LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 217, 1 June 1918, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

The New Zealand loan and Mercantile 'Agency Co. Ltd;, re-port:-At Baumal, on Tuesday, we had a fair entry, which soli , , at late rates. Forward wethers, 325. 6d.; Email lambs, 95., 10s. 6d.; 6tore cows. £6: fat cows, £10. The New Zealand loan and Mercantile. 'Agency Co. report:—On Tuesday we held a sale of dairy cow 6 on account of Mr. Stanley Hutchison, Oroua Downs. The attendance was good, and we report a satisfactory sale. Best cow 6, £13 55.. £13 10s., £13 15s. £14. 55., £15, £16 55.; fair cows, £!0 to £12 10s.; small and backward cows, £7 to £10; yearling h.d. gelding, £7; I 6-year h.d. gelding, £25; sows, £2, £2 15s;, £3 Bs., £4; Berkshire boar. £5 12s. Cd. email weaners, £7.

The New Zealand I/oan and Mercantile 'Agency Co v Ltd., report that at. their monthly sale, held at Te Iloro they submitted a large yarding of both sheep ajid cattle, and cleared the whole of their yarding at satisfactory prjeej. They f)uote:-Shorn medium ewe lambs, 125.; small wether lambs. Us. 9d.; medium woolly lambs, 155.; forward ewes, 255. to Ks. 2d.; mixed weaners, £3 2a. 6d.; fat cows, £11 9s. to £12 55.; light fat cows, £9 2s. to £9 7s. 6d.; fat heifers, £8 18s. to £9 Is.; forward cows, £7 13b. to £8 lie.; forward heifers, £6 16s. lo .£0 2s. 6d.; storp eows £4 16s. to £6 55.; cows with calves, £10 Bs. 6d.; 15-months steers. £6 12s. Cd.; 15-months steers (discoloured) £5 125.; 20Jnonths steers, £8 Iβ. to £8 4a.; heifers in jnilk, £12; springing cows, to £12. Tho Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile 'Agency Co., Ltd., report that at their Upper Hutt sale they submitted a medium entry of sheep and cattle to a small attendance, and. sold springing cows, £12 155.; springing hciftf'rs, £15; 15-months discoloured steers, £5 35.; aged store cows, £3 Ss. to £3 18a.; August calving cows, £7 I2s. 6d.; hack,'£6; ponies, £4 17s. 6d. to £9. The New Zealand Loan and Mcrcantilo ■lAgency Co. report:—At our weekly saloat Palmerston North, on Thursday, wt had a. good entry. Sheep sold well, but, cattle were dull. Forward wrtherß, 325.; fat ewes, 255.. 25a. 6d.; forward ewes, v!Os. Id., S2s.; ayed ewes. 10s., 155.; small woolly I?mhs, 12s. Id.; good medium lambe 16s. M.. 16s. 7d.; good woolly lambs,, 275.; fat lambs, 245. 9d.; store cows, £5, £6 45.; forward cows, £7 45.; cows-with calves,' £8; good springing heifera, £11 18s.; bulls, £6. Messrs. Dalgoty nnd Company, Limited, Toport having held their Levin sale on Tuesday, when they offered a. medium yarding of both sheep and cattle. Competition at auction was fair, tho following being effected:-Oood woolly lambs, 17s. 9d. to 18s. ?'l; medium lamb?., 15s Id • small lambs, 123. 9d. to Uβ. 3d. Cattle: Forward-condition empty heifers, SR to £8 JOs.;. empty cowe, £7 7s. 6d. to £7 18a. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited report-that at their Upper Hutt sale on Thurßdny they offered a, good yarding of both sheep and cattle to the usual attendance of buyers. Competition throughout the sale was good, .ind they succeeded in filing most of their yarding at ]i!te 'ruling rates the principal enles being as under:-S.in. empty ewes, 23s e<l.: "light-weight fat wethers, 31s. Cd Cattle: Fat heifers, £10 2s. to £11; fat cnvs, £10 to £12 45.; forward empty cows, £8 Ibi. <o £9 55.; forward ompty heifers, £7 tn xa 155.: store cows, £-5 to £7 10s.; teeratim mixed sex weaners, £2 to £2 10s ; culLniixud sex weaners, 30s. to 365.; small 18-months stpers, £4 to £4 33.; good spring-Ing-cows. £14 to £16; medium springing o"-.7<=. ,€)) to £13 2s. 6d.; poor-condition K-'- : i>rr ralvers £6 12j. 6(1. to £7; 2-year li-ifcw, r.vr.b.. £7 45.; 2-year-old grade Fhoi thorn bull, £11; ipottcr bulla, £7 to £8