LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 176, 15 April 1918, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, report having- held their annual Palmerston North cattle fair on Thursday, April 11. A very good entry of all classes; came forward, but competition was not at all keen, and a number of lines were turned out unsold. Small weaners, 235.. 255., to 415.; mixed weaners, to £3 os. 9d.; store cows, £5 6b., £5 25., to £7 Bs.; forward cows, £10 2s. 6d. to £10 lis.; twenty-months steers, £7 155.; fat cows, to £12 2s. 6d.; three and a half-year bullocks, £15 10b.; fat bullocks, £17 6s.

The Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association, Ltd.,' stock department, report on their Carterton sale as follows:— Bidding at auction was rather dull, and several pens were passed in, but wo were successful in disposing of the bulk of the yarding before tho end of the day. Quotations : Two-tooth ' wothers. 235. 9d.; w.f. lambs, 155.; b.f. lambs, 17s. Id.; store owes, 135.; Southdown rams, ljgns.; fat cowa, £10 ss. to £10 10s.; forward store cows, £8, £8 55., to £8 65.; a line of 30 fifteenmonths steers made £6; weaner calves, 295. to £2 Is.; Jersey bull, £4; slips, 16s. to 20s. 6d.; weanerS, 95., 9s. 6d.. to 10s.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—At Himatangi on Monday last we had a small yarding of stock, and quote four-tooth, to four-year ewes 20s. 6d., culj, lambs 4s. 2d. At Baumai on Tuesday last, despite the bad weather, we had a« good yarding of all classos of stock, tho whole of which practically changed hands as follows:—Sheep: Two-tooih owes, 225. 4d. to 235. Id.; mixed two-tooths, 19s. Id. to 28s. 10d.; four-tooth to five-year ewes, 225. Id. to 225. 6d.; lambs, 10s. 6d. to 165.; cull lambs, 65.; aged ewes, 13s. 3d.; cull ewes, 55.; rams, £1 Is. Cattle: Fat cows, £5 6s. to £12 Is.; fat heifers, £8 10s. to £10 7s. 6d.; forward cows, .£7 165.; twenty-month steers, £6 v '4s. 6d.; two-year steers, £10 7s. 6d.; weaner steers, £5 95.; springing heifers. £8 17s.'6d. to £9; bulls, £5, At Palmerßton North on Thursday last we held our autumn cattle fair in conjunction with tho other firms, when there was a total yarding of over 2000 ca'ttle of all classes. We quote: Medium fat cows, £9 15s. to £10; light fat cows, £7 155., £8 10s., to £8 125.; forward cows, £6 10s., £7 10s.. to £8 10s.; small store cows, £6 10b. to £7 10s.: cows and calves. £4 ss. to £9 55.; go"!* springing heifers', at drop, £11 10s. to £13 17s. 6d.; others, £8 to £10 155.; eighteenmonths steers, £7 125.; twenty-months heifers, £3 lis.; mixed weaners, 265. to 325.: bulls, to £10 ss. At Felldinc on April 13 we had rather a smaller ontry than ÜBual. Plain fat cows brought from £11 10s. to £12 155.; forward cows, £9 to £10; freshconditioned cows, £8 2s. 6d. to £9 12s. 6d.; store cows, £4 12s. 6d. to £7 10a.; dairy cows (ordinary), £9 7s. 6d. to £10; springins heifers (good), £10 to £13 10s.; twoyear steers (bad colours), £8 Is.; two and a half-year heifers, in calf, £8 to £8 10s.; small two-year heifers, in calf, £3 17s. 6d. to £6 2s. 6d,; yearlings, £2 17s. 6d.; four-year, empty cwos, 235.; four and six-tooth ewes, in lamb (low conditioned), 225. 3d.; woolly lambs, 15s. 6d.; shorn forward lambs, 14s. Cd.; store lamha, 7s, to Bs. 10d.;' cull two-tooths, 173. 6d,; aged rams (potters), 225. to 30a. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:—At Eongotea on Wednesday we had a fair yarding of both sheep and oattle. Quotations :-Bmall lambs, 4s. 9d., 55., Bs.; springine heifers, £11; store cows, £5, £5 2s. 6&., £6, £i 13s. 6d„ £6 18s.; forward cows, £7 65.,. £7 165., £8, £9 55.; Shorthorn weaner heifers, £3 55.; two-year bulls, £5. On Thursday we held our autumn cattle fair. We had a good entry, and there was a large attendance. Bidding for grown steers and bullocks was practically lifeless. Weanors also had very little demajid. Other classes of sattlo sold at about late rates. Fat cows. £10, £10 2s„ £10 55., £11 55.; forward cows, £8, £8 2s. 6d.. £8 65.. £8 10s.; store cows, £5, £6 55., £6 18s., £7 2s. 6d.; twenty-month steers. £7 12s. 6d.. £8 65., £3 10s.; weaner steers, good, £4 10s.; Shorthorn weaner heifers, £3 165.; small weaners. 145.. 19s. 6d., 255.. 305.; empty Hereford heifers, £10 65.; purebred threeyear Hereford heifers, £15 15b.: springing heifers, £12 10s. At our annual autumn cattle fair in tho P.F.A. yards, Pahiatua, on Wednesday, a large entry of cattle was submitted to' buyers from local and surrounding districts, vciy few buyers from outside districts beiiiß present. Wo nuote—Three and a half-year steers, £12 15s. to £13 75., two and a half-year do £9 6b. to £11: eightccn-months steers, £6'lss. to £7 2s. 6d.; weaner s.teers, £2 18s. 6d. to £4 55.: weaner heifers. £2 lo £3 55.; m.s. weaners, £1 17s. 6d. to £5 135.; light, rat cows, £10 2s. 6d. to £10 175.: do. heifers. £9 17s. 6d.;.store cows. £6 10s. to £9 7s. 6d. At Eketalnina on Thursday a small yarding of sheep and cattle came forward. Four-year owes, 235. 6d.: empty owes, 135.; m.s. shorn lambs. 13s. 4d.: cull do . 6s. lid.; cows in calf. £5 ss. to £6 55.; bulls, £9 2s. 6d. to £11 ss. EGGS AND POULTEY. . Bray Bros., distributing nircatß for (he Now SJoalanrt Poultry Industries, Ltd., advisj) that, the wholesale price of eggs on tho Wellington, market is 2s. 9d. per dozen, supplies beiug equal to the demand. At the auction sale of poultry on Friday, pullets brought as high as Bb, 6d. each, Wyandoltes and heavier birds from sb. 6d. to 7s. a pair, and Leghorn boilers 3s. 10d. to 4b. 6d. a pair.