LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 222, 13 June 1919, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

~ (The Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative • Association, Ltd., report having; held their weekly'sale at Colombo Road Yards, llasCterton, on June 11, when they offered -a full yarding of Bheep and. a Bma.ll '.'entry of battle .to a large attendance. . :-Bidding at auction .on ..all ■ clauses of ; ;|aheep -was animated, arid they report : * a total clearance under the hammer at !' ' the following prices:—Wethers, 265, 4d. f. -to 275.; fat owes, 255. 4d„ 25a, 7d., 27b. to i .SOs, 3d. for good -weights'; fat' blackfaces, i , -225. 3d. to 235. 6d.; w.f lambs, ss' 7d., i '6s. 7d., 7s. to 13b. 2d. for good-skinned I 'sheep; 2-tootli to f.f.m. ewes in lamb, '26b. i fxl. Oattlo: Cows in milk, £9; 18-iuonth i steers, bad colours, £5 Bb.; dairy ccrwa, due factory dates, £14 2b. 6fi. | - Messrs. Wright, Stephenson' and Co.. ! Ltd., report hairing offered a good, entry ] :if"shee'p'and"a small ono. of cattle-at the ; Masterton ■ sale at the Colombo Road - Yards, on Wednesday. . There'was a- good j attendance of buyers, and a considerable 1.. advance on late prices was responsible I for a. total clearance. Quotations;— Mixed I age.! ewes in lamb, 265. - 6d.; shorn -wether | ' ioggetß, to 17s. 3d.; -woolly ewe hoggets, > to 18b. Bd.; store ewes, to 18s. 6d. Cattle: 1 ' Store c&wsr £5 10s. to £9 Is.; ; 20-months 0 steers. 1 .£6 25.-6 d.; 20;monthB heiferß, £4 25.'6 d." " " J ; ' ' ' . . c Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile | 'Agency Co., Ltd., report on their. Pahia- ! tna, sale, held on Tuesday, as follows:— 1 We submitted a small'yarding of .sheep, j to a' good attendance of buyers. Competition .was keep throughout the sale, and • a deoided rise in prices on late sales, i • Quotations:—Fat ; ewes, 27e. Bd.; empty ; ewes, 255. 7d.; mixed sex 2-tooths, 265. j j • woolly lambs, medium, 14s. Id.