LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 163, 30 March 1918, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

The New.Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. report :-At Rongotea. on n edncsday we had a fair yarding. There was only a small attendance and competition was not keen. Quotations ward wethcra. 31s. 4d.; Btbre cows, i£3 10s., *4 155., £5 155.,. £6, and .£6 4s. 6d.; forIo ar i d « Co ;i 8 ' £ \ ss " **' £9 5s - fat cows,. £9 18s. 6d., £10 55., .£ll 10s., £11 15s. •Messrs. Wright, Stcphcnson, and Co., Ltd., report having held a. clearini; brlo on Thursday on account of Mr. J. Savage. There was a srpall attendance but a highly satisfactory sale is recorded. Mixed-aged ewes in lamb to Lincoln rams, realised 24a.; two-year steers. £13 2a. 6d ; ynarlmg steers, £6 55.; m.s. weaners, £2 Uβ. A. small but select dairy herd was offered, and elicited keen competition, the top prices being £21 and £18 155., the average for 10 cows reaching £16 ss.' light draught horses realised from £25 to £27 10s. Messrs. Wright, Stcpheneon, and Co., Ltd., report having offered a heavy yarding of sheep- and a trood entry of wellbred cattle at the Colombo Road yards on Wednesday. There was a good attendance of buyers, and moat of the entry was sold at the following prices:— Pour-tooth to four-year ewes, 245." lOrl. to 265. 6d.; four and live-year ewes. 2Cs. I'd.; f.m. ewes. 125.. 15s. 9d.. to 16?.: cull owes. 65.; medium woolly lambs. 1.35. 9d.; b.f. lambs, 13s. 3d.: Lincoln rams. 30s. Cattle: Three and a half-year Hereford bullocks. £16 10s.: two and a half-year Hereford steers, £15 7s. 6d. Messrs. Wright, Stcphenson, and Co., Ltd.. report that on Tuesday they held a successful clearing sale on acrount of Mr. J, Gravcille, at tho farm near Weber. The yarding consisted of, 1(100 sheep,and 300 cattle, all .of which were sold .under the hammer. Competition for sheep was not keen, but satisfactory • prices -were

realised. AH classes of cattle wero in good doinand, and sold readily. Quotations: Two-tooth wethers, 245. 3d.; twotooth ewes, 235. 10d.; mixed-aged owes, 225. Id.; cull ewes, 7s. 6d. Oattle: Two and. a half-year steers, £13 2s. 61; two and a half-year heifers, £12; cows with calves, £13 to £21 2b. 6d.; one and a halfyear heifers, £5 Is. to £8 55.; store cowb, £7; yearling steers, £5; P.A. bulls, 25gu8. .Horses: Light draught horses, £15, £18, £18 10s., to £33; hacks, to £8. The Wairarapa- Farmers' Co-op. Assn., Ltd., stock department, report on (ho undermentioned sales;—At our weekly sale at l'ahiatua held in the Farmers' Yards on Tuesday, a good entry of Bheep camo forward and a email yardiug of cattle. Sheep, in. sympathy -with tho outsido market reports, were only iu fair demand, wethers being principally inquired for, the bulk of this class of cutry realising fairly satisfactory prices. Wo effected the following Bales:—264 four and six-tooth- Lincoln crosß wliethcrs, 31s. 10d.; 30 two and four-tooth wethers, 31s. 9(1.; 290 two-tooth wethers, 275. 6d.; 60 two-tooth do., 275. 7d.; 12 do., 28s. 4d.j 9 do., 275. 3d.; 36 do., 295. 9d.; 61 fat and forward ewes, 285.; 99 four and live-year ewes, 225. 7d.; 132 do., 215.; 45 do., 225. Id.; 95 do., 165.; 107 do., 215.; 23 do., 16s. 6d.; 24 do., 205.; 28 do:, 20a.; 33 do., 215.; 54 two-tooth owes (small), 225. Id.; 122 two to six-tooth ewes (low condition), 155.; 106 m.s. lambs (small), 6s. lid.; 126 medium shorn lambs, Bs. 7d.; 125 cull lambs, 30. 7d.; 47 do., ss. 6d.; 36 do., 6s. 6d.; 44 do., 55.; 3 Eomney rams, £2 25.; 2 S.D. rams, 4Jgns.; 12 20-month steers and heifers, £6 155,; 8 weaner steers (good), £5 98.; 5 do. (fair), £3 95.; 13 small weanora, 175..6 d.; 5 do., 155.; 6 do., 305.; 11 do., £2; 3 fallows, £10 10s.; 1 light store cow, £6 10s.; 2 aged cows, £3; 1 forward cow, £8 7s. 6d.; bulls, £6 to £8 10s. At the clearing sale held at Ngaturi, on Wednesday on account of Mr. J. A. Hair, the sheep came forward in good order, and although no extremely high prices were reached etill a lairly satisfactory average waß realised. Tho best price obtained was for a line of 508 six-tooth ewes, 325. Tho ewe lambs, which were rather a good lot, sold at a very reasonable price, viz., 13s. 6d., tho wether lambs, realising 12s. The following isa list of sales effected:—32s fourtooth Lincoln cross ewes, 335. 6d.; 746 four-tooth Eomney cross ewes, 28s. 6d.; 345 two-tooth Lincoln cross ewes, 325. 5d.; 103 do., 28s. 3d.; 1010 ,do., 265. 6d.; 257 five-year ewes, 245. 9d.; 182 two, four, and Bix-tooth wethers, 27b. 9d.; 755 ewe lambs, 13s. 6d.j 201 wether lambs, 125.; 421 do., Us. 9d.; 310 m.s, small lambs, ss. 6d.; 30 twenty-month Holstcin cross heifers, £6; 125 do. Shorthorn cross heifers, £6 10s.; 47 do., £6 ss.

The Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association, Ltd., stock department, report having held their weekly sale at Masterton, when they offered over 30CO sheep and about 120 head of cattlo to a good attendance. Competition was oiceptionally keen, ior sheep, and although ono or two pens . failed to reach vendor's reserves a, very successful sale has to be reported upon. Quotations: Sheep—Pat ewes, 28s. fo 295. 3d.; four-tooth to four-year ewes, 21s. 6d., 255.,265. 2d., 275. 10d.; store ewes, 15a. 4d., 19s. 9d.,- 20s. j two and'four-tooth wothers, 27a.. 5d., 275. lOd., 30s. Id., to 31s. 6d.; others, 245. 7d., 255., to 265. 2d.; b.f. lambs, 7e. 10d., 12s. 9a., to 15s. 7d.; w.f. lambs, 163. 6d., 17s. 2d., to 18s. 7d.j others, 3b. to 6s. Cattle: Two and three-year etecrs, £10 18s. to'£l2 18s.; cows and calves, £11 53.; eighteen-month and two-year steers, e£B 155.; two-year empty heifers, £6 10s.; fat cowb, £10 11s. to £12 10s.; dairy cows, in milk, £11. ■ "

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, report having, held their fortnightly sale at Talhape on Wednesday, when a heavy yardlinp; of sheep and a fair entry of cattle came forward. There was a good attendance of buyers, and we report a total clearance with the exception of two small pens. Good, sound breeding ewes were in good demand, but all lines of indifferent sheep wore dull of Bale. Quotations: Mixed lambs, 12s. to 135.; cull lambs, ss. 2d., sb. Bd., to Bs. Id.; two-tooth ewes, small, 20a. 3d. to 225. 6d.; two-tooth wothers, 225. 3d. to 275. Id.; mixed-aged ewes, 12s. 6d., 145., to 15e. 7d.; good four and five-year ewes, 225. 6d. to 245. Cattle :Three-year to three and a half-year Polled Angus bullocks (good), £16; fat bullocks, to £17 10b;; three-year bullocks, to £15 55.; two and a half-year Polled Angus steers, £13; 18-month steers, £5 2s. to £6 155.; weaner Btoere, £2 17s. fat heifers. £11; fat cows, £11 to £12; empty cows, £6 13s. to £7 10s.; cows with coif, £8 13s. to £10.