LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3084, 15 May 1917, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Dalgcty and Co., Ltd., report:— We held our weekly sale a-t Millers' Koad yards, /Danncvirke, on Friday, when we offered a fair yarding. of Bheep and a small entry of cattle to a, fair attendance of buyers. Our sheep entry was chiefly composed of store lambs of poor quality, but-' we succeeded in making a clearance of all sheep, with ,; the exception of two pens of \ o.wes and wethers. We quote as follows :-Cull lambs, 7s. 6d., 95.. 11s. 6d., 125.; i store lambs, 15s. to 205.; two-tooth wethers, to 335.; store ewes. 15s. to ESS.j store cows, £5 to £6 17s. 6d. The. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report having conducted a successful sale of dairy stock; eto., on, account of Mr. Alex. Sutherland at Ms farm, Arapaepac Hoad, Levin. There was <i ve.ry large, attendance of buyers, and as the herd had a particularly good name, the sale went with a. swine, and tip-top prices wer* realised. The highest price paid was £21 ss. for a Shorthorn cow, and £14 10s.. was reached for several grade Jersey heifers in calf. The whole herd of 21 cows (including several empty and threequartered' cows) made the high aevrago of £14 10s., which we believe to be a record for the district. The range o£ prices were:—Auguet calvcrs, £11 10s. to £19 155.; September calvers, £11 to £21 55.; December calvers. £15 15s. to £17 17s. 6d. ; pedigree Jersey cow (Olivette), 17gns.; empty cow, £9 10s.; three-quartered cow,'£B 55.; threeyear pedigree Jersey'bull, 12gns.; weaner pedisreo Jersey bull, 7gns.; grade weaner bull, £3 155.; wjaner heifers, £4 75.; heifers (spring calvers), £8 to £14 10s.;-sow, with litter, £4; sowe, to farrow August, £5 25.; boar. £2 15b. ; weaner pigs, Us.: fat lambs. '255. 6d.; six-year spring cart Kcldii*;, £30 2s. 6d.; swing dray, £17 -2s; '6d.; harness, £7; block dray. £7 10s.; harness, £5; gig harness, £5; s.f. plough, £4 55.; three-leaf tino harrows, £4; hay, per ton, £3 65.; '

poultry, por pair, hens., Us. to 165.-. ducks, 10s. to 245.- geese, 18s. 1 Messrs. Abraham ami Williams, Ltd.. rc]>ovt:-"-At Otalii.'on Wednesday, wo hnd fl. good yardiim of sheep and a. email entry of cattle, tho majority of which, changed hands (it. satisfactory prices. Wo quote:— Woolly Jamhi-, 20s. 3c1., 21s. 3d., to 245.; shorn lambs, 17s. W., 18s. 2d.. 18s. 3d.; lowconditioned a.m. owes in lamb, 265.; small two-tooth wethers, 28a. 6d.; slorn owes. 165.; yearling steers, £5 75.; fat cows, £12 65.; weaners. £3. A puppy sold on account of thiVlted Cross flociety realised £2 12». 6d. Mesßre. Abraham and WUliams, Ltd.. report;—At our autumn mUIo fair on Tuesday last cattle en me forward in excess of advertised numbers, cloeo on 1000 head beinK yarded. There was a roprcscnLaliTOattendancEof the public, buyers beinß present from. .Alesterton, Fetldinß. Foxton, I'a.Lmorston North. Pahautariui. Tho demand for grown cattlo wis particularly Rood, and practically all lines of these chanced hands at satisfactory prices. Tho demand for younß cat.te was not so keen, und in most failed to reach vendors' reserves, which wero on the hijrh side. Quotations:—Thrco and four-year bu/locks. £16 7s. 6d., £16 95., £16 10s.; threeTear steers. £12 45.. £12 Bs.. £12 10s.. to £13: two-yoar steers, £10 65., £10 10s., to £1116s.; weanei- steers, £4 65.. £4 Bs., to £4 10s.; yearlinjr heifers, £3 3s. to £3 65.; mixed, wcauore (small), £2 12s. to £2 155.: bustfed weaners, £4 14b.; forward heifers, £8 175.. £8 18s.. £9 2s. 6d.. to £9 95.; storo cows, £5 13>s. to £6 10s.; forward empty cows. £8, £8 25., to £8 155.; fat. and forward bullocks, £17 16s. and £18 145.; fat, heifers. £10 la.. £12 2s. 6d.. to £12 9s. 6a.: fat cows, £12 2s. 6d. to £13 95.; hoifers in calf; £7 Is.' to £7 65.; hea-vy vealers, £6. Fat.end forward wetlicrs. J6s. Id.; fat and forward ewes, 305.; b.f.-lambs, 17s. 3d.; cull ewes in lamb. £1 Is.

*Tho Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association,' Ltd.. stock department, report as on their Cortcrton sale, held on Friday:—Wo ofTered a full yarding of sheep, cattle, and pics to a good attendanco of buyers. Prices were:—Store ewes, 225. 6d., 255., to 275. 9d.; two-tooth, wethers, 275. 5d.; .fat wethers, extra, prime, 465. shorn w.f. wether lambs, 17e. to 19s. 7d.; b.f. lambs, 17a. to 19s. 5d.; enU lambs, 12s. 6d. to 135.; fat cows, £11, £12, to £12 10s.; fat heifers, £9 Is.. £10, to £10 10s.; store cows. £6 65., £7 5?., £7 15b...t0 £8 12?. 6d.: two-year heifers, in oalf, £6 25., £6 125., to £7; cull cows, with calves at foot, £6 2s. to £7; weaner calves, £2, £2 17s. 6d., £3 10s., to £4; porkers made 235. 6d.. 275. 6d., 295., to 315.; bacon pies, £3 Is.; weaners. Bs. 3d., 95.. to 10s.