DRAUGHT STALLIONS AT SYDNEY SALES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 168, 5 April 1918, Page 8

DRAUGHT STALLIONS AT SYDNEY SALES

/ ' ' Sydney, April 4. ' :'At the show sales draught stallions i met a weak market. Lots on behalf of New Zealand owners ranged from 105 i to 230 guineas. :'. LIVE STOCK SALES • ' Messrs. Wright, Stephonson and 00., Ltd., report having offered- a small .yarding of ! Bheep at their weekly sale at Maeterton, when a clearance was effected at the fol- ; loning prices;— Pour and flve-year ewes,. , ■ \ to 253.; miied aged ewes, in lamb to Lin- ■ ooln rams, Ms. 6d.; torward ewes, 20s. 6d. !■ to 225. The Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative 1 'Association, Ltd., stock department, report on the salo held on Wednesday at : Oolumba Eoad as Iollows:-Wc submitted ! a good yarding of sheep, comprising about I 20M, but no cattle, and on the whole k. have to report a bTicceasful sale. There 1 was 'a small attendance at the commence- ' ment, but it considerably improved short- ' ly afterwards, and, while bidding at ano- > tion was at times inclined to be dull, in ,f~~-. many." cases good competition was ds:1 •• perienced. Quotations:—Aged ewes, good ; mouths, 20a. to. 245. Id.; and up to 25e. Jd. for a good-skinned lot; low-condition-ed ewes, with failing mouths, 11s. 3d. to 15s. 6d.; two-tooth wethers, small, 25b. ; ' 10d. to 265. 6d.; two and four-tooth ewes, ' miied, 255. Bd.; smaller" sheep, 21s. Wβ offered a line of store b.f. lambs,, but : there was no demand; rams suitable Cor ■ potting made the usual price of 21s. The New Zaaland Loan and Mercantile I Agency Co., Ltd., report that at Te Iloro :. yards on Wednesday they submitted a i v medium entry ot sheep and a large entry of cattle to &i 'air attendance, and : . cleared practically the whole of the yard- ■ ing at satisfactory prices. • Quotations:— Fat and forward ewes, 295. Bd.; mixed : ewes and wethers, 2Js. 2d.; fat lambs, •: 18s. 6d.; shorn lambs, small, 9s. 7d.; cull : b:f. lambs, 6s. 9d.; weaner steers, £3; wcaner heifers, £5; miied-sei weaners, £2 16a.; small weaners, 275. to 385.; eight-een-months heifers, r.w.b.,'- £6; fat and :' forward oowb, £8 15b. to £9.145.; fat heifers, to £11 4s. 6d.; light fat v cows, £10 j 11s.; forward heifers, £7 ss. to £7 17s. i 6d.; store' cows, £4 16s. to £7 75.; two and a half-year steers, good colours, £10 '.-.' 10s. to £11 10s.; two-year steers, £10 to £11 35.; three-year rteerE, mixed colours, £10 10s.; springing heifers, £9 to £9 155.; : spring oalvers, £6 10s. to £7 ,155.; bulls, ';■'■ potters, £13 to £15 45.; aged draught ; horses, £8 to £14 ss. .- ' ■ The New Zealand Loan and' Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., Damievirte, re- ; port holding a olearing salo at Te Re--1 liunga on March 28, on account of llr. Jacob Laraen. Although the. weather .was rough, there was a good attendance of buyers, and all lines sold ■at satisfac- : tory pricee. Quotations:—Fat ewes, 29b. 6d.; store ewes, 135.; woolly lambs, 14s. ! 6d.; b.f. lambs, 13s. 6d.; fat cows, £8 10s. : to £10; Shorthorn bull, £10 125.; store cows, £5 to £8; eighteen-month steers, i £7; horses, £2 and £10. Implements and the general sundries sold especially well.