LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2958, 22 December 1916, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report on their Otaki sale, held on December 20, as under:—We offered an exceptionally good yarding of both sheep and cattle to a large attendance of buyers. Competition for sheep was and we quitted our yarding. • Cattle, were again slow of sale under the hammer, but good business was done after the sale, and we have to report a cloaranco of all our .principal lines. Prices .were as follow :-6heep: Fat wethers and ewes, 325. to' 325. 9d.; two-tooth wethers, small, 28s. 6d.; four-shear Bomney rams, 2Jgns. Cattle: Pat bullocks, light, £13 55.; fat cows, £11 to £13; lighter sorts, £8 Bs., £9 He., to £10 10s.; cows in calf. £9 165.; twoyear S.H. bull, 15gns.; four-year forward bullocks, £14 10s.; two-year steers, £8 Is.; 18-month steers, £4 10s., £6 165., to £7; yearling steers, £2 12s. to £4 65.; 18-month heifers, r.w.h.. £4 125.-6 d.; m.s. weaners. £1 .12s. to £3; potter bulls, tp £8. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.. report that at their Levin yards on Tuesday they offered a fair: entry of both sheep and cattle to a good attendance of buyers, when practically a clearance was made at the following prices:—Fat and forward wetherß, 345. 4d.; good store wethers, 325. 5d.; medium two-tooth wethers, 275. 9d.; medium fat cows, £10 ss. to £11 2s. 6d.; light fat heifers. £10 55.; two-year Jersey heifers, r.w.b., £7 17s. 6d.; fifteen-montK heifers, good, £6 10s.; small yearling heifers. 12s. 6d.; mixed-sex wcancr •calves, £2 55.; yearling Jersey bulls, £4 10s.; cow in milk, £15.

Messrs. Dalgety and'' Company, Limited, report on their Levin sale of December 19 as follows:—"We offered' a small yarding of sheep and a medium one of cattle to the usual attendance of buyers. Sheep ■wore again keenly competed, for, but cattle, lu sympathy with other markets, were dragging of sale. YTo quote:— Sheep: Two-tooth wethers, small, 255. lid. to 265. Id.-' Cattle: Fat cows, £U IBs. to £12 ss. i vealers. £4 £s.; three-year bullocks, to £13 2s. 6d.; store cows, £7 8s„ £8 10s. to £9 Bs.; m.s. weaners, £2 Us.

■ Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co., Ltd., report having held their weekly sale in their Waipoua silo yards on Wednesday, when they submitted a fair yarding of sheep and cattle to- a good attendance of buyers. Prices ranged as follows:—Ewes and Lambs, 385., 38s. 6d„ to 50s. 4d.; porkers, 225.; weaners. 10s., 125., to 155.; fat cows, £14; store cows. £9 Is.; bulls, i £13 13s.