Commercial

Levin Daily Chronicle, 15 May 1917, Page 3

Commercial

CLEARING SALE AT LEVIN

The !N'ew Zealand Loan arid 'Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, rc-

port liaving condiictcd a most successful sale of dairy stock, etc., on account of Mr Alex. Sutherland, at his farm, Arapaepae road, Levin. There wag ft very large attendance of buyers, and as the herd had a particularly good name, the sale went with a swing, and tip-top prices were realized. The highest price paid was £21 5s for a Shorthorn cow, and £14 10.9 was r.-acvcd for several grade Jersey heifers in calf. The whole herd of 21 cows (ncluding several empty and throe-quartered cows) made) the high nvc.'i'ic v of £14 103, which, we believe, to be a record for the district. The ran-je of -prices were: August ealvers £11 10s t? £19 15s: September cnlvrrs £11 to £21 ss; Dsoomber enlvers £15 15* to £17 17s 6d; ped : gro:« Jcrscv now (Oivet'a) £17 17s; cow- ' 9 1.0 •; thrc sqiiartsred cow £8 6s; 3-yc.t- red'To? Jersey bull £12 12s; wftfinor pedigree Jersey bull £7 7s; grade weaner bull £3 '15s; weaner licifers £t 7s; heifers (spring culvers) £8 to £14 10s; sow with litter £4; sows to farrow August £0 2s; boar £2 15s; weaner pigs £11; fat lambs 25s 6d; fl-yenr spring oart gelding £30 2a Gd; spring dray £17 2s 6J; harness £7; block dray £7 10s; harness £5; gi,g harness £5; three-leaf tine'harrows £4; single-furrow plough £1 ss; hay; £3 6s; poultry, per pair; liens lis to 16s; ducks lQs to 2ts; geese, 18s; Furniture and small lines at fujl ma' ket rates. I

AUTUMN CATIILE EAUR. Messrs Abraham and Willinms Ltd. rqporfc:—At our autumn cattle fair, held at Levin on Tuesday, cattle came forward in excess of advertised numbers, close on 1000 head being yarded. There was a representative attendance of! buyers from Masterton, IFeildmg, (Foxton., Pialmerston .North, IPahautanuii. The demand for grown cattle winis practically good and nearly all 'lines of th<jse changed hands at satisfactory 'prices. The demand for young cattle was not so keen and in most oases failed to rech vendors' -reserves which were on the high side. Quotations: 3 and 4-year bullocks £16 7<s 6d to £16 10s; 3-year steers £12 4s to £13; 2-year steers ;&10 6s to £11 16s; weaner steers £4 6s to £4 103; yenirling heifers,£3 3s to £3 Gs; mixed weaners (small) £2' 12s to £2 '15s; bust-fed weaners £4 14s; forward heiPers £8 17s to £9 9s; store cows £5 13s to £6 10s; forward empty 'cows £8 to £8 15s; fat and forward bullocks £17 16s and £18 14s; fat heifers £10 5s to £12 9s 6d; fat cows £12 2s 6d to £13 .9s ; heifers in calf £7 Is to £7 6s ; heavy vealers £6. Fat and forward wethers 36s Id; fat and forward ewes 30s; B.F. lambs 17s 3d : ; cull ewes in lamb 21s.

OTAKI SALE. - Messrs Abraham and "Williams Ltd. report:—At Otaki on Wednesday we had a .good yarding of sheep and a small entry of cattle, the majority of which changed hands at satisfactory prices. We quote: Woolly lambs 20s 3d to 245;" shorn lambs 17s 4d to 18a 3d; low conditioned s.m. ewes in lamb 265; small 2-tooth wethers 28s 6d; store ewes 16s; yearling steers £5 7s; fat cows £12 6s; weiiners £3. A pup sold on acooiunt oif the Red Cross Society realized £2 12s 6d.

GDtALKMTY AiND CO., IJD. Messrs Dalgety and- Co., Ltd.,. report on their livestock sale held at tL l evin Wat Tuesday:—Wei offered ; a fair yarding of sheep and cattle, and prices ruled as under Medium fat ewes 31s Gd, sma'l woolly lamb:> to 17;> 4d, P.m. ewes in lamb to- 2fis, cull ewes 10s; weaner hr-ifes to £2 15s, light fat cows to £14, store cows £3 to £6 10s.