LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 110, 26 January 1918, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

m Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, I Fnlmerston North, report having a, email I entry of sheep and cattle at their PalVi merston North Bale on Thursday, which & aid as below:—Sheep: Small shorn lambs, i :os. 6d.; very fair shorn lambs, 13s. 3d. S to 13s. 6d. Cattle: Small woaners, 325.; 15K month heifers, £4; 15-month steers, £6 s 45.; store cows, £4 3b. 6d. I Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, U; Palmerston North, report having held Sj thoir first annual weaner and young cat--5 tlo fair at the Palmevaton North saleS yards on Wednesday. There was a very a fair demand for better class of weaners, '! but bad colour. and low condition sorts I were neglected. Quotations:— Cull weanI era, 155., 215., 225., 265.; medium weaner j heifers, J6s., 385., £2 55.; medium weaner i steers, £2 10s. to £2 145.; very fair weaI uer steers, £3 to £3 10s.; best mixed weai ners, .€4 to £4 18s.; 15-month heifers, £4; i 15-month rough steers, £5 10s., £6, £6 Is., i to £6 12s. 6d.; store cows, £6 15s.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. report:—At Palmerston North on Thursday we had a fair yarding of both sheep and oattlo. There was a slightly better inquiry for sheep, cattle selling at recent prices. Quotations:—P.M. ewes, 225. 6d.; aged ewes, 10s. Gd. to 12s. 6d.; 15-month heifers, £3, £3 Mβ.; 2-year Jersey steers, £7 63.; aged store cows, £3, £5: fat cows. £9 10s. vo £12 12s. 6d.; Rood heifers, in milk, £12; 2-year B.H. bull, £15.