LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 68, 14 December 1918, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

, Messrs. Dalgety and Co.. Ltd., Palmers- !; ton North, report having a fair entry of 'sheep and a large yarding of cattle at ':. their Palmereton North sale on Thursday. •. Sheep met with a ready sale, but young ;: cattle in many eases failed to reach ven- ,:. dors' reserves. Quotations: Mixed-age ewes, with lambs. 2Bs. 6d.; empty woolly ewes, : 29b. 4d.; prime woolly ewes. £2 Is. 6d.; ■■. small yearling steers. £4; mixed weaners, , S7s.; empty cowe, £6 15e.; forward heifers, -, £7 Bs. 6d.; backward dairy heiforu. £6 155.; .cows and calves, £6 10s. to £9'16a.; yearling Ueifera, £3 13s. to £5 Sj. :'. , Messrs. Abraham and Williams. Ltd., rc- ,; port:—At Levin on Tuonday. we yarded ■ particularly large entries of both sheep :'. and cattle, and although coninetitionwns r , not keen wo effected sales of Practically : all lots before the close of tho sale, at prices as under:—Fat,ewes (shorn),-295. 64. ■ to 315.; fat woolly hoggets. £2: shorn twotooths, ■ 22e. to '225. Bd.: shorn four-tooth f Tethers. 265. Bd.; woolly two-tooths. ' 28s. 7d. to 295. 6d.: fat cows. £13 12s. 6d.; light •■ vealera. £2 to £2 10b.; three-year steers. '£13 ss. to £14; P.A. two and a half-year ',' .Bteer3. £13 10s.; two and a half-year steers ' (discoloured), £11; yearling and fifteen- ■ months stjere (best colours), £6, £7. £7 t 17s. 6d.. to £8 55.; others. £5 to £5 10s.; yearling and fifteen-months heifers, £5 4e., I £5 13s. 6d.. to £7; two and a half-year ;■ heifers, £10; etore cows, £7 175.: eiehteen- : months Shorthorn bulls. £W, Wβ. to £13; ,; we/inere. 305.. 4ftj.. to 545.: dairy cows in milk. £12 2s. 6d. to £14 7s. 6d.: inferior sorts, £7 153., £3, to £9 sc; 6nringing hel- / fere, £9 12s. «d., £10,105., £11 55.. £11 10s.