LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 174, 17 April 1919, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report a. good yarding of cattle and a. heavy ya-rding of sheep at Fettling on Friday. Practically all lines were sold under the hammer at late prices. We quote :-lour-tool-li wethers, 13s. 11(1.; two-tooth wethers, 19s to 28s. 4d.; l'.m. ewes; Us., 12s. 2(1., 18s., to 183. 6(1.; cull ewea, Jβ. 3d.; ewes, r.w. Southdown rams, 20s; fat lambs, 15s. Wα.; bf. lambs, IZa. sd. to Ms.; white-face do., 7a 4d. Tβ. &U 95.. 9s. 3d.. 10s., to lla. 7d.j euil lambs, 3s. to 4e. Cd.; woolly lambs, 14s. 9d.; fat cows, £9 15s. to £10 5b.; fat bullockß, £14 19s. to £16 17s. 6a.;,forward cows, £5 to £5 10a.; tweniy-inonths heifer' £3 7s. 6(1., £4 7s. 6d.; to £5; aprinßing heifers, £6 5n.. £7 155., to £10;- sprine cows, £11 to £11 103.; weaner steers, £2: weaiicr heifers, 303.; cows and calves, £6 to £8; store cows, £4 to £4 17s. 6d.; steers and heifers mixed, twenty months, £4 193.; empty Hereford cows, £S Bi.; twemymonths steers, £4 Us. 6d., £4 18s., to AS 17s. 6d.; hulls, £2 to £5. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report having held their annual, autumn cattle fair at Eketahuna, on Monday, and a very heavy yarding was offered io a" medium attendance of buyers. Bidding at the opening of the uul-e was decidedly slack, but improved considerably as the eale progressed. Though,a number of lines were passed at auction good business resulted afterwards, and a fair clear ance was made at the followine ratee:Threo and a half-year Shorthorn bullockn, £14 to £14 7e. 6d.'; two and a. half-year do., r ll 7s lo £12 10a.; coloured three and a half-year bullocks, £10 to £11 12s. 6d.: coloured two and a half-year' steers, £7 7a. 6d to £8 17s. 6d.; eighteen-months steers, £4 4s to £6 15b.": fat cows, £8 15s. to £9. 65.; store cows, £4 to £8 55.; cighteen-months heifers, £3 17a. Cd. to £6 65.; m.s. weaners, 16s. lo 35b.