LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 107, 30 January 1919, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

The Now Zealand Loan m<l Mercantile Agency 00. report:—At our Himatangi ealo on Monday we had a moderate ya.rding of both sheep ami cattlo. The attendaaco was small, and prices in favour of purchasers. Quotations:—Small two-tooths, 19b. 2d.; f. and f. ewes, 20». 2d,; cull lambs, 6s. led.; weaners, 255. to £2 6b.; yearlings, £i Bs,; cowe and calves, £7: fat coive. £.10; forward «ows. £7145, 6d., £8 iOs., to £9 55.; storo cows,'£l, £4'55., to £6 15a. Pigs: Slips, weaners, 245.; bows, £6. ■■ The New Zealand Loan and Jferoantilo Agency; Co., Ltd., report :-At Pahiatua, on Tuesday, we had a good entry of <Blieep and a small one of tattle. A fair attendancs of buyers were present. Competition for wethers and small lote of lambs was fairly animated. Almoet 'a total clearance was mads under the hammer as follows—Medium iwo-tooth wethers, 24a. 7d.; small .m.e. twc-iooihe, 20s. 6d.; fat ewes, 275. 6d,i forward ewes, 18b.; small lambs, 9b. 4d."to\7s.; light fat cows, £9 12s. 6d. to £10 ids'.; bulls, £3 2a. 6d. to £9 7s. 6d. Messri, Dalzety and Company. LimiM. ..Painiaretofi North, roport, having a fair yarding of both, sheep and calue at ih.eir Marlon yards on .Monday. There wnn a fair demand for slioep, but, cattle fa\'ed to reach the vendors' reserves. Following are Two-t.-.rh ewes. 265, sd.j shorn lambs, email, Ss.; cull ewes, 7s. 7d., 9s. Bd.. to 12s. 7d.; aged forward ewes, 16s. lltl. Cattle: Fai cowe, light, , £10. ■ ■ The Waharapa. Farmers' Co-operative Association,-Limited, Pahiatua, rci/m on their supplementary cattle fair, held on Monday in their Mangahuo yards, bb fol--1owb:-A fair yarding of all olaßees of cattle came forward, the quality of which was not to ba compared Aith that of the cattle yafded at tne spring fair. Buyers were present from this and the surround ing districts, and. ae. our vendors were again prepared to meet Hie market a fairly good clearance was effected, some Kfl odd.head being disposed of out of the total yarding of 1350. The top price paid for bullocks was for a small pen, Bold on account of ifr. A*, h. Avery at, £18, other linee of grown bullocks being disposed of at from £13 lo £15, this latter j/i'ice 'utiug obtained for a. pen sold on account of Mr. A. 1). Eglimon, whoso stock übually c«iimand good competition. Ordinary sorts of two-year-old sleerii were somewhat neglected, tho average price bing about £B per head throughout the sale, altnuugi; a good line of 67 -well-bred.l'.A. cross, sold on account of Mr. V/. Tylee, realised the satisfactory price of £13. The same applied to eighteen-month cmtle, ordinary sort* of which sold at from £3 15s. to £7; a good line of Hereford cross, sold on accotitii of Mr. F.-Mf.' Urovee,. realising £10 405., these prices for tho better quality being on a par with late sales' reports. I'at and store cows -wore/in good demand owing.io the competition of outside buyers, these selling at fully £1 per hcuu advance on local sales' Taking it throughout, we consider tho sale a very sutiuuclory one. ' The following, ie a report of prices :—£53 three lo four-year-old linliocks, at £12 10a., • £13,. £13 lus., au, aia. lo *ld; ordinary two-year steers,.£7 155.. ±8, *» is., to £9 10s.; oight«en-month steers, £3, £1. to £6 15h.; well-bred Herolord and P.A. sleers, £■) Vs. <xi. lo ilO us.; light fat cows, £8, £B 12s. 6d.; fteuvy no., £il 10s., £11 155., to £lo; forward cows, £'l, £V 10s., to £« 165.; aged cows, £2 10s. Lo £6 Is.; cowb with calves, £7 10s., £« via. 60., to illl; iwo-year-old' l'.A.' heiferei id to £9 Hβ.; liHeen to eighieeii-roonui heifers, £3 155., Jb'4, to £5 10s.; bulls £8 £9, to £10 U.