LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 151, 15 March 1918, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

At the Ofcaki sale. on Tuesday Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having offered a, heavy yarding of both eheep and cattle. Competition for all classes of stock yarded was exceptionally ■good, and practically all lines changed hands under the .hammer at prices well ip to vendor's reserves, the prinicpal sales 'effeoted being as under:—Fat wethers, 34a. Id.; good-conditioned four arid six-tooth wethera,. 285. ( to 315.; two and four-tooth wethers, 275.'6 d. to, 28b'.; good-conditioned four and flye-year ewes, 245. to 25b. 6d.; medium-conditioned four and five-year owes, 18s. to 215.; medium.-condition.ed sixtooth ewes, 225. 6d. to 255.; /forward aged ewee, 21b. 9d. to 225.; mixed-sex two-tooths, Ms.' 3d.;-fat shorn lambs, 19s. to 19s. 4d.; good woolly lambs, 15s, 9d. to 168. 3d.; medium woolly lambs, 10s. to 12s. 6d.; culls, 6b; to Bs. 7d. Oattlc: Forward empty cows, £8 17s. 6d. to v £lo 55.; medium,weaners, 345. to 36a,: empty cows, £7 to £8 35.; poor-conditioned smpty cows, £4 10s. to :.£6; eighteen-month, to two-year steers,. £7 55.; two -year and .a half steers. £B-7b. 6d. to £8 17s. 6d.;- two-year empty heifers, £6 to £6 Bs.; cull cows and calves, £7 to £7 155.; cull bulls, £5 133. to £7 10s.

\Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held their weekly sale at Levin yards on Tuesday, when they offered a heavy sarding of sheep, particularly lambs, and a medium entry of cattle. Business under the h,amraer was dull, and Bales of all classes of sheep were difficult to effect. ■Competition for cattle was fairly brisk, and most linee offered : changed hands at late ruling rates. The principal sales , effected .were aa under;— Forward four and air-tooth wathers, 30s. 6d.; light-weight i fat ewes. PAs.: goodconditioned shorn lambs, 13s. 8{1.: raeoium 12s. 6d.; cull woolly l iambs, from 45.... to 6s. .Cattle: 'Tisd-colourcd eighteen-month steers, £6 7s. ii.: weaners, 305..'t0 £2; light-weight fat cow?. £10 to £115s. ■■ '.'-. ;■ ■-.■> •"" ■'. '.-'

/ Messrs. -Dalgety and Company, Liml'eiT, ■palmorston North, report having held their Taihapo, sale on Wednesday. There'was a nma|l buyers, and coa;pe:i;ioa. was not at all keen at miction, aitiiuuprii the majority of the stock chanted fcsnds at prices in favour of buyers. QooUiuins: Cull lainbe, 3s. 7d. to 6s. 6.5.; small larolis, to 10s.; mixed-aged <wcs, 13s.■ j.ljl. ; .tc He. 2d.j email two-tooth ev/pJ, 21s. 9d.; small two-tooth wethers. -, 235. 6i!.; four, and sixtooth cwee, 245.. 6d.; fn-jr ?.nd jive-year ewes, 20s. 6d.; two-tonih -Eorjiiey jenn £3 os.-to £6 6s.'; foiir-lootii Eomuey .rams, £4,48; : .- -. . ■ ■■' ..•-.'; . , ,- ;.- ■ ■-, .

The 'Wairarapa,-' -Fei-mw.' Co-operative Association, Ltd:, , 'eUick'aepa.rtaent, renort on"their Mastertbn saie helo in tho Ojlumba. lload yaris yc6teijiii'.y *s undoi , :—Wβ yarded just ou ?ff>9 sbo.op, chiefly ■of breeding ewes, which cawe forward to a good pubii'j attendance. Compotition wag not exceptioually keen.'but we were--succeßsful in disposing of the whole y?.rding, with the exception , of one small line of ev.;es. ■ Quotations:—Twotooth oven, Us: id., (o 235. 6d.; -aix-tpoth ewes (sood). 27a.; s.m. cweSi-We,, 15u.; four-tooth to foiir-yeir 'ewes,' 175./,6 di to 18a'.; four and five-year ewes, 18s.;' vnii -pwe's, 6b. to 7b.; b.f. rape lambs, Us.lOd.; one-shsar Liucoln rams, agns. to Bgnd. '

...•Messrs. IVrißhtvStepheneon, and Co., Ltd., report having offered.a good yarding of eheep aud a fair entry of cattle at their Colombo fiof.d yards on Weduccday. There was>a Jack of animation throughout, and prices for f.m.,.cwes and. inferior sheep showed a considerable drop., They quote:— 600- four and five-year ewe's, on account ffaihi, Estate, 226;---6d.vf.m. Lincoln eweH, to 28s/: two-tooth wethers, to 28e. 3d.; S.M. ewes, Ugns.; store ewes, .12s. 6d., Hs.,-.to 15e.: cull ewes, 6s. 7d. t6"]os.9d.; oiio n'ud a> half-year steers, £7 lus.: one and a halfyear heifers, to *5 55.; storo cows, £5 10s.

Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, end 00., Ltd., roport having hold their sheep fair at Pahiatua, on Monday, when they offered a largo .yarding of sheep-before a good .attendance. . Althoughrthc bidding-was inclined to. sag. a clearance was effected, with the- exception of a pen of ewes, and one of lambs, at satisfactory prices. They quote:—Two and four-tooth wethers, 24?., 275., to 305.; two-tooth ewes, to 28s. 6d.-, cull tyro-tooth, ewes,.to Wβ.. 6d.; four, six, end eiyht-k>oth'ewes,"49s;-(!d., 235.,- -245. 6d.; t0,:275..1d;? JTline .srj6o-offered oh account of Mr. F. Moore, Pukctoi, fetching 23s';; small two-toot'i wethers, 18r. Id.; cull ewes, Bs. to 12s. 3d.; m.s. lanito, 16s. 6d.; cull lambs, 6s. 6d.; potter rams, 16s. 6d.