LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3138, 17 July 1917, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

lho Xcw Zealand Loan and Mercantile Affenoy Co., Ltd.. report that at their Upper Hut-t sale on Thursday they submitted , medium yarding of both sheep and cattle. rhero were few buyers in attendance, and bidding was slow. The following lce '», wero realised:—Pat wethers (light), / ,onvlu 'd wethers, 355.; hoggets (small), 175. ; springing cows, to £11 155.; cighteen-montlis empty heifers, £5 lis.; weaner pigs. 14s. 6d.; empty sow, £2 is. Jlossrs. Dalgety and Co.. Ltd., report having held their fortnightly sale, at Woodvule on July 9. .There wag a fair yarding, and practically everything was sold. Quotations:—Store cows, from .£7 10s. to £8; dairy cows, from £8 to £10 ,ss. figs: Slips, from 19s. tq 215.; potatoes, los. 6d. per sack. The weekly stock sale a.t tho Miller Road yards waß held on January 13. Quotations: Store empty ewes, up to 20s. 3d.; dairy heifers, £9 55.; dairy cows, to £11).

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Ltd.. J'almerston North, report having a good entry of stock at their Peilding stile on..Friday. Competition was good throughout tho day, and market showed advanced prices. Quotations:—Mixed-age ewes, iu lamb. 20s. .2d., 275., 275. 10d.; Tour to sixtooth and four-year ewes, in lnuib. 3Us. 10d., 345. 7d., to 3Gs.; empty ewes. 21s. to 235.; mixed hoggets, 235. Id. to 255.; twotootli wethers, 325. 5d.; four and six-tooth wethers, 355. 5d.; twenty-month steers, £7 10s. to £10 10s.

