LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 996, 10 December 1910, Page 3

LIVE STOCK SALES.

- -Messrs. Dalgety and Company,. Ltd... report holding their , fortnightly ealo 'at Devin yesterday. The Report-states yarded a fair number of both sheep' and cattle, and- quitted everything except, a pen of fat , bullocks, at ' tho followinK prices :-.Fat wethers, lfe.;' fat • ewes, 145.; woolly wether hoggets, 15s. 7d.; mixed: % tooth shorn, 12s. sd. Cattle: Fat bullocks, Bs.; fat cows, £5 10s.; 18-month steers, £3 6s. 6d.; empty cows, £4 7s;; 2-yrar heifers, £3 16s. 6d., £3 135., £2 155.; cows- and calves,' £3 155.; cows in-milk and sprincinc, £3.115., £3 45.; weaners. 265. Messrs. Dalgcty ar.d Company, Ltd., report -having held their fortnightly sale at Eketahuna. on Friday, December 9.. Tho report states:—Wo had a fair yarding of sheep, which all sold under the hammer at advanced prices. The cattle pens wero well filled, and sold well at late values. - Wo made practically a total clearance of our whole yarding before tho day closed. Wo quote :-Shcep: Two-tooth wethers, 11s. 10d. to 125.; empty forward ewes, 10s. 3d. to 11s. lCd. Cattle: IBmonths "steers, £2 18s. 6d. to £3 25.; empty forward cows, £3 55., £3 15s. to £3 18s. 6d.; :15-months heifers,- £3 7s. 6d. to £3'155.; yearling steers, £2 12s. to £2 155.; bulls, £3 12s. 6d. to £4 Bs. 6d. The Ne.w Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. .Ltd., report for the week end/ ing December 9 as follows:—AtrApiti on Tuesday, a small entry-of-snoop,--and-a. largp yarding of cattle came forward. Sheep sold readily, but cattle were inclined to-drag:- Wo <!uote:—Fat -ewes, lls.; aged- woolly ewes, with'lambs, 135.; yearling steers,-£2.175. .6d.,-J52-18s. 6d., £5 is'.; 18mo:ithG steers, £3 6s. to £3 12s. 6d.; 15-month heifers, £3 6s. to P.I lls.-; spring-, ing heifers, £3 63. to £3-11s.; springing heifers, £4 IDs. to £5; dairy cows, £0 to £5 55.; bulls, £3 2s. 6d. to £4. At Feilding on Friday, we had a smalt estry of bc>th shosp and cattle, which sold well at late rates, and, with the exception.of one pen of sheep, we cleared the. yards. Wo quote:—Cull ewes .and lambs ,all■ counted, 45.-lOd.; 2-tooth ewes. .(small), 9s. 6d.j 18months eteers, £3 Is.; cows and calves. £2 15s. empty cows, £3 Is.j'forwaid cows, £3 195.; bulls, £2 15s.

Messrs. Abraham am! WUHabs, Ltd., report :—At Loyin yesterday, the yards were well filled with both sheep and cattle, thu numbers being SCO head of cattle and 2800 oMep. Competition-throughout the siuu was keen, and, ■ with l the exception of one lino of low-conditioned owes nnd lamiw every hoof was sold under ■ tho hammer. Quotations:—Light fat wethers.. Ms: 6d. to 155.; fat ewes, Us. 7d., 13s. Bd., 13s. lid., 145., 14s. 3d., and 165.-M.; fat lambs,, 135.; forward ewes, Us.. Id. and. Ho': "2<1.;- 2-tootii owes, 13s. 2d. to" Iμ. 6d. ; ; 2-tooth •to f'.m. ewes.-12s. 6d.; 2-tooth wethers, lls. 5d.. 12s. 3d., 12s. M. A nice, line of "950 2-tooth wethers made 12s. lOd.- .ewca and lambs, all counted, 75.; fat woolly ow.es, 2Ce. Id.; woolly hoggets, mixed sexes, Us. 6d.;' fat rows, £i 2s. to .£6; light fat cows, £4 12s. 6d. to £5; forward cows, £3 15s. to £4 6s. 6d.; low-conditioned 3-ycar steers. £5 Bs.: 2 to 21 year eteers, £4 lls. to £4 165.; 18month to 2-ycar steere, £3 16s. to £4 3s. A nice lino of 57 2-yonr steers made £4 Is.; springing* heifers, £4 13s. to £5; 15-month dairy heifers, £3 10s.; yearling heifers, £2 7s. to £2 175.; yearling to 15-montlw steers. £3 83.; yearling.stosrs, £2 10s. to £3;weanor steers, 325. 6d. to 365.; mixed weancrs. 265. to 545. . Mr. Newton King's weekly stock" report: —At Stony liiver on Monday there was n full yardinc. Grown cattle sold well: but the .demand for young stock waj a trille easier. Yearling steors' made £2 7s. Gel. to £2 17s. Cd.;. yearling heifers, small. £2 145.; 15-montlis heifers, -£3 10s. to £3 155.: li to 20-months heifers, 1i.W.8.. £3 IDs. 6d. to £<1 lls.; store cows, £3 lla. to £4; forward do., £4 6s. to £4 iss.;:fat cows, £5 U. to £6 U.i springing hc-ifers, £3 15s. to £6; springing cows, £•! 2s. 6(1. to £5 a=. 6d.: bulls, £3 13s. to £4 2s. 6d.; shorn hoggets, fat, 13s; 9d. At Itnbotu, on Tuesday, there was a full ■ yardir.j. Yearling heifers marto £2Ks.; 15 to 18-months-do. £3 lls. to £3 165.; Store cows. .£2 10s.- to £3 155.: forward do., £4 2:. to £415s.:sprinKinir hcifoßj, £5-7s. Gil. to ,« 2s: 6d;; bulls, £1 10s. to .£4 14s. On tho same, day 1 held a cleariDß■ cale at Waitnra Itoa'd, on account of Mr. Jas. Campbell. There .'was a good attendance of. .buyers. ,Thocow3 wore , a nice lot. and in Erood condition. Competition . was Uceni and excellent prices 'wero roalised. Cows, springing and at profit, mado £8 to £14 10s.; later do., ,« 10s. to £7 10s.; bull,. £9 lte.; calves, 355.; dice harrows, £4; .dray, £16 .55.; store pigs, 18s. (id.; BViirieß, as usual.