LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2981, 19 January 1917, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.. report that at their stock salo at Lovin on January 16 they offered a good yarding of both sheep and .oatUo to a, good attendance of buyere. The bulk of their yardine changed hands at tho following Dricos:—Medium fat ewca and wethers. 32a. 6d.; medium iat ewes. 30s. Bd. .to 30s. 10d.; woolly rape lambs. l?s.; cull lambs, 13s. Bd.: forward-condi-tioned owes, 28s. 3d.; 2 and 4-tooth store wethers. 315.; amall 2-tooth wethers. 265. W.; ram etagf, 216.; cull rams, 163.; light fat cows, £10 Iβ. to £10 55.; forward-con-ditioned cows, £9; cows and calves, £9 to £9 2s. 6d.; good mixed sex wcauera, £3 15s. to £3 195.; springing cow, £13 10s. The Wiurarapa. Farmers' Co-operative Association, Ltd., Stock Department, report on the sale hold at Colombo Road, Itasterton, on Wednesday :—For. tho opening salo there was o, good "yarding of sheep of various classes, which met an animated market, practically a total clearanco resulting. ■Wβ Bold, on behalf of Mr. G. B. Allen, Toxatahi) a couple of ipens, comprising 75 fat heavy ewes, which mado 375. 6d. Other prices realised were:— Two-tooth store wethers, 295.; culls, 245. 9d.; two-tooth Down oweß, 28s. Id.; fat ewes. 325. 3d. to 375. 6d. for an extra rood lot. No cattle were yarded owing to the erection of the cattle pens not being completed.