LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 5, 1 October 1917, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

t The New Zealand .Loan and Mercantile • iAgenoy Company, Limited, DanueWrlie, re- , Port on their stock sales for the week as ; follow :-At the Noreowood sale, hold oil f • i&ptember 24, we offered a fair yarding 1 of cattle and & small line of sheep to a good : attendance of buyers. We quote for* thiß sale:—Sheep: 4-tooth wothers, 325. Cattle: ; rat cows, £9 15a. to £15; forward empty ; ' OOWB, £8 15s. to £10 5a.; dairy cows, up to .£lO.. At the Dannovirke salo on Septemr ber 28. aespite the showery weather prejailing, there was a fair attendance of » buyers, to whom we offered a fair yarding of: botfi sheep and cattle. A lino of hogi: was passed in, prices realised not being np to vendor's resorve. We Quote:— Cattle) Empty hoiferg, £6 '16a.; yearling i Jersey heifers, from £3 4s. to £3 125.; ; . -ompty Jersey cows, £5 ss. to £5 128. 6d. , Sheep! Oull ewes, 175.:6 d; to 19s.j rn.s. hog;{?efca, 315., Pigs: Woancrs, lis. to 205.; porkh, ere, 365. I, • The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile . 'Agency Co/roport:—At Fending on Friday, small,entsy of sheen and a goodly yard-, ing of cattle met with a brisk sale, all • lines selling freefly under the hammer., 1 . ; Inferior ewes with lambs at foot, 31s. 9d.; medium hoggets. 245. lid.: good hoggets. Cps, to 305.; light fat wethers, 285.; year.Jing heifers, £4 165.; yearling steers (inferior), £5 ss. to £5 10s.; forward cows, i: : ~£B;\4B. v to £9; rough S-year steers, £11 6s. f.o'£tl 135.; 3-year steers, ;£ 13 19s. to £14 .. ,Is. and up to £14 155.; 4-year bullocks, £16 :16s. \ springing heifers, £9 17s. 6d.; light fat heifers, £10 7s. to £13 IDs;; light fat c .. (cows. £12 55.: light fat bullocks, £18 lOe to''£2o; yearling, Shorthorn bull, £14 10s. Messrs. Dalgety and Oo.j, Ltd., PalmerE ton North .report having a small yardinj ' of-sheep and a good yarding of oattle a . th'tfir, PaJmerstocL North sale on Thursday The majority of lines of yearlings offore< were bad colours, and intending bqyeri ; 'were not too keen. 'Quotations:— Sheep 4<and 6-tooth empty owes, 275. 6d. Cattlo • . Yearling helfere, small. ,£2 165.; yearlini heifers, good, £6'75.; Bmall store cows, £< • cows .aud calves, £12 135.; soringini heifers, £8 ss. to £11. «, • 'Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report: Ai • our Wanganui sale on September. 26, wi offered a small yarding of sheep, and fl medium yarding of cattle to the usual at ' tendance of buyers. Competition for, al. \ '• classes of sheen was .fairly good, hogged showing a slight increase. Cattle sold ; readily. Quotations:' Good hoggets,.»29s • 6d. to 305.; medium hoggets, 265.: Id.; cul • hoggets, 15s. Cattle: Springing heifers, .£? . ' 125.; empty heifers, £6 17s. 6d. to £7; cul] . cowe/ £6 7s. 6d.; yearling steers. £6 12s 6d.; yearling heifers, sgns.; m.s. yearlings ; - £5' 17b. 6d. At our Waverley sale, on Sep -'- .tember 28, we had only a small yarding. Fat hoggets made 365.; cows in iriilk, £13; ' springing. heifers. £10. 15s. to ; £11;* m.s. yearlings, £6.105.; cows and'calves/£lO 14s : "-Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., Pal ' merston North, report as follows:—At Palmerston North on September 27,. wo had a : fair entry of both cattle and-sheep. There was a good attendance and demand. Sheep sold well at prices which showed an im- ' provement. Store and dairy cattle were in ■„ good demand, while good conditioned youpg stock also'sold well. Practically our whole / / yarding changed hands at the following rates: Aged ewes and lambs, 235. Id. to £7sV6d.; Bmall mixed hoggets, 265. 2d.; cull r. -hoggeti 17s. Vd.; cull ewes, 7s. 6d. to 12s. 6d.',* forward cows, £10 10?.' to £11 18s. 6d.; store cows, £7 ss. to £8 Ib.; cows and y". heifers and calves £6 7s. to £10 Is.; 3-year-old springing heifers (good). £14 2s. fid. to i : £14 os.j calved .dairy heifers (good), £11 : ,15s. to £12; dairy- cows, £10 10b. to £13; yearling heifors (good), £5 Is. *to £5-17s. •6d-; bad coloured yearling steers, £4 Bs. • At Fellding, on September 28, there was a '■'? strong demand for all classes of stook and prices had a tendency, to harden. Wc had a good entry. of cattle, praotioally the whole of, which changed v hands.-Sheep; consisting 'mostly of. hoggets,' Were yarded ■v in fair numbers, and all sold fit advanced : 'V-rates.. Ewes and lambs brought 31s. 3d.; store owes, 235.; medium ewq hoggets, 31s. 7d.; medium wetner hoggets, 295. to 30s. : : , : 7d.;. small ditto. ! 255. 6d...tp 275., Bd.; medium fat cows, £15 to £15 55.; light fat *; speyed 1 . heifers, £13 10a.; fat heifers, £12 - to**£l2'7b. 6d.; dairy: cows (poor), £8 ss. :to £10 10s.; springing heifers (medium), £9 10s. to £11 155.; a line of backward calvers, " £9 -15s.;' 20-month empty heifers. £7 55.; ■ 18-month" Shorthorn heifers, £9 is.; year- • -ling heifers, £5 2s. to £5' 65.; yearling

