LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 14, 11 October 1918, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

The Wairarapa Farmers'' Co-operative Association. Limited, report having held their Weekly sale at the Masterton yardß on Wednesday, when they offered a full yarding of sheep to a large attendance. A total clearance was made at the following prieeß-.—Mixed-age bwcb, with lumbß at foot, 355. 6d.; forward store ewes. 25a.j store woolly owes, 265. Bd.; fat shorn twotooth wethers, 28s. 6d.; shorn black-faced two-tooths, 235. 4d.; white-faced woolly hoggets, 25b. 10d., 26b. 6d., to 275. 4d.; black-faced hoggets, 225. 5d., 235. 5d., 245. 7d., 255. lCd., 265. 6d., 275'., to 275. 6d.; dairy hollers, just calv.'d, £11 15s. ■

Tho N.Z. Loan and • Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report having conducted' a clearing sale at Pahautauui on account of the trustees in the estate of 0..A. Carter. The herd, which came forward in good condition, realised good prices, and avorayed £12 sb. per head. The following prices were obtained:—Cows at drop, £16. £17, to £20 5b.-, cows in milk, to calve Hay-June, £10 10s., £11, £12 10s„ to £15 155.; three-qunrtercd cows, £7 2s. 6d., to", £6; empty cows, £5 ss. to £7; twenty-month lienors, r.w.b., £6 45., £6 30.;., to £7: yearling heifers, £5 to £5 7s. 6d.; yearling bulls, £4 155.; ag«d half-draught mares,-to £17. I

Messrs, Dalgety and Co,, Ltd., Palmerston North, report having held their fortnightly sale at Taihape on Wednesday, when an exceptionally heavy yarding of sheep and a small yarding of cattle came forward. A line' of mixed-sex hoggets, offered on account of J. A. Oliver, topped the market at 325. lid. Quotations:— Mixed-sex hoggets. Z7s. M.. 28a. 10d., 30s. 3d., to 323. lid*.; medium sorts, 225. 9d. to ?.7s. 3d.; small hoggets, 195.; fat ewes, 35b. Bd.; five-year ewes, with ICO per cent, lambs, 275. Id. Ccttle: Small springs heifers. £8. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held their Waijtanae stock sale on Wednesday, when they offered a small warding of sheep and cattle. The principal s.alea effected being as follow:— M.B. hoggcjs.zas. 6d. to 255. 2d; springing heifers, £9 4s. to £10 6s. 1 Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, Palmerston North, report having held the second annual bull fair on Wednesday. Thero -was a very good entry, but competition was somewhat restricted, and a number of animals were turned out unsold. Quotationsi-Yearling Shorthorn hulls, ttlgns., l'Jgns., 16JgnB., 19}gns., 25gns., 275gn5., to 35gns.; two-year Shorthorn bulls, ldgns. fo 12tens.; Jersey bulls, to llgns.; Holstein bulls, to 17gn8.; Hereford bulls. MSgns.. 168gnfi.. to 1 21} ens. Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Master-ton, report having held ihcir weekly sale in the Colombo Koad yards. Jiastsrton. on Wednesday, when the? offered a large yarding of sheep to a' good attendance. Eidding -was inclined to drag.- but we sue ceeded in disposing cf tha bulk of our entry at the following prices :-T"our-tooth wethers. 38s. 3d.; milted wetners and empty ewes. 295. Id. tc 355.-, four-tooth maiden ewes, 345. 5d.; four-tooth ewes, with lambs, 565. 3d.; cged ewes with Umb6, 28s.