LIVESTOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 25, 24 October 1919, Page 10

LIVESTOCK SALES

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held their weekly sale at Levin on Tuesday, when they offered a good yarding of both bbcep and cattle. The ; rfollowing are the principal quotations:— ' -Fat wethers, to £2 175.; [at. ewes, to £2 Is.; m.s. woolly hoggets, 235. 7d. to i 2<1.; m.s. shorn hoggets. 225. to 2i3. 3d.; email woolly hoggets, 17s. 4d. to 18s.; fat cowa. to £9 10s.: ea,pty cows, to £7 55.; cowb with calves at foot, £6 fs. to £fl ' Is. 6i.; springine cowa. Alii 10s. to £12 . 65.: springing heifers, £9 15s. to £11; heifers in calf, £8 to £9 5b.; Jersey cross bull. £7-10b. i Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report ! having held their monthly sale at Otalti on Wednesday, when they offered a fair • vaTtllng of shSep and cattle. Quotation!', 'Ewes, with lambs at foot, to 51s. 6d.; m.s. woolly hoggets, to 3os. id.; fat and forward ewes, to 365. 7d.; 2!-year steers, to ■ £8 73.; 20-month steer#, £5 os. 6d. to £5 10a.; 2-year heifers, £5 17s. 6d, to £7; springing cows. £12 15s. to £14 10s.; springi ing heifers, £7 12s. Gd. to £9 155.; IBmonth Shorthorn bull, £7 ss. . Messrs. Dalgety and Co. report on their Waipukurnu Bale, held on October 21, as follows:—22s woolly two hoggets, 355.; 210 : m.s. woolly hoggets, 21s. 9d. The New Zealand Loan and Mercnntilo Agency 00., Ltd.. report having ronducti, oil a successful clearing sale of dairy stock on account ol Mr. If. A. Bockett, at the farm, on October 16. There was a good attendance of buyers, , and al ■ though the herd was a medium lot, thero Wis gocd'; r compel Ition ■ throughout, and the prices obtained proved satisfactory to the vendor. They ounlc: Ucßt cows in : full profit, £20 to £23 10s.; medium do., • £15 to £19 10s.; thrce-auartercd and lato ' calving cows, £8 to £13 10s.: springing cows, £20 10s. to £22; springing heifers i £19: heifers, r.w.b., £6: store cows, £6 I 17«. 6d. ; cull cows, with calves, £4 103,

to £6 59.; good rearing heifers, £5 to £6 lis.; others. £3 to £4 IDs.; yearling Btcerfl, mixed colours, £3 Is. to £4 lss.; aged spring cart coining, £30 10s,; Bpnng dray and harness. £21 10b. On account of outside vendors: Cow. close to profit, £25155.; cow, in milk, £20 10b.; store pige, £3 15s. 6d.; spring cart horsey £10 «a. to £24. . „ r T-hn New Zealand Loan and Jiercantno Agency Co., Ltd., report on thev Pahiatun sale as followß-.—We had a small entry of sheep and a good entry of oattle. • Dairy heifers were in poor demand, but good empty dairy heiferß and youug cattle sold well. Wo Quote:— Springing heifers, from £4 2&. 6d. to ■GlO 15a.; 2-ycur empty heifers, £5 5a., £6 189 6d., £6 10s. 6d., £7 103., to £9; yearling empty heifers, ,£4 9*3., £4 18h., to x-5 155.; yearling steers, £3 15s. to £4; weaner flteerß, poor condition, £2 26. 6d. to £2 IBs. 6d.; empty cows, £5 155.; light draught horse, £16. The New Zealand Loan and ?rnrcantile Agency Co., report:—At our Jlimitangi sale on Monday wc had an average yarding of cattle and a small entry of slieep. We Quote: Small hoggcta, I8s.; empty cows, £5 7b. 6(3.. £7 10i. to £7 17a. 6d.; empty heifers, £5 2s. bd. to £5 5b.; ing heifers, food, £12 *>b., £14 Kb., to £15; springing heiferß, umall, £9 2*. €d. to £11 15».j springing heifers, backward . and small. £6 sa.- to £3 7s. 6d.; rpnnging cows. £7 2s. 6d. to £W 17b. fid.; bulls. £8, £8 lte. to £16 16s-; yearling Steers, Bmall, 225. to £2 55.; nigs, slips, 555.. to £3. Messrs. Abraham and "Williams, Ltd., reportAt Taihape, on Tuesday, we had only small yardings of sheep and cattle. Quotations: Mixed aged ewes ana lambß, 345. I0d.; 2-year steer*, £6; yearling heifers, £4, £5; cows, in milk, £10.