LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3137, 16 July 1917, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

•_ Messrs. Wrielit, Stcplionson, and Co., « 'n tcllo 5, av 'y» a oleariiis sale pt .Air. J. D. Jlathow's dairy herd tit Mangalifto, Pahiatua, yesterday' There was a very largo attendance of buyers present, and the very Jiiio herd. submitted excited exceptionally keen competition, "with tho result that prices established & record, for tho Pahiatua district, th© ftverago price realised for tho 37 cows being £13 14s. 6d. We havo included in theso figures two backward heifers, sold nfc- £9 69. each, so that tho 35 dairy cows averaged exactly £14 per head. Cows oloso profit realised £15 7s,- 6d., £16, £16 10s;; £16 15a, £17, £17 2s. 6d.,t0 £17 129. 6d.; September, and Ootober ealvers, £10 10s., £11; ill J59., £12 10s., £13, £13 15a., £14 10s.. to, £15} two heifers/ late calvers, £9 to £9 10s. 1 pJB, Jersey ball, £21? brooding sows, 33 173. 6d., £3 7s. 6d., to £3 10s.; railk-oans, lla. ( 135,, to 15s v Messrs. 'and. "Williams. Ltd.; Palmorston Korth, fceport:—At Palmerston Worth, on July 13, -wo had a fairly pood . entry of both Cattle and 6heep. Prices for sheep wete rather bettor than last •week, whilo cattlo sold at improved rates. S.IT. ewe 3 in lamb, 295, 3d. j aged ewes in lamb, 255. ldvt° 9, n ' empty store cweg, 225. to 225. Id.; f.m. ewes and wethers '(mixed), '2is. 6d.j two and four-tooth • -wethers, 355. 6d.j' sjnall store hoggets, 16s. .Id. to 18s.; plain fat and forward cows. ''£11 to £12 55.; email fat heifers. £8 lbs. to, r£9.155.-; forward cows. £7 17s. 6d. to £9 ss.;' ;storo cows, £7 to £7 lis.; cows and calves, '£11 Is.: cows in calf, £8 7h. 6d. to £9 15b.: dairy heifera, £$ 10s. to £11 2s. 6d.; good .'yearling heifera, £3 16s. to £5 lis.; small .yearlings, £2 11a. to £2 I&3. At Feilding ■ on: July we had a good yarding of •sheep, almost tho whole of which sold under good competition at prices which 'wero inclined to harden. 'Cattlo carae forward in average numbers, and sold at prices which wero in favour, of the veildors. . There was a Rood inquiry for good quality stuff. Two-tooth ewes in lainb 'brought 345. Id.: fat ewes (light). 265. 2d., 275. 2d., to 295.; forward ewes, 245.; f.m. - ewes in lambs, 245. to 275. lOd.; mixed hoggets, 225. 3d. to 255. lCd.; small ditto. 15s. 6d. to 17s. 2d.; four-tooth wctliers. 345. 3d. to 345. lid.; woolly mixed hoggets. 245. to . 245. 10d.i cull hoggets, 13s. Id.; fat cows,£13 to £15 2s. 6d.; plain ditto,' £10 153. to £11 10s. J forward cows, £8 15s. tp £10 7s. 6d.; store oow9, £6 15s. to £7 125.; springing dairy cows, £8 to £12 10s.; springing heifers (good), £10 to £11 155.; forward . heifers, £9; small mixed yearlings (bad colours). £2 to £3. . ' •The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. report:—On Wednesday, wo, held a sale of dairy stock sheep on account of Mr. W. TV. Wilsher. Kelvin Grove. The cows were . a particularly good lot of grade Holsteine. and the herd of 32 cows made the high averago of £14 75.; 8 springing heifers averaged £12 10s.; best oows made £16, £16 10s.. £17. £18 55., and £18 10s.; springing heifers from £8 to /£l6; Holstein bull, £13 55.; ewes in lamb to Komneys, 315.; mixed hoggets, 225. 6d.; • sows. £2 10s.; plough, £10; pony. £4; phaeton. £8. At Palmerston, on Thursday, only a small yarding came forward and sold at late rates. Forward ewes, 25s< 4d.; weaner heifers, £2 10s.: weancr steers, £4; fair store cows. £0 13s. 6d. to £7 55.; fat heifers, £9. At Feilding. on Friday, wo had a good entry of both shsep end cattle,-and havo to report a good sale i .it prices in advance of last week's rates. " Small woolly hoggets. 215.; fair shorn hog- • gctsi 235. 6d. to 235. lid.; good shorn hogKcts, to 265. Id.; forward wethers, 355. 6d.; -forward ewes, 225. lid.; aged ewes in lamb, 24s.light fat ewes, 235. 6d.; prime fat ewes, 335.; small weaners.'34s. to 38s. 6d.; "weancr heifers. £2 135.; light store cows, "£4 10s. to £5 10s.: store cows, £6 10s. to '' £7 10s.; oows in oalf, £8 ss. to £8 17s. 6d.; "light fat" heifers, £9 Is.; fat cows, £11 ss. to £|3; twenty-month steers. £3 13s. 6d.; two and thrco-year steers, £13 ss. •