LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 24, 23 October 1918, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

"■■' .Messrs.. Dalgety and Company, Limited, : feport.having held their Upper Hutt sale !-on Monday, -when they, offered a good yard'ißß of. both sheep and cattle. The prin'■'olpal'sales effected wfe as follow:—Woolly i; hoggets, 275. 2d.; heifers, £4 16si to £9 55.; i empty heifers, £6 10s. j springing heifers, £9 j-; to £11;. store cows, £6 6s. to £7 19s.;.'fat j: oow». £7 16s. to £11 ls.i cows with calves V ftt.foot, £9; empty store cows, £5 ss. to £7 \ 10s.; springing cows £11 ss. to £16; bullß, I- jE6 to' £8 '175.; 2-ycar bulls. £7. f: Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited,

:■ Palmerston',-North, 'Teport'" having very I'tood entry of both sheet) and cattle at r their Feilding sale on Friday, practically fall of -which changed hands.at following '■■"ipr-ices':—Sheep: Small hoggets, 14s. Bd< to j 16b. .3d.; medium hoggets. 21s. 9d.; good f'tioggetg, to 285.; best hoggets, to 325. 6d.; 1 B.f. hoggets, 17s. 2d., fc.7d.-to 265. 4d.; r 4-tooth -wethers, 36b. (A.: 2-tooth wethers, V (small, shorn),-225. lc? Cattle: Backward !i ; springing heifers, £5; yearling steers, £4, I £4 Is.; yearling, heiferß. £5. £5 35.; store I'ebws, £4 2s. £4 18s., £5 Is., £8 155.; yeari ling bulls, £3 25., £2 11b.. £4 155.; older jrtbulls, £7 55., £8 10s. '.- -The Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Asi'sociation. Limited, Pahiatua. report:-On £ Saturday we held our second BpriAging ■: heifer fair. ' The attendance was large, i despite' the inclement weather. We yarded <- about 150 head, the quality of which was t' slightly inferior to those at our previous 1 -fair. Generally speaking, the .prices realtieediwe slightly below late,rates, _ How- ; 'ever,' we were successful in disposing of ! practically the whole of our entry under [the hammer. Top price for heifers was ■■ £15,.and springing cows, £17. We quote:Kl'springing heifer. £15; 4 do., £14; 1,d0.. i .£l3 10s.; 3 do.. £12 155.; 1 do., £12 155.; 2 i.-heifers, with calves at foot. £13 2s. 6d.; in- ; feriof heifers, ranging from £7. £7 12s. 6d„ •' £8 10s., £9' 10s., £10, £10 2s. 6d.. £11. ss. to • A £l2; 'dairy cows, from £13 to £17. Bulls: '■■ There was little demand for dairy bulls, ! although .our entry in these was large; r. -tonvprice'Tcalised was. for a >15-month p.b. li 'milking .strain. S.H. bull, 31 guineas; 1 ",Vyear,S.H.- bull, 25 guineas: 1 P. A... year- \* ling.-20 guineas; others sold at from £5 v. 6s. to £13 13s.