LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 248, 8 July 1918, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Mesers. Dalgety arid Co.,- Ltd., Palmerslon North, report having a fair entry of fbeep end cattle at their Pending sale on ' Friday, July 6, 1918. Quotations :-Cnll '' lambs, 6s. id. to-6s. 3d.; email do., 12s. 4d.; two-tooth wet hern. 28s. 10d.'; empty owes, •Mβ.; yearling bulls. £12 to £11; /store .'cows,'£6'Bs. . ' ' ■ ■' The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile 'Asfoncy Co., Ltd., reports t—At Palmerston 'North on-Thursday we had onjy a small ■••yarding/--' which sold at lato rat™. Wβ Quote: B.f. ewes, in lamb, 165.; eiehtceniiionths heifers. £3 15a:;' store cows, £5, £6 10s.;. forward cows, £9 lZs.; cows in milk, £6.103,. £8; springing cows, £7, £7 IK- '6d.i £8; spriueins heifers, sninll, £7, v £8./ The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile 'Agency Co., Ltd., report :—At FeiMlug on i Friday we had a. fair yarding of 3heep and a-V small yarding of cattle. Sheep sold ! freely at late ratee. Small lambs, 11s., 12s. ■ 4d.; fair latnbe, 14s. 9d., 15s. Id.; upod Jambs, Z6s. 9d.: forward ewca, 17s. 7d., 18a. ; :S(1 ; fat ewee, 275. 3d., 275. 9d.; fat wothere, . fat cows, £11 Is.; small fat bullocks, £12 12s. The Wairarapa Farmers' fio-op. Association, Ltd., stock department, report on their Cartcrton sale. , The yarding consisted of cattle only, of which three was a ;inodera(e entry, these being submitted to a fair attendance. Bidding was brisk o'l storbicowe, and wo mado a total clearance, excopting three cows. Prices: forward cow.s, £9 to £9 95.; store cows, £5, '£5- 145,, £5- 155., £6 ' 9a., £6 JOs, to £7 fif.'; cull cows, £3; cows, in calf to purebred Holstein bull, £8,195.; bull, ,£9 ss. A good assortment of sundries qplrt at full market rates. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report ~At Palmerston- North on July 4 a rery good yarding or all elassra of stock came;forward.. There was a poor attendance 'of the public, and all lota offered ; mi-t with poor competition, iprices ruling : • were ns follow:—Sheen: Breeding ewes, to E2=. Cattle: Forward , cows, £8 13a., £8 17s. ; 6(1., to £9 )35.; store cowh, £-1 55., £5 19?., £6 78., to £6 155.; springing cows,'. £0, £8 ■ ■*«., £9 2s. 6d.. £9 Us., to £14; -weiiuen, jmall, £1 10.1. to £?, ss. At. their Feildin? «ale on July 5 thero wan a fair attendance of buyers, but for forward ewes In lamb and store ewes tho demand was not too keen. Good hoggets mot with a ready ' 'SRle, also a few pens of fat heifers. The following are somo of tho prices renllsed •— • Sheep: Ewee in lamb, 225. Bd. to 23b. Gd.: ..empty ewes, 175., 18s., to 20.«. io«.; mixed lambs. 16s. Bd. to 175.; ewes, in Inmb, to Ks. 6d.; wether lambs, to 225. 10d.; cull Jambs, 6s. to 95.; fat hclforß, £9 la z\l ■ m. 10.9., to £13; forward cows, £8 2m, 6d' ' to £8 8fl.; sloro cows, £4 ss. i\\. (o £5 5s