LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3063, 26 April 1917, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Jlessi's. Dalgety and Company report having offered a fair yardinu of sheep and cattle at their Levin sale on '.Tuesday. There wae a good. attendance of buyers, and most of the lots offered were disposed of at satisfactory prices. They quote:—Woolly lambs, 17s. 3d. to 203.; f.m. ewes, to 18s. 9d.; fa.t bullocks, £15 125.; forward bullocks, £13 10s.; 21-yMr steers, £9 10s.; 2-y#ar steers, .£8 2s. 6C; weaner steers, £5 155.; weaner heifers, £3 17s. 6d. to £3 19s. ' ' ■ Messrs. Daleety and Company, Limited, Palmerston North, report having a .veTy fair entry of sheep at their Jforton sale on Monday, all of which changed hands, except ono entry, at prices highly satisfactory to vendors. Quotations:—{lull lambs, 11s. 6d.; small lambs, 14s. 3d.; fair lambs, lfe. 9d. to 18s.; empty owos, 245. 9d.; mixed aged ewes in lamb, 225. lOd. to 265. 4d.; small 2-toolh wethers, 275.; light fat wethers, 355. 5d.. . . .The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Teport:—At" Himitangi, om Monday, wo hod a~ good yarding of both el'.ccp ' and . cattle, and sold tlio whole entry, at auction at prices on a par with recent advanced rates:—Small lamb 9, Uβ. Id.; b.f, lambs. 15s. 4d.; fair mixed lambs, 15s. 2d., 15s. 10d., 16s. 2d., 17a. , 7d.; forward lambs. 205.; small 2-tooth wethers. 275. Bd.. 50s. 7d.; good empty ewes, 31e. 7d.; good woolly ewes, 345.; small weaner heifers, 28a. to £2; good weaner heifers, £3; B'cancr. steers, £4 Is.; agcdi etoro cows, £4 65., £4 9s. 6d., £5; good store cows, £6. £7 95.; £7 11s., £7 145.; forward cowe, £8 7s. 6d.: fat cows, £10 10s., £11- 12s.

The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:—We hold, our .usual weekly sale at Pahiatua on Tuesday, vhen we offered a goodi yarding of sheep and a fair ono of cattle Biddlntr was not tery animated, hut practically a total clcaranco was made an follower—Twotooth wethers, 293. to 325.; m.s. shorn lambs, 17s. Id.; small do., 12e. 10d. to 135.; cull do., 9s. to 125.; fat lambs, 235.; lowconditioned ewes, 14s. 9d.; etoro cows, £4 10s. to £4 155.; weaner heifers, £2 14a.; heifers in calf, £5 ss. Messrs. Wright, RtcphcnsoJi' and Co., Ltd., report a medium entry of sheep and cattle at their Palmerston Bale. Lambs were in demand, but aced ewes did not meet with any competition.- Quo-tationß:-£heep: 2-tooth wethora 'email), 31s. 6d.; shorn lambs, 16s. 6d. to 17s. 3d.; aßed owes. 18b. 6d. to 235. CaUlo: Empty heifers. £8 10s.; weaner?, £5 3s.