LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 101, 23 January 1920, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

Mr. Newton Kins, Sew Plymouth, reports:—Tho opening sales of tho f»ew lear have not a; yet attracted big yardings, but the market, taken on till! whole, luts a, brighter tone, anil there is prospect of fair autumn sales for both sheen and dry cattle, despite the droughty conditions recently experienced in certain districts. At Douglas on January 12 the yarding was pinull. Store and fresh-conditioned eows sold readily, making from £8 10s. to'£lo 7s 6i1.; light stores, £6 155.; cowa and calves, £S 155.; bulls (for boner pvrposes), £10 to £13 155.; fifteen to eighteen-month steers. £4 10b. to £4 125.; two and a. halfyear in-calf heifers, £7 10s. 'l'he rjuulity of the sheep throughout was not of a very high standard, sales resulting: Two-Uoth wethers, 2*ls.; good Ijirnbs, 205.; others, j3b. 3d.; mixed aged ewes, 18s. At Stratford on January 13. fat cows made from £10 15p. to £12 55.; stores, £7 7s. to £9 16b.; bulls, £9 to £17 10s.; younger cattlo were penned in small numbers, fifteen to eighteen-month steers making £4 165.; twenty-month empty Jersey heifers, £7 Bs. The sltcep mostly were of r.n inferior class, two pens of good lambs changing i bund* at 15s. and 13s. respectively. At i Kohuralahi on January 7, a sheep and ! cattle sale was held in conjunction with the New Zealand loan and Mercantile Agency Co. The yarding of sheep was small," but there was inquiry iirvcrtlieless, all pens offered changing hands; twotooth wethers, 245.; four-tooth do.. 2Es. 6d.; four-tooth ewes, 265. 6d. The cattle yards were full, consisting mostly of fifteenmonth to three and » half-year steers, of onlv fair finality; two and a half-year steers made from £6 to £7 7s. (id.; for-wurd-conditioncd cows, £11; lulls, £6 io £8. At Olmra. on January 15 there was a fair yardng of both sheep and I'atlle. Jimnirv' tlir/ishout. was very keen, all rlasses of stock renlisini; advanced rates, resulting in practically the toial yarding rliaiHu" hands. Good-conditioned cows made" from £9 2s. 6(1. In £9 10s.; cows and calves (in lines!, £9; in-calf cows, £7 12s. 6d ; hulls, £6 lo £!0 15s. The slccr ynrdiPf comprised mostly woll-e!««i catlle. which sold well; three and a half-year steers £10 to £11 55.; two and a halfyear do.. £6 10s. to £0 65.; coloured do., jfH 95. : fifteen-month to eighteci-mouth do.. £5 io £6; poorer do.. £4 lo -T'* Its.; teenty. iMnnlli in-calf heifer s . £5 15s. to £7; heifers. snrineing. ££ to £1; fifteen-mouth empty heifers. £> Is. to £5 10': ; small do., £} 5s to £4 ?s. The offering of sheep was small, fair two-tooth ewes >. aking 225. 7d.; fat and forward civca, 2Gs. to 265. Id.; f.rn.

ewes. 17s. At Ivaponga on January 19 there was a good yarding. Store aud goodconditioned cows and bulls weio in hoi favour, graziers and freezing companies operating very strongly for liit-.-c chin.!.':-. Best cows made from £10 I- ill; stoics ranged from £7 7s. to .18 10.-. for light sorts, up to £9 ICa. for those jjiore forward. Heavy hulls. ,Vi 310 -.16; oriictE, £9 10s. to £11; two and a *wlf wc flr-t rd. .£8 In.; dairy heifer (calved). £11 55.; shorn lambs, 9s. 9d. to 10s 3d m Inglewnod < n January 14 there was a g .-d yatdur,: despite rough weather - ndr.i ms. Thee was good inouiry throughout, pricei: on the ivli"le showing an a(!v;ui.v:<l price, a most satisfactory clearance resulting. Pat arid fonvn.nl cows. £9 10?. lo £10 155.; stores, .£7 10i. to £9 Is., JM 15s. to £5 155.; heavy hulls, £18 10b. ; otttn, £7 to £10 £s.; cows aud calves, f.7 17s. td. to £8 155.; two and a half-year .sti-srs, £7 10s. to £B 155.; poorer do., £5 15s. to £6 7h. {d.; fif-teen-mouth do., £1 5?.; others, £3 t.o £3 )Bs. Cd.; small empty heifer's, £6 to £6 155.; heifers ill calf, £3 75.; do., springing, £6 ss. to £9; good lambs, iust shorn, realised 145.; poorer do., 9s. lid.; f.m. ewes, lis.