LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3112, 16 June 1917, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

Unwr vln eV Ju ttim , BUly 9ale at the onft fL Thursday last-.-Pat wciSi--015,403.; foreard cows, to £S; two end a mUk'Tlu ?r cr t Sl % o m J2s - «d-: heifers in Ss to i« i» t0 £12 :.sprin B inff heifers, £9 springing cows, to £10; stoie coto, to £4JOs. At on O.W and cattle. Although a. largo proportion of the entry changed hands, business in several cases was precluded bv the high, reserves insisted on by vendors. Some sk«1 S £ ahsed were:-F.M. ewes in lamb, Z6s. to Zfe.; empty ewes, 17s. Id. to 17s. 6d. ; shorn lambs, to 16s. 2d.; one and a halfy«ar Steers £8 145.; twenty-month steers, f? Jα ■ t0 £9 ' h Sht-weiglit fat. heifers, to £7 10s.; one and half-year heifers, £4 17s. "•; springing heifers, £6 12s. 6d. At Otalti. ou Wednesday, there was a, good atusndaM,e , ot buyers, and competition was animated. Quotations :-Fat wethers, 3&*. 7d.; fat ewes, 335. to 335. 6d.; woolly lambs, 17e. M. to Mβ. 9d.; shorn lambs, to 16s. 9d.; aged ewes, 10s. 6d.; lighUvcight fat cowb, to £10 105.; three-year steers, £13 103.; fifteen-month steers, to £7 ss-.: cows in calf, to £10 25.; cows with calves, to £8 7s. 6d.; store cows, to £6; vealers, £4 11s.; scarlmg bulls, to £4 55.; weauers, 355.; springing cowb, to £11. The NewZbaland Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.. report that at their Upper Hutt sale on Thursday they subnutted a medium yarding of both eheep and cattle to a- good attendance oJ buyers, and everything was cleared at satisfactory rates. The following prices were realised:— Mixed-age ewes (small), in lamb, 355-j medium lamhs, 135.: cull lambs, 11s.; empty etore cows. £6; forward cowe, £7 10s.; fat COWS, £11 55.; spring calving cows, £9.55.; backward springing heifers, £10; heifers at drop. £10 10s.: spring calving heifers, £6 7e. 6d.; empty eighteen-month heifers. £6 7s. 6d.; mixed-sei weaners, £2 17s. Messrs. Dalgety and. Co., Ltd., Masterton, report on'their fortnightly Bale atfEketahuna on Friday:-Pa.t wethers, 365. 9d. ; f.m.'ewee, 235. 6d.; cull ewea, 20b.; m.s. la.mb3 (Eomney cross), 225.' to 22g. Id.; small lambs, !sb. 3d. At Oarterton, on Friday, there was a fair yarding of both ehecp and cattle submitted to a sood tendance. Fat wethere, 555. 10d.; fat eves and wethers, 335. 7d.; fat and forward ewe 3. 305.; good woolly hoggets. 30s. 9d. ; m.s. Komney cross lambs, 16s. sd. to 17s. 9d.; small lambs, 10s. 6d. to 13s. 6d.; store cowe, £5 lie., £6, £6 Bs., to £7 16s. 6d.; cows in calf, £7 7s. 6d. to £7 lie. At Greytown on Thursday:—Fat and forward ewes, 30s. 3d.; extra heavy lambs, 40b. 6d.; "empty ewes, 20e. to 225. 6d.; -woolly wether I lambs, 245. 6d.; mixod-sex ivoollj lamhs, 225. 6d.; forward b.f. lambs. 19s. 6d.; forward wethers, 31s. 7d.; eighteen-month steers. £8 Bs. 6d.; empty heifers, £4 to £7 10s. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having a, small yarding of both sheep and cattle at the Palmer6ton North yards on Thursday, June 14:—Forward twotooth -wethers, small; 265. Id.: lamhs, small, 10s. 4d.; sprineing cows, late, £7; wcaner heifers. £3 7e. !