LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 205, 25 May 1920, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

The. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.. report :-0n Tuesday \vc held a very successful elcarintr sale on account 01 Air. E. H. Hall, of Itaneiotu. : i'h» buyers were limited, but the cows, which were a very iißeful lot. sold well at tlia ;ollowimr pricefl:—Best cowe. £24 to £21 10s.: fair cows, £18 to £22: ordinary and ! .ate cows, £11 to £17 10s.: store cowa. £4 to i:8;' refers (running with bull), £12 153. to £17; heif'jrs (running with bull), two-year. £9: draught horses. £40; hacks. £5. At Mr. It. A. Mercer's sale on Wednesday tb« attendance was large, and biillnjr animated. The cows were exceptionally good, and pricos made were very satisfactory. Best cows made uu to £29 10s.: good cows, £21 to £25: fair cows, £16 10s. to £20; late and aired cows, £12 to £15 10h. : • heifers (running with bull). £13: Digs.' sows to farrow, £12 10s. to £23; Sown and .litters, £lu to £22: young sows, £8 to £11 10s.: baconcrs. £3 ss. to £5 2s. 6d.: porkers, £2 2s. ...

l'be Wairarapa Farmers' Co-onorativo Association. Ltd. (stock department), i'ahiatua, report on their weekly salo in tho Mangahao yardß, Pahiatna, on Tuesday, May 18. as follows :-To a good attendance of buyers we offered a lair yardiw of 6lieop for the time of year, and a small entry of cattle. The shosp offorinc included some nice lines of lambs, .wethers, 'and ewes. With tho exception of ouo small pen all lines were disposed of under the hammer at prices in advance of iccent sales' reports. Cattle were very dull ot sale, and the bulk of the yurdin? was pasted in unsold. We quote the following sales:-118 m.s. two-tooths. 31s 7d.; 25 four and nix-tooth ewes, 325. 6(1.: 33 twotooth do.. 285.; 180 m.a. cwcb, 2'Js. Id.; 20 forward do 275. 2d.; 180 m.a. ewes, 20b. Id.; 40 empt.V do., 245. 6(1; 23 empty do., 14b. 9d.; 25/ Eliorn lambs. 235.: fO ewe hoirsfets, 2is. lid.: other lambs, from 17b. 7d.,' 15b. id., 14s. 10d.. 14s. 9d„ 14s. id.. 13s. 9d., 13s. 6d„ to 12s. 7d. Catils: 11 cightecnniontli l'.A. steers, £€; 26 eighteen-month Shorthorn heifers in calf. £5 iOa.; 17 eighteen-month Holatein heifers. £3 3s. 6d.: 5 fat COWL. £10 10s.: 4 forward cows, £4: 1 dairy cow, £15: 1' do., £9. • _ The Waii-arupa Farmers' Co-operativo Association. Lid. (stock department). Palliatua. report on their fortnightly ualo at Woodville on Monday, May 17, ai follows :-Wo offered a fair yarding of sheep aud a heavy yarding of cattle to a lair attendance of the public. The sale both for sheep and oattlo was drairjua throughout. The ouality of tho niluring was not up to the usual standard, which probably had the effect of making tho bidding somewhat lifbless. We ouoto the folio-wine sales:—6s fat and forward owes, i 365. i 37 a.m. ewc6, 15a.: 83 shorn lambs, 18s.

6d.: 26 b.f. lambs. 15b. 'nedlu.n lambs, 9b. 9d.; 2 dairy c COwa. «6: Ido., £15, 1 do., £9 10s.; 1 do.. £9; J do., iB. oste.is, £7 is.: store coWB. from £6 5s , is,, iA ios„ £4 109., £4, £3: weane.rß. 2os. }o_s2s: The New Zealand Loan, and .Mercantile A frenzy Co.. Ltd.. Dannevirke. report tho foiltrviiiz sales for tho naet week: At \V illo on Monday, wo had a moderate in i of cattle. moßt of which were disposed of since vendors worn prepared to moot the market. Wo ci u °t'&= Da A r }- 1 '?! fern, to £14; fltore cows. £5; '8-month steers, £3 18s.: fat, cowb, £9 fs. At Dannevirko on Friday we had a u'ood- entry of Bheep and a moderate entry of catt.e. all of which were dioposed of -'' c hammor, althoueh prices were distinctly be low ruling rates of the previous wro*. fro quote:—Lambfl. from IBb. to 15,. (.•■ lambs (medium), lis.; need ewee. 165., fo rward eives, 255.: mixed 2-tooths. 245. M.; store oowb from £6 to .£1103.: 18-month steerß. £2 10b.; weavers, 165. . Messrs. Daleetv and Co.. Ltd.. report, on their T'almerston North sale on Inurs-dar;-0n account cf roiich weather only a small yarding came before, a poor attendance' of buyers- Quotation9:-hmall lambß. Us. 6d.: empty eswa. 10s. „d., 1»J. 6d., to 17b.; forward owes, 225.