LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3069, 3 May 1917, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Tho New Zealand Loan and. Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report at Itangiotu on Monday :—Wc had- a lair yd ruing of cattle, all ol which Bold at lat-o rates. Store cows, £5 155., £6 Ib., £6 75.; forward cows, £7 ss. 6(1., £7 145., £8 25., £8 65., £8 9s. Gd.; light fat cows, £9, £9 135.; bullp, Sa 55., £8. Messrs. Dalgety Utitl Company, Ijtd., roJi or I, having held their weekly sale at Levin on Tuesday, when thoy offered a fair yarding of sheep and cattle. They quote Two-tooth wothers, 28s. Id.; email lambs, 13s. Id., 14s. 5d., to 165.; light fflt cows, £8.155. to £11; weaner steers, to £5 25.; weaner heifers, £2 17s. 6d.; atoro cows, £6 10s. to £7; young bui Ib, to £6 6s. llcsars. Wright, Stephenson, and Co., Ltd., report having held their -weekly sale nt Colombo Koad salcyards yostcrd«.y, ■when they offered a fair yarding of cheep and cattlo to a good attendanco of tho public. Bidding throughout waß good, and a total cloara.nco was ma do -under the hammer -with tho eiccption of two head of cattlo and a small pen of sheep. Quotations Sheep: 30. empty ewes, 255.; 40 empty owes, i9s.'-6d.; 49/ empty ewes, 12s. Id.; 112 woolly lambs, 229. 7d.; 1 ram, 28s. Cattle: 1 springing heifer, £9 155.; 8 ■wcancrs," £3 35.; 3 store cows, £6 125.; 3 heifers, £9 10s., £9 12s. 6d„ £9 15a. Messrs. Abraham anil Williams, Ltd., report:—At Shannon on Friday good yardiuffs of sheep and cattle camo forward. Tho attendance was good, and competition for most lines -was brisk. . Practically a total clearanco -was made at the following quotations:—Four and sis-tooth wethers (few two-tooths), 335.; poor-eondi-tioned wethers, 275. Id.;' forward empty ewes, 275. 3d.; shorn lambs, 13s. 6(1. to 17s. Id.;- woolly lambs. 20s. 2d.; fat cows, ■£9 155., £10 35., to £13; forward cows, £5 6s„ £5 lis., £6, £7, to £9 35.; store cows, £3 to £5; empty heifers, £6 to £7 10s.; two and a half and three-year steors, £12 55.; eightccn-months, steers, £6 18s.' id. to £8 Ids.'; mixed-sox cightcen-montlis' cattle, £5 18s. 6d.; weaners. £3 to £4 Is.; cows in calf. £1; springiiiE-heifers, £9 ss. to £11 2s. 6d.; bulls, £10 10s. At P. E. J'almos's clearing sale on Monday there was a large attendance and a satisfactory sale. Eighteen-raonths steers, £8 Bs.; empty cows, £3.105..t0. £6 ss.;.forward cows, £10 55.; empty heifers, £9; weaner heifer*, £4; mixed-sex -wcancrs, £2 175.; heifer in milk, £15; heifers in calf, £4 17s. 6d. to £9; four-year draught gelding, £35; sevenyear draught mare. £24;, marc in foal, £25; aged gelding, £11; filly foal, £8; machinery and sundries made good prices. At Levin on Tuesday only small yardings of sheep and cattle came forward. We havo to report a good clearance at the following quotations:—Mixed aged ewes in iamb, 245. to 265.: shorn lambs (good), 245. 5d.; woolly lambs, 14s. Bd. to l!s. lOd.; light' fat cows, £10 10s.; flfteon and -eight-cen-months heifers. £3 155., £5 2s. 6d., to £5 10s.; eighteen-montlis steers, £7 17s. 6d.; yearling steers, £4 9s.- 6d.; porkers, 31s. 6d,, £2 3s. 6d., to £2 15s.