LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 106, 29 January 1919, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

: The Jfew Zealand Loan nnd Mercantile '• Agency Co.. Ltd., report:—At our Palmerston North sale on Thursday we had an ; averese yarding. Competition was not : t keen, and prices were in favour or pur- : ' chasers. Quotations:—Good -woolly lambs, ' 15s. 6d.; email ehorn lambs. Bs. 9d. to 9s. '■' lid.; 2 and 4-tooth wethers. 22a. 6(1.; f. and ' f.ewcs and wethers. 23a.: store ewea, Ba.; ,' eprinninir heifers. £9 7s. 6d. to £9 12s. 6d.; Bprineins cowb, £13 12s. 6d.; forward cowb, : £8 to £9 2s. ■ The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile i Agency Company, Limited, report that at 1 taeir Pnhautanui sale they offered a '■ large yardinK of both sheep and cattle to. a (rood attendance. Bidding ivas npirit- : ed. 17111011 enabled them to clear their I entry, with the exception of one pen of , cattle. They sold: 2-tooth wethers (sood), 1 J3e.: 4-tooth wothern. 283. lid.; 4-tooth \. ewes, J5?. 9d.; mixed age ewes, 19s. 6d.; f' aeed ewes, 16s. 6d.; woolly B.F. hogfets. I 31b. 7d.; woolly lambs (small). Bs. 5d.; Briorn jELinbSt 9s• In- 1 Tut otvcs, Zob. ; i.f.in, i Lincoln rams, JJgns.; cows, -with calves. ':' £19 5?.; forward qow». £7 55., £8 to £9;

store cows, £5 2g.; fat cows, £10 55.; 15month P.A. steers and heifers, £7 9».; 15-month S.H. hoifcrs, £7 125.; 15-month S.H. steers, £8 15a.; 15-month steers, £4 9a. fid.to £6; 2-year steers, £6 16s. (diecoloured); 2-year steers. £8 55.; 3-year -steers, £10 6a.; bulls, £6 10s. to £7 5b.; springing heifer 3, £9 to £10. The Son- Zealnnd Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Ltd.,. report that at their Upper Hutt sale they submitted a. largo yarding of cattle and one pen of B.F. laiwha to a fair attendance, and sold the whole- of their entry at satisfactory prices. They quolo: J3.F. lambs, 12s. 9d.; forward cows, £8 7s. id., £9 10s., to £9 165.; forward hoifern, £6 7s. 6d. to £7 10s.; etore eov/a, £5 19s. to £6 5».; 18month bulle, £6; 18-month to 2-year steers, £6 18s. to £7 10s.; 15-18-month EteerK. £5 143. to £6 25.; 15-nionlh heifers, £5 «i. Jleecr3. Dalgety and Co.. Ltd.. Palnier-Bt-on North, report having a small entry of sheep and a fair entry of cattle at their Palmerston North sale on Thursday. There was a fair demand, and practically a total clearance. Quotations:— Small lambs, 10s. 3d.; 2-tooth wetherj. 345. 6d.; rough, coloured yearling steers, £S 5b.; forward heifers, £7 11s.; forward cowb. £9 Us.;.light fat cows, £10 sa. A lino of 27 -well-bred 3-year-old P.A. bullocks realised £U 33. Messrs. Dalguty and Co.. Ltd., report hcvlna held their first monthly Bale at Tβ Horo. on January 20, when they offered a. good yarding of sheep, and cattle. The- principal quotations are as follow:— fat ewes, to 245. 2d.; fat and farword ewes, to 2ln. Sd.; fat wethers and m. ewes, to Ms. 9d.; 4-tooth wotliere, to 29a. 4d.; potter rams, to 19a.; faf cows, to £11 3a.; forward cowb. to £7 195.; 2-year heifers, to £6 14a.; 10-month Bt«er», £6 4s. to £6 135.; we«ner steers, to £2 15«.; weaner heifers, to S3. 2a. 6d.; bulle. to £6 125.; ,pig 3, 375. to 39a. (id. Jfesars. Dalgcty and Co.. Ltd., report having held their weekly sale at Levin on Tuesdity, when they offered a good yarding of sheep and cattle. Quotations: Ilixcd sex 2-tooths, from 223. 7d. to 225. 9d.; fat cows, £8 Is. to £9 15s. 7d.; 2ycar steers, to £8; yearling steers, to- £5 Js.; weaner steers, to £2 10s.; yearling heifers, to £5 55.; store .cows, to £5 7s. 6d.; P.B. springing Jersey heifers, to £15 155.; P.li. springing Jersey cowb. to £15 15a.; grade . Jorscy licifere. to 81cna.; 2year heifers, in calf, from £«'7s. f<(. to £6 16s. 6d.; 3-year heifors, in cnlf, to £10 10s. Jleears. Dalgefy and Co.. Ltd., report having lteld their fortnightly sale at Tfppnr Hutt on '.Phureclay. when they offered ft fair yardine of sheep and a, good yarding of cattle. Quotations m follow:—2-tooth wethera, to 265.; m.s. lambs; to lon. 3d.; fat cows, £8 12s. 6d. to £9 7s. 6d.; forward cows. £7 2s. to £7 10s.; 5-year steers, to £10 55.; 18-month steers to £6; email yearling steers to £5 18s.; 18-month heifere to £5 5b.; springing heifers. £9 17s. 6d. to £10 145.; springing cows to £10 15«.; bulls, to £9 14». Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd.. report having held their monthly sale at Pahautanui on Friday, when they effected a totaj clearance of a large yarding of dhoep. The principle quotations follow:— Fat and forward wethers, from 31e. 2d. to 31s. 3d.; forward 2-tooth wethers, from 265. 7d. to 265. Jd.; medium 2-tooth wethers, 2fls. to 235.; small m.s. 2-tooths, to 17.«. Bd.; fat ewes, from 275. to 27c. 2d.: small lambs, 4s. 7*1.; potter ranis, to 20s,