LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 276, 18 August 1919, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

The Wairarapa Farmers' Co.-operative Association;. Ltd., Stock Department, report having held a very successful sale on account of the estate of the late Allan Cameron, of Martinborough. The property of 104 acres was eold under the hammer at £62 nor acre, and one aore situated in Martinborough made £27. The stock ■ met with keen competition, ajid made tho following prices:—llo woolly hoggets, 31s.;' 121 wethers, 375. 2d.; 150 mixed aged ewes, in lamb to Bomney ram, 355. 3d.;•■,store ewes, Ms.; 2-year empty heifers, £6 10s.; yearling heifers. £3 12s. (d. Sundries—Harness, furniture, etc., mado good prices. The firm also held a clearins sale on account of Mr. F. 11. Olarkeon, Oarxington. The, stock enme forward in good condition, and met with keen competition from a largo attendance of'buy- . ere. The herd of 24 cowe averaged £19 s springine heifers, £12 155.; 2-yeir empty heifers, £7 14b.; yearling heifers, £4; null, £11 63. medium woolly hoggets, 7Aa. 3d. to 19s. 6d.; bmall woolly hoggets, 145,; horses, £17 to £33; implements and sundries made eood. prices. ...Messrs.-Dalgety and Co.. Ltd., Palmcr«ton North, report on thoir Palmereton North sale on August 14. 1919. There was «. small yarding of weep, but a good entry,of.stock, which sold at very »atisfaotory prices:—6-tooth ewes in lamb to S.I), rams, Jss. 2d.; store cows, £4 Ids., £7; ■forward cowa (small), £7 125., £8, £8 lOs'.j £9 55:"6 d.; heifers, r.w. bull, £4;- yearling steers,. £2, £2 55.; springing cows, £8,- £9, .£l4, £15 10b., 316; springins heifers, £3 155., £9 155., £12 12s. 6d., £13 2s. 6(1., £13 .JObV,' £13 "155., £1« 15s. ■ '•■Messrs. Abraham and William's, Ltd., .report that at Palmerston North on August. 11 a fair yarding of both cattle and Veheep came forward. There wae ii good 'demand for all clasee3 -of sheep.. We quote:-Sheep: Ewes in lamb, 325. 9d., 335. 7d. to 355. 3d.; 4-tooth-ewes (small),'2se. 4d.; woolly hoggets, *275. 2d. to 295. Id.; rams, Bs. to 14s. Cattle: Springing heifers (small and late), £6 to £7; springing "heifers feood). £10; dairy cows in milk, £6V J26 10s., £7 10s.; springing oowe, £7. £10 to £13; forward store cows. £7. £8 Is. to £8 13s. 2-year steers, £6 10b. j yearling Jersey heifers, £3. . The firm nlso, at Feildinn;, on August 15, submitted a good yarding of both sheep and cattle to 'a good attendance of buyers. Prices wero on'a par with previous Bales. Two, four, •six-tooth ewes in lamb, 255. Id.; fat ewes, 295. Id.; fat hoggctß, £2 W».; hoggets • (small). 9e. Id., 10s. lid., 12b.". 2d., 13s. 9d., 15a.i 16s. 3d. to 16s. 4d. hogcote, medium, Mb lid. to 22a. 6d.; hoggets, good, S4a. 7d. to 'Ms. M.- Springing heifers, small and late ciJvere, £5 to £6; springing dalrj' cows, £10' 10s. to £11;.cows*and calves, £7 Bs.; store cows (empty), £3 10s., £4. £4, £6 7s. fd., £6 8». 6d. to £7; pen prood fat cows, £14: yearling hsifers, £4 3s. 6d. to £4 183 6d.; 2-ycar steers.' £5 2s. 6d. to. £7 55.; Jersey yearling steers, 375. 6d.; yearling eteers, 31s. to £2 55.; child's pony, £6 ss. ' ■