LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 115, 8 February 1919, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—We conducted a successful clearing sale on account of Mr. P. A. Gillies, at Te Horo, on Wednesday last. Thcro was a large attendance o£ buyers from various parts of the district, and bidding was very keen. Prices were as follow:—Fat and forward bullocks, £16 2s. to £16 Bs.; cows and calves, £15; two and a halfyear steers, £8 55.;. niixed-6ox eighteenmonth cattlc, £6 45.; fat cows, £11 Is.: , dairy cows in milk, £10 12s. fid. to # £13 10s.; dairy heifers in calf, £9 65.; pedigree Shorthorn bull, 27gns.j fat sheep, 295. id. .to 305..1 d,; two-tooth owes, Ms. Id.; mixed 'two-tooths, 16s. to 255.; tivo-tooth wethers, 235. 10d.'; four-tooth wethers,' 235. 9d.; ; draught horses, £26, £26.10 a., to £30; trap mare, £12. Implements and .sundries also nold 'at'.satisfactory At-Levin on Tuesday lasi we had a good yarding of sheep and cattlo, which was submitted to a representative attendance of buyers. Bidding was not spirited, but t.ho bulk of tho entry changed hands at tho following prices:—Fat ewes, 255. 2d. to 295. 6d.; fat two-tooths, 275.; fat lambs, 235. to 245. 6a.; forward ewes, 20s. Id, to 225.'6 d.; small lambs, Bs. 9d.-to 9s. 2d.;.cu1l lambß. ss. Id.. 6b.' 10d„ to 75.; fat cows (light), £9 15s. to £11; storo cows, £7 14s. to.£7 18s.;-fonvurd heifers, £6 155.; cows -. and calves, £8; three-year steers, to .£9 is.; eighteenmonth heifers, £3 63; to £5 4s. 6d.; eighteen-month steers, .£3 to £3 lis.; mixed weanurs, £3 45.; good Shorthorn weaners, £4 7s. 6d.; bulls, to £7 55.; dairy hcil'ers, £12; dairy cows in calf, to £17 10s.; dairy cows in milk, £5, . £8, £9 ; weaner pigs, 275. to 355.; pork pigs (light),• |£2 Us.. £3, to £3 13s. 6d. , Tho New Zealand Loan and Metcantile Agency Company, Ltd., renort that at 'their' Upper Ifutt sale on Thursday the submitted a largo yarding of cattle and a fair number of sheep to a fair attendance of buyers, and sold tho whole of thoir' Upper Hutt sale on Thursday they quote :—Two-tooth wethers, 255, 5d.; mixedage ewes, 235. Id.;,m.s. lambs, 14s. 3d.; medium lambs, 11b. 7d.; cull lambs, ss. 1 lOd. to 65.; light fat cows, £10 to £11 55.; fat hoifers, £6 19s. to £10 '5b.; 'forward heifers, £6 10s. to £7 7s. 6d.; yearling hoifers, £4 45.; eighteen-month steers, £7 145.-; vealers, £2 Bs. to £4 Is.; heifers in milk, £9 15s. to £10 lCs.; potter bulls, £10 4s. to £10 17s. 6d,