LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 69, 16 December 1918, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

'•'■ The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. report:—At Palraerßton North on Thursday there was a very fair yarding of stedp and a largo yarding' of cattle. Sheep met with a ready Bale, all lines changing hands at prices satisfactory to vendors. Grown cattle showed an in-crease-in prices, but young cattle were neglected. Quotations:—Mixed aged ewes, with w.f. lambs, 31s. 6d. to 345.; woolly hoggets, 265. to 28s. 6d.; small ljoggets, 205.; cull hoggets, 12s. 6d.; fat cows, £11 9s. to £11-165.;, fat heifers, £9 7s. 6d.; forward 1 cows, .£7.105.-to £8 155,; store cows, £6 10s.''to £7 .155.; cowb and. calves, to £11; yearling to fiftcen-monthß heifers, £5 2s. to £6'165.; yearling steers. £4 to £5. • The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. report :-rAt our Ranglotu sale on Monday last we had a very' large yarding, of cattle, which we'practically cleared at pricos- in favour^ol : vendors. Quotations:—Fat cows, £10 to £12' 155.; forward coWs,. £9 10b: to '£10; store'cowb. £7. 10s. to'£9 10s.;'twOryear empty 'foTvitrd heifers, £7 155.; twenty-months heifers; r.w.b., :£6 to £7; steers, £4. to £4 55.;-yearling Shorthorn bulls,.'£7: to £8; two-year Shortliouu bulls. £8 15s. to-£lO 7s. 6d.; springing cows, at drop, £16 2s. 6d. At our Raumai sale on Tuesday we had a fair yarding ;of ; cattle, which i sold well nn to market values, the exception .of yearling icattle, whero prices failed to reaoh ven-' dors' reserves. Light fat cows. £8 10s. to £9; store'cows, £6 10s. to £7 10s.; yearling heifers,. £4,105. to £5155.; yearling steers. £4. to £5-55.; two-year coloured steers, £6 •155..' : -, i ~.'.:;■ ..'.-. ; .'Messrs.; Dalgoty and tJo..'Ltd; Palmerstoh North, report,having a very good.entry ;of both sheen and cattle at their Fcildirig sale- on Friday, the- majority of which changed hands; Quotations mixed 'two-tooths, 155.. Id. to 175.: shorn .ewes and lambs,.2ls?. Bd.; small mixed hoggets. 17s. ;to 2Zs. 7d.; two-tooth wethers. 20s. 4d. to 25b.' lid.; small yearling heifers. £2 10s. 'to £3 155.; small yearling steers, £4 to £4 14b.; store cowb, £6'12b.. £7 10b., to £8 155.; dairy heifers. £7 10s.; two-year empty , Hereford-cross heifers, £9 2s. 6d.; fat hciifers, £12 7s. 6d.' ; '-Messrs. Dalgety and Co.. Ltd.. Mastcrtort. : report having held their weekly stock sale lat Carterton on Friday, when they offered ; a large yarding of sheen and cattle to a igood attendance of buyei'B. Competition ; was - keen, and a clearance was made at : the following prices;— Ewes and lambs. 245. 'to 245. 3d.: forward-.cwes. 225. 9d.: two-tooth i wethers, 20b. 7d. to 245. 6d.; b.C* taro-tooths, i23a. Bd. to 245. Id.; cull two-tooths. 15b. to I IBs.; fat ewes and wethers, 31a, 3d. to 335.; i fat lambs,-215.; swinging cows, .f8 ss. to ■:f.l: fat cows. £12 10s.; bulls, £6 10s. to ' lJigns.; nigs, 30s. to 365. A cnnnlgnment of ■ horres from Featbcrston Military Camp •' realised from £2 10s. to £8 ss.

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