LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 96, 17 January 1919, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd.. report that at their Levin yards on Tuesday a fair entry of cattle was disposed of at the following prices :-Light fat cowb. £10 15s. to £10 17s. 6d.; forward condition cowb. £8 18s.; store cows, £7 Zs. 6d.; cows with calves. £11 13a.; 21-year steers, £9' ?s. 6d.; l'-ycqr steers. £6 145.; vealers, £2 155.; cow. in milk, £10; bulls. £10 17s. 6d. to £11 7s. 6d. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Limited, report that at their Upper Hutt sale they offered e, large yarding of cattle to a fair attendance. Ridding was animated, and they cleared the whole entry at satisfactory prices. They sold store cows at £6 7s. to £7; forward cows, £3 Bs. to £8 165.; fat cows, to £10 12s. 6d.; store heifers, £5 to £6 155.; forward heifers to f.3 95.; 2-yecr heifers, £6 12b.; 15-month heifers, £5 Bs. 6d. to £5 lie.: 15-month steers, £5 2s. to £5 Bb.; 15-month steers (Jersey sorts), £2 75.; -2-year steers, £7 17s. 6d.; calves, 345. to 41b.; vealers, £3 75.; bulls, £8 12s. 6d. Mcßßrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, report having held their fortniehtly • "ale at Taihape on Wednesday, when a fair entry of sheep and a heavy yarding of cattle came forward. Quota-tions:—Z-tooth -wcthcra. 255.: forward eweß, 235.; cull ewes, Us. 6d. Cattle: Fat bullocks. £16 12s. (d.; forward cows, £9 155.: 21-ycar Btecrß, £10 10s. to £10 15b.; 3-year Hereford bullocks, £13 10s. to £14; 2-year Hereford steers, £11 10s.; 18-month cattle mixed 6cxes, £6; 2-year empty heifers, £7; 18-month empty heifers, £5 ss.