LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 177, 22 April 1920, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Dalgcty and Co., Ltd., icport having held their wcokly stock sale at Levin on Tuesday, when only a small yarding of sheep and cattle carno forward owing to the unfavourable weather. The following are tho principal quotations:— M.S. ivoolly lambs, 13s. 6d. to 155.; m.s. shorn lambs, 10s. to 13s. Id.; fat cows, £8 to £8 5b.; 15-month steers, £3 to £4_55.; weaners, £2 2s. to £3; vealers, £3 to £3 15s. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held their weekly stock salo in the Lincoln Road yardß, Carterton, on Friday, when they offered a small yarding of sheep, and a full yarding of cattle. Competition for sheep, dairy cows, and heifers was keen, but for other classes of cattle the demand was poor. The following prices were obtained:—Small lambs, 13s. 6(1.; mixed aged ewes, 225. Bd.; dairy heifers, close to profit, £8, £11 to £15 155.:lieifers, due factory daleß, £11 155., £12, £13 2s. 6d. to £13 55.; empty heifers, £4 16a.; fat lieifers, £9 55.; 2-year coloured steers, £6 Is. to £7 12b. ; 3-year coloured steers, £10 Is.; veal calves, £3; dairy calves, 20b. to 30b. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:—At Palmerßton North 6alo on Thursday we had a fair yarding of both Bheop and cattle. Bidding on sheep was animated, and we quitted th« yard at prices slightly in advance of iccent saleß. Cattle ivero hard to quit. We

quote:—Good lamba, 255,; fair lambs, 205,; I and 4-tooth -wethers, 295.; f. and f. ewes, 295, lid.; empty ewes, 18s. 6d., 21s. to 245. 7d.; eweß in lamb, 22a.; dairy, lieifore, £12 10s.; store cows, £5 9a. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Go., Ltd., report that at Levin yards on Tuesday they offered a good entry of "both sheep and cattle to a-, good attendance of buyers. There ivaa a lieen demand for Bheep, but cattle were easy. They quote—Primo fat aheep, 465.; for-ward-condition ewes, 24h. 5d.; aged ewes, 205.; cull do., 12s. 6d.; medium mixed sex 2tooths, 28s. 8(1.; fair lambs, 15s. 9d. to 17s. 6d.; email do., Bs. 3d. to 9s. 2d.; aged ranis, 21b: fat cows, £9 ss. to £12; good for-ward-condition do., £8 ss. to £8 155.; store do., £4 to £6; cows and calves, £4 to £8 10s.; yearling steers, £2 10s. to £3 16a.; heifors, 37b. id.; heifers, r.w.b,, £6 sa. to £10; dairy cows. £7 to £10; bulls, £6 6s. to £7 10s.; porkers, £3 2s. 6d. to £3 13s. 6d. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report that' at the first conjunction sale at Waikanao there was a full yarding of all classes of atock, which was submitted to a good attendance of buyers, and most linea changed hands at late rates. Fat ewes, 31b.; fat sheep. 32b.; forward ewes, 225. 6d. to 245.; store ewea, 10s. to 18s.; % tootli wethers (good), 30s. fid.; fat cowa, £11; forward cowa, £8 3b.; forward bullocks, £11; 6tore cows, £4 to £5 10b.; bullß, £4; empty dairy heifers, £5; good dairy heifers, r.w.b., £11; spring calvers, £15 15s„ £14 to £14 10a.