LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 18, 16 October 1917, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Dalgety and Co.. Ltd., report having held their weekly stock salo at tho Millers Road Yards, Dannevirke, on October 12. There w»-s a fair yarding, and everything sold at satisfactory prices. Quotations ;-oattle; Empty two-year heifers, £6: springing heifers, from £5 10s. to £7 10s.; sheep, aged ewes and lambs, from 28s. to 335. Id.; small hoggets, 20s. 6d. Pigs; Weaners, from 13s. to 19s:; slips, 275. to Z9s. Mcssrß. Wright, Stephenson, and Co., Ltd., report having submitted a very good yarding of stock to a largo attendanco at Eketahuna, on Friday. Competition was decidedly keeu, and a good Bale is. to ho recorded at the following quotations*. Mixcd-sox hoggets (fair), 28s. 6dji fat hoggets, 335. 6d.; dairy heifers. £12; threeyear steers, £14 125.: two and a half-year steers, £1? Is.; springing cows, £11 55.; two-year S.H. heifers, £8 10s.; cow and calf, £11 55.; mixed-sei yearlings, £3 SB. to £4 10s. , „ The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Dannevirke. report on sales for the past week as follow;—On Monday, wo held tho fortnightly sale at Norsewood, when a. fair' yanding offered to a. good attendance of tlie public. Prioes .'secured hei-ng up to late market rates— Sheep; Four-tooth wethers (small) made oSs. 6d.; ewes with lambs, from 34b. ; hoggets, Sfla, Cattle; Store bullocks, trorn £10 to £12 10s.; store cows, £7 10s. to £9 11s.; lii.s. yearlings. £4 to £f> 10s. On October 11, we held a clearing sale of dairy Bt'ock and sundrios oil account of Mr. Samuel Peek., Pinfold "Road, Woodville. : Despite the'- adverse woathor conditions ruling, there was a • fair attendance of buyers and a good sale resulted. There was keen competition for the herd, which made t.hc satisfactory average of £12; individual prices being;-£l6, £b l0s„ £15 55.. £13 (2), £12; £11 15s„ £11 15a £11 10s.. £11 2s- 6d„ £H, £10 53- ® \ s -< 15s. Yearling Jersey heifers brought £4 10s.: calves, 21s. On Friday, we held the weekly Dannevirke sale in tna Millers. "Road Yards. There was a Rood aftrndanco of the public, and we quote as follows ;-M.S. hoggets (small), from 21s. 6d.; ewes and lambs, from 295.; store cows, from £S: ycarlinc steers. froni £8 ve.; cows and cklycb, from £12 53.