LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 621, 25 September 1909, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., .'report having held their fortnightly snlo at EUctahuna yesterday. EulHes did not come up to advertised numbers, no sheep coming forward. .The cattlo comprised mostly springing sheifcrs and, cowa, whicn mot with a ready' sale under tho hammer, with pripes on a par with our last sale. Wo quote :—Springing heifers, £3 15s. to £5 55.; cows, £4 15s. to.£6 65.; yearling steers, to £2 17s. 6d.; empty heifers, £2; cows with calves at foot, ,'£2 Its. to £5. .

The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's market reports for the week ending September; 24 are ns follow:—At'Feilding on Friday wo had. a. medium entry'of sheep,' and a good entry of cattle. There was a good attendance of buyers, and a good clearance was effected -at satisfactory prices. -Wo quote-.— Sheep: Forward ewex, bs. 6d. to lis. I'd.; medium hoggets, 10s.-to 10s. Yd.; aged wethers, 12b. Cattle: Yearling heifers. 30s. 6d. to 325.; 15 to'lß- - betters,'£2 Is.; two-year si'xis (odd colours), £B'l3s. 6d.; storo cows, 255. to 325. bd.; heifers in calf, £3 12s. 6d.; cows in calf, £2 10s. to £3; springing cows, £4 10s. to £5 12s. 6d.; 10-month Jersey heifers, £3'2s. 6d.; fat bullocks, £7 10s. At? Kimboltaa on Tuesday a medium yarding came forward, and all stock- sold well. Quotations: Mixed hoggets, 9s. Bd.; empty ewes, Bs.; ewes in lamb (inferior), 10s. 3d.; store wethers, 10s.-5d.; forward wethers. 13s. 7d.; store.cows, £2 10s.; empty heifers, £2 10s.; springing cows, to ±'6.105. ...... -.

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report that, at their ,I'eilding sale yesterday, there was a;medium entry of stock. Hoggets were in good demand, and tho following is a list of prices:— Shorn four-tooth wethers, to Bs. 9d.; woolly .wethers,-to 13s. 7d.; mixed-sex hoggets, to 12s. '5d.; mixed yearlings, 325. (id.; yearling heifers, 325.; two-year steers, £3 ss. 6d. to £3, 95.; spsinging heifers, £4:10s.; fat cows, to £4 12s. (id.;. springing cows, £4' 12s; 6d„ £4 17s. 6d., to £5 lis.; bulls, 305.; cower in calf, £2 2s. -v

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Limited, report on their Eketahuna stock sale, held yesterday, as follows:—Wo submitted a fairly large ontry of cattlo to a good attendance .of the public,' the yarding consisting mainly of springing heifers and dairy cows, which did not soil so well as at previous sales.. Most of tho entry, however, changed hands . under the hammer. In sheep, wo yarded some lines of wethers in forward ■ condition, which made full- prices, on .a par with other markets, tho wholo of our entry being disposed of,"'with tho exception of ono pen of owes and lambs. Fat and forward wethers, 14s; 96.;' forward wethers, 14s.' 3d.i Btore wethers, 12s. lid.;, fat and-forward owes with a few wethers, 125.; (springing, heifers, £3 up to £5 for forward Borts; springing cows, £4 to £4 55.; cows in ca1,,£3.t0 £3.125. 6d.; t™oyear steers, £3 155.; empty cows, £2 165.; twoyear empty heifers, £2; small.store pigs, 17s. ' : ■ A sale of some good dairy stock was held at Tauherinikau on Thursday afternoon by Mr. V. L. Fairbrother,' of Carterton, on behalf of Mr. John Murphy. Bidding throughout was spirited, the prices, realised /being as follow:Cows,in milk, £4 55.-to £8 15a.; springia;; cost. £5 to £B;'-hcifers in milk, £3 ss. to £8. : Outside entries were also offered, prices ruling as under: F.M. owes and.lambs,-95.; yearling, steers, 245.; 18-months cattle, £2;. 18-mooths' steers, £2 25,; two-year heifers in calf, £3. ■ ~