LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 62, 6 December 1917, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Jres6rs. Dalgcty and Co., Ltd., Palmer--Bton North, report, having a fair yarding of slieop and a. small entry of cattle at their Marton sale on Monday. Following are prices realised:—{Sheep: Small woolly hoggets, 255.; two-tooth black-faces, 24h. Uattle: Fifteen-month heifers, £6; bulls, £8. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having offered .a, small yarding of »hecp and cattle at Levin on Tuesday. Quotationsj-Sliorn ewrs, 225. lid. to 265.; shorn cull hoggets, 18s.; one and a halfyoar heifers, £5 55.; two and a half-year steers, £9 11s.

The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report having held their weekly sale at Pahiatua on Tuesday, when tb«y had only a. small yarding o£ sheep and cattle, which wcro submitted to a fair attendance of buyers. A good clearance wap made aB follows:—M.S. woolly hoggets, 555.; store cows, £6 2b. 6(1. to £7; dairy heifers, to £11 155.; bulls, to £10 17s. 6d.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—At Levin on Tuesday only small entries of Mock came forward. Sheep wore dull of sale under the hammer, but wc were successful in quitting most lines afterwards, while the demand for cattle was fairly keen. Quotations:—Sheep: Pat shorn ewes, 28s. 6d„ 28s. 10d.; fat hoggets in the wool, 355. 9d.; two-tooth wethers (shorn), 265.; mixed two-tooth (shorn), 235. 3d., 245. 6d.; woolly two-tooth, 28s. 9d. Cattle: Fa,t cows. £10, £10 15a., £11. £12 12s. 6d., to £14 10s.; forward cows, £8 lis.. £9, to £9 125.; store, cows, £6 Is. to £7; fifteen and eighteen-month steers. £7 55., £7 145., to £7 175.; K.B". cows and calves, £15; wcaner steers, £5 to £3 13s. 6d.; n'ixed weaners, £2 135.; light vealers, £2 10s. Pigs: Stores, 17s. 6d„ 18s„ 20s. 6(1.. 245., 26a.: porkers, £2 if. M., £2 ss„ £2 18s., to £3 6s.