LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 253, 21 July 1919, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

.-.The.New .Zealand Loan and Mercantile! ■Agency Co. report .having conducted, a ..most •• successful clearing -salo os riairv stock, implements, and furniture, on account'of J. W. Scott, Esq.. at.tlio farm. -Levin. -There was a large attendance of Tiu'ycVß' present, competition was teen, ana prices realised were highly satisfnetory. Quotations wcre:-July culvers, : £18 .to £24: August' calvers, £14 10b. In £22; heifers in calf, £9 2s. bd.; bull.-£10; light ViarneßS horßes, £13 55.; sow with litter c£ eight, £17; mixed Bex lambs. 18s.; lowls. Bs. to 18b. 6d. per, pair; dnclts. 10s. to 14s. per pair; implements, furniture, ana sundries brought full 'Market values. At Opunake, on July 14. we had a big yarding" of cattle/ which met ■ with a I'cadv salo. We quote as ; follows :-Lisrht rat ' cows, £10; forward cows. £0; store cowb, £6 6s. to £7 155.; Si-year steers, £9 Is. to £9 6b.; wcaner hdiferß, £J to, £5 12b.; weaner steers. £1 155.; mixed wcaners, £2 45.: empty 16-monthß heifers, £5 16s.- In-calf •18-months heifers, £5 155.: springing heifers, £11 'to £16 15s. At Manaia on Tues-day,-v>e..liad. an average yarding, whicn Bold at-late-rates. Prices werei m follow :-Light fat cows, £10 to £10 145.; forward cows, '£8 2s. 6d. to £9 145.; storo cows, £6 95.; bulls, £9 15s. to £10 2s. £d.; mixed weancrs... £1 12s. i&. to £1 145.; store pigs, £2 Bs. to £3 145.: slips. ±1 12b.; fencing posts, Is. 9d. and Is. lOd. .At Hawera yards, on Wednesday, wo Held a clearing sale of pedigree and grade .lerscy cattle on account of Messrs. ii. and A. E. Watkin, in conjunction with Messrs. Newton King, particulars of - wnich appeared in Thursday's paper. At Pabialua we had ft good yarding of both sheep and cattle, which met With a goad sate, and mb have to report a total clearance under 'the hammer at the fallowing uri«e6:~ -Aced ewes in'lamb, £1 to 255.; aged ewes, low condition. 12s. to 155.: empty ewes, £1 Is sd. to 245.; low-conditioned do., 10s. 7d to lis.; ra.s 2-tooths. small, 16s. 3d.; good -woolly hoggets, 245. Wrt.; small woolly hoggets, ]58. 6d ; snian shorn lambs, 10s. 7d„ 10s. 6d. and lis.; good shorn lambs, 245.; cull lambs, is. to 6>. 6d.; empty cows, £7 55.; light lat cows. £12 17s. 6d.; 2-year dairy helferß, £7 to £8 £8 10s. to £8 155.; i-yeav uairy heifers. , £15- 21-year steers, discoloured, £6 i/« 6d 'to £8 10s.; empty heiibrs, £2 17s. to * £4; mixed sex weanern, £1 Ins. vie also report having held a most successful aolo. on behalf of John Todd, Esq., un Wednesday. The cows were a good lot, and were in splendid condition, and had a good renutation. The Bale went with a swing from Btart to finish, and the prices constitute a record for the district lor an ordinary herd of cowft Vrices were an follow :-July-August calvou, £20 IDs. to £25 155.; September culvers, £16 to £20 The whole herd of 25 avoragol £20 3a. 7d The 2-year heifers made £16 10s.; wcaner steers, £3 10s.; weaner heifers, £3 Is.; cows, £5 to £11; sundries uold at good priceß. ' , Messrs. Dalgcty and Company, Limited. Quote aB follows from their Stortford ■ Lodge sale, Hastings;-! aairv cow, £15; 1 springing cow, £11; 37 m.a. ewes, 9s. 3d.; 253 2 and 4-tooth wethers, TSur, tO forward ewes, 9s. 3d. .Wuiuukurau sale: Good hoggets, 235. 10d.; medium hoggets. 15b. 7d. and 14s. 90".; poor noggcu,J2s.; 18months P.A. cattle, ill Us.; 18-inontha steers, £Z 10b,. Messrs. Abraham ana Williams, Ud., Marton, report:—At Uumerville a very small yarding cams forward. Business was done as followsi-Mixcd aged ewes, in lamb, 18s. 6d.; empty heifers, £5 155.; yearling steers, £3; yearling heifers, £2 10s.; dairy cows, to £11. On Thursday. in conjunction with tile N.'/i. Loan and Mercantile Co., wo held a clearing sale of dairy stock, etc., on account I'. Jiesbit, Data. A good attendance of buyers turned up. and a very fair i-alc resulted, "fitud Holstfiln covin «»ld from 45 to 80 guineas; heifers, to 35 guineas; the dairy herd sold at from UO to £20, makin? a satisfactory average; springing heifers made from £11 to £14; horses and sundries sold at late rate 3. . . The VToira-rapa Farmers Co-op. Asowation, Ltd.. Stock Department, report having hold their usual weeklyjsale at Carterton yards, when tliey offered a full yarding of sheep, cattle and pigs, and sundries to a good attendance. Animated bidding was experienced throughout the sale, and with the exception of a small ■line of ewes, a total clearance was made under the hamraer. Quotations are as follow ;-Ewes in lamb to Lincoln ram, 265.; low condition, ewes in lamb to Itomney ram, 125.: fat eires and wetbers, 13s. 6d, to 355. 7d.: w.f. hoggets. 7fi. 4d., 10s. 7d„ lis. 6d:, 12s. 9d. 135.. 13s Id. to 19s. lid.; ifet and forward b.f. lambs, 21s. 10d.; fat Wnd forward ewes, 255. Cattle: Springing heifers, £10, £12 to £14 10s; springing cows, £11 2s. 6d., £12, £14 10s., £14 12s. 6d.,'£14 17b. 6d. to £16 155.; weaner calves, 20s. to 30s. Pigs: Porkers, 395. to £2 35.; fowls, ss„ ss, .3d, and 6s. 6d.