LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 27, 26 October 1918, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

j-:'-' Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Palmersi'ton North, report having held their an- '"■ nual spring cattle fair at the Feilding K ! sale yards on Wednesday. The yarding i' as a whole showed a decided falling ort I?-'in quality as compared with previous [..'.years;..but although no. extreme prices were paid a good clearance generally was I ; effected. Quotations:—Small mixed yeari: lings, £3 6s. to £3 lOs,: .yearling Ireifers, I. £6, £6 Is. £6,55., £6 12s> 6d„ £6 135., to ; v'-£7 65.; two-year heifers, £7 17s. 6d. to £8 'Is.; two-year Hereford heifers. £9 145.; i-''three-year heifers, £9 45., £9 145.; small i-yearling steers, £5 83.; Hereford-cross yearling steers, £9 ss. to £9 10s. two-year ! steers: £8 11b., £9 45., to £10 55.; two-year , 'Hereford steers, £12; three-year steers, i.''£l3; empty Cows, £8 2s. 6d. to £8 65.; i fresh-condition cows, to £9 Bs'.; good for-(i-:wa*d cows, £10 15s.

|. Messrß. Abraham and 'Williams, Ltd., !• 'report: At Lovin on Tuesday we had a I large entry of both sheep and cattle. The [ demand for all classes of stock was very [ keen, and practically every line changed ; hands at an advance on recent market >''-rates. I'at six-tooth woolly wethers, £2 i 15s. 3d.; fat woolly ewes, 355. 10d.; fat i-'shorn ewes, 29a. 6d.; ewe hoggots, to 1:,295. 4d.; mixed hoggets, 22a. Id., 25a. 7d., •to 295. 9d.; ewts and lambs, to 265. lid.; {■■■ vealers, to £2 165.; store .cows, £4 55., £B, £B.Us. 6d., to £9 -7a.; yearling heifers', £3 ! ,155., £4, £4 155., to £5 65.; yearling steers,

• £2 10a.. £4 4s. 6d.. to £4 10a.; ! months steers, £5 35., to £6 10s.; spriug- !■■ liig heifers, £6 155., £7, £10, £10 55.; springI lng cows, £10 to J514; cows in milk, to | £13 55,; bulls, £5 7s. 6d., £6 10a., to ,£7- ;,' 10s.; storo pigs, 365.; sow In pig, £7 Is.; •:. barrow pig, £3 13s. 6d.; pork pigs, £2 I .-.'lis.. £2 195., £3 45., £3 lie., £4 9a., £4 I' 103., £5, £5. 7s. 6d„ £5 13s. 6d. •

j ■■;'. Messrs.- Abraham and Williams, Ltd., re- !■■; -port that at Otaki on Wednesday, they i :imd a fair yarding of both sheen and i cattle, but the demand was not at all | : \ keen. Sh'urn Swes, 26a. 5d.; hoggets, 25a. ! 6d.; storo cows, £7 155., £8 155., £9 la., to ;.-' £11 10s.; two-year steers, £8 15s. to £11; I eighteon-jiontlis steers, £7 12s. 6d.; yearj ling steers, £5 125.; Shorthorn bull. £13; I. springing cows, £8 10s. to £10; springing ! heifers. £6 -153.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile j Agency Company, Ltd., report having con- !■ ducted their Upper Hutt sale this week. ! Pew sheep were yarded, but cattle came ■ forward in large numbers, and they sold i a large portion at satisfactory prices. ; ■ Quotations: M.S. hoggets, 275. 2d.; fat ■' heifers, £8 17s to £9 Is.; fat cows, £9

; 155.-to £10 10s.; forward heifers, £6 6s. to ■, £7 65.; forward cows, £7 Jls. to £8 55.; j eighteen-months heifers, £6 to- £6 7s. 6d.; i yearlin? heifers,. £4 lis. to £5 lis.; ycarI. '■ling steers (mixed), £5 10s.; springing [ heifers, £8 9s. to £9; cows with calves, ! £6 155.; springing cows, £13; vealers, £4 I-:. 151/.