LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 305, 18 September 1920, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limitec Palmerston North, report having a ver fair yarding of sheep' and a medium yarc ing of cattle at their Feilding sale o: Friday. Thoro was a Eood demand fo sheep at reduced prices, and practically : total clearance was fffected. Dairy stoc of all classes met with a good demand Quotations:—Sheep: Small mixed hoggeti 15s. 9d.; medium hoggets, 20s. 3d.; ver: fair hoggets, 235: 9d., 235. 10d., to 245. Bd. good mixed hoggets, 255. to 275.; light fa ewes. 285.; young empty ewes, 225. 10(1 fair-conditioned ewes, 265. 9d. Catth Yearling heifers, £3 !Cs. to £6 12s. 6d. 2-year-old heifers. £7 to £7 11b.; empt: store cows, £4 17s. 6d.; backward dair; cows £11 10s. to £14 10s.; backward dair: heifers, £7 to £11 10s.; dairy heiferß, £1 to £13. T . .. , Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited Palmerston North, report having a mode: ato entry of sheep and cattle at thci Bulls Bale on Monday, which sold a below :-Empty ewes, 19s. Id. to Zjs. Id. b.f. hoggets, 215.; fat hoggets, 305.; empt; store cows, £3 ss. The Wairarapa Farmers' Co-op. Associa tion, Ltd., Pahiatua, report oa their week ly sale, held in the P.F.A. yards, Pahiatua on Tuesday, when thev yardini of about 550 sheep and a good entry q cattle, principally dairy sorts. Compeli tion for Bheep was inclined to, be drag gine, but they were successful in dispos ing of a considerable part of the. entr; under the hammer at satisfactory pneos The demand for dairy cows and heifer was not particularly keen, this probabl: being accounted for by tho bleak day am poor attendance. . They were successful howerer, in.disposing cf the bulk of then entry under the hammer They quote th, following sales :-50 ewe hoggets. 29a. 6d. 40 m s !0., 24s Wd.; 121 do., 245.; 17 do. K'.: 3 ewes, with lambs at foot, s M ■ 10 forward ewes, 345. 6d.; ti ao„ fs-, dairy cows? £13 to £9 155.; springing hci K;U^rf/^,«155.; r B with calveß at foot. £7 Is to iA us.. - Loan and Mercantile r^-he^-or^r'M tion raw* £7 to £8: store do. £3 159. tc « 5s venrine heifers. £6: yearlinii bulls £4 10s! to £8 10s.: good mringiiw heifers £14 to £16 155.; medium do.. £'. ers, £4 55.: r.tore■ nigs, £2 18s. to £3 17s. 6d • weaner do.. £2 2s. to £2 13s. Messrs. Dalectv and Co, Ltd.. Palmer ston North, report on their Rjutmai sa c on September 14 that they had a fall yarding of cattle, which met a fair de. mand In suite of unfavourable weather conditions. Quotations :-Yearline steers, £3 to £4: vearllne heifers. £5 10s.: empty heifers, low condition, £2: store cows, £5 15s! to £7 17s. 6d.:run tows in calf, £9; four-year bullocks. £14: "ringing, twovear dairy heifers, from £12 to £14 55.; backward.' £5 10s. to £10 10s. Messrs. Dalgety and Comnanv. Limited, report having offered a small yarding of lieen and cattle at the Levin sal? on Tuesday A few nrimo fat sheen fetched £3:' good m.n. hoggets, to 27s : store rows. £4 to £5 10s. At Otaki. on Wediics<lav there was a good yarding:of sheep and cattle. Prime fat wethers made up to £3- fat ewes, to 375.: fat and forward ewes 345. 6d.: empty ewes, to 23s 6d.: m s hoggets. 19s. Cattle: Forward cows. £6 10a to £8: store cows. £4: "nrnwing cows t« £16: springing heifers. £10 to £20 105..: 'cull cows. £3 to £5. Pigs: Slips, 325. Messrs. Abraham and Williams/' Ltd., report —At l>vin sale on Tuesday, we submitted good yardings of both sheep and cattle to a good attendance of buyers. Competition for fat sheen was not keen, stores Felling fairlv well. Good dairy cows and yearling heifers met with a. readv sale. Fat wethers and ewes, to £2 3s. 3d.: fat hoggets, 31s to 4Qs.: mixed hoggets. 195.. 20s. 225. 5d.. to He. 6(1.; fat bullocks, to £15 18s.: fat heifers, to £9 2s. &i.: yearling heifers. A' 3 7s. 6d to £8- yearling steers, to £3 175.: vcalers, £3 18s.. £4. to £4 9s. Mr. G Anderson reports at the clearing pale of dairy stonk on behalf of Mr. Oecrgo Refers. Otaki, there was a. good attendance of buyers. Cows in milk. £14 to £44 10".. • ecsrs to calve. £18 to £28 10s.; yearling heifers. £4 to £6: h<M'«r cilvcs. £2 10s. Tho record price of W, 7s. averaro vis p l 't->lii' i d f">- flip -herd.

Messrs. Wright. Stephenson, and Co., Ltd., report as follows on their Martinborough sale:—Wo yarded about K0 sheep and a" small entry cf cattle. There was a fair attendance of the public, but bidding was very clack, and the bulk of the yarding was passed in. We, however, managed to dispose of moot of the entry privately afterwardß. We quote:-Fat aiid forward wethers, 365. 3d.: forward ewes. 335. 6d.; twenty-month heifers, emnty, £6 75.°6d.; ycarljn? heifers. £5. • The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., renort on their Eketahuna sale held on Thursday:—We had a small entry, consisting of dairy cattle and pics. The sale was dull except for food quality dairy heifers. We ouote: Good dairy heifers. £18 10s. to £20 12s. 6d.; weaner pig r <- £1 16s, to £2 2s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Ltd., report on their Pahiatua. sale held on Tuesday. We had a fair entry of sheep and cattle. Competition was again cIuU. We ouote:Medium hoggets. 2?;.: dairy heifers. £12; empty two-year heifers, £6 17s. to £7; yearling heifers. £3 ss. The New Zealand Loan ar.d Mercantile Agoncv Company, Ltd.. renort havliif held 11 heifer sale in the P.F.A. yards. Pnhiatua, on Wednesday. A number of entries did net come forward, and 0 good number of those yarded were very backward late culver* Best heifers, made £13 15s. to £16; later sorts. £10 to £14; very late culvers, £< to £8; cows, £17 ss.