LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 268, 8 August 1919, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report on their Pahia. tun. sale;—We yarded a small entry of both sheep and cattle. The dernaud waß jteen, and wo mado a total clearance under tiio hammer a,t tho following- prices :-Kwe» in lamb to b.f. rams, 28s. 3d.; hoggets, 26b.; cull hoggets, 135.; dairy cows, £13 10s.: springing heifers, £12 to £14 6s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. report :-At our Rangiotu Halo on Monday wo had a fair yarding of cattlo and small entries of shoop. Com. petition was keen, and prices were advanced on recent sales. Small 2-tooths, 255. 6d.; fat ewes, 26a.; light fat cows, £9 93. 6d., £9 19s. to £10 11b.; forward cows, iS 3b. to £8 10a.: store cows, £5 10b. to £6 Is.; boners, £3 to £3 on. fid.; yearllf.g heifers, £2 13h. 6d., £3 95., £3 10s.; yearling steers £2 4b. to £3 Bs.; weaners, 12s. to 31a.; dairy cows, £10 to £12. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, Palmerston North, report having held a olennng salo on account of Mr. A. Ross. Jlimitangi, on Tuesday. The cattlo were In very low condition, and following arc prices realised:—Backward 2-ycar heifers, £5 10s., £4 18b., £5 25., £6; heifcrß, been running with bull, £5, £5 6s„ £5 12b. 6(1., £6, £0 to £9 55.; heifers, in milk, £6 10s, £8. to £9 53.; dairy cows, in milk, £6 155., £8 10s., £12, £12 15s. to £13 15a.: young bulls, £5 15s. to £7 155.; store cows, £5 6s. to £S 95.; yearling ■steers, £3 Us. 6d.; iffi-monWis Wtecrs, £5 Oi.; bad-cofourc'd steers, to £3 14b.; 18-months empty heifcrß, £3 6s. to £3 145.; dairy cows, 011 account of other vendors, sold at from £10 10s, to £14. Sheep: Small mixed hoggets, Us. Id.: medium iniied hoggets, 20b. 9d.; fat ewes. 375.; fat wothors and maiden ewes, £2 sb. 6d. On Wednesday, at FiczJuirbert, Messrs. Abraham <ind Williams, Ltd., in conjunction ■with Messrs. Levin and Co., Ltd., held an unreserved clearing sale of sheep, cattle, horses, and implements, on behalf of Mr. E. It. ITilcy. There was a large attendance of buyers, mid bidding was good throughout the sale. Quotations: 440 t and 4-tooth ewes, in lamb to Komney ram, 345. 6d.; 180 4 and 6-tooth ewes, lu lamb to Romnoy rftms, 345. 1(1.; 260 do., at 335.; 183 6-tooth ewes, in lamb to Jiomncv rams, £2 2s. 9d.; 861 mixed age ewes in lamb to Romnoy rains, 355. 6d. lo 355. 7(1.; 621 mixed hoBRCts, 225. 7d.; 44 empty cwch, 18s. 7d.;. 200 f.f.m. ewes, 111 lamb to llomney rams, 31s. 4d.; Romiicy rarns, -10s.; Southdown rams, 155.; Polled Angus cows, in calf to B.H. bull, £11 10s.: S.ll. c<-.wn and heifers, in calf lo S.ll. bull, £8 lis.; 29-montTis heifers, £4. .ffi Bs.; mixed weaners, £3 Us.; bull, £6 155.: milking cows. £0 7s. fid. to £8 155.; plough team (4 horsc3), £83 6b.; aged mares, £13, £18; gelding. £16; Bprine cart, £27 10s.; M.II. drill, .£34; distributor, Ml: moiver. £14 10s.; roller, £19 10b. ; swamp plough, £22 10a.