LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 23, 22 October 1917, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Dalgoty and Co., Palmcrston North, report having a, very fair yarding of shooi) and a. small entry o£ cattle at their I'airaen-tou North sale on Thursday. Sheep met with a good demand, but several pens of cattlo failed to reach vendors' rosctves. Quotations:—Cattle: Jersey bulls, £8 10a. to £12; yearling heifers, £6 175.; springing heifers, to £14. Sheep: Empty ewes, 295. 7d. to 31s. 9d.; ewes with lambs, 31s. to 385.; fat ewes, 375.

Messrs. Dalgety and Co.. Ltd.. Pnlmerßton North, report having a very good entry of sheep and a. fair yarding of cattle at their Feilding sale on Friday. The following are prices realised:—Sheep: Mixed shorn two-tooths, small, 20s. sd. to 255. 3d.; shorn empty ewes, 255. 10d.; woolly empty owea 30s. 6d.; shorn ewes, with lambs. 255. 7d.; mixed age ewes with lambs, Z9s. 6d. to 355. 6d.; black-face hosgets, ZSn. 2d. to 31s. Id;; mixed hoggets, 268. to 355. 3d.; small four-tooth wethers, 355.; wether hoggets, 37b.; ewo lioggets, £Z Iβ., £2 2s. Oattle: Dairy heifers, £9; forward cows, £10 10s.; bulls, £8 5e., £10 10s.. £10 145.; light fat bullocks, £19. The Wairarapa. Farmers' Co-operative Assooiation, Ltd., stock department, report having held their weekly sale at Oarterton on Friday, when they yarded a fulj entry of plga, cattle and sheep to a good attendance. In spite of the unsettled weather that prevailed throughout tho day bidding at auction was animated, arid we have to report a total clearance, with the exception of ono pen of cull heifers. Quotations :—Shoep: Fat ewes and wethers, 38s. 6d.; ewes and lambs, 255. 4d., 285., 29e. id.; forward store ewes, 285.; light fat ewes, shorn, 285.; fat and forward hoggets, 325. 7d., 335., to 33a. 7d.; light-conditioned and small, 19s. 6d. to 245. Id. Oattle: Cows with calves at foot, £8, £8 10s., £9 2s. 6(1., £9 7s. 6d.. £9 10s., to £9 12s. 6d.; empty two-year heifers, £7 Is., £7 135., to, £7 17s. 6d.; yearling steers, small, £5 55.; two-year steers, £S Iβ.; yearling heifers, £4 95.; bulls, £B 7s. 6d. to £9 sa. Pigs: Heavy porkers, £2 6a.; slipe, 225., Us., 255., to £6a.; weaners, 125., Ms., 15s. 6d., 16s. 6d., 18s. to 19s. .

The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency 00. report:—At Feildiug on Friday we had a heavy yarding of sheep and a moderate entry of cattle. Cattle sold well, bnt sheep in some cases failed to realise vendors' ideas of value, although the bulk of the entry changed hands by tho end of the day. Small shorn hoggets, 225. Dα. to 235. 9d.; small hoggets in wool. 245. 3d. to 275.; medium hoggets, 29a. 9d.; good hoggets, 345.; light fat. owes, 34a. 7d.; yearling heifers, £6; eiffhteeu-months heifors, a/135.; heifers in oalf, £7 to £9 155.; small mixed yearlings, £5 135.; yearling; eteors, £8 4a. to £8 10s.; and up to £9 Is.; store cows, £7 to SI 135.; forward cows, £11; Hgrht fat cows. £13 75.; youug bulls, £6 15s. to £6 10s.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—At Palmerston North on Thursday wo had a good entry of cattle and a small muster of sheen. There was a good demand for all classes of cattle, and most lines olianged hands, young stock selling well. All the sheep yarded sold. Business was transacted at the following rates:— Forward cows, £10 10s. to £10 17s. 6d.; good store cows,-£B. 2s. 6d. to £9; thin cows and calves, £8 to £9 155.; dairy cows, £3 to £121 good do;, to £16 10s.; springing dairy heifers, £10 15b. to £12 12s. 6d.; heifers in milk. £8 10s. to £10 55.; yearling steers. £8 7s. 6d. to £9 Ba.; small and poor do..'£'6 S3. to £7 75.; Shorthorn yearling hoifevs, £8 to £8 55.; Jereey-crose do., £7; small yearlings, £5; cull yearling heifers, £3; two-year bulls, £8 15s. to £12 10a.; two and four-tooth wethers, 375. 6d.; aged ewes and lambs, 315.; aged empty ewes, 15s. to 225. 6d.; small b.f.'hoggets, 255. 6d. At Feilding on Friday we had a fairly good entry of both sheep and cattle, which were submitted to a good attendance of buyers. Cattle were in good demand, Rnd soli' well. Sheep were rather in and out, and prices, on the whole were slightly easier than last week's rates. Three and a halfyear steers made £15; medium fat heifers, £13 10s.; dairy cows (medium), £9 10s. to £12;- springing heifers (medium), £8 ss. to £10 10s.; forward cows, £9 12s. to. £10 175.; store cows, £6 103. to £8 55.; yearling heifers, £5 2a. 6d. to £6 10s.; twoyear Shorthorn bulls, £14 to £19; fat ewes, 365. .Id. to 38s. 6d.; fat black-faco hoggets, 325. Id.; hoggets, 335. to 355.; medium do., 255. 6d. to 295. 3d.