Bteers, £! 165.; ditto : (poor), £5 183. Ou Jjriday we, held an unreserved clearing sale of dairy stock oil account of H. Gifj ore » -Rangiotu. The atook looked a bit rough owing to the bad weather ot' the last few. days, but the cows throughout met with good competition from the large attendance of fanners present. The herd of 57 cows and heifers averaged £11 10s. per head, ranging as high as £19 65.; pedigree bull, £14; grade bull, £10 7b,; bay geldiug, £7; horse, dray, and harness* £17. The Wairarapa Farthers Co-operative Association, Ltd., Stock Department, report haying held their weekly sale at Carterton, i when they submitted to a large attendance a good yarding of cattle aud pigs, and a small one of sheep. Bidding at auction was animated and we quote as under:—Sheep: IV.F. hogget*, 275., 305., to 335. Bd. Cattle: Dairy heifers, on drop, £10 to £11 2s. 6d.; cows with calves at foot, £8 12s. 6d., £9. £9 10s., to £10. 2p. 6d.; fat

empty heifers. £11 10s.; empty heifers, £5 10s., £6 16b., £7 2s. 6d. to £8 7s. 6d.; store cows, £7 75., £7 12s. 6d., £8 to £8 7b. fid.; yearling steers. £5 12?. 6d. to £6: yearling heifers, £4 17s. 6d.; bulls, £11. - Pigs, ctc.: Porkers, 295.; purebred Berkshire \vcaners, 245. 6d. 'to 255. 6d.;' purebred Berkshire weaner boar, lteng.; cows in pi?, £2 10s.; boar, £2:' horse, dray .and harness, £37 10s.; Jeadinpr dog, £5 505.: eatinp potatoes. 12s. 6d. per bap; purebred Wyandotte cockerel a.tnl hen, 9s. each; black ; game cockerel. Bs.; purebred Hamburg pullets. ss. 6d. each.