LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 70, 17 December 1918, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Abraham anil Williams, Ltd., report:—At Pulinerston Nortlt on TJiuisday yro hud <a'large entry of cattlo. Competition for young; cattlo was not keen, but any lota of fat and forward cows sold well. Sliced were represented, by only a l'ew lines, mostly' hoggets, and these met with fair inquiry. Quotations:--Good woolly hoggets, ZOb'. 5d.; medium hoggets, 22a. to 225. 6d.; cull hogget!., 15s. to l{ls. 9d.; light woolly fat ewes, 335.; shorn fat owes, 285.; fat coivs, £10 t-o £11 7s. fid.: fat heifers. £9 ss. to £9 155.; forward cows, £8 ss. to £8 155.; store cows, £6 ss. to £7 155.; cowS and ealves, £7 13s. to £9 Ba. til.; 2-ycar Jersey iieifers, £8 155.; 15-monthß heifers, £3 IDs. to £3 13b. ; 18months steers, £4; 2j-year Bteers, JS'7' 165.; Bprwging heifers, £6 }os. to £8 10s. Messrs.- Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report at their Jj'cildiiig sale, held -on Deiomber 13, a good yarding of both sheep and cattle came forward. Sheep were in good demand, but cattle were slightly easier. We quote Sheep: Fat shorn wethers, 345.; fat shorn ewes, 285.; fat and forward ewes, 21s. 9d. to 255. 2d.; <1 and 6-tooth shorn ivethers, 235. 3d. to £fe. 6i1.; 2-to t oth wethers, shorn, 255. 6d, to 265. 1C'.1.; mixed 2-tooths, 18s., '21s. 6d. to 245. 6:1.; woolly hoggets, 235. 3d.. 30s. fid. to 31s. 9d.; ewes and lambs, 325. 6d. to 365. 6d. Cattle: Fat cows, to £11 10s.; forward cows, £8 10s. to £9 Bs.; store cows, £6 10s. to £7 155.; cows and calves, £7 15s. to £8 Ids.; empty 2-mr heifers. £5 2s. 6d„ £6 ss„ £6 12s. on. to £6 17s. 6d.; 13-months' heifers, r.w.b., ;■? IDs. to £$ Its.; 35-months lieiferß, £3 los„. £4 55., £4 165.; 2{ to 3-year stoers, coloured. £7 12s. 6d.; 2-year steers, £8 2s. .to £9 -55.; 15-months steers, £5 lCs„ £6 17s. 6d to £6 55.; springinu lieifers, £10 10s., Wfii, to £11 10s.; bulls, light, £4 to £8. Ihc .New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.. Ltd.. report that at their Levin yards on Tuesday they offered a fair entry of sheep and r a'full yarding of cattle. Quotation's:—4-tcoth shorn wethers, 2os. 9d.; good 2-tooth'. shorn wethers, 265.; shorn ; ewes • with ' lambß, 305.; fat cows. £10 2s. to £11; forward-condition cows, £7 10s. to £8 - 10s.; Btoro cow 3, £6 t-o £7; yearling steers, £2 18b. to £5 155.; yearling heifers, £3'los. to. £4 10s.; 18months heifers, £6 7s. 6d.; weaner calves, £1 to 335.; • cows' and calves, £6 10a. to £9; yearling bulla. -£4 10s. to £5 7s; 6d.; springing cow, £11- ss. ~ .

t, W.F.0.A., Ltd., Stock Department, Dannevirke. report on their local sale, held on Friday, as follows This waß the first sale held for about six weeks, nnd a fair yarding of Bhcep and a- full entry of # cattle carac .forward,. Sheep .re.ilißcd fair prices, on a • par, -wo consider, "with last sale's report. The quulity of the cattle yarded was decidedly rough, and as <i consequence prices were rather )o;v. Best demand was for bi£.framcd, .goodconditioned empty cows, these inuldrig ft RO , 9 4 e iJ: rance ' report tlfa following ?r CB \t} 78 ewGB . with. 100.per cent, lambs, 385.; ewes and lambs, 375.; 27 do., 355.; 10 (used ewes and liunbs, 95.; 10 P.A. "and llereford steers, £6. 45.; .15 mixed ycarliiie heifers, £2 10s„ £4 7s. 6d. to £4 10s.; 5 fat cows, £7 55.. .£lO 10s. to £11; 4 heifers and steers, £3; 2 Jersey steers, £2 12s. 6<1.; ? S l & er ?' 1 Ayrshire bull (small); £2; 1 S.H. bull (smaH), £2; 1 bull, .6 uuinea*: 5l n ' 9 * yearlinp bulls, &l 7s. od.: 3 store cows, £1 2a. 6d.;. 1 eow C r • S *» ilolstcin heifer, in-profit, £o os.