LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 109, 1 February 1919, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

- Messrs. Dalgety and Company and Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Company, »& m mn J ni » ct , lon ', report having held a highly successful sale of sheep at "HeaimvM on " (! I count of the late J. B. M Donald on-Thursday last. There wero over 13,000 sheep yarded, and as the,sale was an unreserved one all wore sold under the hammer. The sheep came forward in order, and the large and representative attendance of buyers were auidi :£o recognise' this. The four-tooth ewes Realised 30a.. .Id.; six-tooth ewes, 30s. 2d. /.to 30s. Bd.; four-year, ewes, 235; Bd. to 28s ,7d.; flvft-yearewosi'iSs. Id.; m.s. lambs, to ;17s. Id.; wether lambs, to 14s. lid.; ewo Jambs. 145.; ou 11 lambs, to lis. A pen of ,42 rams fetched'sJ guineas; others 3gns.; purebred Itomney owes, 665.; liomney ram ' 32s S ' " 8 ' ® offlnoy ewe lambs, to Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, report having a fair yarding of ; both sheep and cattle at their, Palmerston North yards on Thursday, when every line offered found a ready market, Quotations -Sheep: Mixed aged ewes, 16s. 3d. Cattle: ; Fat cows, light, £11 2s 6d., £11 7s. 6d • ; forward cows, £8 17s. 6d.; store cows, small, £6 10s. to £7; ei'ghteen-mojtith steers, bad colours .£3 145.; fifteen-month steers, £2 lis.; eighteen-month steer:!' good, £7; bullß, £8, £10 155., £14 10s., £15 15s. * Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., re'port:At our Wanganui sale on Wednesday last wo offered a fair yarding of sheep fend a' heavy ono of cattlo to a large attendance of buyers. The bidding for sSeep was very slack, and most pens were passed in. Cattlo also met with a very Black reception, and the bulk of the yardings were passed. Quotations: Fat cows, £13 10s. to £15 155.; forward cows, £10 to £10 lis.; con's and calves, £7 to £7 165.; fif-teen-month to two and a half-year .heifers, £5 to £8; three-year steers, £12 17s. 6d. to • £13. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency 00. report:—At our Palmerston North sale on Thursday wo had a fair yarding of sheep and cattlo. The attendance was fair and" bidding brisk. We managed to practically cljar the yarding at vendors' reserve?. Quotations:—Fat two-tooth sheep, 255. 6d. to 28s. 4d.; fat ewes, 265.; fat lambß, 17s. 9d.; fat and forward ewes, 20s. to 235.; fat and forward lambs, 15s. to 15s. Id.; rape lambs, lis. 6d. to 12s. 6d.; small lambs, 95.; store ewes, 10s. 3d. to 155.; cull owes, 3s. 6d.; fat oows, £9 55., £9.125., £10 155., to £10 195.; forward cows, £6 55. ( £8 lis., to £9 '2s. 6d.; store cows, £3 2s. 6d.; discoloured steeds, £2 Ib. to £2 12b. ; Shorthorn wcanors, £2 18s. 6d.; bulls,'£7 17s. 6d„ £8. £8 6b.,' £9 155., £10 is., to £14. The Wanganui "ChronicleV correspondent had an opportunity of seeing M<;. W. Vella, the world's clampion shearer, . in action at a station in Ituatiti, owned by Messrs. O'Neill Bros.,- of Wanganui. Mr. 'Vella is a momta. of Mr. .Skinner's contract party of five, the other members, being Messrs. Hiilena, Swan, and Dowling. The "drummer" of this party can shear hi's 270 sheep per day quite comfortably, while Mr. Vella, the "ringer," holds the world's record of 317 for a liine-hour day, he having recently beaten his previous record of £39. This party .arrive*!'-at Messrs. O'Neill Bros.' shed ■during tho previous t>eek, and'in e.ght days had shorn well over 10,000 sheep. A largo number of visitors came daily from near and far to see these champions at .work, and it was indeed a revelation to 6ee tho marvellous speed with which o sheep can be.divested of its heavy fleece receiving so. muck as a scratch '■from' the shearer. ( Oh one occasion when Mr. Vella seemed' to be' going at top, though not- knowing/that the co-respon-dent was ttfning him, he dropped tho fleece off a sheep in just 46 seconds from the time he took up his machine till he laid it down again.