Mr. Newton King (New Plymouth) reports:—On July-2, at Douglas, there was a lair entry, which was keenly competed lor, the whole yarding of sheep and cattle being sold at tho hammer. Weaner steers ic ■ weaner lielfers 15s. to. £3 95.; empty 1 twenty-month heifers, £4 lis. to £5 175.: twenty-month steers, £8 13s. and £8 145.; small cows 'lo i - C!,lvos ' M Ss-; hulls, £8; forward cows, M . A O ,^ 9 i 7s storc cows . 6d. to £8 135.; lambs, 20s. 3d. and 215.; fin. owes, in lamb, 235. Id. to 28s. Id.; fat lambs. 275. 9d. On the same day, at. Mr. ,■. Lmcbam's clearing sale, Midhirst, dairy cows sold up to £17 10s., the herd averaging £14; mixed weancrs .made £5 «•; .Shorthorn bull, £21; milking mnchiiio £70 15s. At Kaponga on July 3, lor .Mr. r. Curran's clearing sale there was a very large attendance. Best dairy i'nJ™. I,?' to £23; others. £10 pi a . ' 0 averaging just." on £14; store cows, £7 12s. 6d. lo £10 10s.; weaners, £4 2s. to £4 155.; lambs, 19s. At, M.ratford yards on the same day weaner stoers made £4 11a. to £5 Bs.; weaner heiS '.i. i . S i.' to empty twcnlynionth heifers, up to £5 16s. A very line line of two-year steers sold on account or Air. Arthur Bennetts made £11 45.: others, up to £9 Bs.; bails. £9 to £10; cows and i pin . 6d.; forward cows, up to £10 75.: store cows, up to £9 2s. 6d.; stnall More cows, £4 6s. to £5 18s.; small lambs, IBs.; f.m. ewes, in lamb, 235. to 265. 2d. Un July 4, at luglewood, owing to the very we| day, tho yarding and attendance were uot as good hb usual. Springing licifprs marie £9 to £10; calved heifers, £7 2s. bu.; store and forward cows. £7 14s. to £10 Gs.; yearling; heifers, £3 15s. to £3 IBs.; empty twenty-month hoifers, £6 2s. 6d * small, -£4 17a.;. small lambs, 1%.; good lambs 245.; f.m. ewes, in lamb, 265. 3d. to as. 6(1. On tho same day at my StratJorcl dairy yarda, a special sale was held on account of three vendors. The Kprincinff heifers sold on account, of Mr. c?i in [r oI 5 £9 to £13, averaging 7: j Sowerby's averaged just unaer £10, and dairy cowa on account of Mr. 0. Downs, from the back -country sold from £8 10s. to £13 ss. On July 5, «t Inglcwood, for Jlr. J. Roguski's sale, despite the boisterous weather, there was a o a A l \« ttonrtanco ' hefit cows selling up to £18 10s.; others, £10 to £13 ssl; the herd averaging £11 135.; empty cows made £7 <ss. 6d.; weaner heifers. £3 In.; spring cart, £17. At Kaponga on .Tuly 6, yearling steers made £3 12s. 6d. to £5 78.'; fat and forward cows, £11; forward cows £9 12s. to £10 95.; storo cows, •£5 10s. to £8 17s. Gd.; cows and calves, £9 12s. 6d.; springing heifers, choice, £13 ss. to £16 10r.; others, £3 355. to £11. On the same day, at ltahotu, weaner heifers made £3 9s. fid. to £4 45.; weaner steers, £4 13s. to £5 165.; bulls, £10 15s. and £tl; fat cows, £13 12s. 6d. to £15 -145.; forward cows, £8 Uss. to £9. 12s. Gd.; store oows, £5 15s. to £8; cows and calves. £11 17s. 6d.; pmpty twenty-month heifers, £5 »k £6 . 25 -: springing heifers, £9 10s. to £12 10s.; m-calf heifers, £7 15s. to £8 12m Sr n Ur(!luli on 9. fat cows made £12 35.; forward, cows, £9 ss. to £10 65.store cows, £4 18s. to £6 2s. 6d.; rough steers. £8 2s. fid.; twenty-month steers, £8 125.; empty twenty-month heifers. £5 10s.small weaners, £2 10s. to £3 65.; springing heifers, £8 ss. to £11 155.; f.m. ewes, in i* m \v 193, 9d,; two an{ * four-tooth wetliers, 345. On Tuesday at Stony River, fat and forward cows made £10 13s. to £11 17s • f o\ward cows, £9 to £9 18s.; storc cows, A* A .-I 0 5 ' small storc cows, .£4 17e. od. to £5 175.; in-calf two-year heifers, £6 17s. 6d.; dairy cows, up to £13 10s.; springing heifers, £8 155.; yearling steers, from £3 17s. for small up to £5 12s. for good cattle; yearling Holstcin bulls £6 7s. 6a. to £7 155.; yearling heifers, £3 ss. 6d. to £3 18s.; twenty-month steers, £9-twenty-month Shorthorn hull, £11- twoyear steers (rough), £10 125.; empty ewes 225.; f.m. ewes, in lamb, 24e. Bd. to" 30s Id • good lambs. 245. Bd.; cull lambs, 12s'• mixed-age wethers, 30s. fid. At Pukearuhe on July 12, for Mr. J. Bowman's clearing sale, there was a very representative attendance. Bidding was good, a very satisfactory sale resulting. Fat bullocks made -jl6 155.; fat cows, £13; forward cows, £10 10s.; store cows, £6 10s. to £8 155.; bulls ,£7 to £8 55.; rough twenty-month steers! £7; -yearling Jersey bull, £4 12s. 6d.; two and a half-year ateers, £12 175.; rough mixed weaners. £3 Is.; four-year and f.m ewes, jn iamb, 345. 3d.; woolly lambs (good). 30s. 3d.; culls, 165.; fat sheen (small lot), £2; farm -horses, £13 10s. to £29' dairy cows. £8 15s. to £14; springing heifers. £5 10s. to £11 10s.; house cows, £15 to £18; shearing machine. £125. At Lepperton on July 12, Mr. 11., A. Bowman's cows sold at from £9 to £14 10s.. averaging £11 155.: empty cows made £7 10s. to £9 5s • mixed yearlings, £3 18s. £d.; springing lieifers, £7 10s. / !