LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 100, 22 January 1919, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

■Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report, having held their opening Bale in the Te Horo yards on Monday, whon they offered a good yarding of both sheep and cattle. Competition. all through was pound, and satisfactory priceß were obtained for all lotß offered, the principal sales being ! as under :—Light-weight fat ewefl, 245. 2d.; fat and forward ewes; 21s. Bd.; forward four-tooth wothers,'2Bs. 9d. to 295. 4d.; forward empty cows. £10 10a. to £11 35.; empty store cows, £7 sa. to £7 195.;.tw0-year empty heifers, £6 »s.; twoyear steers' (small), ( £i. 135.;- eiehtoenmonths/ £6 As.; flfteen-months steers, £4 18s.; good weaner heifers, £2' 10a. • i . .

:Meßsrs. .Wright, Stephenson and Co.', Ltd., report, that at the Paliiatua cattle sale .on Monday they offered a fair yardiDg,'consisting mainly of cows and calveß, fat cows, and young cattle, most of which were sold under the hammer. Moßt of the-.bullocks yarded were of inferior quality. , and: prices ruled accordingly, lliey quote :~ Cows and calves, to £14; fat cows. £12 ss. to £13 195.; forward cows, to £12; store cows, to £10 7s. 6d.; springing cows, to £12' springing heifers, to- £12; empty two-year £7; two-year heifers, in calf, £6 17s. 6d. to £8 10s.; yearling heifers, £4 10s.; yearling 6teers, £5 -3s. ■•.-■. .'•..-.

.Mr. Newton, King reports:—At Souglas ;.pn\ January 13, there waß a big yarding, all yards and races being well filled. Oom.petition throughout was good, and pricoß, :as . at-all other sales held during the week, showed a'dißtinct advance, there being a much improved tone in the mar-. :Ket." .Eighteen-month .stcorß, £4 Us. to £5 18s.; fifteen to eighteen month empty heifcrß, £4 to £4 12e.; eighteen-month heifers, in calf. £5 43. io £5 9a.; fat cows, £10.10s. to £12 la.; forward cows, "up to £10;' store-cows, from £6 2s. 6d. for. light' to £8.173. 6d. for good; two and a half to; three-year ateera, £9-Is.: dairy cowb, ."£11; ...bulls,;. £& 10s. to £12 12s. At Strat-'ford.-qn January 14 the yards were filled with, useful cattle, for which there was 'good .inquiry. Good eighteen-month heifers, ;jn; calf, sold up to £5 12a. 6d.; small-.er.-heifcrs, £3 IBs. to £4 125.; mixed year;.lings: £4 sb.;'two and a half-year steers '.(rough), £8 55.: twenty-month and twoyear in-calf heifers, £6; bulls. £8 15s. to £13 155.; fat cows. £11 12s. to £12 7s. 6d.; forward cows, £9 12s. to. £10 155.: store cows, £7 ss. to £8 17s. 6d.; -forward maiden heifers, £10 Ib. At Inglewood on January 15 the yards were full, and the whole yarding, was cleared durine the day with tho exception of two small lots of sheep. Fifteen to eighteen-month steers, fair cattle. £5 and £5 Is.; yearlings, £3 Bs. sd:; fifteen to eighteen-month heifers, £7; empty two-year'heifers, £S 7s. to £6 145.; ; fat cows, £11, ss. to £13" 55.; forward cows. £9 to £10 12s. 6d.: store cows, from £6 14s. for small to £9 Bs. for-good; stags., £7 12s. 6d. to £9 10s.: bulls, £7 125.. 6d. to-: £15 2s. 6d.; dairy cattle,' £7 12s. 6d. to' £11: two-year steers, £7 25,, 6d,; forward ewes, '235. 4d. to 25b. 4d.: lambs, 13s. lOd. At Ohurn. on. January 16 there was ; a good' yarding, the biggest proportion being cleared. Eighteen-month Btcers,' good,: from £6 Bs. to £7: smaller cattle, £4 to £4 11a.; ilfteen-month, mixed.. £4.125.-od.; fifteen-month heifarE, £4'105.; fat. heifers, £10 Is.; three-year steers. £9 17s. 6d. xo £11; two-yenr. sieers. £7 12s. to "£9-2s. 6d.; heifers, £6 175.: bulls, £7 2s. 6d. to £15 10s.: cows and calves, un to £9 Us.; Email two-tooth wethers. 235. 4d. and 235. 5d.; six-tooth to f.m: owes, 21b.; f.m. ewes, Bs. 6d. to. 12s. sd. At Kanonga on January 17 mixed weaners made £2 4s. and £2.5 a.; fifteen to eighteen-month heifers, £4 7s. 6d.; fat, cows, £10 • 18a. to £15 9e.; forward cows, from £9 10s. to £10 175.; Btore cows, £7 12s. 6d.; bulls. £9 10s. to £15 17s. 6d.; fat heifers. £10 12s. At. Bahotu on the aamo day, eighteen-month Bteers made £5 145.; fifteen to eighteen-month heiferß. £4. 15b:; ;sniall)Btccrs. £3 18s.; two-year steers, £8: •fat cows, up' to £11 65.; forwsrd cows. £9 10s. to £10,125.; Btore cows. .£6 to £7 sb. In the morning I held a clearing sale oh ; the Kahiii Eoad, in the estate of Thomas Lakeman. . A woll-dono lino of Holstein weaners made £3 Is.; dairy cows. £9 to £13 10s.; roan marc, £27; Holstein bull, £13 10s.