LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 32, 1 November 1919, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

The Now Zealand Loan ami Mercantile 'Agencv Co., Ltd.. Tcport that at their monthly etook sale, held nt To Koro on .•Tuesday, a fair, entry of sheep :nil a heavy yarding of cattle canio forward, Md! a good sale resulted at the following prices:—Pat ewes .ind v.ethers. £2 2s. 3d.: store ewes and wethcra, 32a. 'd.; ewea and lambs, £2 sa. 3d. to £2 J3a.; eood hoggets, 20s. 2d.; medium fat cows, £11 to ,£ll 9b.; extra iDrime heavy do., to £19 10s.; light fat heiferß, £10 103.; store cows, £4 2a. <d. to £5 iOs.; cows and calve;, £7; 2-year -steers, £6 12b.; yearling do, £4 4a.; 2-year empty heifers, £7 to £7 45.; croort ciiifllity yearling heifers. £7 65.; medium do., £4 10s. to £5 Is.; good "si.i-iuginqr lieifers, £12 17a. 6d.; others. £8 to £9; dairy cowa, £11 10s.; yearling bulls, £5 15s. to £6 125.;. 2■year registered! S.H. bull, 21 guineas; ■weaner piga, £2 to £2 Bs, 6d.; store pigs, '£3 ss. ... Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd.. report;— Vt Levin, on October 28. we had a good yarding of sheep and cattle, which was submitted to a large attendance of buyers, but bidding, especially for cattle, was not spirited, although the bulk of the yarding changed francs at the following rates;— Pat hoggets, £2 155.; hoggets, 20s 2d. To" 305.; 2 anS -Moo'th empty ewes. £2 is. 6d.; fat cows, £11 Bs. 6d.; forward cows, £8 55.; forward hoifers £7; 2-year steers, £7; yearling steers, £3 2s. fid. ;' yearling heifers, £4 is., £6 15s. to £7; empty cowti, £6 2s. 6d„ £6 103.: bullß, £13; springing heifers, _ £8 sb„ £9, £.9 2s. 6d., £10 10-3.; dairy cowb, £8 15j„ £145.; wanner y-lgs, £2, £2 Is., £2 55., £2 6s. to £2 fti.; -.tore pigs, £3 to £3 Ba.-; porkers, £3 17«. Gd. £4 25., '£5, £5 7s. 6d„ £3 10s. to £6 55.; tows in pig, £14. At Shannon, on < Holier 29, vm had a large yarJlng of both sheep and cattle, which was submitted to a good attendance of buyers. Most lots changed hands at the following rates : -rnme shorn ewes. 345.; empty ewes, 30a.; 4-tooth wethers, £2; hoggets, J7r.. Hi Ks. 303. Id., 30s. 6d., 30s. 9dy; spi'iiigiiig heifers, £9; yearling heifers, £4 108, to £5; yearling Bteers ; (poor), £2; fat cows, fo 2b . fo]., £11, £12 lo Messrs. Balgety Company, Limited, report having hold their Upper ilutt sale on Thursday -when tncy offered a good voiding *' sheep and oattk. Mho following are tho principal quoUtj°iu:--Fat •Ml. to I woolly 0BK "». to 20s', lOd.;

small hoggets, to 205.; .potter rams, to i3b.; empty cows, £5 to £5 IDs.; empty 2-year heifers, .£6 Bs. to £6 lis.; empty 18-monUi heifers, £4 15s. to £5 25.; 2-year I ciferfl, r.w.b., £6 10a. to £7 17e. 6d.j 15-month heifers, £3 7a. 6d. to £4 IDs.; 2-year steers, £6 7b. 6(1. to £7 7a. 6d.; 15-month stcera, £3 6s. to £3 135.; yearling steers, £2 17a. 6(1. to £3 55.; '2-ycw bulls. £6 £7 7s. 6d.; calves, £1 10a. to £1 16a. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having liuld their monthly sale at To lloro on Wednesday, when they offered a fair yarding of sheep and cattle. Quotations:—Fat ewes, 365. to *,6a, 3(1.; woolly hoggett. 29a. 9d. to 345.; e.m. ewes, with (Co per cent, lambs, to 535.; yearling heifers, to £3 10s.; yearling steers, to £3 12s. 6d.; dairy cows, £11 10s.; forward empty cows, to £8. . Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report on their Stortford Lodge sale, held nt Hastings on October 20:—5 steers, 5.=?.; I cow, £8; 1 at £9; 1 fat cow, £13 2s. 6(1.; 1 fat maiden heifer. £15; 8 forward steers, £16; 9 empty licifßrs, £6 2s. 6d.; 7 empty cows. £7 12s. 6d.; J. 4 empty cows. £8 2a. 6d.; 27 4-year Jersey steers, £7 175.; 7 at £6 63.; 1 stag. £6 55.; 2 eprinsring lieifcrs, £6; 4 fat ewes, 41b.: 23 fat wethers, 44a. 6d.; 49 fat ewes, cßa. 3d.; 180 f. and f. ewes. 315.; 300 wether hoggets 245.; 87 6-tooth wethers, 31s. 6(1.; 1» f and f. ewes, 37a.; 39 f. and f. >'-elherj <os.; 385 ewe hoggets.' 175.; 8! wether hoggetß 175.; 27 m.s. hoggets, 135.; *2 S-tooth wethers, 21a. 6d.; 3 fat sheep, 495.; 7 fat hoggetu, 325. 6d.