LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 76, 22 December 1917, Page 13

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limilcd, report, on their sale at the Xorsewooil yards on Monday. :-Th6te was a lair yarding of stock and also a fair number of buyers. The prices wer6-'a bit easy, but the great number of buyers met tlio market, and ire sold everything under the liqtnmer. W« quote as foliowaCattlo: Pat, cova, £11; oowb in forward condition, from £9 ss. to £9 lis.; 2-year Jersey heifer's, £S: dairy cows, up to £12 6b. ; 18month Jersey steers, SA-, medium draft gelding. £19. The same firm • also report having sold at tho Ormondvillc yards on December 19, a big yarding of cattle, all the cattle pens being filled, and a number of the sheep pens. There was a fair attendance, but the competition was not very keen. The firm sold a few peiiß under the hammer, and a few lota changcd hands after the sale at satisfactory prices. The Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association, Ltd>, Stock Department, reporto having lield their..fortnightly sale at Martinborough on Thursday, when a fall l entry of. sheep and cattle was yarded, and submitted to a small attendance. Competiton at auction was not keen, and one or two lines failed to reach vendors' reserves; nevertheless,. the firm' report a satisfactory sale. Following are tho quotations M and 6-tooth wethers, 1 Ma. Id.; 2-tooth wethers, 245. 7d.; fat ewes and wethers (small lot), 315.; well-grown S.H. 2-year empty huifers, £11.