LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 19, 17 October 1918, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:-At our Raumai tule on Tuesday we had. a small yarding of both sheep and cattle. Stock sold freely at !ato rates. We quote:—Good hoggets, 295.; medium hoggets, 20b.; eight-cen-months steers, £8 10s.; yearling steers, £5; eighteen-months heifers, £5; springing heifers, £11 12s. 6d. The New Zealand i.oan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:—At. our Rangiotu sale on Monday we had a small yarding. Bidding was brisk, and wc cleared the yard under the hammer. Quotations: -Empty cows, £8 Ih. to £8 75.; store cows, £4 to £5; empty heifers, £7, £7 Is.; yearlings, small, 355.; yearling, fair, £6; springing cows. £7 7s. Cd. to £10 103.; Holstpin bulls, £7. ■ The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report on their Pahiatua weekly sale at follows :-We offered a email yarding of sheen and cattle to a fair attendance. Bidding was inclined to drag, but wc managed to sell most of our entry at the following prices—Empty ewes, 225. fid. to 30s. 5d.; b.f. hoggets, 245.; ewes, with lambs, 365.; empty heifers, £4 155., £6; cull cows, £1 10s.; yearling heifers. £3 175.; yearling steers, £3 175.; cows in calf, £8 17s. 6d. to £9 Is.; dairy heifers*- £10, £12 15s„ to £13 6a.; dairy cows, £10 9s. Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held their weekly sale at Palliatua on Tuesday when they offered a medium yarding of sheep and cattle to the usual attendance of buyers. The following prices were realised:—Ewes, with b.f. lambs at foot, 385.; empty ewes, 215.; fat b.f. hoggets, 355.; springing heifers, £13 10s.; springing cows, £14; yearling Jersey heifers, .£6 15s. Messrs. A.'J, Cooper and Co., Ltd., report on their annual spring cattle fair as follows :-A very heavy yarding of cattle came" forward, nearly up to advertised numbers, and competition at auction was animated, more especially in regard to Mod-bred yearlings. The firm only passed foiu - nens at auction out of a total yarding of 1100 cattle, and these were disnosed of with the exception of one pen of bad-coloured steers by private treaty. The following arc the principal sales :-On account of C. >1. CockburnHood, Olctidonald-65 three-year steers, £15 33.; 25 two. and a half-year steers, £13; 53 cows'in calf, £13 75.; 39 eishteeiwimutliß heifers, £9 25,: 33 yearling steers.. £9 75.: 35 yearling heifers, £8 2s, On account of Groves Bros.-30 three-year bullocks, £15 125.; 14 three-year bullocks, £14, 9s. On account, of 11. H. Bcetham—3o empty store 'cows, £11 9s. On account of H. S. M'Laren —16 three-year bullocks. £15 195.: 7 do., £14 Bs. On account of D. MT,m."v-. ."it four-year bullocks, £16. On account of Neil H'Kay—27 small three-year steers, - a 55.; 5 two-year steers. £11 ss. On account of J. P. Lett—lo three-year steers, £14: 30 mixed yearlings, £9. On account of 11. H. Ryder—24 yearling steers, £10 75.; 19 yearling heifers. £9 ,2s. On account of yif. B|rd-9 mixed yearjipgs, £? 6s, On

account of J. Douglas-11 yearling Bteors, £11 la.; 6 three-year heifers, £14 sb. On account of J. h. Murray-22 four-year bullocks, £14 35.; 40 throe-year Holstcin steers, £12; 79 two and a half-year do., £9 Is.; 5 do., £9 10s.; 17 eightcen-months Bteors, £7 ss. On accouut. of 0. Hefferan-50 store cows, £9 12s, 6d.; 10 storo cows, £8 10s.; 9 storo cows, £7 12s. 6d. ; 20 four-year bullocks, £15; 6 two-year steers, £12 75.; 9 twoyear steers, £10 12s. 6d. On account of John Strang-5 fat cows, £17. On account of J. M'Gregor, junr.-5 two and a halfyear steers, £13 35.; 1 fat heifer, £12 10b. On account of W. Jt'Govern-1, fat cow, £13; 3 forward cows, £11 10s. On account of J. IV. Carswcll-17 mixed yearlings, £8 Bs., On account of other vcndors-11 cows in calf, £12 155,; 2 do., £14; 2 forward heifers, £10 10s.; 7 two-year steers, £10 55.; 5 eiehtoeu-months heifers, £8 125.; 1 threeyear bullock, £13; 1 do., £14 55.; 4 yearline steers, £11; 9 yearling dairy heifers, £3 18s. 6d.; 5 do., fl 125.; 6 eighteenmonths steers, £6 12s. 6d.; two eighteenmonths heifers, £5 17s. 6d. Bulls: 1 fouryear Hereford bull, Mgns.; 1 aged Hereford bull. 21gns.; I do.. 19gns.; 1 do.. £12 10s.; 1 Shorthorn bull, 16gns.; 1 fouryear 'Polled Angus bull, 26gns. On behalf otftlie Italian Bed Cross Fund, a Hereford bull was sold for £12 10s., and a two-year heifer was sold nnd resold for tho sum of £60 Is., making a total of £72 Us. for the fund. The total sales for the day amounted to £10,500, compared with £9251 last year.

A freak in calves was born a few weeks ago at the Mokopeka station, says tho "Tribune." The animal is a. healthy bull calf, with _ a normal lower jaw, but the upper jaw shows two distinct and fully developed noses (four nostrils). The calf has only one tongue, and apparently suffers no inconvenience in eating, or in any other way, from its nasal malformation. It has been presented to the Red Cross.