LIVESTOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 29, 29 October 1919, Page 10

LIVESTOCK SALES

The New. Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report that at Levin yards on October 21 they offered > a fair entry of sheep and a good yarding of cattle, the bulk of which sold as follows:— Store wethers, 325. '2d.; good mixed-sex hoggets, • 295. Id.; black-face hoggets, 27b. Id.; small hoggets, 18s. lOd.; fat cows, £11; for-ward-condition .do., £8 to £8 4b.; Btoro do,, £4 to £6 12a. 6d.; cows with calves,. £6 17a. to £7 25.; two-year Btecrß (mixed colours), £5; yearling do., £h lis.; yearling heifers, £2 to £4 7a.; dairy cows', £11); twelve-months'ilolstein bulla, £5 15s. to £6i105.; Jersey bulls, £4 10s. to. £.6 15s. The Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association, Ltd., report having held their weekly sale in the Oarterton yards on Friday, when they submitted a full yarding ol sheep, cattle, and pigs to a large attendance. Good business was done under the hammer, with the exception of one or two pons, which failed to reach tho vendors' reserve at auction, but which were disposed of privately, ihe built of the yarding being quitted at quotations giveu below;— Sheep: Four-tooth wetherß, good, £2 55.; hoggets, 2if.s. id. to 305.; cull hoggets, 165.; ewes, with lambs, 345. to £2 Cs. 4d.; ewes and wethers, £2 os. 6d. Cattle: Dairy cows, £26 7e. 6d.; dairy heifers, £7 55., £8, £9 55., .£lO, £10 Ss. 6d„ £10 ss. to £13 155.; fat cows, £10 105.,,, £12, £12 ss„ to £14 25.; store cows, £5 95., £5 15s;, £7, £7 125., to £8 155.; herd bulls, £4 7s. 6d, £o 155., £7 153., £10, £10 10s.. £11, to £17 155.; cows, with calves at foot, £7 to £8 35.; two-year empty lieifers, £6 25., £7 10s., £8, to £8 235..; yearLing heifers, £4 9s. to £5; vealers, £2 12s. 6d. Pigs:. Slips, £110s.; weaners, 255., Jss., J7b., to £2; sows, r.w.b., £5.