LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3036, 24 March 1917, Page 12

LIVE STOCK SALES

!Yy :'Messrs. Dalgety and Co'.,'ltd.. Master--■..y -.ton, report having held:their weekly sale . :'" In the Colombo Eoadyards on Wednes--Y day. The demand was not quite so keen' . V, ~aa last week.. A good clearance was made .';"''. at .the following prices:—Two-tooth ewes, ,■?.'/■.' 325.; f.m.- ewes, 265.; two-tooth -wethers, ; ;. ; - 32a.; small b.f. lambs; 13s. Bd.; three-year -Y;-bullocks. JEI6-.lb.j two-and a half-year Y':; : .steers, '£14 2s. to £14 75.; store cows, £8 •'". '■ Is.; m.s. mother-reared weaners, £3; bulls, :;! ; v'.to £10 2s. 6d. Yy' - - ■ ■'' Y■-.-'■-/VMessrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd.,.Masterton, Y;,';report having.'held a salo at Langdale Yv-'on-Tuesday,.when there was a fair yard- ..;•,-:'.; ing of' sheep.. .Good conditioned young iY".--! sheep were in ' good demand, but fulliy. mouth low-conditioned sorts were hard .'■;■ .','. to'quit. Sheep; Four-tooth ewes, 275.. 6d. '.>' ■'!' to 34s.;.four and five-year ewes, 255. 2d.; >';' ...woollj wether, lambs,' 20b. to 235.; SouthJ-.-■'■'!. down rams, 1, I},_ 3. to, 4gns.; Jtomneys ".', .'.-' and Lincolns, Inn. to ljgns. Oattle:;TnoV.".; year . steers, £12. ...'. /-.Messrs. "Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Palmers-

•ton-North, report-having held their annual autumn cattle fair at Talhapo on Wednesday, when-'they yarded, 800 head of oattle, of 'all "classes. 'There was a very large, and representative attendance; and while the sale opened a little on the weak side -prices" improved' later "on, and practioally a. total olearanco was effected. Quotations i'Mixed weaners, £3 155., £3. 16s. 6d.; fifteen-month'heifer's, £5, £6; £6 165.; eighteen-month heifers, £7; two and a half-year heifers, £7. 125., .£7 165., £8, £8 65., £8 17s, 6d.; empty cows, ; £6, £7, £7 135.; forward cows. £9,'.£9 155., £10 55.; fat cows, £12 tO''£l4'los.: yearling steers, £5 to,£6 155,-; fifteen-month-'steers, £7 to £7 155.; twenty-month steers,- £9 is. 6d., £10 7s„ £10 Bs.- 6d„' £10" 10s.; £10 fls., £10 18s. 6d., to £11 75.; : two and a half-year ■steers,' £12,- £12 18s. 6d„ £13 25., £13 2s. 6d„ £15, to-£ls 10s.;'-three to three and a half-year steers, £16,, £16 ss. 6d.. £16 65.; forward bullocks, £17, £17 2s. 6d„ to £17 17s. 6d. .

.Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report having held their usual sale at the Upper Hutt on Thursday, when they sulimitted a large yarding of sheen and cattle to a - good attendance of buyers. Pat sheep and sheep of good quality were keenly competed for, but vendors were compelled •to accent low prices for inferior animals. With the exception of one oen of wethers, the; whole jarding, of sheep -was sold - under the hammer. Cattle sold at late rates-.y Quotations:—Fat ewes, to 355. 6d.; fat and forward wethers, to 345. Id.; two and four-tooth wethers, to. 30s.;' mixed-age -wethers, 225. 6d.; two-tooth to f.f.m. ewes, to 305.; s.m. owes, 16s. Bd.; cull ewes, 7s. 6d. to 155.; woolly lambs, to 17s. 10d.; oull lambs, to lis. 6d.; rams, 2 to'4Jghs.; .potter- rams, to 375.; three and three and a half-year steers, £11 IDs. to £14; bulls, to £8 10s. r forward cows, to £9; store cows, £5 to £6 10s.; cows in milk, to.£10; weaners,. 255. . '■■ '

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., PaJmerston North, report having a fair yarding, of both sheep and cattle at: their Palmerston yards on' Thursday, most of the lines changing hands at the following prices :—Sheep: Pat and forward ■ twotooth wethers, 335.' 3d.;, lambs, 16s. 2d. to 175.. 3d.; .four-tooth to f.f.m. Southdown rams, 2gns to 2Jgris.' Springing heifers, £7; heifers In milk, £8; light, forward oows, £6 17s. The New, Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.-, Ltd., report;—At our Upper Hutt sale on Thursday -we submitted a •large-yarding of both sheep and'cattle to a medium attendance of buyers, and sold all Bheep and" a large proportion of oattle at "satisfactory prices. Wo obtained the following rjrices:—Mixed aged ewea, 235. 3d!'.to.'27s. 3d.; aged ewes, 15s. 6d. to 18s. Bd.; oull ewes. 13s. 6d.; two and fourtooth iwetherß, 305.; tv/o-tooth. wethers (small), 235.; oull- two-tooth wethers, 14s. 6d. to 15s. 6d.; medium lambs, IBs. 2d. to 18s. 6d.; cull lambs, 7s. 6d.; forward ewes' and wethers. 305.; aged rams, 195.; springing cows, £13 2s. 6d.; cows in milk. £13 to £13 12& 6d.':' heifers in milk, £11 10s.; springing heifers. £10 to £11 2s. 6d.;'-bulls, small, £6 25.; calves, 10s. ,6d.