v £11. £10 155.; yearling steers, ~£B 4s. to £8 55.; fifteen-month heifers. £7 165.; 'yearling heifers, £5 16s. to £6 10s.; 'bulls. £6 10s. to £9; empty heifers. £8 7s. 6d.; fat cows, £12 55.; store cows, TTj 17s. lo £10 '3s.' 6d.; two-tooth <r*?s, 31s. 10d.; •two-tooth wethers, olsVSd. ,ji s : 9d. ; woolly, tow-tooths. 365. Id.; ewes and lambs, £2 Bs. 10d.; mixed shorn two-tooth, 31s. 3d.