LIVE STOCK SALES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 125, 26 April 1940, Page 4

LIVE STOCK SALES.

PAHIATUA VALUES. Prices at this woek’e Pahiattia sale wore: Sheep.—Kivc ami six-year owes, backward j sorts. 15s 3<l to Ids 4cf; b.f. lambs, email, 14s; w.f.w. lambs, 14s 7d to 13s 9d; smaller sorts, 11s 3d to 8s Bd. Cattle. —Wcaner Jersey heifers, £3 17s 6d to £3 ss. Horses: Half-draughts, £26 10s to £l2 ss; lighter sorts, unbroken, £8 5s to £5 10s; hacks, £ll 10s to £lO. Pig*: Slips, 23s 6d to 17s 6d; weaners, 11s. STOIiTCORD LODGE. HASTINGS. April 24. Lambs at ’the Stortford Lodge sale realised up to Is fid a head more titan at last week’s, and wethers met with a stronger demand. Woolly ewe lambs, in good order, made 22s 9d, and early-shorn and billable 22=. Woolly wether lambs in forward order. from 17s to 17s 8d; medium-grown and good handling, 16s. Heifers, well finished, £9 10s to £IC 17s 6d. CLEARING SALE. Dalgety and Cov., Ltd., report having held a highly successful clearing sale of dairy stock, houses, pigs and implements at Opiki on Tuesday on account of Mr S. R. Young, who has sold his property. There was a large and representative attendance of buyers from the Wanganui, Wellington, and surrounding districts, and a great deal of interest was taken. This dairy herd of Friesian cows wits an onlstandingly bred line of high-producing cows which were brought forward in splendid condition, the majority lo calve July and August. Mr Young’s herd was widely known throughout the district; and competition was keen from the outset, prices for the sound cows ranging from £9 to £ls, 61 sound cows averaging the good price of £lO 2s per head. The rising two-year heifers to calve in the spring were also an outstandingly bred line, well-grown and in splendid condition, these also commanding great attention, the line of 15 averaging £lO • 10s 6<l per head. Weanor Friesian heifers also sold very well at prices ranging from £3 10s to £4 10s. The horses and pigs were a useful lot and sold under keen competition. The implements wore in first-class order and made particularly good prices. The following is the' range of prices July-August culvers, £9 ss, £9 15s, £lO. £lO ss. £lO 15s, £ll, £ll ss, £ll 15s, £l2. £l2 10s, £ls; September cal vers, £8 10s, £9 10 s, £lO. £ll 10s; October culvers. £8 ss; heifers r.w.b., £9, £9 10s, £lO 2s 6d. £lO 12s 6d, £ll, £ll ss, £l2 15s; wcaner heifers. £3 10s, £4 7s 6d. £4 13s. Sows. £2, £2 17s fid. £3, £4 7s fid, £4 10s, _£s ss, £6 7s 6d; Berkshire bout's, hi guineas. Horses. £l7 lOu, £2B. £35. Implements’, S.F. plough, £ls; chain harrows, £6 ss; roller, £l6 ss; drill, £4B; rake, £8; waggon, £l6 10s: spring drays, £5 10', £6 10s.