LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 171, 14 April 1919, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Abraham and V, llliams, Ltd., report on their Hunterville sale as follows :-Good entries of sheep and cattle ~-wero penned. Bidding for sheep was more -spirited, but cattle were still very dull. Wo quoto:-Ewe lambs. 135.: smal do., 10s. 3d.; m.s. lambs, 14s. «d.; small do., Us.; pobr do., 6s. 6d.. Bs. Id.; cull do.. 2s. 3d.. 5s Bd.: forward ewes, 2is.>4d., 2 s, •6d.; store ewes. 10s. 6d., Ms.; cull wctlters, 175.; mixed-aged ewes in lamb, 19s. id.: twenty-mouth steers. £6 55.. £6 10s.; small ..do., £5, £5 55.; thvee-year steers, Alii ■': yearling heifers, £3 2s. 6d. ; dairy cows. .£lO 155.. £11; fat cows, £3 10s., £8 15?.; ' bull, £9. Otorohanga sale. April 9:A small yarding of sheep and a fair yard ing of cattle. There was a small attendance of the public, and the demand was anything but brisk, sheep especially being hard to 'quit. Prices ruling were, as follow:-Tliree-ycar Btccrs, to £8 65.; twoyear do., to £5 12s. 6d.; store cows, to «, , 65.; yearling heifers £3 25..,£3 Bs.. to £3 17s. &.; -wcanor steers, to £210s. A i car, ing sale, on account of Mr. 11. K. uais ford was held at Eunuymede on Wednes dav'last. There was :i gooi attendance and everything offered sold at very satis ■'■■ factory prices. The following arc iomn of the prices realised :-Ewe lambs 15=.; wether do.. 135.; mfft do., lis, 6d.; cull do.. ' Bs. 6d.; empty ewes. 155.; mixed-aged ewes in lamb. 19s. 5d.. 20s. 3d.; -ix-tooth ewes in lamb. 27s 6d„ 28s. Id.; tour-tooth do 245. 6d„ 30s. 7d.: draught mares. £40, £.3,. aged do., £11 to £27; aged geldings, £5 to &7Y unbroken draughts, £5 to £20; da.ry cows, to £14. Sundries well np to lale Dalgety and Company. Limited. Palmerston North, report having a very good entry of sheep and a moderate yarding of cattle at .Fending on Friday .Inst, •Quotations lambs, 431; small lambs, 83 4d„ 95.. 9s. 3d., to 10s. Id.; very iair iambs. 12s. 6d. to 13s. 3d.; black-face iambs (good), 14s. lid.; empty ewes. 13s. »d. to ■165. ; two-toot!i ewes (empty). 233.; fourtooth mixed, 235. 9d.;. two aud four-tooth wethers, «6s. lid. to 275. 6d.: light tat ■wethers, 235. lid. Fifteen-mon h stews, had colours. £3 55.; tweuty-montli heifers, ■£!• twb and a half-year Shorthorn heifers. £8'135.; forward cows, £9; light fat cows. £9 lZs, £9 12s. fid. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agenoy Co., Ltd.. reports :-At Aliredton .on Friday we had a, good entry of sheep I and a fair list of cattle, which we submitted to a medium attendance of buyers. ! Though competition was not particularly i keen we sold practically all our entry at ruling rates.. Fat ewes mudo 255.; forward do., 16s. to 205.; four-year ewes, 225. ■ 9d.- six-tooth to five-year ewes, 10a. to 205.; '■ backward two-tooth ewes, 155.; aged ewea, 6s. lOd. to 12s. 3d.; fat wethers, 32a.; four : afld Bix-tooth wethers. 275.; small twutooth wethers, 225. 6d.; shorn wether Jambs, lis. 2d.; cull lambs, Is. to 35.; eighteeiijnonth heifers, £3 7s. 6d. to £5 65.; do. steers, £4 2s. 6d.; m.s. weauers, 305.; dairy cowb, £6 10s. to £10; bull, £8. , Mr. Newton King reports:—At Stratford, «n April 8, I had a very fair yarding of both sheep- and cattle,, the majoriy of iwnich. ivas cleared at present ruling prices. Light lambs, 9s. Ml. 10 lis.; culls, 'in. 7(1.; four-tooth ewes, Sis. M.; old ewes, 4s. to 16s. 6d.; rams,-265.; eighteen to twentymonth steers, £5 to £6 yearling do., £2 13s. to £3 165.; in-calf heifers, £8 10s. to £9 55.; small do.'.-£4 12b. 6d.; empty-heifers. t£3 10s.; forward cows, £9 to silO; store do.. £6 ss. to £8 75.; light do., £3 10s. to £6: iulls, £9 2e. id.