LIVESTOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 296, 10 September 1919, Page 10

LIVESTOCK SALES

'b, Dalgcty arid Co., Ltd., report a small entry of sheep at their ■ sale on September 0, which sold as -OiiU hoggets, 13s. 6d.; small hog3. to 195.; medium hoggets, 235. I<l. Bd.. Jew Zealand Loan and Mercantile s Co., Ltd., report having conducted ,'ing sale of dairy stock on account / Vf. H. Field, M.P., at the farm, Inac, on September 1.- There -was fee .attendance of buyers, and keen eiilitiu. The Btock came forward in (condition, and,showed, quality.' abovoMf agcviicrds oirerMi'his 'season;" The for "a crossbred iSliin cow, tho avenge wdrkirig out at / ss;,- the ■ most successful sale in tho irict• thiSil season. 'They nuotc:-Scp-iber'calvers. £20. £21 10s.. £22, £22 10s., K '£23- ids'., '.£25 Ms., £26, .£26 105.,'£27, £29, «1, £38'!*' October culvers', £15, £16. £17, m 10s;, £26; 'November calvors, £11 lOs., £14'105., '£15 55., £15 15a., £16, £16 10s., yWs 1« mill:, £15 IPs., £}6 1(13., £J8 108.,

£19, £19 10s., £20, £20 7s. «d., £24, £26,' £27; grado Bolsteln eighteen-month bull, £10; small storo pigs, 38s. to £2 ICs.; light porkers, £5, • The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., Unworn, branch, report as follows;—At Kakaramea, on September 1, we had a full yarding of both cattle and sheep; inoßt lines were disposed of under the hammer or privately after tho sale, at, prices in favour of vendor.!. We quote —'Forward cova, £8 10a. to £10; small stores, £5 2s. to £7 Bs.? boners, £4 to £4 10s.; two-year empty hoi U on, £6 3s. 6d.; three-year storo steers, £11 75.; three-year springing heifers (choice), £17 10s. to £2} 10s.; otners, £11 to £17; small and backward sorts, £8 to £9 10s.; dairy cows, close up, £15 10s. to £21; backward sorts, £12 15s. to £13; fat wethers, £2 to £2 23.; fat ewes, 355.; foui, six, and. f.m. wethci'B (forward), £1 17s. 9d.; hoggets, £83.; ditto culls, 7s. 6d.; ditto smnll, £1 os. 6d.; eweß and lambs (200 per cent.), £1 19s. 9d.; pigs (slipu), 18s. 6d. At Eltliatq, on September 3, we had a fair yarding, which was disposed of at the followin;; prices:—rat cows, £11 5b.; forward cows, £8 13s. to £10 55.; stor.e cows, £7 12s. 6d. to.£B is.; cows and calves, '£8 ICs. to £9 2b. 6d.; yearling heifers, £3 10s. to £5 25.; springing heifers, £10.155. to £15 155.; dairy cows, close up,'£2l; fat -wethers, £1 IBs. Bd.; two, four, and six-tooth forward wethers, £1 10s.; hoggets, 235. to 275. At llawera, on September 4, we had a heavy yarding of cattle, and a, small yarding of sheep, which sold at satisfactory prices, We quote —Light fat cows, £10 18s. to £11 125.; forward cows, £8 Is. to £10 7s. 6d.; storo cow's, £6 ss. to £7 12a. 6d.; cows and calves, £8 to £11; tws-ycar steers, £7 12s. to £7 195.; two-year empty heifers, £6 9j. 6d. to £7 35.; yearling steers, £3 to £4 Bs.; yearling heifers, £3135. to £5 lis.; yearling bulls, £4 65.; mixed weaners, £2 10s. to £3 55.; citra primo fat wethers, £2 6s. to £2 10s.; hoggots, 265. 3d. to 275. 9d.; springing heifers, £1110s. to £21 5a.; small and backward sorts, £7 10s. to £9 10s.; dairy cows, closo up, £11 to'£l7'loa. Tho W.V.C.A., Ltd., Dannevirke, report on the -undermentioned sales as follow;— At Maharahara, on September 3, we held a fairly successful clearing sale of dairy stock on account Mr. i. W. Hart. Tho most of the dairy cows were in profit, and there was a ready sale for all best quality sorts, these- Eolling at from £20 to £26 55.; aged and backward calvers wcro not in demand, prices ranging for those being £7, £8, £8 10s., to .£9. The lino of 25 head averaged £16 per head, including tho four abovo quoted, which under the circumstances must be .con»idered satisfactory. ' *Xher sales wore springiug heifers, £11 to £13 55.; yeaning heifers, £4 10s.; two-year Uolstein cross bull, £16; aged spring-cart mare, £14 155.; harness do., £14 10b. A host of implements and sundries sold at good clearing salo rates. At Dannevirke, on September 5, wo offered a small- yarding of sheep and cattle, every lot being disposed of at auction. Sheep were. Blightly easier, but cattlo (most of which were rough sorts) were in better demand than late sales' reporti We 're 1 port-tho following sales;—4o m.s. hoggets. 275. Id.; 124 medium do., 255. Id.; 98 do., 245. 3d.; 50 small' do., Ills, 9d.; 3 fat do., 37b.; 7 twenty-month empty heifers, £5 12s. 6d.; 8 coloured steers (two-yoar-olds), £5 25.; 2 dairy cows, to £11 7s. 6d.; 3 springing heiferß, £8 7s, 6d. to £10 6s.