LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 6, 2 October 1918, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

• ' i» n X W -?: 0 ' A '. I'M., Dannevirke, report |"-..'.»n their Dannevirke sale held on Friday f follows :-A fair yardinj of sheep and \: .«?«■» camo forward, the sheen entry prini . cipally consisting of hoggets, which were ~ ..nightly easier than last salo's report. In ■i- cattle we oifored some good linc3 of stat , tion-bred Hereford and Shorthorn cross j .Heifers, which were passed in at auction, 1.-, •; tout we dispersed of same at satisfactory '. ;?™es by private treaty. Wo sold the j ■■: (following lines:—loo Eomney owe hoggets, '/-'- ,338. JBd.; 14 woolly do.. 355.; 191 m.B. hog- '. -gets, 255. 9d.; 147 m.s. hoggets. 265. Id.; ; '850 small do., 15a.; 62 cull do., 95.; 30 r .two and three-year Hereford cross steers j "(good), £13 18s. 6d.; 10 do. P.A. Hereford ;: '-crossi do., £14 2s. 6d.; 6. Shorthorn do. ■•'.■( small), £10 17s. 6d.; 44 Hereford cross •;•:. yearling heifers, £9 10s.; 16 Shorthorn ■■.-.cross •yearling heifers, £8 10s.; 6 dairy .'.: ;yearlings, £3 17s. 6d.; 3 store cows, £7 17s. ! .to £8 2s. 6d.; 2 dairy cows, £13 to £13 10s. !"■'•'.. The auctioneers supply the following •; on the first annual Bale of Akitio, .; Polled Angus bulls, conducted by the i W.F.0.A., Ltd.. Dannevirke :-"The increase '■'" in'the popularity of the Polled Angus -waii .;. plainly 6hown,hy the larst gathering of I . (buyers at Mr. F. Armstrong's first annual ! ~ oale on September 25. The North Island • was well represented by men on business .'Bent, but local men were found contesting '. every lot offered. Though Wairarapa, Mar- ;• 'ton, Taihape, Waikato, and other districts <: ; ' secured a share of the'' animals produced, ■v -local buyers were not to bo denied, and • the majority of tho youngsters remained ;,■;■, in-the district. The Bale took place at ■; . 'Mr. L. Cowan's farm, Racecourse Road, !;../-Dannevirke, where the cattle were wlnter- !" ■' ;e(ti The youngsters were produced in good ;i : condition, notwithstanding the cxceptional--1 v.'ly severe winter, and as.all the arrange- ■ ■.-meats, we're well worked out Mr. J. B r..- Thomson, for the W.F.O.A:. did not take • "long to dispose of the lot. Mr. Armh .strong's initial sale must, be considered £.. highly satisfactory and tho annual sale tv,can'be.safely considered e, fixture. The i}> : 29, bulls submitted averaged 68Jgns., which «;\.may : be considered rood in view of the v fact that some of the entries wore ou K -the young side, randng from 18 months j. 'to two years old. The highest price was j.'-- paid by Mr. R. Johnston, of Motutarla, .. Hawke's Bay, for a fino son of Orangeman, being knocked down to him atl6sgns. ; Mr. T. M. Webb, who .is a new. local bidder, secured the runner-up for 160gns."