LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 3, 28 September 1917, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

' Messrs. Dalgcty and Co., Ltd., Paimers'ton North.' report 'on their Feildiog sale -of September 21 ast below:—A good entry ■of sheep, and an exceptionally large j'ardling of- cattle, oamb to hand, including some-.specials, entries.... Although .at auction .sheep were not; keenly .competed:for, tno bulk of the yarding changed hands l<-ter In tho day. Cattle met with keenest competition; and our entries, which comprised, a number of lines'of well-bred cattle, scld as below:—Sheep: Fat and : forward ernes, IBs. '6d.; wether hoggets,, small,- li'-s. -vd.; wether hoggets, fair, 265. 4d.; ewe hoggets, 295. 6d. Cattle: -Small -mixed -year--lings, £2 165.: mixed yearling?,..£4 175..t0 . 565.; rough two .and a half-year steers, £9 145.: empty cows, £9 12s. to £9 175.; empty heifers, £6 Is.; light, fat cows, £14. Special lines: One-year Hereford steer?. £10 18s.; one-year" Shorthorn yearling steers, £10. Is,; yearling Polled Angus-steers, £10 Is.; yearling Polled Angus heifers, <£9 16a.; ■ yearling Shorthorn heifers, .£9;' yearling Hereford heifers, £9 10s,; two-year, empty Hereford heifers. £11 10s.:' two-year Hereford heifers, r.w. Polled Angus bull, £12; two-year Sbortlioru steers, £12 175.; fouryear bullocks, £15; empty run cows, £11 10s.; thtfee-year Shorthorn bulls, £10, £20. to £27; four-year Shorthorn Ijulla, £26 10s.; yearling Polled Angus bulls, £12. " Messrs. Dalgety and 00., Ltd., report that at their Otaki sale on Wednesday they offered a large yarding of sheep and ftattle; .'Thcre"was a good attendance, bidding was spirited, and a clearance was raade~at satisfactory prices. They nuote: Fat' hoggets, 265. 2d.; forward wethers and ewes, 265. lid.; empty store ewes, to 24b. Id.:- mixed-age wethers,. 245.; cull ewe?, with lambs,; 235.; m.s. hoggets, 21s. to 30s. fid.; light fat cows, £10,55. to £11 17s. 6d.; a line of 46 three to four-year bullocks, on •account of "Major Addlngton, fetchcd £15 10s.; yearling: steers. £5 ss. to £6 155.; bad colours, £3 155.; empty store cows, £7 to £7.155.; yearling heifers, to £3 135.; yearling bulls, (o £4 135.; springing heifers, £7 10s. to £11 2s. 6d.

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