LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 26, 25 October 1917, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Tho N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Acencv Co., Ltd.. report:-At Himatangi. on Monday, wo, had a good yarding. One or two pens of hoggets failed to make vendors' reserves, the balance of the entry having a roady sale at lato ratce:—Pigs, forward stores, 305.; store wethers, 335. 3d.- fat ■wethers, £2 Bs.; yearling heifere. £3 10s £4, £4 Is., £4 10s., £5 35.; yearling steers. £4 25., £5 7e, £7 55.; springing heifers, £7 12s. 6d, £8, £& 12s. 6d.; springing cows, £7 155.; cows in calf, £7 75.; cows with oalvee, £7 10s. to £10; fair store cows, £7, £7 10s., £7 145., £8 7s, £8 155.; forward oowi, £9, £9 45., £9 Ba.. £9 145.. £9 18s.light fat cows, £10 65.; good fat cows, £13 Is.; two and three-year Jersey o-uIIb, £9 178. 6d, £11, £16; yearling Jersey bulla £5 7s. 6d., £7 5e.; two-year Sho.rthsm bulls, £9 to £9 10s.; three-year Shorthorn bull, 17gns. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile! Agency Co, Ltd.. report, that, al, their, Levin yards on Tuesday they offered a small entry of sheep a,nd a fair yarding of cattle; several pena of sheep failed to reach vendors' reserves, but tho balance of their yarding was disposed of at the following nrir.es:— Pat ewes, 375.; fat cows, £10 to £14; store <-.o-ws, £7 135.; twelve-month Jersey cross heifers, £4 17s. to £5 Us.; others. £4 lla. to £5 165.: twelve-month steers." £4 15s. to £6 Bs.; dairy cowa, £7 17s. 6d,; Jersey bull, £7 10s. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—At Levin on Tuesday we had fair yardlnge of both, sheep and cattle: Spirited competition prevailfd for all classes except fat sheep. Quotations:--Sheep: Fo;tr-tooth wethers, 385.; woolly hoggetß. 31s. 3d.; cnll hogeotg, 205.; ehorii hoggets, Ms. lid.; cull owes. 15s. 6d. Oatt!e: I7i.t cows, £11 10b, £12 12s. 6d.. £13, £14 ss, to £15 2s. 6d.; store cows, £7 17s. 6d. to £8 7b. 6d."; cows ap.d calves (low condition), £6 18s. to £8 65.; four-year bullocks, £17 2s. 6n\; yearling Bteers, £7 2s. yearling heifers. £6 15s. to £7 18s.; raised yoatlings, £5 6s. 6d.; two-year empty -heifers. £8 10s.; S.H. bulls. £17 os.; yearling Holstein bull. £8. Pigs: Weaners. 10s. 6d. to 225.: sows in pig, £3 10s,;. porkers. 33b. to £2 6s.

Tho Wairarapa. Farmers department) roport on the Masterton- cattle fair as under:—An exceptionally hciiyy yarding was submitted, considerably in excess of advertised numbers, over 3000 head coming forward, which taxed the yards to their utmost capacity, several lots of the younger cattle having to lie accommodated in the sheep-pens. Generally speaking, the yarding was creditable to the Wairarapa district. In fact, such a large entry of grown cattle, comprising many station lines in forward condition, with quality predominating throughout, is seldom seen nowadays, and the public were not ulow to appreciate same. The dairy strain was certainly in evidence in the sheepyards, and while the "Taranakl roane" were somewhat out of pl.ace in a fair of this nature a considerable turnover resulted. The attendance -reas large, but buyers from a distance were not prominent, nnd taken rb a whole prices, quality considered, were hardly up to expectations. We yarded on behalf of "Brancepcth" and

"Anncdalo" stations 6ome exceptionally well-bred forward conditioned grown bullocks, the drafting of which was favourably commented upon, and whilst soma of the pens were paesetf at auction a total clearance was subsequently made at prices satisfactory to the vendors. Wo quote:—On behalf of "Branccneth" >Sta-tion:-150 three-ycaT-old forward-condition-ed bullocke, £17; 1A smaller. £15 10a.; 44 Rtorc cows, £11 3s. On behalf "Annedale" Station, 28 four-year bullocks, £17 165.; 9 do., £17 65.; 120 three-year-old forward bullocks, £16: 33 samo ago. but smaller, £15; 20 cows, £14 10s. On behalf Mr. H. G. Williams, 29 two-year-old steers. £13 125.; 24 two-year heifere. £12 Iβ. Other quotations:-Threc-yenr bullocks, .£l3 S S , un to £16, according to duality and condition; two-year Eteem, £12 2s. 6;!. t<-, £|3 17s. bi.\ yearling steers. £9 Is., £9 2 5 .. £9 55., £9 95., £9 18s., £10 25., £10 3a,, and up to £10 155.: yearling steers and heifers, mixed low condition. £8 Ms.; yearling heifere, £7 12b. to £8 12s. 6d.; yearling ?tcers, dairy sorts. £5 18s.; do. heifere. £5 to £6 We.: empty oows, £10 up to SXt 55., according to condition; Jat cows £15 2s. M. up to £16.